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The Elephant5 ayahsMeccan

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ﴿١

1Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?[1992]

أَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡ كَيۡدَهُمۡ فِي تَضۡلِيلٖ﴿٢

2Did He not make their plan into misguidance?[1993]

وَأَرۡسَلَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ طَيۡرًا أَبَابِيلَ﴿٣

3And He sent against them birds in flocks,

تَرۡمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٖ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ﴿٤

4Striking them with stones of hard clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ﴿٥

5And He made them like eaten straw.[1994]

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