THE ROLE OF WIND AND RAIN (VERSES NO. 22 - 25)

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
Verses 26-44Verses 22-25

      Following the argument about the secrets of the creation manifested through the heavens and the earth, Zodiac, and the stars, mountains and minerals, vegetables and plants, livelihood and sustenance, and life and death; here mention is made of the role of the Wind and Rain in the nature:ِ

      ``And We sent the winds fertilizing the clouds, then we sent down water from the sky.''

      The Arabic, ``LAWÄQIH'' is the plural of, ``LEGHAH'' which means to impregnate, by infusing active principles into something else to render it fruitful and fertile. The wind performs this task for many plants and uni-sexual trees like the dateِpalm.

      Here in this verse, in a beautiful metaphor the wind's fertilizing quality has been applied to its relation with the clouds, that they become pregnant with water, in order to produce all kinds of fruits, cereals, and vegetables.

      As to the phrase, ``YOU ARE NOT ITS TREASURE may mean, you have no control over the original sources of the rain, such as the formation of the clouds, and fecundating them with water, or even distributing the showers over the wide surfaces of the earth in time and in measure.

      Then the argument goes to life and death which is a prelude to Resurrection Day, and that, the real cause of our existence and our life and death, is nothing and no one, but Allah the All-mighty, All-knowing, Creator. The ending of the verse alludes to the fact that, God is the real inheritor of every one and everything:ِ

      ``To Allah belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth and he knows whatever you do.'' S 3:180

      All that we own here are ours in trust only, and finally they revert to Allah to whom belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Death and life is a proof that the creatures of this world, have nothing of themselves, and they owe whatever they have to Allah their Creator.

 

 

 

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