Al-Fil

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ٢

alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣

wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٤

tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ٥

fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin

And He made them like eaten straw.