Transliteration:( Alam yaj'al kaidahum fee tadleel )
2. In spite of Abraha having a huge army and a great deal of equipment, some of the Arabs had joined him as well, viz. the people of Taif had shown Abraha the road to Makkah. The people of Makkah had gone out of the city, hiding in the caves, thus leaving the city and the Ka'bah unprotected. But, Allah Almighty saved both the city and the Ka'bah. Likewise, O My Beloved, even if you are alone and there are many Abrahas opposing you, Allah Almighty will protect you.Â
That is the physical Ka'bah, but you are the spiritual Ka'bah; that is the Ka'bah of the Qur'aan but you are the Ka'bah of Faith; that is the Ka'bah of heads, but you are the Ka'bah of the hearts. It should be remembered that the clamor and agitation of falsehood is always loud, but it is short-lived. The life of the newspaper is one day, and that of the railway timetable is six months. The life of the observatory and the calendar is one year, and that of the university curriculum is usually three years. But, the life span of the Holy Qur'an is eternity. The life of Abraha was short, but that of the Ka'bah is eternal. The lifespan of Abu Jahl is mortal, but that of the Holy Prophet is immortal صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم
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The tafsir of Surah Fil verse 3 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fil ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 5.
(105:2) Did He not bring their plan[3] to naught?[4]
3. The word kayd is used for a secret plan meant to harm somebody. The question is what was secret in this case? Sixty thousand troops together with several elephants had openly come from Yaman to Makkah, and they had kept no secret that they had come to destroy the Kabah. Therefore, there was nothing secret about this plan. However, what was secret was the motive of the Abyssinians. They by destroying the Kabah, crushing down the Quraish and intimidating the Arabians, wanted to take control of the trade route that led from south Arabia to Syria and Egypt. This motive they kept hidden, and instead proclaimed their intent that they wanted to destroy the Kaabah, the principal House of Arab worship, in retaliation for the pollution of their cathedral by the Arabs.
4. Literally, fi-tadlil means: led their plan astray, but idiomatically leading a plan astray means bringing it to nought and rendering it fruitless. At one place in the Quran, it has been said: But the disbelievers’ plot (kayd) ended in vain. (Surah Al-Momin, Ayat 25), At another: And that Allah does not lead to success the plan (kayd) of deceivers. (Surah Yousuf, Ayat 52). The Arabians described Imra ul-Qais by the epithet of al-malik ad-dalil (the king who lost and wasted), for he had lost the kingdom left by his father.
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