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42:33 - If it be His Will He can still the Wind: then would they become motionless on the back of the
(ocean). Verily in this are Signs for everyone who patiently perseveres and is grateful. 4573
4573 If we study such Signs in the right spirit, we learn the highest lessons for our spiritual life: on the one hand, patient
perseverance with reliance on Allah, and on the other a feeling or attitude of grateful thanks to Allah, that He enables
us to achieve so much in spite of our shortcomings, and forgives in us so much that deserves punishment and
disaster. (42.33)
46:24 - Then when they saw the (Penalty in the shape of ) a cloud traversing the sky coming to
meet their valleys they said "This cloud will give us rain!" "Nay it is the (calamity) ye were
asking to be hastened! a wind wherein is a Grievous Penalty! 4802
4802 The Punishment came suddenly, and when they least expected it. They wanted rain, and they saw a cloud and
rejoiced. Behold, it was coming towards their own tracts, winding through the hills. Their irrigation channels would be
full, their fields would be green, and their season would be fruitful. But no! What is this? It is a tremendous hurricane,
carrying destruction on its wings! A violent blast, with dust and sand! Its fury destroys everything in its wake! Lives
lost! Fields covered with sand-hills! The morning dawns on a scene of desolation! Where were the men who boasted
and defied their Lord! There are only the ruins of their houses to witness to the past! (46.24)
54:19 - For We sent against them a furious wind on a Day of violent Disaster 5144
5144 Cf. xli. 16. How graphic is the description of the tornado that uprooted them! It must indeed be a dreadful tornado that
plucks up the palm-trees by their deep tap-roots. The "Day" is an indefinite period of time. The wind that destroyed the
'Ad people lasted seven nights and eight days: lxix. 7. (54.19)
56:41 - And those on the left hand: What of those on the left hand?
56:42 - In scorching wind and scalding water
69:6 - And the `Ad they were destroyed by a furious wind exceedingly violent; 5639
5639 The 'Ad were an unjust people spoilt by their prosperity. The prophet Hud preached to them in vain. They were
apparently destroyed by a terrible blast of wind. See n. 1040 to vii. 65. See also xli. 15-16, n. 4483, and liv. 19, n.
5144. (69.6)
77:1 - By the (Winds) Sent Forth one after another (to man's profit); 58635864
5863 This Sura begins with an appeal to five things, as pointing to the substantive statement in verse 7, that the Day of
Justice and Judgment is bound to come, and we must prepare for it. It is difficult to translate, but easy to understand,
if we remember that a triple thread of allegory runs through this passage (verses 1-7). The five things or phases,
which will be presently considered in detail, refer to (a) Winds in the physical world, (b) Angels in the Kingdom of
Allah, and (c) Prophets in the human world, connecting it with the Kingdom of Allah. (77.1)
5864 Understanding the reference to Winds, we can see that they are powerful factors in the government of the physical
world. (1) They come gently as harbingers of the blessings of rain and fertility (xv. 22; xxx. 48); but (2) they can come
as violent tornadoes, uprooting and destroying (li. 41-42); (3) they can scatter seeds far and wide, and (4) they can
separate chaff from grain, or clear the air from epidemics; and (5) they literally carry sound, and therefore Messages.
All these things point to the power and goodness of Allah, and we are asked to believe that His promise of Mercy and
Justice in the Hereafter is indeed true. Cf. this passage with li. 1-6 (Zariyat) with which it has many affinities. (77.1)
77:2 - Which then blow violently in tempestuous Gusts 5865
5865 If we understand the reference to be, not to Winds, but to Angels, they are agencies in the Kingdom of Allah, which
carry out similar functions, changing and revolutionising the face of the world. (1) They come softly, on beneficent
errands of Mercy; (2) they are charged with the mission of punishment and destruction for sin as in the case of the two
angels who came to Lut (xv. 57-66); (3) they distribute Allah's Mercies as the Winds distribute good seeds; (4) they
sort out the good from the evil among men; and (5) they are the agency through which Allah's Messages and
Revelations are conveyed to the Prophets (see No. 5 in the last note). (77.2)
77:3 - And scatter (things) far and wide;
77:4 - Then separate them one from another
77:5 - Then spread abroad a Message 5866
5866 If we understand the reference to Prophets or Messengers of Allah, or the verses of Revelation which would be
particularly appropriate for verses 5-6, we also get a satisfactory solution of the Allegory. (1) The Prophets have
followed one another in a series: the verses of the Qur-an came, one after another as needed; in both cases it was for
man's spiritual profit; (2) they caused great disturbance in a spiritual decadent world; they pulled down evil institutions
root and branch, and substituted new ones; (3) they proclaimed their truths far and wide, without fear and without
favour; (4) through them were sorted out men of Faith and rebels against Allah's Law; and (5) they gave a Message,
through which just men were justified through repentance, and evil men were warned of their sins. Some
Commentators take one or other of these allegories, and some apply one allegory to a few of these verses, and
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