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30:48 - It is Allah Who sends the Winds and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in
the sky as He wills and break them into fragments until thou seest rain-drops issue from the
midst thereof: then when He has made them reach such of his servants as He wills behold
they do rejoice! 35663567
31:34 - Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (alone). It is He Who sends down rain and
He Who knows what is in the wombs. Nor does anyone know what it is that he will earn on
the morrow: nor does anyone know in what land he is to die. Verily with Allah is full
knowledge and He is acquainted (with all things). 362536263627
3625 The question of Knowledge or Mystery governs both clauses here, viz.: Rain and Wombs. In fact it governs all the five
things mentioned in this verse: viz. (1) the Hour; (2) Rain; (3) the Birth of a new Life (Wombs); (4) our Physical Life
from day to day; (5) our Death. See n. 3627 below. As regards Rain we are asked to contemplate how and when it is
sent down. The moisture may be sucked up by the sun's heat in the Arabian Sea or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean
near East Africa, or in the Lake Region in Central Africa. The winds drive it hither and thither across thousands of
miles, or it may be, only short distances. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." No doubt it obeys certain physical Laws
established by Allah, but how these Laws are interlocked, one with another! Meteorology, gravity, hydrostatics and
dynamics, climatology, hygrometry, and a dozen other sciences are involved, and no man can completely master all
of them, and yet this relates to only one of the millions of facts in physical nature, which are governed by Allah's
Knowledge and Law. The whole vegetable kingdom is primarily affected by Rain. The mention of Wombs brings in the
mystery of animal Life, Embryology, Sex, and a thousand other things. Who can tell-to take man alone-how long it will
remain in the womb, whether it will be born alive, what sort of a new individual it will be,-a blessing or a curse to its
parents, or to Society? (31.34)
3626 "Earn" here, as elsewhere, means not only "earn one's livelihood" in a physical sense, but also to reap the
consequences (good or ill) of one's conduct generally. The whole sentence practically means; "no man knows what
the morrow may bring forth." (31.34)
3627 See the five Mysteries summed up in n. 3625 above. The argument is about the mystery of Time and Knowledge. We
are supposed to know things in ordinary life. But what does that knowledge amount to in reality? Only a superficial
acquaintance with things. And Time is even more uncertain. In the case of rain, which causes vegetable life to spring
up, or in the case of new animal life, can we answer with precision questions as to When or How or Wherefore? So
about questions of our life from day to day or of our death. These are great mysteries, and full knowledge is with Allah
only. How much more so in the case of the Ma'ad, the Final House, when all true values will be restored and the
balance redressed? It is certain, but the When and the How are known to Allah alone. (31.34)
32:27 - And do they not see that We do drive Rain to parched soil (bare of herbage) and produce
therewith crops providing food for their cattle and themselves? Have they not the vision?
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3662 Again, as in the last verse, there is an easy transition from the physical to the spiritual. In physical nature there may be
parched soil, which is to all intents and purposes dead. Allah sends rain, and the dead soil is converted into living land
producing rich crops of fodder and corn, nuts and fruits, to satisfy the hunger of man and beast. So in the spiritual
world. The dead man is revivified by Allah's grace and mercy, through His Revelation. He becomes not only an asset
to himself but to his dependents and those around him. (32.27)
3663 The verse begins with "do they not see?" (a wa lam yarau), a physical act. It ends with "have they not the vision?" (afa
la yabsirun), a matter of spiritual insight. This is parallel to the two kinds of "hearing" or "listening", explained in n.
3661 above. (32.27)
39:21 – Seest thou not that Allah sends down rain from the sky and leads it through springs in the
earth? Then He causes to grow therewith produce of various colors: then it withers; thou wilt
see it grow yellow; then He makes it dry up and crumble away. Truly in this is a Message of
remembrance to men of understanding. 4273
41:39 - And among His Signs is this: thou seest the earth barren and desolate; but when We send
down rain to it it is stirred to life and yields increase. Truly He Who gives life to the (dead)
earth can surely give life to (men) who are dead. For He has power over all things. 45104511
42:28 - He is the One that sends down rain (even) after (men) have given up all hope and scatters
His Mercy (far and wide). And He is the Protector Worthy Of all Praise. 4567
43:11 - That sends down (from time to time rain from the sky in due measure; and We raise to life
therewith a land that is dead; even so will ye be raised (from the dead) 46144615
45:5 - And in the alternation of Night and Day and the fact that Allah sends down Sustenance from
the sky and revives therewith the earth after its death and the change of the winds are Signs
for those that are wise. 47394740
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