THE HOLY QURAN

English translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Mohamme d Marmaduke Pickthall an d Muhammad Habib Shakir

Formatte d by School of Quran (www.schoolofquranunlimited.blogspot.com)

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 ying creatures, SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in ocks, 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 eld 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?

Alhamdulillah rabbil alamin.