Does
hail come from mountains in the sky?
24:43
Do you not see that Allah drives clouds, then joins between them,
then makes them (into) a mass, then you see the rain come
forth from their midst? And He sends down from the sky, from
mountains (jibalin), within it is
hail (baradin), and He strikes with it whom He wills
and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lighting almost
takes away the sight.
(“Within
it” refers to “sky”, because “Within it” and “sky” are
both feminine in Arabic, while “mountains” is masculine (24:43);
so, the Verse says that the hail (ice) is within the sky, not within
the mountains, but “mountains” are involved, despite of hail is
“from the sky” (e.g. clouds which are in the sky). The relation
between “mountains” and “hail” is confirmed by the article
“Hail” in wikipedia; the mountains could facilitate to make the
hail happen, quoting the article: “hail is much more common along
mountain ranges because mountains force horizontal winds upwards,
thereby intensifying the updrafts within thunderstorms and making
hail more likely. The higher elevations also result in there being
less time available for hail to melt before reaching the
ground)(Another interpretation is that, considering that Verses 30:48
and 24:43 are similar: “He causes it to fall upon whom He wills”
(30:48), and “He strikes with it whom He wills” (24:43). And, in
these two sentences, “to fall” and “to strike” have both the
same root word in Arabic (the root of “asaba” and “yusibu” is
“sad waw ba”), so the interpretation is that both Verses speak
about rain, because the Verses of the Qur’an are not mutually
exclusive, but complement each other. And “mountains” in Verse
24:43 could be interpreted as “a mass or large quantity (of
clouds)”, because the root of “jibillan” is “Jiim-Ba-Lam”,
and according to the dictionary, it also means “big, thick, coarse,
rough, crowd, multitude, number of people, generation”. It is
confirmed by Verse 36:62, in which “mountain” (jibillan) is
translated or interpreted as “multitude”, according to the
context. So, “jibalin” does not necessarily mean “mountains”,
but, according to the context, the hail is sent from both, the sky,
and the multitude/mass of clouds which are in the sky. The root of
“baradin” (hail) is “Ba-Ra-Dal”, and it means “hail / snow,
beverage that cools the heat of thirst, etc.”. So, it is
interpreted that the rain might not be rainwater, but hail)(Another
interpretation of Verse 24:43 is that it is telling that water came
from outer space, because even if “it (hail)” only refers to
“sky”, the Verse explicitly says “from mountains” (e.g.
meteors), in addition to “from the sky”, so it is from both.
According to the article “does our water really come from outer
space?” in “treehugger(dot)com”, a new theory poses that water
was brought here as ice on incoming meteors. Notice that Verse 2:164
says “water” instead of “rain”. According to this
interpretation, the ice is also from mountains / masses (meteors).
The mention of “mountains” does not make it to be from earth but
also mentions “from the sky” (24:43), then the mountain could
have come from the sky (meteors))(In regard to “striking with it”
(24:43), for example, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was the
size of a mountain. According to the article “the impact that wiped
out the dinosaurs” in “psi(dot)edu”, “an asteroid roughly 10
km across hit Earth about 65 million years ago… leading to the
extinction of roughly 3/4 of species that existed at that
time”)(Either interpretation of the Verse is in accordance with
science)(Allah knows best)
36:62
And indeed, he
led astray a
great
multitude
(jibillan) of you.
Then did you
not use reason?
2:164
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and alternation
of the night and the day, and the ships which sail in the sea with
that
which
benefits people, and what
Allah
sent
down from the sky of water, giving life thereby to the earth after
its death,
and dispersing therein of every moving creature, and directing the
winds and the clouds controlled between the sky and the earth, surely
are Signs for a people who use their intellect.
See
also: Is the Qur'an scientifically correct? (3) (Geology and
Meteorology)
See
also: Is the Qur'an scientifically correct? (0) (Index)
See
also: Root Dictionary of the Holy Qur’an (Index)
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