Allah there compares winds to horses. Wild horses.
Wild horses the main of the horse is called عرف
{وَالْمُرْسَلَاتِ عُرْفًا} Means the back of the wild horse that has been let go.
He swears by the back of the wild horse that has been let go.
Now, imagine when you're trying to tame a wild horse,
it's not settled. There's no rope on it.
The only thing you can grab is what? The mane, the back of its neck.
And you let go of it. If you let go of it, what's it going to do?
It's going to run wild. It's going to go as fast as it possibly can.
It wants you off its back. {فَالْعَاصِفَاتِ عَصْفًا} then they move see the ﻑ which means it's still talking about the same horse.
They move in a way that doesn't take anything into consideration.
If there's a child in front of that horse, it's going to run over the child.
If there's a fence in front of it, it's going to break through the fence.
It's going to just smash through whatever comes in its path. That's {فَالْعَاصِفَاتِ عَصْفًا}
Now Allah is comparing winds to that wild horse. In that Surah.
Allah is telling us that these winds today when we were walking here to the center it was a nice breeze,
that breeze is basically Allah grabbing the rains of the wind
and pulling it back and saying "Calm down." And sometime Allah
lets that wane go. And when He lets it go we call those
tornadoes and hurricanes and typhoons, etc.
You know what that means? That the natural way of these winds
is to be wild. And the only one pulling them back
and calming them down is Allah and He swears by the moments,
the few moments when He does what? He lets them go
and when they move they don't care about what's in their path.
If there's a house in front of them the house is gone in 30 seconds.
There's a building? There used to be a building here.
I live in Texas in Dallas it's inland and it's actually a tornado zone.
So sometimes Allah lets the back of the horse go,
and you'll see brick houses within 10 to 15 seconds
you will not know there was a house here. Within 10 to 15 seconds.
Once it touches down a bomb couldn't do what these winds do.
It couldn't do what these winds do.
It's unreal the kind of damage they can unleash.
So that's what He's talking about the destructive power of winds
and He's telling the people in Surah Al-Mursalaat that He's talking to
He's telling them "Listen the only reason you're actually talking all this trash,
and insulting the prophet and saying oh you're going to you're going to come after us you and what army."
Allah says "The army you feel on your face everyday. It's just a matter of me letting go of this a little bit.
Then He contrast this and says {وَالنَّاشِرَاتِ نَشْرًا فَالْفَارِقَاتِ فَرْقًا} see وَالنَّاشِرَاتِ نَشْرًا what does وَ do same thing or different thing?
Different kinds of winds that distribute that spread,
they spread seeds they spread pollen they spread clouds
they spread rain and they divide up another word for division الْفَارِقَاتِ
they divide up the rizq of Allah so Allah is saying
"The same winds that can bring death are the same winds that bring life."
That's the beautiful imagery in Al-Mursalaat.
But now let's come back to Adh-Dhariyat I'm most convinced
and I inclined towards the meaning that all of these oaths are actually directly referring to the winds.
That's what I find most convincing.
And if there are other implications they are by a connection to the wind. But not directly.
By the way all of these are the oaths.
But the oaths are not the point.
What's the point? The ‏جواب القسم isn't it?
But I want you to just stay with me for a little bit and I want you to think about what I'm going to do now.
By the way al-Zamakhshari also posited that this is is all referring to the winds.
So classically that opinion has also existed.