'Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?'
[The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka'bah at Makkah].
Yes history it is, but listen to how it applies to us today.
Mazhar Ali Khan has given Discourses on this Ayat on many occassions, and although there are discourses on this same subject here among his other discourses, and since there is a lot to say and cannot be said in one hour, he has a lot more to say about what message this Ayat has to convey.