And when he clarified it with the manner of it, as a reminder of what is in it of the aspects of evidence for the preliminaries of the message, he pointed to those aspects, presenting another clarification that encompasses their story and indicating their distress. He said: ﴿Did He not make﴾, meaning by what He has of kindness towards the Arabs, especially Quraysh, ﴿their plot﴾ [meaning -] in hindering the Kaaba by destroying it and by diverting the pilgrimage to their church according to their claim. And [indeed -] their plot was great, by which they overcame those who opposed them from the Arabs ﴿in misleading﴾, meaning that it was a means for the loss of what they intended for the abrogation of the pilgrimage to the Kaaba first and for those who destroyed it second, and for nullification and distance from guidance and negligence, to the extent that it became, by being a means for that, inhabited by it, with no rescuer from it. And this indicates that whoever exposes himself to anything from the sanctities of Allah, like a house from His houses, or a guardian from His guardians, or a scholar from the scholars of religion, even if he is deficient in a type of deficiency, he falls into his plot, and the evil of it returns upon him. "Whoever shows enmity to a guardian of Mine, I have declared war against him." And it indicates that whoever openly commits sin hastens to him destruction, unlike one who conceals himself. And that Allah, the Exalted, comes to whom He wills of His punishment from where he does not expect, so that one should always be cautious of Him and not feel safe from His plot, even if the adversary is among the least of His servants. The Ethiopians did not even imagine what happened to them at all, nor did it occur to anyone other than them that birds would kill an army that had overwhelmed the heroes and to which the dominance of men had submitted, led by a mighty angel whose battalion walks on the plains while his foot is on the catapults at the heads of the hills.