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Qur’an 105:3 Al-Fil, verse 3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Fil (105)
Verse
3 of 5
Revealed
Makki
Juz
30
Mushaf page
601

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَأَرْسَلَwa-arsalaAnd He sentر س ل
عَلَيْهِمْʿalayhimagainst them
طَيْرًاṭayranbirdsط ي ر
أَبَابِيلَabābīla(in) flocksأ ب ل

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 105:3 in Al-Fil.

  • 105:1أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِHave you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
  • 105:2أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢDid He not make their plan into misguidance?
  • 105:4تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢStriking them with stones of hard clay,
  • 105:5فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭAnd He made them like eaten straw.

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