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| 1. |
| AA | In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful. HAVE YOU NOT seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephants? |
| NQ | 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 Ka'bah at Makkah]. |
| PK | Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? |
| SH | Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant? |
| YU | Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant? |
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| 2. |
| AA | Did He not make their plan go wrong, |
| NQ | Did He not make their plot go astray? |
| PK | Did He not bring their stratagem to naught, |
| SH | Did He not cause their war to end in confusion, |
| YU | Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray? |
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| 3. |
| AA | And sent hordes of chargers flying against them, |
| NQ | And sent against them birds, in flocks, |
| PK | And send against them swarms of flying creatures, |
| SH | And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks, |
| YU | And He sent against them Flights of Birds, |
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| 4. |
| AA | (While) you were pelting them with stones of porphyritic lava, |
| NQ | Striking them with stones of Sijjîl. |
| PK | Which pelted them with stones of baked clay, |
| SH | Casting against them stones of baked clay, |
| YU | Striking them with stones of baked clay. |
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| 5. |
| AA | And turned them into pastured fields of corn? |
| NQ | And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).[] |
| PK | And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)? |
| SH | So He rendered them like straw eaten up? |
| YU | Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up. |
