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Surah al-Anbiya' (The Prophets ) 21 : 81

وَلِسُلَيْمَٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ عَاصِفَةً تَجْرِى بِأَمْرِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِى بَٰرَكْنَا فِيهَا ۚ وَكُنَّا بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَٰلِمِينَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And to Solomon [We subjected] the wind, blowing forcefully, proceeding by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And We are ever, of all things, Knowing.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(21:81:1)
(21:81:2)
l-rīḥa
the wind
(21:81:3)
ʿāṣifatan
forcefully
(21:81:4)
tajrī
blowing
(21:81:5)
bi-amrihi
by his command
(21:81:6)
ilā
to
(21:81:7)
l-arḍi
the land
(21:81:8)
allatī
which
(21:81:9)
bāraknā
We blessed
(21:81:10)
(21:81:11)
wakunnā
And We are
(21:81:12)
bikulli
of every
(21:81:13)
shayin
thing
(21:81:14)
ʿālimīna
Knowers

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Explanatory Note

The Qur’ānic text here states that winds, in their stormy conditions, were made subservient to Solomon, moving at his bidding to the blessed land, which was most probably Palestine, given it was earlier described as such in Abraham’s story. The question asked here though is how all this was done.

It is safer to explain this statement about the wind by saying that it was directed, by God’s will, to the blessed land in a cycle lasting one month each way. How? As we have said, we cannot ask such a question about the operation of God’s will, which is free and unrestrained. It is God’s will that creates the laws of nature and sets them in operation. What we know of the laws operating in the universe is very little. There is nothing to preclude that other laws, about which we know nothing, are in operation, but their effects may surface only when God wills: “It is We who have knowledge of everything.”Unlike human knowledge, God’s knowledge is complete and perfect.

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According to  Ibn Attiyah and Qurtubi there is consensus on this Surah being a Makki Surah -

"Both the subject matter and the style of the Surah indicate that it was sent down in the third stage of the life of the Prophet at Makkah" [Ref: Mawdudi]

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