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Text and transliteration

 * Hafs from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud

Bismi l-lāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm(i)

1 ’alam tara kayfa fa‘ala rabbuka bi’aṣḥābi l-fīl(i)

2 ’alam yaj’al kaydahum fī taḍlīl(in)

3 Wa’arsala ‘alayhim ṭayran ’ababīl(a)

4 Tarmīhim biḥijārati m-min sijjīl(in)

5 Faja‘alahum ka‘aṣfi m-ma’kūl(in)


 * Warsh from Nafiʽ al-Madani

Bismi l-lāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm(i)

1 ’alam tara kayfa fa‘ala rabbuka bi’aṣḥābi l-fīl(i)

2 ’alam yaj’al kaydahum fī taḍlīl(in)

3 Wa’arsala ‘alayhim ṭayran ababīl(a)

4 Tarmīhim biḥijārati m-min sijjīl(in)

5 Faja‘alahum ka‘aṣfi m-mākūl(in)

Meanings
Have you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) not seen how your Lord dealt with the Owners of the Elephant? [The elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka'bah at Makkah].

Did He not make their plot go astray?

And sent against them birds, in flocks,

Striking them with stones of Sijjil.

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

Translation:Noble Quran, 1999

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

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

And He made them like eaten straw.

Translation:Saheeh International, 1997

Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?

Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

Striking them with stones of baked clay.

Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

Translation:Yusuf Ali, 1934

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Translation:Pickthall, 1930