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One of the items of information
given in the Qur'an about rain is that
it is sent down to Earth in due measure.
This is mentioned in Sura Zukhruf as follows;
"It is He who sends down
water in due measure from the sky by which
We bring a dead land back to life. That
is how you too will be raised (from the
dead)." (The Qur'an, 43:11)
This measured quantity
in rain has again been discovered by modern
research. It is estimated that in one
second, approximately 16 million tons
of water evaporates from the Earth. This
figure amounts to 513 trillion tons of
water in one year. This number is equal
to the amount of rain that falls on the
Earth in a year. This means that water
continuously circulates in a balanced
cycle, in a "measure". Life on Earth depends
on this water cycle. Even if people used
all the available technology in the world,
they would not be able to reproduce this
cycle artificially.
Every year, the amount of water
that evaporates and that falls back
to the Earth in the form of rain
is "constant": 513 trillion tons.
This constant amount is declared
in the Qur'an by the expression
"sending down water in due measure
from the sky". The constancy of
this quantity is very important
for the continuity of the ecological
balance, and therefore, life. ago..
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Even a minor deviation in this equilibrium
would very soon give rise to a major ecological
imbalance that would bring about the end
of life on Earth. Yet, this never happens,
and rain keeps falling every year in exactly
the same quantity just as revealed in
the Qur'an.
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