Overall meaning : If you ask the idolaters among your people, Muhammad, ‘Who has created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say, ‘Allah, the All-Mighty and the All-Knowing God has.’
It is He who has smoothed out the earth for you and made pathways for you in it so that you may be guided by them. It is He who sends down rain from the sky in due measure, by which We bring a dead barren land back to life—thus will you be brought forth from your graves. It is He who has created all the various species of things and has provided for you the ships and animals on which you ride, so that, as you settle yourselves on the backs of both of them, remember the favour of your Lord and say, ‘Glorified and far exalted above all imperfections is Allah who has made this subservient to our use. We could never have done this on our own. We will surely return to our Lord.’