Adh-Dhariyat

Surah 51 of the Quran

الذاريات‎ Adh-Dhāriyāt The Winnowing Winds
Qira'ahⓘ English text
Classification	Meccan
Other names	The Scatterers, The Dust-Scattering Winds
Position	Juzʼ 26, 27
No. of verses	60
No. of Rukus	3
No. of words	360
No. of letters	1546

Sūrat adh-Dhāriyāt (Template:Lang-ar, "The Winnowing Winds") is the 51st sura of the Qur'an with 60 ayat. It mentions Abraham, Noah, the day of judgment and otherwise reiterates the essential Quranic message.

According to Neuwirth’s literary analysis, as related through Ernst, sura 51, like many early Meccan suras, consists of a tripartite structure: I, 1– 23; II, 24– 46; III, 47– 60. These three sections can be further broken down as follows:

1. Rider oaths (9 verses) and end-times with double portraits (14 verses)

(1-9) By the winnowing winds, the burden-bearers, the ones that run with ease, etc.

(10-23) They Ask: When will the Day of Judgment be? A Day when they are tried . . .
Truly, the ones who are Godfearing will be in the Garden and springs, . . .
On the earth are signs, for the ones that are certain and in yourselves. . . .

1. The discourse of guests of Abraham (14 verses) and four other prophets (9 verses)

(24-37) Truly, approached you the discourse of the guests of Abraham . . .
They said: Be not in awe. They gave him good tidings of a knowing boy. . . .
They said: That we were sent to a folk, ones who sin, to send on them rocks . . .

(38-46) And in Moses, then, We sent him to Pharaoh with a clear authority. . . .
And in Ad, when We sent against them the withering wind. It forsakes not . . .
And in Thamud, when it was said to them: Take joy for a while. Yet they defied . . .
And the folk of Noah from before. Truly, they had been a folk, ones who disobey.

1. God’s creation (7 verses) and a warning (7 verses)

(47-53) And We built the heaven with potency. —

(54-60) So turn you away from them that you be not one who is reproached. —