Page 240 - General Knowledge from the Qur'an

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We send forth the pollinating winds and send down water from the
sky and give it to you to drink. And it is not you who keep its stores.
(Surat al-Hijr, 22)
It is He Who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and
from it come the shrubs among which you graze your herds. (Surat an-
Nahl, 10)
Allah sends down water from the sky and by it brings the dead earth
back to life. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who hear. (Surat
an-Nahl, 65)
It is He Who made the earth a cradle for you and threaded pathways
for you through it and sent down water from the sky by which We
have brought forth various different types of plants. (Surah Ta Ha, 53)
Make a metaphor for them of the life of this world. It is like water
which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth combine
with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds. Allah has ab-
solute power over everything. (Surat al-Kahf, 45)
We sent down a measured amount of water from heaven and lodged
it firmly in the earth; and We are well able to remove it. (Surat al-
Mu'minun, 18)
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. Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that
for people with inner sight. Allah created every animal from water.
Some of them go on their bellies, some of them on two legs, and some
on four. Allah creates whatever He wills. Allah has power over all
things. (Surat an-Nur, 43-45)
It is He Who sends out the winds, bringing advance news of His mercy.
And We send down from heaven pure water. (Surat al-Furqan, 48)
If you ask them, 'Who sends down water from the sky, bringing the
earth back to life again after it was dead?' they will say, 'Allah.' Say:
'Praise be to Allah.' But most of them do not use their intellect. (Surat
al-'Ankabut, 63)