Al-Fil (, "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. ۝ HAST thou not seen how thy LORD dealt with the masters of the elephant? ۝ Did he not make their treacherous design an occasion of drawing them into error; ۝ and send against them flocks of birds, ۝ which casts down upon them stones of baked clay; ۝ and render them like the leaves of corn eaten by cattle? Summary 1-5 The army of Abraha destroyed for attacking the Kaabah. Text and meaning Text and transliteration Hafs from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ Warsh from Nafiʽ al-Madani ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ 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 Kaaba at Mecca]. 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). 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. 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. 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)? Asbab al-nuzul Taking its name from the mention of the "Army of the Elephant" in the first verse, this surah alludes to the Abyssinian campaign against Mecca possibly in the year 552 CE. Abrahah, the Christian viceroy of the Yemen (which at