Tafsir of Surah Al-Fil (105) — The Elephant · الفيل

Meccan surah, 5 ayat. Read the whole surah

Al-Mukhtasar in Interpreting the Noble Quran — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies. QuranEnc.com (english_mokhtasar), 2026-10-30.

Al-Fil 105:1

أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant

Tafsir 105:1

O Messenger! Do you not know how your Lord dealt with Abraha and his people: the people of the elephant, when they intended to demolish the Ka‘bah?

Al-Fil 105:2

أَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡ كَيۡدَهُمۡ فِي تَضۡلِيلٖ

Did He not make their plan into misguidance

Tafsir 105:2

Allah made their evil plot to destroy it in vain; they did not achieve what they desired in trying to turn the people away from the Ka‘bah. They did not succeed in the slightest.

Al-Fil 105:3

وَأَرۡسَلَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ طَيۡرًا أَبَابِيلَ

And He sent against them birds in flocks

Tafsir 105:3

Allah sent birds upon them, who came to them in flocks upon flocks.

Al-Fil 105:4

تَرۡمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٖ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ

Striking them with stones of hard clay

Tafsir 105:4

They pelted them with stones of clay.

Al-Fil 105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ

And He made them like eaten straw

Tafsir 105:5

So Allah made them like the leaves of crops that have been eaten and trampled upon by livestock.

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