Al-Fīl
Sign in to saveAl-Fīl (, "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. Have you not seen [O Prophet] how your Lord dealt with the army of the Elephant? Did he not frustrate their scheme? For he sent against them flocks of birds, that pelted them with stones of baked clay; leaving them like chewed up straw
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"Al-Fīl" is the 105th chapter of the Quran, a short 5-verse passage written as a series of rhetorical questions that describes how God defeated an army riding elephants by sending flocks of birds to stone them. It matters as part of Islamic scripture and represents a significant event in Islamic tradition, though the historical details of the elephant army remain debated by scholars.
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Key facts
- Surah.number
- 105
- Surah.number 3
- 105
- Surah.name
- Al-Fīl
- Surah.name ar
- ٱلفِيل
- Surah.name en
- The Elephant
- Surah.image
- Al-Fil.svg
- Surah.prev_sura
- Quran 104
- Surah.next_sura
- Quran 106
- Surah.classification
- Meccan
- Surah.juz
- 30
- Surah.verses
- 5
- Surah.words
- 23
- Surah.letters
- 96
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Summary
- Text and meaning
- Text and transliteration
- Meanings
- Asbab al-nuzul
- Period of revelation
- Principal subject
- Theme of the surah
- Coherence with adjacent surahs
- Connection with previous surahs
- Connection with next surah
- Hadith about Surah Al-Fil
- See also
- References
- External links
Al-Fīl (, "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. Have you not seen [O Prophet] how your Lord dealt with the army of the Elephant? Did he not frustrate their scheme? For he sent against them flocks of birds, that pelted them with stones of baked clay; leaving them like chewed up straw
==Summary== 1-5 The army of Abraha destroyed for attacking the Kaabah.