Surah Al-Fil (The Elephant)

Question 1

Surah Fil Verse 1

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١

Alam tara kaifa fa’ala rabbuka bi ashaabil feel

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Surah Fil Verse 2

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ٢

Alam yaj’al kaidahum fee tadleel

Answer 2

Did He not frustrate their scheme?

Question 3

Surah Fil Verse 3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣

Wa arsala ‘alaihim tairan abaabeel

Answer 3

For He sent against them flocks of birds,

Question 4

Surah Fil Verse 4

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٤

Tarmeehim bihijaaratim min sijjeel

Answer 4

that pelted them with stones of baked clay,

Question 5

Surah Fil Verse 5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولِۭ ٥

Faja ‘alahum ka’asfim m’akool

Answer 5

leaving them like chewed up straw.