Monday, June 22, 2020

Apostate prophet disappointed with Islamic meteorology; Does Quran mention water cycle?

In answer to the video "Allah Sends Rain DOWN From The Sky"


The winds stir/tutheer, move, scatter or gather the clouds/sahab in the sama/sky, pressing them together then rain falls from within it  2:22,7:57,24:43,35:9,56:69,77:1-4,78:4. Note the singular IT, refering to the cloud from where rain drops. It does not say from the middle of the cloud itself or from in between 2 clouds. The verse 30:48 says the clouds are made into (not broken into) fragments/kisafan so that we see rain coming from the cloud. Note the singular again, not from between 2 chopped up pieces of clouds, as in a sponge losing its water after being sliced. It says a visible entity, the cloud, is changed into smaller entities so the transition must be a visible phenomenon like the spreading of the cloud spoken of prior to its fragmentation is also a visible phenomenon.

Clouds themselves are innumerable water drops suspended in the sky, so technically rain drops are cloud fragments falling from within the cloud itself. The description of rain as being fragments of clouds is in fact extremely accurate. The Hebrew Bible on the other hand describes clouds like solid entities on which God travels around to visit the wicked nations with His punishement Isa19:1,Ps104:3, or like sponges, delivering the rain they absorb in case God allows water to fall from the "firmament" on them
Job36:27-32"He increases drops of water; they pour rain into His cloud..Or will one understand the spreading of a cloud..Behold He spread His rain over it..Over the clouds He covers the rain, and He commands it through one who prays".
Water therefore does not originate from the clouds themselves but from the heavens, clouds are only carriers of that heavenly water Jer10:13. Besides stocking water "above the mountains", behind the firmament in "His upper chambers" Ps104, God also has reserves of hail and snow Job38:22-3. An angel named "Aph Beri" is the one tasked by God for "burdening" the clouds with water and driving them through the earth. See Rashi on Job37:12.

All these citations werent made to disparage the Bible, rather at pointing what would have been the outcome had the Quran been the product of a 7th century human being. The Quran had many occasions to expose itself as the product of an ancient human mind, as it speaks in many places of phenomenons similar to the ones refered to above in the HB. And yet we do not find anything remotely similar in terms of faulty depictions of the workings of nature.

The Quran further says, some of what comes down from the sama' goes back up to it 57:4,34:2 in a ever recuring cycle as denoted with alrajaa 86:11. Literally the word means to return and is used in classical Arabic for the rain. It is a very appropriate description of rain since it is the same water that rains down and returns to the sky in a cycle. It is this very cycle that is sworn by as a testimony of the reality of resurrection.

The Quran in 56:68-70 when drawing attention to God's mercy says the water coming from the cloud could have been salty and such an assertion can only be made if one is aware of the evaporation phenomenon that causes fresh water to evaporate from the sea and leave the salt behind. What goes down to the Earth, penetrating it 23:18 or flowing throughout it 39:21 is drank by humans and animals 16:10,25:49 who were created from it
21:30,25:54,24:45"And Allah has created from water every living creature: so of them is that which walks upon its belly, and of them is that which walks upon two feet, and of them is that which walks upon four; Allah creates what He pleases; surely Allah has power over all things".
Not a single living organism has been found to be entirely needless of water in any of its shapes.
Water causes vegetation to grow 45:5,78:15 or mixes with already existing plants 10:24.

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