His words, Exalted is He:

For the security of the Quraysh,

He said:

This means: for the safety sought by the Quraysh for their two journeys.^{1The Qurʾān alludes to the two annual migrations of the Quraysh, which Tustarī explains in his commentary on the next verse.}

[their security during] the winter journey,

to Shām [Syria], and the journey of the summer, to Yemen. We destroyed the army of Yemen thus. It is as if He were saying to the Prophet ﷺ, ‘Remind the Quraysh of the blessing that I bestowed on them before I sent you to them.’

let them worship the Lord of this House,

That is, of Mecca.

who has fed them against hunger…

for many years; …and secured them from fear of the Negus.

But God knows best.