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54:19

إِنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِيحٗا صَرۡصَرٗا فِي يَوۡمِ نَحۡسٖ مُّسۡتَمِرّٖ

Inna arsalna AAalayhim reehan sarsaran fee yawmi nahsin mustamirrin

Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune,

Word by word
  1. إِنَّآIndeed,We
  2. أَرۡسَلۡنَا[We] sent
  3. عَلَيۡهِمۡupon them
  4. رِيحٗاa wind
  5. صَرۡصَرٗاfurious
  6. فِيon
  7. يَوۡمِa day
  8. نَحۡسٖ(of) misfortune
  9. مُّسۡتَمِرّٖcontinuous
Al-Qamar · 54:19Makkah

A bitter, furious wind on a day of calamity.

A day whose harm continued

What was sent
a furious windbitterly cold
on
a day of calamitycontinuing into the Hereafter
Why continuous
this lifethe wind
carried on into
the nextno break

Ibn Kathir says sarsar is a bitterly cold and furious wind. It was continuous because what they suffered in this life continued with that of the Hereafter. Wind, the most ordinary thing, became the instrument.

You feel the wind on your face at a bus stop and pull your coat tighter. The same wind is under Allah's command. Ordinary things are never out of His hands.

The weather is just weather.

Even the wind I feel every day moves by Allah's command.

Try this

When the wind blows today, say: O Allah, I ask You for its good.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 54:18)

'Ad denied; then how was My torment and My warnings (18)Verily, We sent against them a violently cold (Sarsar) wind on a day of calamity, continuous (19)Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms (20)Then, how was My torment and My warnings (21)And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember (22)

The Story of 'Ad

Allah states that 'Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did. So, Allah sent on them,

عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا 

(against them a violently cold (Sarsar) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind,

 فِي يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ

(on a day of calamity), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi,

 مُسْتَمِرٍّ

(continuous), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter,

تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ 

(Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.)

The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground. His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless,

كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ - فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ - وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ

(as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. Then, how was My torment and My warnings? And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember?)