Al-Fil

Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli

Alam Tará Kayfa Fa`ala Rabbuka Bi'aşĥābi Al-Fīl

Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephants

Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin

Alam Yaj`al Kaydahum Fī Tađlīlin

Did He not make their stratagems go awry

Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela

Wa 'Arsala `Alayhim Ţayrāan 'Abābīla

and send against them flocks of birds

Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin

Tarmīhim Biĥijāratin Min Sijjīlin

pelting them with stones of shale

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Faja`alahum Ka`aşfin Ma'kūlin

thus making them like chewed-up straw