Quran 105:5 Translations

Al-Feel (The Elephant) 105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ

Transliteration

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Ahmad Ali

And turned them into pastured fields of corn?

Ali Qarai

thus making them like chewed-up straw?

Amhad Khan

So He made them like the leftover devoured leaves of farms?

Arberry

and He made them like green blades devoured.

Corpus Quran

Then He made them like straw eaten up.

Daryabadi

Then He rendered them as stubble devoured.

Hilali & Khan

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

Maududi

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

Muhammad Sarwar

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

Muhammad Shakir

So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

Pickthall

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

Qaribullah

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

Sahih Intl

And He made them like eaten straw.

Talal Itani

Leaving them like chewed-up leaves.

Wahihuddin Khan

Thus He made them like stubble cropped by cattle?

Yusuf Ali

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