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It is Allah Who sends the winds which stir up ask. In this way We have subjected them to you
clouds which He spreads about the sky however so that hopefully you will be thankful. (22:36)
He wills. He forms them into dark clumps and
you see the rain come pouring out from the mid- COLOUR
dle of them. When He makes it fall on those of They said, ‘Ask your Lord to make it clear to us
His servants He wills, they rejoice. (30:48) what colour it should be.’ He said, ‘He says it
It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the should be a a yellow cow, a pleasure to all who
clouds which We then drive to a dead land and look.’ (2:69)
by them bring the earth to life after it was dead. To those who disbelieve, the life of this world is
That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9) painted in glowing colours and they laugh at
When they saw it as a storm cloud advancing on those who believe. But on the Day of Rising
their valleys they said, ‘This is a storm cloud those who fear Allah will be over them. Allah
which will give us rain.’ No, rather it is what you provides for whoever He wills without any reck-
desired to hasten–a wind containing painful pun- oning. (2:212)
ishment. (46:24) To mankind the love of worldly appetites is
If they saw a lump of heaven falling down, they painted in glowing colours: women and chil-
would just say, ‘Banked-up clouds!’ (52:44) dren, and heaped-up mounds of gold and silver,
Is it you who sent it (the water) down from the and horses with fine markings, and livestock and
clouds or are We the Sender? (56:69) fertile farmland. All that is merely the enjoyment
We sent down cascading water from the clouds. of the life of this world. The best homecoming is
(78:14) in the presence of Allah. (3:14)
(I swear by the horses) leaving a trailing dust- And also the things of varying colours He has
cloud in their wake. (100:4) created for you in the earth. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who pay heed. (16:13)
COAT OF MAIL (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from
(We revealed to Dawud,) ‘Make full-length coats every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your
of mail, measuring the links with care. And act Lord, which have been made easy for you to fol-
rightly, all of you, for I see what you do.’ (34:11) low.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is
COIN certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.
They sold him (Yusuf) for a pittance, a few small (16:69)
coins, considering him to be of little worth. Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens
(12:20) and earth and the variety of your languages and
colours. There are certainly Signs in that for
COLLAPSE every being. (30:22)
Who is better: someone who founds his building Do you not see that Allah sends down water from
on fear of Allah and His good pleasure, or some- the sky and by it We bring forth fruits of varying
one who founds his building on the brink of a colours? And in the mountains there are streaks
crumbling precipice so that it collapses with him of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks of
into the Fire of Hell? Allah does not love wrong- deep jet black. (35:27)
doers. (9:109) And mankind and beasts and livestock are like-
We have appointed the sacrificial animals for wise of varying colours. Only those of His ser-
you as one of the sacred rites of Allah. There is vants with knowledge have fear of Allah. Allah is
good in them for you, so invoke Allah’s name Almighty, Ever-Forgiving. (35:28)
over them, as they stand in rows. And then when Do you not see that Allah sends down water from
they collapse on their sides, eat of them and feed the sky and threads it through the earth to emerge
both those who ask and those who are too shy to as springs and then by it brings forth crops of
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