Bible Versus Quran Versus Sciences, (30) the Clouds

The Clouds are mentioned in the Bible 153 times and in the Quran nine times, i.e., the Bible cites the Clouds 17 times more than the Quran does.

Furthermore, the total words of the Bible are 788,280 while the total words of the Quran are 77,473. It follows that, the Bible has the likely of more than 10 times than the Quran word-wise to talk about the Clouds. In addition, the Bible has the prospective of more than 17 times than the Quran topic-wise to utter about the Clouds.

The Clouds Bible

The rainbow in the clouds is the sign of the covenant between the Lord and the earth.

Genesis 9:13

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

Genesis 9:16

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

Ezekiel 1:28

Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

The Lord came down in the cloud is in a pillar of clouds, and appearing in the cloud,

Exodus 13:21

By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them

Exodus 16:10

… there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.

Exodus 24:16

and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

Exodus 34:5

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.

Leviticus 16:2

The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

Numbers 11:25

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him,

Numbers 12:5

Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,

Deuteronomy 31:15

Then the LORD appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent.

Isaiah 19:1

[A Prophecy About Egypt] An oracle concerning Egypt: See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.

The Lord veil and cover are made of clouds

However, Tahpanhes is also covered with clouds!

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.'

Lamentations 3:44

You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

Ezekiel 30:18

Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.

The Lord chariot is made of clouds

Psalm 104:3

and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

How to be like the Lord? If you ascend above the tops of the clouds.

What about the passengers on a flight?

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."

The clouds are the dust of Lord's feet.

Nahum 1:3

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

When the Lord snuff you out the sun will be covered with a cloud.

Ezekiel 32:7

When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

There is fire in the cloud of the Lord by night.

Exodus 40:38

So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night,

Numbers 9:15

[The Cloud Above the Tabernacle] On the day the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.

Numbers 9:16

That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.

Deuteronomy 5:22

These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Psalm 105:39

He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 30:30

The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.

the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.

1 Kings 8:10

When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 5:13

Then the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud,

Ezekiel 10:3

Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 10:4

Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.

The clouds rise from the ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:16

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

The following prophecy is about the second coming of the Lord Jesus.

This prophecy never happened.

Mark 14:62

"I am," said Jesus. "And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Luke 9:34

While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

Luke 12:54

[Interpreting the Times] He said to the crowd: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'It's going to rain,' and it does.

Revelation 14:14

[The Harvest of the Earth] I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

The Clouds in Quran

Many Scientific tips in one verse:

Surah 2:164

Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts (creatures )of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth, (here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise.

In this verse, many Scientific tips are mentioned as signs for the wise people e.g.:

Allah created the heavens and the earth

Allah made alternation of the Night and the Day

Allah causes the sailing of the ships through the Ocean

Allah sends the rain down from the sky.

Allah gives the life to the dead earth.

Allah generates the creatures and scatters them through the earth

Allah makes changes of the winds

The clouds between sky and the earth are obey Allah's will.

There is no verse in the entire Bible that gives all of these meanings at a time.

There are scientific and theological correlation between clouds, rain, and the dead land and the revival of dead people.

Surah 7:57

It is He Who sendeth the Winds like heralds of glad tidings, going before His Mercy: when they have carried the heavy-laden clouds, We drive them to a land that is dead, make rain to descend thereon, and produce every kind of harvest therewith ; Similarly We Shall raise up the dead perchance ye may remember.

Herein we have the sequences of events that are cloud, rain, dead land, and life of the dead land. The One who is capable to do this is in turn capable to raise up the dead man for the Day of Judgment.

The Quran is almost always reminding us with the afterlife.

This deep and important theological issue is not mentioned in the Bible.

The Wind fertilize the clouds.



Surah 30:48

It is Allah Who sends the Winds, and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in the sky as He wills, and break them into fragments, until thou seest rain-drops issue from the midst thereof: then when He has made them reach such of His servants as He wills, behold, they do rejoice!

Surah 13:12

It is He Who doth show you the lightning, by way both of fear and of hope: it is He Who doth raise up the clouds, heavy with (fertilizing) rain!

Surah 15:22

And We send the winds fertilizing, then send down water from the cloud therewith providing you with water (in abundance) to drink, though ye are not the guardians of its stores.

These verses (30:48, 13:12 and 15:22) talk about the fertilized clouds. It was after the revelation of the Quran by 1300 years that Meteorologists discovered that clouds are negatively and positively charged. It is the role of the wind (as the Quran stated) to fertilize the clouds and leading then to rain.

The Unbelievers thinking is like many layers of darkness over each other.

Surah 24:40

Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it! For any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!

The Scientific relation between clouds, hail and lightning.

Surah 24:43

Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, and then joins them together, then makes them into a heap (stack)? then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) wherein hail is: He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He Turns it away from whom He pleases. The vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight (nearly blinds the sight).

Meteorologists explore the details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using sophisticated equipments like planes, satellites, computers, balloons, etc. in order to study wind and its direction, to measure humidity and its variations, and to determine the levels and variations of atmospheric pressure.

The preceding verse, after mentioning clouds and rain, speaks about hail and lightning. Meteorologists have found that these cumulonimbus clouds, that shower hail, reach a height of 25,000 to 30,000 ft (4.7 to 5.7 miles) like mountains, as the Quran said, “...And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky...”

This verse says “its lightning” in a reference to the hail? This means that hail is the major factor in producing lightning. Meteorologists today say that a cloud becomes electrified as hail falls through a region in the cloud of super cooled droplets and ice crystals. As liquid droplets collide with a hailstone, they freeze on contact and release latent heat. This keeps the surface of the hailstone warmer than that of the surrounding ice crystals. When the hailstone comes in contact with an ice crystal, an important phenomenon occurs: electrons flow from the colder object toward the warmer object. Thus, the hailstone becomes negatively charged. The same effect occurs when super cooled droplets come in contact with a hailstone and tiny splinters of positively charged ice break off. These lighter positively charged particles are then carried to the upper part of the cloud by updrafts. The hail, left with a negative charge, 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 concluding from this that hail is the major factor in producing lightning. This information about lightning given by the Quran was only discovered after the revelation of the Quran by 1300 years.

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