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in another verse of the Qur'an:
And We send down from the sky rain laden with blessing, and We pro-
duce therewith gardens and grain for harvests. (Surah Qaf, 9)
Salts that fall with rain are small examples of certain elements (calci-
um, magnesium, potassium, etc.) used for increasing fertility. The heavy
metals found in these types of aerosols are other elements that increase fer-
tility in the development and production of plants.
A barren land can be furnished with all the essential elements for
plants in a 100-year period just with these fertilisers dropped with the rain.
Forests also develop and are fed with the help of these sea-based aerosols.
In this way, 150 million tons of fertiliser falls on the total land surface
every year. If there were no natural fertilisation like this, there would be
very little vegetation on the earth, and the ecological balance would be
impaired.
What is more interesting is that this truth, which could only be discov-
ered by modern science, was revealed by Allah in the Qur'an centuries ago.

FECUNDATING WINDS
In the Qur'an, the winds are revealed as "fecundating":
And We send the fecundating winds, then cause water to descend from
the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance). (Surat al-
Hijr, 22)
In Arabic, the word "fecundating" implies the fecundating of both
plants and clouds. Accordingly, modern science has shown that winds
indeed have both of these functions. Winds, as mentioned before, do
fecundate clouds by carrying the crystals that are to take part in the for-
mation of rain drops. On the other hand, they also fecundate plants.
Plants throw pollen seeds containing sperm cells into the air. Most
plants are ideally created to catch the pollen from the wind. Cones, hang-
ing flowers, and some other plants make canals that open towards air cur-
rents, which carry these seeds to other plants of the same species. Pollen
seeds containing sperm cells arrive at the reproductive organs thanks to
these canals. The pollen reaching the ovule fertilises the egg and thus
ovules turn into seeds.

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