| The Cause(s) of Rains in the Bible: | | | | and the unrighteous. |
| The Lord sends the rain. He draws up the drops | | | | Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your |
| of water, which distill as rain to the streams. He | | | | Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the |
| made darkness his covering, his canopy around | | | | evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous |
| him. The Lord makes clouds rise from the ends | | | | and the unrighteous. |
| of the earth and brings out the wind from his | | | | The Lord made darkness his covering, his canopy |
| storehouses. The Lord turned their rain into hail | | | | around him |
| with lightning. | | | | Psalm 18:11 |
| I will call upon the Lord to send thunder and rain | | | | He made darkness his covering, his canopy |
| to realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of | | | | around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky. |
| the Lord when you asked for a king, | | | | The Lord turned their rain into hail with lightning |
| People will not have rain if they do not go up to | | | | Psalm 105:32 |
| Jerusalem to worship the Lord or if they sin; | | | | He turned their rain into hail, with lightning |
| however, the Lord sends rain on the righteous | | | | throughout their land; |
| and the unrighteous | | | | It is an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord |
| You can make it rain if you say: "It's going to | | | | when you asked for a king, |
| rain". | | | | 1 Samuel 12:17 |
| A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a | | | | Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call upon the |
| rainy day. | | | | LORD to send thunder and rain. And you will |
| Also, the Bible asks: Does the rain have a father? | | | | realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of |
| The Lord sends the rain: | | | | the LORD when you asked for a king." |
| Zechariah 10:1 | | | | However, When a king's face brightens, it means |
| [The LORD Will Care for Judah] Ask the LORD | | | | life |
| for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who | | | | Proverbs 16:15 |
| makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of | | | | When a king's face brightens, it means life; his |
| rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone. | | | | favor is like a rain cloud in spring. |
| Job 36:27 | | | | The quarrelsome wife |
| "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as | | | | Proverbs 27:15 |
| rain to the streams ; | | | | A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a |
| Job 37:6 | | | | rainy day; |
| He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to | | | | Some Biblical Questions about the Rains: |
| the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.' | | | | Job 38:28 |
| Ecclesiastes 11:3 | | | | Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the |
| If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon | | | | drops of dew? |
| the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to | | | | Job 38:25 |
| the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie. | | | | Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a |
| Psalm 84:6 | | | | path for the thunderstorm, |
| As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they | | | | Jeremiah 14:22 |
| make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also | | | | Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring |
| cover it with pools. | | | | rain? Do the skies themselves send down |
| Ecclesiastes 12:2before the sun and the light and | | | | showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. |
| the moon and the stars grow dark, and the | | | | Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one |
| clouds return after the rain; | | | | who does all this. |
| Song of Solomon 2:11 | | | | The Cause(s) of Rains in the Quran: |
| See! The winter is past; the rains are over and | | | | Allah sends down water from the cloud |
| gone. | | | | There is a predetermined measure for the Rains |
| Ezekiel 1:28 | | | | Surah 13:17 |
| Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on | | | | "He sends down water from the cloud, then |
| a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This | | | | watercourses flow (with water) according to their |
| was the appearance of the likeness of the glory | | | | measure, and the torrent bears along the swelling |
| of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and | | | | foam, and from what they melt in the fire for |
| I heard the voice of one speaking. | | | | the sake of making ornaments or apparatus |
| Hosea 6:3 | | | | arises a scum like it; thus does Allah compare |
| Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to | | | | truth and falsehood; then as for the scum, it |
| acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he | | | | passes away as a worthless thing; and as for that |
| will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, | | | | which profits the people, it tarries in the earth; |
| like the spring rains that water the earth." | | | | thus does allah set forth parables" |
| The Lord makes clouds rise from the ends of the | | | | Surah 16:10it is He who sends down water from |
| earth and brings out the wind from his | | | | the cloud for you; it gives drink, and by it (grow) |
| storehouses. | | | | the trees upon which you pasture |
| Psalm 135:7 | | | | Surah 39:21do you not see that allah sends down |
| He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; | | | | water from the cloud, then makes it go along in |
