Transliteration:( Maa tazaru min shai'in atat 'alaihi illaa ja'alat hu karrameem )
47. That wind would destroy every human being, animal and anything that would come into contact with it. This tells us that due to the sins of man, even animals are caught in punishment. Even the chaff is ground with the grain.
The tafsir of Surah Ad-Dhariyat verse 42 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Dhariyat ayat 38 which provides the complete commentary from verse 38 through 46.
(51:42) that left nothing that it came upon without reducing it to rubble.[39]
39. The word used for this wind is aqim, which is used for a barren woman, though literally it means dry. If the literal meaning is taken it would mean that it was such an intensely hot and dry wind that whatever it blew on, it caused it to become absolutely dry; and if it is taken in the idiomatic sense it would mean that like a barren woman it was a wind without any benefit: neither it was pleasant, nor it brought rain, nor fertilized the trees, nor contained any other benefit for which the wind blows. At other places it has been stated that this wind was not only useless and dry but it blew so violently that it swept the people off the ground and it continued to rage for eight days and seven nights continuously, till it laid the entire land of the Aad to a waste. For explanation, see (Surah HaMim As-Sajdah, ayat 16) note 20,21, and (Surah Al-Ahqaf, ayat 21-24) note 25-28.
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