AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)

Total Verses: 5 
Revealed At: MAKKA

105.001 
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?

105.002 
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,

105.003 
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,

105.004 
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,

105.005 
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?