سُورَةُ الفِيلِ
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer dealt with the Army of the Elephant?
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أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ
Did He not utterly confound their artful planning?
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وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Thus, He let loose upon them great swarms of flying creatures
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تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ
which smote them with stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained,
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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubble
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