THE INCREDIBLE ROLE AND BENEFITS OF WINDS IN THE WORLD

Consider how much the wind has served the clouds until they rained!

There is first the ‘raiser’, the wind that raises the cloud, which suspends it between the earth and the sky.

There is then the ‘transporter’, that transports the cloud, carrying it on its back the way a camel transports a water-bag.

Another wind is ‘the collector’, the wind that gathers bits and pieces of cloud into a big mass.

This is followed by the ‘fertilizer’ that acts in the way a male fertilizes a female, but it is with water that the wind fertilizes without it, the cloud is dry, without water.

The next wind is the ‘driver’, the wind that drives clouds wherever it is commanded to drive them, where they release their water.

A different wind, the ‘disperser’, disperses the clouds, stretching them around the sky, so that when it rains, it does not pour the water in a mass; for if it does, it would destroy dwellings, plants and animals; so the ‘disperser’ is designed to keep clouds spread in a way that they rain in drops.

There are winds that fertilize plants and trees, without which they would be barren; the winds that propel ships, without which ships would be immobile on the surface of the sea.

Some other functions of the wind are that it cools water, helps people in kindling fire, and dries what people want to dry.

On the whole, all that lives on earth, plants and animals, can survive only because of the winds.

If ALLĀH had not put them in the service of HIS servants, plants would wilt and animals would die; edible things would go bad, and pollution and rotting would be unbearable.

Do you not see that when the wind subsides for long, great distress and affliction are flagrant, to a point that people do not survive if this condition lasts too long? If this happens animals will be sick, healthy people will no longer be healthy, and sick people’s condition will deteriorate; fruits will go bad, plants will rot, and there will be contagion in the atmosphere.

So glory be to HIM Who made the blowing of wind a source of nourishment, mercy, blessing and a bounty from the Lord! It is as the Prophet (ﷺ) said of the wind that:
‘Verily, it is of the Mercy of ALLĀH that heralds mercy.’

EXTRACTED FROM
📖 Men and The Universe || Page 286-288