Adh-Dhariyat Verse 42

There was nothing it came upon that it did not reduce to ashes.

It spared nothing it came upon except that it reduced it to ruin and decay.

that left nothing it came upon, but made it as stuff decayed.

and it reduced everything it came up against to shreds.

It left not aught whereon it came but it made it as matter decayed.

It left nothing whatever that it came up against, but reduced it to ruin and rottenness.

that left nothing that it came upon without reducing it to rubble.

Which turned everything it touched to ashes.

It left out nothing in its path, but which it split up into fragments.

It left nothing that it came upon without making it like decayed bones.

It spared nothing that it reached, but made it like ashes.

It spared nothing whatever it came upon but reduced it to (dust-like stuff of) rotten bones.

It does not leave from a thing it came on it, except it made it as/like the decomposed/decayed.

It left out nothing in its path, but which it split up into fragments.

It spared naught on which it blew, but made it like dust.

It spared nothing that it reached, but blew it into broken spreads of rotten ruins.

And in ‘Ad, when We sent upon them the destructive wind.

It did not leave aught on which it blew, but it made it like ashes.

It spared naught that it reached, but made it (all) as dust.

which turned everything it approached into dust.

that left nothing it came upon, except that it was ashes.

It spared nothing that it reached, but blew it into broken spreads of rotten ruins.

and it destroyed everything over which it passed and reduced it to dust.

It spared nothing it came upon, but rendered it like decayed ruins.

It did not leave anything, any soul or property, that it came upon without making it like decayed bones, like something that is withered and in scattered pieces.

مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَيْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ

It spared nothing that it reached,

meaning, everything that the wind could destroy,

إِلاَّ جَعَلَتْهُ كَالرَّمِيمِ



but blew it into broken spreads of rotten ruins.

meaning, made it just like a rotten and destroyed.

Sa`id bin Al-Musayyib and others commented on;
إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّيحَ الْعَقِيمَ
(when We sent against them the barren wind),

"Southerly winds."

However, there is a Hadith in the Sahih from Shu`bah bin Al-Hakam, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, who said that the Messenger of Allah said,

نُصِرْتُ بِالصَّبَا وَأُهْلِكَتْ عَادٌ بِالدَّبُور

I have been made victorious with the Saba (easterly wind), and the people of `Ad were destroyed with the Dabur (westerly wind).

Allah saying,

وَفِي ثَمُودَ إِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَمَتَّعُوا حَتَّى حِينٍ