(1) Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?[1992]
Translation notes
[1992]- i.e., the army under the command of Abrahah al-Ashram which was accompanied by a huge elephant and came with the intention of destroying the Kaʿbah at Makkah.
105:1
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿2﴾
(2) Did He not make their plan into misguidance?[1993]
Translation notes
[1993]- Causing them to perish.
105:2
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿3﴾
(3) And He sent against them birds in flocks,
105:3
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿4﴾
(4) Striking them with stones of hard clay,
105:4
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿5﴾
(5) And He made them like eaten straw.[1994]
Translation notes
[1994]- i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.