Surah Al-Fil (The Elephant)

Topics in Surah Al-Fil

Study guides that discuss verses of this surah, most connected first.

• Security (Amn) (5 verses)
• Makkah (5 verses)
• Torment (Adhab) (5 verses)
• Eating (Akl) (1 verses)
• Destruction (Ihlak) (1 verses)
• Animals (Hayawan) (1 verses)
• Birds (Tayr) (1 verses)

Read Surah Al-Fil with English translation

1. 105:1

   بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

   Do you [Prophet] not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant?

2. 105:2

   أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ

   Did He not utterly confound their plans?

3. 105:3

   وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

   He sent ranks of birds against them,

4. 105:4

   تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ

   pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay:

5. 105:5

   فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

   He made them [like] cropped stubble.

English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.