Answer: Surat al-Fīl and its Interpretation

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

{Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the Elephant? Did He not turn their scheme into a total loss? He sent against them swarms of birds, pelting them with stones of baked clay, leaving them like chewed up and trampled chaff.} [Surat al-Fīl: 1-5]

Interpretation

1. {أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ} : Have you not known - O Messenger - what your Lord did to Abrahah and his companions, the people of the Elephant, when they wanted to demolish the Ka‘bah?

2. {أَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡ كَيۡدَهُمۡ فِي تَضۡلِيلٖ} : Allah turned their evil scheme to demolish it into a total loss; thus, they did not attain what they had wished for, namely turning people away from the Ka‘bah and destroying it.

3. {وَأَرۡسَلَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ طَيۡرًا أَبَابِيلَ} : He sent against them swarms of birds.

4. {تَرۡمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٖ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ} : Pelting them with stones of baked clay.

5. {فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ} : Allah made them like leaves that are eaten and trodden by animals.