Overall meaning : Have you not seen, Muhammad, how your Lord dealt with Abrahah and his army who had set out to destroy the Ka’bah, accompanied by an elephant to destroy it? Did Allah not frustrate their evil design to demolish the Ka’bah? He sent against them many flocks of birds, following one another, which cast down upon them stones of hard, baked clay, and so Allah made them like discarded, withered stalks of plants!