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Al-Fil

Al-Fil

Al-Fīl (Arabic: الفيل, "The Elephant") is the 105th chapter (surah) of the Quran. It is a Meccan sura consisting of 5 verses. The surah is written in the interrogative form.

۝ Have you not seen [O Prophet] how your Lord dealt with the army of the Elephant?
۝ Did he not frustrate their scheme?
۝ For he sent against them flocks of birds,
۝ that pelted them with stones of baked clay;
۝ leaving them like chewed up straw