| he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the | | | | the earth in springs, then brings forth therewith |
| wind from his storehouses. | | | | herbage of various colors, then it withers so that |
| Matthew 7:25 | | | | you see it becoming yellow, then he makes it a |
| The rain came down, the streams rose, and the | | | | thing crushed and broken into pieces? most surely |
| winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did | | | | there is a reminder in this for the men of |
| not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. | | | | understanding |
| Jeremiah 10:13 | | | | Surah 43:11and he who sends down water from |
| When he thunders, the waters in the heavens | | | | the cloud according to a measure, then we raise |
| roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the | | | | to life thereby a dead country, even thus shall |
| earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings | | | | you be brought forth; |
| out the wind from his storehouses. | | | | Surah 50:9and we send down from the cloud |
| Jeremiah 51:16 | | | | water abounding in good, then we cause to grow |
| When he thunders, the waters in the heavens | | | | thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped, |
| roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the | | | | Surah 30:24and one of his signs is that he shows |
| earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings | | | | you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends |
| out the wind from his storehouses. | | | | down water from the clouds then gives life |
| Proverbs 25:14 | | | | therewith to the earth after its death; most |
| Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who | | | | surely there are signs in this for a people who |
| boasts of gifts he does not give. | | | | understand |
| Also, You can make it rain if you (see a cloud | | | | Surah 23:18and we send down water from the |
| and) say: "It's going to rain". | | | | cloud according to a measure, then we cause it to |
| Luke 12:54 | | | | settle in the earth, and most surely we are able |
| [Interpreting the Times] He said to the crowd: | | | | to carry it away |
| "When you see a cloud rising in the west, | | | | The water of the Rain is Pure: |
| immediately you say, 'It's going to rain,' and it | | | | Surah 25:48and he it is who sends the winds as |
| does. | | | | good news before his mercy; and we send down |
| When the People will not have Rains? | | | | pure water from the cloud, |
| People will not have rain if they do not go up to | | | | The winds fertilize the clouds. |
| Jerusalem to worship the Lord. | | | | Surah 15:22and we send the winds fertilizing, and |
| If the Egyptians do not go up and take part | | | | cause water to descend from the sky, and give it |
| When the people sin | | | | you to drink. it is not ye who are the holders of |
| Zechariah 14:17 | | | | the store thereof. |
| If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up | | | | The Quran says that Allah sends the winds |
| to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD | | | | fertilizing, and cause water to descend from the |
| Almighty, they will have no rain. | | | | sky. This scientific fact was only proved after |
| Zechariah 14:18 | | | | revelation of the Quran by more than 1300 years. |
| If the Egyptian people do not go up and take | | | | Clouds are positively or negatively charged. The |
| part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on | | | | Winds make the positively or negatively charged |
| them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do | | | | clouds meet with the consequent result of Rains' |
| not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. | | | | formation. |
| 1 Kings 8:35 | | | | Before asking my routine question, it may be |
| "When the heavens are shut up and there is no | | | | interesting to mention that the Arabs at the time |
| rain because your people have sinned against you, | | | | of revelation of the Quran wished to have rain if |
| and when they pray toward this place and | | | | the Quran is true and Islam is the religion. |
| confess your name and turn from their sin | | | | The Ignorant Arabs wished to have Rain: |
| because you have afflicted them, | | | | Surah 8:32and when they said: o Allah! if this is the |
| 2 Chronicles 6:26 | | | | truth from thee, then rain upon us stones from |
| "When the heavens are shut up and there is no | | | | heaven or inflict on us a painful punishment |
| rain because your people have sinned against you, | | | | Of course, it would be better if they said: "Show |
| and when they pray toward this place and | | | | us the way to follow the Truth instead of saying: |
| confess your name and turn from their sin | | | | "rain down on us a shower of stones form the |
| because you have afflicted them, | | | | sky, or send us a grievous penalty". |
| The rain on the wicked will be fiery coals | | | | This reminds me with the intellectual scholars who |
| This prophecy never happened. | | | | claim that the Quran is stolen from the Bible. |
| Psalm 11:6 | | | | Back to the main issue of my series of articles |
| On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning | | | | (1-35); this is my question to you smart readers: |
| sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot. | | | | "Is the Quran quoted from the Bible and which |
| However, the Lord sends rain on the righteous | | | | book preceded the sciences"? |