Ayah al-Fil (The Elephant) 105:5

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Muhammad Asad

and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubbl

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So He made them like green blades eaten (up)

Safi Kaskas

He made them like eaten straw.

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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ

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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

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fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makoolin

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And He ˹Allah˺ made them (i.e., the companions of the elephant) like eaten up straw

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Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Then He made them like straw eaten up.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubbl

M. M. Pickthall

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

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

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

leaving them like chewed up straw.

Safi Kaskas

He made them like eaten straw.

Wahiduddin Khan

Thus He made them like stubble cropped by cattle

Shakir

So He rendered them like straw eaten up

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Then, made He them like ones who are consumed by stalks of husked grain.

T.B.Irving

It left them just like chewed-up chaff.

Abdul Hye

and He made them like the chewed-up stalks.

The Study Quran

such that He made them like devoured husks

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

And He made them like eaten-up stubble.

Talal Itani (2012)

Leaving them like chewed-up leaves

Dr. Kamal Omar

So (Allah) transformed them (into something) like fodder subjected to rumination

M. Farook Malik

thus rendered them like the chewed- up chaff

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So He made them like green blades eaten (up)

Muhammad Sarwar

to turn them into (something) like the left-over grass grazed by cattle

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

and thus He turned them into an eaten-up chaff

Shabbir Ahmed

And made them like a field of grain eaten down to stubble

Dr. Munir Munshey

Thus, He turned them into the chewed out chaff

Syed Vickar Ahamed

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

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And He made them like eaten straw

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

Until He made them like chewed up hay.

Abdel Haleem

He made them [like] cropped stubble

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then He rendered them as stubble devoured

Ahmed Ali

And turned them into pastured fields of corn

Aisha Bewley

making them like stripped wheat-stalks eaten bare?

Ali Ünal

And so He rendered them like a field of grain devoured and trampled

Ali Quli Qara'i

thus making them like chewed-up straw

Hamid S. Aziz

And make them like stalks left by herbage eaten down

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

then He made them like chewed up straw?

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Then He made them like an empty field of stalks and straw which has been eaten

Musharraf Hussain

So, He turned them into what looked like chewed hay

Maududi

and made them like straw eaten up (by cattle)

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Until He made them like chewed up hay.

Mohammad Shafi

And then making them look like chewed husk?h

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

And thus made them like broken straw eaten up.

Rashad Khalifa

He made them like chewed up hay

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

so that He made them like straw eaten (by cattle)

Maulana Muhammad Ali

So He rendered them like straw eaten up

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

So He made them like eaten husk/chaff/leaves

Bijan Moeinian

And made their battle field like an empty field of stalks and straws

Faridul Haque

So He made them like the leftover devoured leaves of farms

Sher Ali

And thus made them like broken straw, eaten up

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then (Allah made them perish) like chewed-up chaff

Amatul Rahman Omar

And thus He reduced them to rotten chaff (and in a similar way will they be ruined who would ever make an attack to destroy Ka`bah)

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

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

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

and He made them like green blades devoured

George Sale

and render them like the leaves of corn eaten by cattle

Edward Henry Palmer

and make them like blades of herbage eaten down

John Medows Rodwell

And he made them like stubble eaten down

N J Dawood (2014)

so that they became like the withered stalks of plants which cattle had devoured

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Fode Drame

And He turned them into dry leaves eaten up.

Munir Mezyed

And He made them like chewed up straws.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

So He made them like eaten up stalks?

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

thus He made them like eaten leaves

Linda “iLHam” Barto

Then He made (the people of the elephant) like a ravaged field.

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

It left them just like chewedup chaff.

Samy Mahdy

So He made them like eaten straw.

Sayyid Qutb

Thus He made them like devoured dry leaves

Thomas Cleary

That made them like !!tripped cornstalks whose fruits have been consumed.

Ahmed Hulusi

Until they became like eaten straw.

Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)

"and made them become like dried grass, eaten up?"

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

Until they became like the stubbles left over in a field that has been reaped

Mir Aneesuddin

so that He made them like eaten up straw (husk) ?

The Wise Quran

And He made them like eaten straw.

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

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

OLD Literal Word for Word

Then He made them like straw eaten up

OLD Transliteration

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin ma/koolin

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