The Holy Verse:
God says: (See you not that Allâh drives the clouds gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a heap of layers, and you see the rain comes forth from between them; and He sends down from the sky hail (like) mountains, (or there are in the heaven mountains of hail from where He sends down hail), and strikes therewith whom He wills, and averts it from whom He wills. The vivid flash of its (clouds) lightning nearly blinds the sight.) [Surat An-Nur, verse: 43].
The Explanation of the Verse:
The explainers say: See you not that Allâh drives the clouds gently means that God drives and pushes the clouds easily and gently, then joins them together, He collects a cloud with another, then makes them into a heap of layers means cumulus clouds over each other, and you see the rain comes forth from between them, you see the rain coming out of them, and He sends down from the sky hail (like) mountains means that they are wonderful pieces like mountains.
The Scientific Fact:
Scientists have recently made dazzling discoveries about the formation of hail in the clouds and noticed that the first thing formed is the cloud that is pushed by the wind till it meets another cloud, and that's how the clouds are collected over each other by the air currents called pushing streams until they form the cumulus clouds.
Then, when the cumulus clouds rise up for several kilometers, the hailstones begin to be formed and then by air currents they start to fall on the ground, while some of them stay in the clouds and others melt before reaching the ground. Scientists say that the hail is always accompanied by lightning flashes.
The Point of Inimitability:
We notice from these facts that the holy Quran corresponds with modern science in its sayings about the formation of hail and the role of wind in the formation of cumulus clouds and that the lightning is formed in the clouds that contain the hailstones. Scientists say that the hail is formed only in the high cumulus clouds, therefore God be he exalted says: (and He sends down from the sky hail (like) mountains, (or there are in the heaven mountains of hail from where He sends down hail). And this is from the inimitability of Quran, so who could have known at that time these detailed information if Muhammad wasn't a messenger from God!
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
