Sura Saaffaat – Quran 37: Salam On Messengers
If you look a bit deeply into these verses, there are a few things that might help in understanding the choice of divine words used in these verses: 1 ) The verses in this particular context start from verse 75, and for Nuh (sws), سَلٰمٌ عَلٰی نُوۡحٍ فِی الۡعٰلَمِیۡنَ has been used in verse 79. This flow ends with ilyas (sws) and for him سَلٰمٌ عَلٰۤی اِلۡ یَاسِیۡنَ has been used in verse 130. Both start and end have used language which glorifies them . And in between these verses are Ibrahim (sws) and Musa & Harun (sws) for whom سَلٰمٌ عَلٰۤی اِبۡرٰہِیۡمَ and سَلٰمٌ عَلٰی مُوۡسٰی وَ ہٰرُوۡنَ have been used in verses 109 and 120 respectively. 2 ) Right after these verses, there is mention of Lut (sws) and Yunus (sws) but the context has taken a subtle shift here, here comes ‘jumla-e-motraza’ while discussing these messengers. In case of Lut (sws), there was an immediate need to give reference to those lands which Arabs knew very clearly about (as mentioned in verses 137, 138). Same is the case with Yunus (sws), where his story was being told to remind them of the fact that it was not too late yet. The presence of these special mentions have made the kalaam to take this shift towards reminder and then suddenly towards inzar as seen in next verses. Therefore, considering the flow and context of kalam in this case, it would have been against the beauty of kalaam to repeat those Salaam verses here because if mentioned, it would’ve overshadowed the actual reminders that were present in those specific cases of Lut (sws) and Yunus (sws).