بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ (1)

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ (2)

Did He not utterly confound their artful planning?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ (3)

Thus, He let loose upon them great swarms of flying creatures

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ (4)

which smote them with stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ (5)

and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubble