And the thunder Glorifies with His Praise...

And the thunder Glorifies with His Praise, and (so do) the Angels from His Awe, and He Sends the thunderbolts, so He Hits with these the ones He so Desires to, and they are disputing regarding Allah and He is Mighty in Strength [13:12-13] (In a lengthy tradition in the interpretation of above Verses) Prophet said: And the clouds are at the status of the sieve . Then Allah Reveals to the wind to grind it and melt it, dissolving the water.

Then it takes it to such and such a place and pours upon it. So that becomes such and such a torrent and other than that. Thus, it rains upon the area which it had been Commanded to. There is no drop from the drops except that there is an Angel with it until he places it in a particular place.

There does not descend a drop from the sky except that it is numbered precisely and is of a known weight, except when it was the day of the storm in the era of Noah as , on that day it poured without measurement or number’. Prophet said: ‘Allah Made the cloud to be as a sieve for the rain, and the sleet melts until it becomes water, not harming anything by it. The harm is what you see from the sleet and the lightning as a Wrath from Allah Harming whosoever He so desires from His servants’.

(an extract). [82] Science verifies the presence of ice in the upper atmosphere of all planets, including earth, See for example. [83] Briefly, from scientific viewpoint, when air rises, it cools, cold air can’t hold as much water vapour than warm air can, so as the air cools, it becomes saturated and the water vapour in it condenses.

This means it turns from a gas to a liquid, When the water vapour turns to a liquid in the sky, it forms lots of tiny little water droplets which cling to little bits of dust; it is this group of little water droplets suspended in the air that becomes visible as the cloud we see. These droplets of water are only about a hundredth of a millimetre in diameter, but the cloud is made up of a large collection of these.

If the cloud is high up enough in the sky and the air is cold enough, the cloud is made of lots of tiny ice crystals instead and gives a thin, wispy appearance. [84] Water is the source of all living beings: God Says: Have those who disbelieved not considered that the skies and the Earth were a joined entity, and we separated them and made from water every living thing?