366. Infertile/Barren wind.

In these verses (51:41,42) of the Quran we find a community having been destroyed by infertile/barren wind. We may wonder how a wind can be termed as infertile/barren. 

For air to be beneficial to man, it has to contain oxygen and other components, when oxygen as a component of the air is removed, man cannot survive. The air that does not contain oxygen can be termed as infertile or barren. Now, there are bombs that if thrown at a particular place sucks in all the oxygen contained in that particular area, resulting in all the living thing being destroyed. It needs to be understood that God would have sent the same kind of air on that particular community.