Translations of the Qur - Yusufali - 105. Sayfa

Translations of the Qur'an, Chapter 105:

AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)

Total Verses: 5

Revealed At: MAKKA

Maududi's introduction

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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

105.001

YUSUFALI: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?

PICKTHAL: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

SHAKIR: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?

105.002

YUSUFALI: Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

PICKTHAL: Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

SHAKIR: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,

105.003

YUSUFALI: And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

PICKTHAL: And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,

105.004

YUSUFALI: Striking them with stones of baked clay.

PICKTHAL: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

SHAKIR: Casting against them stones of baked clay,

105.005

YUSUFALI: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

PICKTHAL: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

SHAKIR: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

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