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Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

(reference is made to Abraha, a Christian king of Yaman, who attacked Makkah with the army of elephants in the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth)?

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

And send against them flocks of birds,
Meaning:-
Flock: large group.
Note:
The miracle consisted in the birds coming in large flights and flinging stones at the army which destroyed the whole of Abraha’s army.

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

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