The Story of Creation (12) – The Winds, Storms & Hurricanes types in the Holy Quran

Index:

1. Meteorology (Study of Winds)

2. Wind dispersal

• Fertilizing Winds
• Barren Winds (Non-Fertilizing)

3. Types of Winds:

• Doldrums Winds (Ceased Winds):
• Trade Winds (Favorable Winds)
• Prevailing Winds (Stormy Winds)
• Polar Easterlies (Extremely Cold Winds)

4. Types of Hurricanes:

• Hurricane (Destruction Winds)
• Fire Whirl (Fire Cyclone

5. Other Type of Storms:

• Yellow Winds (Dusty Winds)
• Swallowing Winds (Mountain-Valleys Winds)
• Pyroclastic flow (Stones Storm)

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1.  Meteorology (Study of Winds)

[Science]

Wind in climatology, the movement of air relative to the surface of the Earth. Winds play a significant role in determining and controlling climate and weather.

Wind occurs because of horizontal and vertical differences (gradients) in atmospheric pressure. Accordingly, the distribution of winds is closely related to that of pressure. Near the Earth’s surface, winds generally flow around regions of relatively low and high pressure—cyclones and anticyclones, respectively. They rotate counterclockwise around lows in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise around those in the Southern Hemisphere. Similarly, wind systems rotate around the centres of highs in the opposite direction. [1]

In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are termed squalls. Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, hurricane, and typhoon. [2]

The Story of Creation (11) – Clouds, Rain, and Water Cycle in the Holy Quran.

Index:

1.   The Types of Raining Clouds

2.   The “Forecastable” Winds and the Heavy Clouds

3.   Characteristics of Rain:

• High Pressure on first rain
• Being Acidic water
• Being melted from Ice
• Being shattered into smaller drops
• Carrying seeds and bacteria

4.    Thunderstorm Clouds

5.    Water Cycle and its Balance

6.    Ways of water inside Earth

7.    Storing water inside Earth, Aquifer Depth

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1.    The Types of Raining Clouds

[Science]

There are 2 main types of clouds that can be rainy clouds:

A- Nimbostratus Clouds

Nimbostratus clouds belong to the Low Cloud (surface to 2000m up) group. They are dark gray with a ragged base. Nimbostratus clouds are associated with continuous rain or snow. Sometimes they cover the whole sky and you can't see the edges of the cloud. [1]

Nimbostratus Formation

Nimbostratus will occur along warm fronts where the slowly rising warm air mass creates nimbostratus and stratus clouds, which are preceded by higher-level clouds such as cirrostratus and altostratus. Often, when an altostratus cloud thickens and descends into lower altitudes, it will become nimbostratus. [2]

The Story of Creation (10) – Atmosphere filtering, Ozone layer, Polar Aurora, Protection from Asteroids in the Holy Quran.

Index:

1.    Blindness of Night (Rays Filtering)

2.    Loss of Oxygen in High Altitudes

3.    Ozone Layer

4.    Breathe of Dawn

5.    Atmosphere Reflection

6.    Sky with no holes

7.    Aurora (Polar Lights)

8.    Earth Protection from Asteroids

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Before talking about our subject, I was reading the following verse from Quran:

ان في خلق السماوات والارض واختلاف الليل والنهار والفلك التي تجري في البحر بما ينفع الناس وما انزل الله من السماء من ماء فاحيا به الارض بعد موتها وبث فيها من كل دابة وتصريف الرياح والسحاب المسخر بين السماء والارض لايات لقوم يعقلون

Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, and the ships which sail through the sea with that which is of use to mankind, and the water (rain) which Allâh sends down from the sky and makes the earth alive therewith after its death, and the moving (living) creatures of all kinds that He has scattered therein, and in the veering of winds and clouds which are held between the sky and the earth, are indeed Ayât (proofs, evidences, signs, etc.) for people of understanding. [2:164]

I noticed that this verse summarized the creation sequence as explained in part (3) in one verse only as following:

• Creation of Universe (the Heavens and Earth).
• Alternation of Day and Night, i.e. Earth formation, being sphere and starting its rotation.
• Ships over the Seas, i.e. the water existed and appeared from Earth into Oceans.
• Rain, i.e. water starts evaporating, raining, rivers formation.
• Dispersing of Creatures (Daabah), starting from bacteria, and it’s evolution to other types of animals.
• Winds and Clouds, means oxygen generation and rising of atmosphere thickness.

In the following sections, we will compare some of ALLAH signs in Quran and compare them with science findings.

(9) - How do Sun, Moon, Earth, Stars, Mountains, Trees, Animals and Human prostrate to God?

Index:

1- How does Muslim prostrate to God?

