AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
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YUSUFALI: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt
with the Companions of the Elephant?
PICKTHAL: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord
dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
SHAKIR: Have you not considered how your
Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
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YUSUFALI: Did He not make their treacherous
plan go astray?
PICKTHAL: Did He not bring their stratagem
to naught,
SHAKIR: Did He not cause their war to end
in confusion,
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YUSUFALI: And He sent against them Flights
of Birds,
PICKTHAL: And send against them swarms of
flying creatures,
SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them
birds in flocks,
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YUSUFALI: Striking them with stones of
baked clay.
PICKTHAL: Which pelted them with stones of
baked clay,
SHAKIR: Casting against them stones of
baked clay,
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YUSUFALI: Then did He make them like an
empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has
been eaten up.
PICKTHAL: And made them like green crops
devoured (by cattle)?
SHAKIR: So He rendered them like straw
eaten up?