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       THE WATER CYCLE
       By: Captshittu Date: December 11, 2017, 7:14 pm
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       [font=georgia]WATER CYCLE IN THE CYCLE IN QUR'AN[/font]
       In 1580, Bernard Palissy was the first man to describe the
       present day concept of ‘water cycle’. He described how water
       evaporates from the oceans and cools to form clouds. The clouds
       move inland where they rise, condense and fall as rain. This
       water gathers as lakes and streams and flows back to the ocean
       in a continuous cycle. In the 7th century B.C., Thales of
       Miletus believed that surface spray of the oceans was picked up
       by the wind and carried inland to fall as rain. In earlier times
       people did not know the source of underground water. They
       thought the water of the oceans, under the effect of winds, was
       thrust towards the interior of the continents. They also
       believed that the water returned by a secret passage, or the
       Great Abyss. This passage is connected to the oceans and has
       been called the ‘Tartarus’, since Plato’s time. Even Descartes,
       a great thinker of the eighteenth century, subscribed to this
       view. Till the nineteenth century, Aristotle’s theory was
       prevalent.
       According to this theory, water was condensed in cool mountain
       caverns and formed underground lakes that fed springs. Today, we
       know that the rainwater that seeps into the cracks of the ground
       is responsible for this.
       The water cycle is described by the Qur’aan in the following
       verses: “Seest thou not that Allah Sends down rain from The sky,
       and leads it Through springs in the earth? Then He causes to
       grow, Therewith, produce of various Colours.” [Al-Qur’aan 39:21]
       “He sends down rain From the sky And with it gives life to The
       earth after it is dead: Verily in that are Signs For those who
       are wise.” [AlQur’aan 30:24]
       “And We send down water From the sky according to (Due) measure,
       and We cause it To soak in the soil; And We certainly are able
       To drain it off (with ease).” [Al-Qur’aan 23:18]
       No other text dating back 1400 years ago gives such an accurate
       description of the water cycle.
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