بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Alam tara kaifa fa'ala rabbuka bi ashaabil feel
Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
کیا تم نے نہیں دیکھا کہ تمہارے پروردگار نے ہاتھی والوں کے ساتھ کیا کیا
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Commentary
The subject-matter of the Surah
This Surah refers to the story of the People of the Elephants who came with an army of elephants for the purpose of destroying the House of Allah in (The Holy Ka'bah) in Makkah. But their plan backfired and the Divine scourge overtook them. Allah destroyed ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Have you not considered an interrogative meant to provoke marvel in other words ‘marvel at’ the way in which your Lord dealt with the Men of the Elephant? who was named Mahmūd and the men were Abraha King of Yemen and his troops. He had built a church in San‘ā’ in order to divert pilgrims away from ...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءِ بِنَمِيمٍ
(Hammaz, going about with slander) (68:11) Ibn `Abbas said, "Humazah Lumazah means one who reviles and disgraces (others)." Mujahid said, "Al-H...
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Alam yaj'al kai dahum fee tad leel
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
کیا ان کا داؤں غلط نہیں کیا؟ (گیا)
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Commentary
The subject-matter of the Surah
This Surah refers to the story of the People of the Elephants who came with an army of elephants for the purpose of destroying the House of Allah in (The Holy Ka'bah) in Makkah. But their plan backfired and the Divine scourge overtook them. Allah destroyed ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: Did He not make — that is to say He did indeed make — their stratagem to destroy the Ka‘ba go astray ending up in failure and destruction
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءِ بِنَمِيمٍ
(Hammaz, going about with slander) (68:11) Ibn `Abbas said, "Humazah Lumazah means one who reviles and disgraces (others)." Mujahid said, "Al-H...
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Wa arsala 'alaihim tairan abaabeel
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
اور ان پر جھلڑ کے جھلڑ جانور بھیجے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Verse [ 105:3] طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ (... birds in flocks.) The word ababil is plural and is said to have no singular. It means birds in flocks, or swarms of birds. It is not the name of a particular bird. In Urdu usually ababil refers to 'swallows', they are not implied in the verse as indicated in t...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: and unleashed upon them swarms of birds birds in droves one following the next it is said there is no singular form for it abābīl like asātīr; but some say that the singular is abūl or ibāl or ibbīl similar in constructed pattern to ‘ajūl miftāh and sikkīn
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءِ بِنَمِيمٍ
(Hammaz, going about with slander) (68:11) Ibn `Abbas said, "Humazah Lumazah means one who reviles and disgraces (others)." Mujahid said, "Al-H...
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Tar meehim bi hi jaaratim min sij jeel
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
جو ان پر کھنگر کی پتھریاں پھینکتے تھے
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Verse [ 105:4] بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ (...stones of baked clay.) The word sijjil is a compound Persian word, Arabiciszed, made up of two Persian words: sang [ stone ] and gil [ clay ]. They refer to ordinary or common clay rolled into little balls and then baked to harden. These pebbles are not ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: pelting them with stones of baked clay
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءِ بِنَمِيمٍ
(Hammaz, going about with slander) (68:11) Ibn `Abbas said, "Humazah Lumazah means one who reviles and disgraces (others)." Mujahid said, "Al-H...
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
Faja 'alahum ka'asfim m'akool
And He made them like eaten straw.
تو ان کو ایسا کر دیا جیسے کھایا ہوا بھس
Commentary
Ma'arif-ul-Quran: Verse [ 105:5] فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ (And thus He turned them into an eaten-up chaff.) The word ` asf means 'chaff, straw, husk or bran'. Usually the ` asf is scattered and when it is eaten or devoured by animals, it does not remain in the same state. This is what happened to Abrahah and ...
Tafsir al-Jalalayn: thus making them like devoured blades? like the leaves of crops which have been consumed trampled and destroyed by animals. God destroyed each one of them with his own stone inscribed with his name larger than a lentil in size but smaller than a chick-pea able to pierce through an egg a man or an el...
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (English): Which was revealed in Makkah
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءِ بِنَمِيمٍ
(Hammaz, going about with slander) (68:11) Ibn `Abbas said, "Humazah Lumazah means one who reviles and disgraces (others)." Mujahid said, "Al-H...