Surah Al-Fil — Verse 5

The Elephant · 105:5 · 5/5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin ma'kool

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 7

Saheeh International

And He made them like eaten straw.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

He made them [like] cropped stubble.

Marmaduke Pickthall

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

Mufti Taqi Usmani

and thus He turned them into an eaten-up chaff.

Al-Hilali & Khan

And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

and made them like straw eaten up (by cattle).