Al-Fil الفيل
The birds and the stones الطير والحجارة
Summary and links in the frieze
In the frieze He is asked whether he has not seen how his Guardian led the scheme astray and crushed the schemers.
Read just before, 106 leads here: The Guardian of this House fed and secured; the next sura asks: have you not seen how your Guardian dealt? 106
It leads to 104: A scheme led astray, men crushed; the next sura shows the slanderer who thinks his goods eternal, cast into the Crusher. 104
Closes on “They ask one another”
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
Have you not seen how your Guardian dealt with the companions of unreason?
ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بأصحب ٱلفيل
Did He not lead their scheme astray? And did He not send upon them massive birds, which were hurling stones of formed clay at them? And did He not thus reduce them to the state of eaten husk?
ألم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل وأرسل عليهم طيرا أبابيل ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل فجعلهم كعصف مأكول