A Series of Presentation By Allah Dad Khan Pakistan

6. THE FORMATION OF HAIL, THUNDER AND
LIGHTNING
He sends down mountains from
the sky with hail inside them,
striking with it anyone He wills
and averting it from anyone He
wills. The brightness of His
lightning almost blinds the sight.
(Qur'an, 24:43)

7. The above verse refers to hail and lightning. When the
formation of hail and lightning are examined, it can be seen
that an important meteorological truth is being indicated in
this verse. About the formation of lightning and hail, the
book Meteorology Today says that a cloud becomes
electrified as hail falls through a region in the cloud of
supercooled droplets and ice crystals. Liquid droplets freeze
and release latent heat as they collide with a hailstone. This
keeps the surface of the hailstone warmer than that of the
surrounding ice crystals. An important phenomenon occurs
when the hailstone comes in contact with an ice crystal:
Electrons flow from the colder object toward the warmer one.
In this way, the hailstone becomes negatively charged. This
effect also occurs when supercooled droplets come in contact
with a hailstone and small pieces of positively charged ice
break off. These particles, which are lighter and positively
charged, are carried to the upper part of the cloud by
currents of air. The hail has a negative charge now, and falls
towards the bottom of the cloud, thus the lower part of the
cloud becomes negatively charged. These negative charges
are then discharged as lightning. It may be concluded from
this that hail is the main factor in the formation of lightning.

8. In the following verse, however, attention is
drawn to the link between rain clouds and
lightning, and to the order of formation,
information that parallels that discovered by
science:
Or [their likeness is] that of a storm-cloud in the
sky, full of darkness, thunder and lightning.
They put their fingers in their ears against the
thunderclaps, fearful of death… (Qur'an, 2:19)

9. Rain clouds are tremendous masses
covering 20 to 260 square metres (10 to
100 square miles) and reaching great
vertical heights of 9,000 to 12,000
metres (30,000 to 40,000 ft.). Due to
these extraordinary dimensions, the
lower part of these clouds are dark. It is
impossible for the Sun's rays to pass
through them, because of the large
quantities of water and ice particles they
contain. Very little solar energy therefore
reaches the Earth through the clouds,
which is why the clouds appear dark to
someone looking up at them.58

10. The stages of the formation of thunder and lightning
after that darkness, mentioned in the verse, are as
follows: An electrical charge forms inside the rain
cloud. This comes about as a result of such processes
as freezing, the division of raindrops and charge
formation during contact. The accumulation of such
electrical charges, when the air between becomes
unable to insulate them, leads to a great spark, a
discharge between the positive and negative fields. The
voltage between two oppositely charged areas can
reach 1 billion volts. The spark can also form within the
cloud, can cross between two clouds, from a positively
charged area to a negative one, or be discharged from
the cloud to the ground. These sparks form dazzling
lightning strikes. This sudden increase in the electrical
charge along the line of lightning causes intense heat
(10,000 degrees Centigrade). As a result, there is a
sudden expansion of the air, which in turn causes the
loud noise associated with thunder.

11. “The thunder glorifies His praise, as do the
angels, out of fear of Him. He discharges the
thunderbolts, striking with them anyone He
wills. Yet still they argue about Allah when He
is inexorable in His power!
(Qur’an, 13:13) “

12. As has been discussed, dark layers,
followed by the electrically charged
sparks known as lightning, and then
the loud noise called thunder, form
within a rain cloud. Everything
modern science has established about
clouds, and has to say about the
causes of thunder and lightning, is in
complete accord with the descriptions
in the Qur'an

13. THE FECUNDATING WINDS
In one verse of the Qur'an, the
"fecundating" characteristic of the
winds, and the resulting formation of
rain are mentioned.
And We send the fecundating
winds, then cause water to
descend from the sky, therewith
providing you with water in
abundance. (Qur'an, 15:22)

14. This verse points out that the first
stage in the formation of rain is wind.
Until the beginning of the 20th century,
the only relationship known between
the wind and the rain was that it was
the wind that drove the clouds.
However, modern meteorological
findings have demonstrated the
"fecundating" role of the wind in the
formation of rain

15. • If winds did not possess this
property, water droplets in the
upper atmosphere would never
form, and there would be no rain.
• The most important point to be
recognized here is that this critical
role of the wind in the formation of
rain was stated centuries ago in the
Qur'an, at a time when very little
was known about natural
phenomena…