'Alam Tará Kayfa Fa`ala Rabbuka Bi'aşĥābi Al-Fīl | َ105-001 Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant (- the army of Abrahah, the viceroy of the Negus, king of Abyssînia, at Yeman)? | أَلَمْ تَرَى كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيل |
'Alam Yaj`al Kaydahum Fī Tađlīlin | َ105-002 Did He not (cause the war to end in confusion and) ruin their plan (to destroy Ka`bah by making it revert on themselves)? | أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيل ٍ |
Wa 'Arsala `Alayhim Ţayrāan 'Abābīla | َ105-003 And He sent against them flocks of birds, | وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْراً أَبَابِيلَ |
Tarmīhim Biĥijāratin Min Sijjīlin | َ105-004 (Which tore off flesh from their bodies to eat by) striking them against stones of hardened and petrified clay. | تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَة ٍ مِنْ سِجِّيل ٍ |
Faja`alahum Ka`aşfin Ma'kūlin | َ105-005 And thus He reduced them to rotten chaff (and in a similar way will they be ruined who would ever make an attack to destroy Ka`bah). | فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْف ٍ مَأْكُول ٍ |