Quran Chapters

Chapter 105 : Al-Fil – 5 Verses

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

105:1

Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

(reference is made to Abraha, a Christian king of Yaman, who attacked Makkah with the army of elephants in the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth)?

105:2

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

105:3

And send against them flocks of birds,
Meaning:-
Flock: large group.
Note:
The miracle consisted in the birds coming in large flights and flinging stones at the army which destroyed the whole of Abraha’s army.

105:4

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

105:5

And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).