Surah 51. Az-Zariyat, Ayah 1
| وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا |
| Transliteration | : | wa- adh- dhaariyaat dharw(an) |
| Pickthall | : | By those that winnow with a winnowing |
| Asad | : | CONSIDER the winds that scatter the dust far and wide, |
| Malik | : | By the dust scattering winds; |
| Yusuf Ali | : | By the (Winds) that scatter broadcast; 4986 4987 |
Note - 4986Four things are mentioned in verses 1 to 4 as evidences
or types of the certainty and unity of a Truth described
in verses 5-6. What these things are is described by
certain adjectival participles, the noun understood being
usually taken to be "Winds": the word for Wind (Rih)
being feminine in Arabic. Some Commentators however
understand other nouns as being implied. e.g., angels in
all four verses, or different things in each of the four
verses. Whatever these things are, their different modes
of working are evidence of the power and goodness of
Allah, the Unity of His Plan, and the certainty of Good
and Evil reaching their own destined ends, when Judgment
and Justice will have given each one his due.
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Note - 4987Winds may blow strong, and scatter particles of dust far
and wide; but they do not diminish by one jot the
substance of Allah's material creation; on the contrary
they help to readjust things. They reshape the
configuration of the earth; in the vegetable kingdom they
carry seeds about and plant new seeds in old soils; in
the region of air they produce mighty changes in
temperature and pressure that affect animal and vegetable
life; they carry the moisture of equatorial Africa to the
parched plains of India; and so on. Yet they are just one
little agency showing Allah's working in the material
world. So in the spiritual world. Revelation works mighty
changes; it may be resisted, but the resistance will be
swept away; it ever points to the one Great Final Event,
"to which the whole Creation moves".
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Four things are mentioned in verses 1 to 4 as evidences or types of the certainty and unity of a Truth described in verses 5-6. What these things are is described by certain adjectival participles, the noun understood being usually taken to be "Winds": the word for Wind (Rih) being feminine in Arabic. Some Commentators however understand other nouns as being implied. e.g., angels in all four verses, or different things in each of the four verses. Whatever these things are, their different modes of working are evidence of the power and goodness of Allah, the Unity of His Plan, and the certainty of Good and Evil reaching their own destined ends, when Judgment and Justice will have given each one his due. |
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Winds may blow strong, and scatter particles of dust far and wide; but they do not diminish by one jot the substance of Allah's material creation; on the contrary they help to readjust things. They reshape the configuration of the earth; in the vegetable kingdom they carry seeds about and plant new seeds in old soils; in the region of air they produce mighty changes in temperature and pressure that affect animal and vegetable life; they carry the moisture of equatorial Africa to the parched plains of India; and so on. Yet they are just one little agency showing Allah's working in the material world. So in the spiritual world. Revelation works mighty changes; it may be resisted, but the resistance will be swept away; it ever points to the one Great Final Event, "to which the whole Creation moves". |