2- Prostration of Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets

3- Prostration of Mountains

4- Prostration of Trees

5- Prostration of Animals

6- Prostration of People

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In a miraculous verse from the Holy Quran, ALLAH says the following:

الم تر ان الله يسجد له من في السماوات ومن في الارض والشمس والقمر والنجوم والجبال والشجر والدواب وكثير من الناس وكثير حق عليه العذاب ومن يهن الله فما له من مكرم ان الله يفعل ما يشاء  (الحج-18)

See you not that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the mountains, and the trees, and Ad-Dawâb moving (living creatures, beasts), and many of mankind prostrate themselves to Allah? But there are many (men) on whom the punishment is justified. And whomsoever Allâh disgraces, none can honour him. Verily! Allâh does what He wills. (18) [22:18]

والنجم والشجر يسجدان

The stars and the trees prostrate. 55:6

Let’s see how the stars, trees, mountains and animals prostrate to ALLAH…

The Story of Creation (8) - Sun & Moon Signs in The Holy Quran ….

Index:

1.    Moon Origin as Star

2.    Sun as Star & Moon reflects light

3.    Moon & Sun different orbits

4.    Moon following Sun

5.    Moon dryness and motion

6.    Moon & Sun Eclipse, and Moon Miraculous Rotation

7.    Super-moon

8.    Sun slower than Moon and night won’t forerun daylight

9.    Sun being bigger than Moon

10.    End of Sun

11.    Difference between Lunar year and Solar year

12.    The Shadow of Daylight

13.    Infinite day and Infinite night

14.    Sun Flares

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The Sun and the moon are the most important planets for our life on Earth, and without of them the life would be impossible on Earth and it would be never been as we know it today. But, did the Almighty God (ALLAH) mention some of their scientific facts in his holy book “The Quran”?

Let’s see…

1.    Moon Origin as Star

Quoted from NASA – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

How did the moon form?

We think that the moon and Earth formed at about the same time, back when our whole solar system was formed. Earth was forming from many chunks of rock and icy material. Possibly a big chunk hit the new Earth and knocked loose a big piece, which became the moon.

Does the moon really have volcanoes?

Yes, the moon has some volcanoes. But as far as I know they are all "dead" volcanoes that have not erupted for millions of years. Most of the craters on the moon are from the surface being hit by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. The moon is a very "quiet" place. There is no air or water to erode the surface, and there are no large earthquakes or active volcanoes to change the surface. Only small rocks may still hit the surface. So it has not changed much in billions of years! Probably the biggest changes recently are the footprints from the astronauts that visited the moon about 30 years ago. [1]

[Quran]

The Story of Creation (7) – Oil, Minerals & Stones signs in the Holy Quran ….

Index:

1- The Oil

2- Oil’s Locations

3- Iron Strength and Use

4- Iron Atomic Weight & Atomic Number

5- Asteroids Drilling (iron)

6- Bronze Alloy

7- Colors of Earth Products

8- Stones Solidness

9- The Iron Age

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1- The Oil:

Quoted from Wikipedia: Combustion

Combustion or burning is the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species. The release of heat can result in the production of light in the form of either glowing or a flame. Fuels of interest often include organic compounds (especially hydrocarbons) in the gas, liquid or solid phase.

In a complete combustion reaction, a compound reacts with an oxidizing element, such as oxygen or fluorine, and the products are compounds of each element in the fuel with the oxidizing element. For example:

CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O + energy

CH2S + 6 F2 → CF4 + 2 HF + SF6 [1]

The Story of Creation (6) – Miracles of Day and Night..

Index:

A- Sunsets and Sunrises’ Count

B- Day & Night signs:

1- Night covering Daylight

2- Daylight Thickness

3- Night and Daylight Circling

4- Daylight showing the Sun

C- Day & Night Attributes:

1- Inflowing

2- Flipping

3- Chasing

4- Frequency & Succession

5- The “Last Hour” arrival at night and day

6- Daylight & Night First Appearance

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In the following sections, we will see signs about Day, Night, Sunset and Sunrise that we may never thought about them before, and they are mentioned in Almighty God’s book, the Holy Quran.

A- Sunsets and Sunrises’ Count

In ALLAH’s book, there are 3 types of sunset and sunrise that were mentioned, as following: 

1- The Single Sunset (West) and Single Sunrise (East):

     

قال رب المشرق والمغرب وما بينهما ان كنتم تعقلون  (26: 28)

He said: Lord of the East and the West and all that is between them, if ye did but understand. (26: 28)

2- The Two Sunsets and Two Sunrises.

رب المشرقين ورب المغربين (55: 17)  

Lord of the two Easts, and Lord of the two Wests! (55: 17)

These verses are talking about 2 Wests and 2 Easts, and in other case there is 1 West and 1 East.  All these are related to North and South Poles (Easts and Wests), as they are changing monthly, as following:

The Story of Creation (5) - Tectonic Plates, Mountains Formation, Orogens, Subduction & Mountains Roots..

Index:

1.    Tectonic Plates and Mountains Formation

2.    Mountains to reduce Plates’ motion:

3.    Orogeny (mountains origin):

4.    Mountains roots

5.    Sub-duction of Earth Crust:

6.    Mountains and Rain Cycle

7.    Mountains Rising from below

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In the following sections, we will discover more spectacular signs of Mountains creation as described by Almighty God ALLAH in his Holy book Al-Quran.

