| (And it is He Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His Mercy (rain); and We send down pure water from the sky …. |
The holy Qur’an is the first book to distinguish between types of water and to classify it according to a scientific classification, in this article we will see that the Qur’an told us about the rainwater and called it “the pure water”, scientifically it was proved that rainwater is sterilized, disinfected and free of impurities.
God be He exalted says: (And it is He Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His Mercy (rain); and We send down pure water from the sky)(Sûrat Al-Furqân- verse 48).I looked attentively at this verse and I found that it tells us about the distilled water. Scientists discovered that the water we drink contain a lot of matters. As the cup of water which we think it is pure contain millions of Bacteria and viruses, also it contain some mineral matters such as Iron, copper, aluminum, sodium, magnesium ,calcium, and some Organic materials such as carbon and dust.
Also scientists discovered that we can purify that water by heating it in the boiling degree which is 100 degree centigrade, and then we gather the steam, condense it and cool it. Then we can get a cup of distilled water, they say that the best kind of distilled water is the rainwater but that is before it mixes with the impurities in the air.
Pollution is the result of this civilization so that rainwater cleans the air because its ability to absorb the matters such as sulfur, poison lead, etc……….
After the descending of rainwater on the ground it leaks through the soil and between the rocks to mix with the minerals and the found salts in rocks to get the alkaline taste, therefore taste of rainwater is unpalatable but taste of springs water is palatable.
Today, scientists say that the rainwater is the same as the distilled water as it has some characteristics such as its ability to cleaning dirt and to sterilize any thing. God says about that water :( and we send down pure water from the sky).
Specifications of rainwater
Here we can mention some of the characteristics of the descended water, it is distilled water because it is a result of the vaporization of water from the seas and then it had been condensed in form of clouds then the rains descend. This kind of water can remove dirt form the human skin and also it is a sterilized material which can be used in medicine and it is free of bacteria and viruses. Also it can absorb gases and dust from air so that it cleans the air.
The Qur’an summarized all of these characteristics in only one word which is (and we send down pure water from the sky) as the word” pure” in the Arabic language means the ability to remove dirt and impurities as in “AL-Moheet dictionary”.
Hence, we find the Qur’an tell us about these characteristics as God says:
((Remember) when He covered you with a slumber as a security from Him, and He caused water (rain) to descend on you from the sky, to clean you thereby and to remove from you the Rijz (whispering, evil-suggestions) of Shaitân (Satan), and to strengthen your hearts, and make your feet firm thereby.) ( Sûrat Al-Anfâl- verse 11). This verse tells us about rainwater as God says” (water (rain) to descend on you from the sky,) also He tells us about the purifying characteristic in the water in saying (to clean you), also God tells us about the power of energizing human which is in the water in His saying (and make your feet firm thereby).
The Qur’an is the first book to speak about the purifying characteristic of water as we find that all human books don’t differentiate between the sweet water, pure water and the palatable water.
In front of these realities we can ask the atheists who claim that they can think rationally and that they don’t need a God(be He blessed and exalted) in their life, who said the expression of (pure) during talking about the rainwater as this word hadn’t been mentioned about water of river or seas?. Who tightened rules of physics to control clouds and rains? That is Allah who says: (Say (O Muhammad (“Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?” Say: “(It is) Allah.” Say: “Have you then taken (for worship) Auliyâ’ (protectors) other than Him, such as have no power either for benefit or for harm to themselves?” Say: “Is the blind equal to the one who sees? Or darkness equal to light? Or do they assign to Allah partners who created the like of His creation, so that the creation (which they made and His creation) seemed alike to them?” Say: “Allah is the Creator of all things; and He is the One, the Irresistible.”) (Sûrat ArRa‘d-verse 16).
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
References:
1- Baines, John. Water (Thomson Learning, 1993).
