The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia
Towards providing reliable exegeses and translations of the meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the world languagesThe Elephant [Al-fil] - English Translation - Hilali and Khan
Surah The Elephant [Al-fil] Ayah 5 Location Maccah Number 105
1. Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].
2. Did He not make their plot go astray?
3. And He sent against them birds, in flocks,
4. Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay).
5. And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).[2]