Al-Fil

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

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

Did He not utterly confound their plans?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ

alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

He sent ranks of birds against them,

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay:

تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

He made them [like] cropped stubble.

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ

fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin