Al-Fil

Sahih International

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

Yusuf Ali

Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?

Pickthall

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

Sahih International

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

Yusuf Ali

Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

Pickthall

Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ

Sahih International

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Yusuf Ali

And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

Pickthall

And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

Sahih International

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

Yusuf Ali

Striking them with stones of baked clay.

Pickthall

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

Dr. Mustafa Khattab

تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

Sahih International

And He made them like eaten straw.

Yusuf Ali

Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

Pickthall

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