Are you not aware of how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

Did He not bring their strategy to utter failure?

And sent upon them swarms of flying creatures.

Then you showered them with hard stones earmarked with requital. [Sijjeel = Inscribed = Marked out]

And made them like a field of grain eaten down to stubble. [An interesting footnote here might be appropriate. Three Arabs had guided Abrahah on his way to Makkah through the desert. The pre-Islamic Makkans humiliated the traitors and made out three statutes of them in today's plains of Mina outside Makkah. Then they used to stone those statues every year at the time of Pilgrimage. This ritual was 'Islamized' by Muslim historians naming them as three places where the 'Satan' tried to prompt Prophet Abraham to defy God's command to 'sacrifice' his son. And so, to this day during Pilgrimage, Muslims stone the three pillars calling them the Great, the Medium, and the Small Satan!]