Al-Fīl

The Elephant

ٱلْفِيل

A 5-verse reminder of the year the Yemeni governor Abrahah marched on Mecca with elephants to destroy the Kaʿbah — and was thwarted by flocks of birds carrying small stones, a sign of Allah's protection of His House.

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Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

Did He not make their plot go astray?

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

striking them with stones of baked clay,

and made them like chewed-up straw.