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or day and We reduce it to dried-out stubble, as though it had not been
flourishing just the day before! In this way We make Our Signs clear
for people who reflect. (Surah Yunus, 24)
He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow ac-
cording to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an increasing
layer of foam; a similar kind of foam comes from what you heat up in
the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or other things. That is how
Allah depicts the true and the false. As for the foam, it is quickly swept
away. But as for that which is of use to people, it remains behind in the
ground. That is a metaphor which Allah has made. (Surat ar-Rad, 17)

ALLAH SENDS DOWN DRINKING WATER
Have you thought about the water that you drink? Is it you who sent
it down from the clouds or are We the Sender? If We wished We could
have made it salty, so will you not give thanks? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 68-70)

ALLAH PRODUCES RAIN
It is Allah Who sends the winds which stir up clouds which He
spreads about the sky however He wills. He forms them into dark
clumps and you see the rain come pouring out from the middle of
them. When He makes it fall on those of His servants He wills, they re-
joice. (Surat ar-Rum, 48)

ALLAH GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH WITH WATER
Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare and then when
We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who gives it life is
He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has power over all things.
(Surah Fussilat, 39)
And in the earth there are tracts side by side and gardens of grapes
and corn and palm trees having one root and (others) having distinct
roots— they are watered with one water, and We make some of them
excel others in fruit; There are Signs in that for people who use their in-
tellect. (Surat ar-Ra'd, 4)
It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all