Al-Azhar Mosque Seminar to Discuss Winds in Quran
The seminar is one of the series of weekly Tafsir (Quran interpretation) events at Al-Azhar Mosque.
It will be attended by Hamdi al-Hudhud, the head of the girls’ school of ‘Al-Asher Min Ramadan’ (one of the new cities of Egypt) affiliated to Al-Azhar University and Mustafa Ibrahim, professor of the Faculty of Sciences of Al-Azhar University.
Abdul Munim Fuad, the general supervisor of the scientific activities of Al-Azhar Mosque, said the seminar is an important opportunity for thinking about the verses of the Quran and the concepts of the Quran and opens new paths for research on the scientific miracles of the Holy Book.
The meeting will be effective in strengthening the religious and cultural awareness of the participants and inviting them to think deeply about religious texts, he stated.
Hani Awdah, the custodian of the Al-Azhar Mosque expressed his satisfaction with the holding of this seminar, emphasizing the importance of the miracles of the Quran in building the identity of the Muslim Ummah.
He said Al-Azhar Mosque always strives to increase knowledge with the aim of developing an informed and cultured society, and interpretive seminars are a new program to achieve this goal.
Awdah noted that a series of Quran interpretation seminars are held periodically every Sunday, and a group of Al-Azhar scholars and professors attend these seminars.
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He also said that part of this event will be devoted to question and answer and free discussion among the participants, which will give them the opportunity to interact and exchange opinions.
It should be noted that in the Quran, wind is introduced as one of the divine signs and a sign of God’s power. The Quran refers to the role of wind in the fertility of clouds, moving clouds, blowing in different directions and its effect on life. In the Holy Book, God refers to the winds as lawaqih (fertilizers) that fertilize the clouds and cause rain.
The phrase “Tasrif al-Riyah” in the Quran means changing the direction and speed of the wind and indicates that God moves the winds in such a way that it is in the direction of the interests and needs of man.
Also, the Quran introduces the wind as a mercy from God, which can also be a torment like poisonous winds or storms.
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