أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And He made them like eaten straw.
Al-Fil recalls how Allah dealt with the companions of the elephant — Abraha's army that marched to demolish the Ka'bah in the very year the Prophet ﷺ was born. Allah sent against them birds in flocks, striking them with stones of hard clay, and made them like eaten straw.
Al-Fil (الفيل) means "The Elephant" in English. It is chapter 105 of the Holy Quran.
Surah Al-Fil has 5 verses (ayat). It appears on pages 601 to 601 of the mushaf.
Surah Al-Fil is a Makki surah, revealed in Makkah before the Prophet's ﷺ migration to Madinah.
Al-Fil recalls how Allah dealt with the companions of the elephant — Abraha's army that marched to demolish the Ka'bah in the very year the Prophet ﷺ was born. Allah sent against them birds in flocks, striking them with stones of hard clay, and made them like eaten straw.