And of His signs exalted be He is that He unleashes the winds as bearers of good tidings meaning so that they may bring you good tidings of rain and that He may let you taste thereby of His mercy namely in the way of rain and fertile soil and that the ships may run thereby by His command by His will and that you may seek that you may request of His bounty provision by way of commerce at sea and that perhaps you might then give thanks for these graces O people of Mecca and so affirm His Oneness.