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Natural Phenomena Mentioned in the Qur'an 227

LIGHTNING
It is He Who shows you the lightning, striking fear and bringing
hope; it is He Who heaps up the heavy clouds. The thunder glorifies
His praise, as do the angels, out of fear of Him. He discharges the
thunderbolts, striking with them anyone He wills. Yet still they argue
about Allah when He is inexorable in His power! (Surat ar-Ra'd, 12-13)
Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them coa-
lesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come pouring out
of the middle of them? And He sends down mountains from the sky
with hail inside them, striking with it anyone He wills and averting it
from anyone He wills. The brightness of His lightning almost blinds
the sight. (Surat an-Nur, 43)

THE FORMATION OF DAY AND NIGHT
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the
night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's benefit, and
the water which Allah sends down from the sky – by which He brings
the earth to life when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of
every kind – and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds
subservient between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people who
use their intellect. (Surat al-Baqara, 164)
It is He Who splits the sky at dawn, and appoints the night as a time of
stillness and the sun and moon as a means of reckoning. That is what the
Almighty, the All-Knowing has ordained. (Surat al-An'am, 96)
In the alternation of night and day and what Allah has created in the
heavens and the earth there are Signs for people who guard against
evil. (Surah Yunus, 6)
It is He Who stretched out the earth and placed firmly embedded
mountains and rivers in it and made two types of every kind of fruit.
He covers over day with night. There are Signs in that for people who
reflect. (Surat ar-Ra'd, 3)
He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (Surat an-Nahl, 12)
We made the night and day two Signs. We blotted out the Sign of the