1.    Tectonic Plates and Mountains Formation

[Science]

Quoted from Wikipedia - Plates Tectonics:

[The lithosphere is broken up into what are called "tectonic plates". In the case of the Earth, there are currently seven to eight major (depending on how they are defined) and many minor plates. The lithospheric plates ride on the asthenosphere. These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent, or collisional boundaries; divergent boundaries, also called spreading centers; and conservative transform boundaries. Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain-building, and oceanic trench formation occur along these plate boundaries. The lateral relative movement of the plates varies, though it is typically 0–100 mm annually] The Tectonic plates of Earth are shown in the below figure:] [1]

The Story of Creation (4) – Earth Creation and its Distinguished Geology, in Science and Quran..

Index:

1.“Earth Expansion” vs. “Plate Tectonics Theory”

2.Earth Spherical Shape

3.Earth as a Carpet

4.Earth Geology of “Beds and Mattresses”

5.Earth being Stable for Human

6.Earth being reciprocal (gravity)

7.Earth Great Trench:

8.Earth Core is the heaviest, Earthquakes before Volcanoes

9.Lowest Point of Earth

10.  Reduction of Earth from its sides

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Previously in part (3), we talked about the phases of Earth formation till it reaches the current state and what was created on Earth on each day of its first universal week.

In this post, we will talk about how it was created and the wonders of Earth Creation that were pointed by Almighty God ALLAH in his book, the Holy Quran.

 

1-   “Earth Expansion” vs. “Plate Tectonics Theory”

Although the most known theory that Earth was developed into its current form by plates separation, but the new theory is much more amazing which says that Earth was expanded in volume, and because of such growth the plates were divided in its known shapes.

[Science]

Quoted from “Earth Expansion Theory”

[Decades before space vehicles showed that generally the planets of our Solar System are covered by uniform shells of surface matter, that the Earth is the exception, Hilgenberg had the insight to think that the Earth should have had in the past a complete shell of continental rock covering its surface.] [1]

 

 

The Story of Creation (3) – Earth Formation in 6 Days, Matching between Quranic, Biblical and Science Calendars…

Index:

1-    Debate over Earth Age

2-    Scientific Calendar

3-    Islamic Calendar

4-    Biblical Calendar

5-    The 7,000 Years period !!

6-    Lessons Learned

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1-    Debate over Earth Age

We spoke before about universe creation and said that each of universal days was equal to 2 billion years as per Quranic calendar.

When I was going to write about Earth formation according to Islamic references from Quran and Hadith (Prophet’s Sayings), I discovered that they don’t match in time period with science findings but they match in order.

According to Quran, Earth creation started on day 1, means between last 14-12  billion years period, but scientists say that it’s since 4.5 billion years only, and this according to their age measurements on oldest stone that they were able to test (3km depth).

I was going to stop here and move to Earth attributes, but after some research, I discovered 4 astonishing facts


1- Recent finding by NASA: that the first stars were few million years after the Big bang and some stayed for few hundred millions years before they switched OFF.

Quoted from WMAP project by NASA:

[Another breakthrough derived from WMAP data is clear evidence the first stars took more than a half-billion years to create a cosmic fog. 

Credit: WMAP Science Team "We now have evidence that the creation of this fog was a drawn-out process, starting when the universe was about 400 million years old and lasting for half a billion years," said WMAP team member Joanna Dunkley of the University of Oxford in the U.K. and Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. "These measurements are currently possible only with WMAP.”] [1]

This fact matches with Islamic facts that Earth, Sun, Moon, were shining stars (burning planets) before the Earth and later on the moon were cooled down, therefore the start of Earth could be as early as the 14-13 billion year period. 

(2) – Hellfire Breath and the Fluctuation of Universe Temperature

Index

1- La Supernovas

2- Supernova Cosmology Project

3- Universe Temperature Fluctuation

4- Sunspot Cycle

5- Cosmic Rays and its Effects on Climate

6- Islamic Explanation: Hell Fire

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I was searching on internet about universe temperature and I found a very interesting study on kind of supernovas called “la supernova”. I will quote some of recent studies findings on this subject and others related to universe and Earth temperature and I will try to link between 4 main studies. 

The scientific researches on this subject are still new and didn’t solve the mystery behind supernovas behavior yet, and I am sure that the Islamic explanation will be so astonished to the working scientists.

Dear Reader, if you find that science part is new for you, please read the summary section at its end before reading the Islamic explanation.

[Science] 

1^st Research – La Supernovas

Quoted from Wikipedia – Supernova

[A supernova (plural supernovae) is a stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months. During this short interval a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun is expected to emit over its entire life span. The explosion expels much or all of a star's material at a velocity of up to 30,000 km/s (10% of the speed of light), driving a shock wave into the surrounding interstellar medium. This shock wave sweeps up an expanding shell of gas and dust called a supernova remnant.] [1]