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well-known in earthquake areas. It came by night and buried them in their own fortress homes,
which they thought such places of security! The morning found them lying on their faces
hidden from the light. How the mighty were brought low! (11.65)
11:67 - The (mighty) Blast overtook the wrongdoers and they lay prostrate in their homes before the
morning 1563
1563 Cf. xi 78 and n. 1047,-also n. 1561 above. (11.67)
11:94 - When Our decree issued We saved Shuaib and those who believed with him by (special)
Mercy from Ourselves: but the (mighty) Blast did seize the wrongdoers and they lay prostrate
in their homes by the morning 1596
1596 Cf. xi. 66 and xi. 58, n. 1554. (11.94)
15:73 - But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning 1996
1996 As-Saihat, the mighty Blast, is mentioned as accompanying earthquakes: Cf. xi. 67-94. Here it was the violent wind
and noise accompanying the shower of brimstones, possibly with some volcanic action. (15.73)
15:83 - But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning 2004
2004 The mighty rumbling noise and wind accompanying an earthquake. See vii. 78, n. 1047. (15.83)
23:41 - Then the Blast overtook them with justice and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves
(floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong! 29002901
29:37 - But they rejected him: then the mighty Blast seized them and they lay prostrate in their
homes by the morning. 3458
3458 The story of Shu'aib and the Madyan people is only referred to here. It is told in xi. 84-95. Their besetting sin was
fraud and commercial immorality. Their punishment was a mighty Blast, such as accompanies volcanic eruptions. The
point of the reference here is that they went about doing mischief on the earth, and never thought of the Ma'ad or the
Hereafter, the particular theme of this Sura. The same point is made by the brief references in the following two
verses to the 'Ad and the Thamud, and to Qarun, Pharaoh, and Haman, though the besetting sin in each case was
different. The Midianites were a commercial people and trafficked from land to land; their frauds are well described as
spreading "mischief on the earth". (29.37)
29:40 - Each one of them We seized for his crime: of them against some We sent a violent tornado
(with showers of stones); some were caught by a (mighty) Blast; some We caused the earth
to swallow up; and some We drowned (in the waters): it was not Allah Who injured (or
oppressed) them: they injured (and oppressed) their own souls. 3462346334643465
3462 For hasib (violent tornado with showers of stones), see xvii. 68; this punishment as inflicted on the Cities of the Plain,
of which Lot preached (liv. 34). Some Commentators think that this also applied to the 'Ad, but their punishment is
described as by a violent and unseasonable cold wind (xli. 16; liv. 19 and lxix. 6), such as blows in sand-storms in the
Ahqaf, the region of shifting sands which was in their territory. (29.40)
3463 For saihat (Blast) see xi. 67 and n. 1561, as also n. 1047 to vii. 78 and n. 1996 to xv. 73. This word is used in
describing the fate of (1) the Thamud (xi. 67); Madyan (xi. 94); the population to which Lut preached (xv. 73); and the
Rocky Tract (Hijr, xv. 83), part of the territory of the Thamud; also in the Parable of the City to which came three
Prophets, who found a single-believer (xxxvi. 29). (29.40)
3464 This was the fate of Qarun: see xxviii. 81. Cf. also xvi. 45 and n. 2071. (29.40)
3465 This was the fate of the hosts of Pharaoh and Haman (xxviii. 40) as well as the wicked generation of Noah (xxvi. 120).
(29.40)
36:29 - It was no more than a single mighty Blast and behold! they were (like ashes) quenched
and silent. 39733974
3973 Allah's Justice or Punishment does not necessarily come with pomp and circumstance, nor have the forces of human
evil or wickedness the power to require the exertion of mighty spiritual forces to subdue them. A single mighty Blasteither
the rumbling of an earthquake, or a great and violent wind-was sufficient in this case. Cf. xi. 67 and n. 1561
(which describes the fate of the Thamud; also. n. 3463 to xxix. 40). (36.29)
3974 Cf. xxi. 15. They had made a great deal of noise in their time, but they were reduced to silence, like spent ashes.
(36.29)
38:15 - These (to-day) only wait for a single mighty Blast which (when it comes) will brook no
delay. 41644165
4164 Cf. xxxvi. 29, n. 3973. (38.15)
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