A Simplified Explanation of Sūrah Al-Fīl from Al-Tafsīr Al-Muyassar
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Al-Fīl
Verse 1
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ ١
Did you not know, O Messenger, how your Lord dealt with the ones [who came] with the elephant–Abrahah the Abyssinian and his army–those who sought the destruction of the blessed Kaʿbah?
Verse 2
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ ٢
Did He not make what they had plotted of evil [come] to no effect and [end in] loss and destruction?
Verse 3
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣
And He sent upon them birds in flocks, one after another….
Verse 4
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ ٤
…hurling upon them stones of clay made hard as rocks.
Verse 5
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ ٥
Then He turned them into pulverized [masses] with [that], like the dried leaves of crops that [some] four-legged animals eat and then cast off [as excrement].
Source: Al-Tafsīr Al-Muyassar. King Fahd Qurʾān Printing Complex. Madīnah: 1434 H.