By the Noble Shaykh: Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-feefee
(May Allah preserve him)
Therefore, they
did not think about the cloud which overshadowed them, except that it had an
apparent form/existence, perhaps caused by the downpour of rain.
Particularly, since they were barren, people who were in need of rain. However,
this nebula or cloud was nothing except punishment! Ibn Katheer has
conveyed in his tafseer on the authority of Abdullah ibn Umar, he said: “Wind
is eight (i.e. has eight parties): four from it is mercy and four from it is
punishment.
So as for the
winds of mercy: Then they are the winds that scatter clouds, and those
winds precede the rain, the winds that come in succession, and the winds that
scatter dust.
As for the
winds of punishment: Then they are the barren wind, and the violent
winds, both of them are in the mainland; and the storm wind, and the roaring
wind with thunder, and they are both in the sea.
So if he willed,
Glorified is He, to set it in motion with a merciful movement, then He would
make it comfortable, generous and a sign of His impending Mercy, and the
pollination for the clouds, just as He uses the man to pollinate the woman for
pregnancy.
And if Allah
wills, He sets it in motion with movements of punishments, then makes it
barren, and it brings a grievous punishment…making it a trial upon whomever He
wills from amongst His slaves. Then He makes it violent & furious,
and causing decay & ruin when it passes through out.
(Tafsir Ibn
Katheer) {Volume 3 p. 43 Arabic only version}
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