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Re: Hail comes from mountains on the sky -Quran 24:43 error refuted

See you not that Allâh drives the clouds gently means that God drives and pushes the clouds easily and gently, then joins them together, He collects a cloud with another, then makes them into a heap of layers means cumulus clouds over each other, and you see the rain comes forth from between them, you see the rain coming out of them, and He sends down from the sky hail (like) mountains means that they are wonderful pieces like mountains.
 
The Scientific Fact:
Scientists have recently made dazzling discoveries about the formation of hail in the clouds and noticed that the first thing formed is the cloud that is pushed by the wind till it meets another cloud, and that's how the clouds are collected over each other by the air currents called pushing streams until they form the cumulus clouds.
Then, when the cumulus clouds rise up for several kilometers, the hailstones begin to be formed and then by air currents they start to fall on the ground, while some of them stay in the clouds and others melt before reaching the ground. Scientists say that the hail is always accompanied by lightning flashes.

The Point of Inimitability:
We notice from these facts that the holy Quran corresponds with modern science in its sayings about the formation of hail and the role of wind in the formation of cumulus clouds and that the lightning is formed in the clouds that contain the hailstones. Scientists say that the hail is formed only in the high cumulus clouds, therefore God be he exalted says: (and He sends down from the sky hail (like) mountains, (or there are in the heaven mountains of hail from where He sends down hail). And this is from the inimitability of Quran, so who could have known at that time these detailed information if Muhammad wasn't a messenger from God!      

Scientists have studied cloud types and have realized that rain clouds are formed and shaped according to definite systems and certain steps connected with certain types of wind and clouds.
One kind of rain cloud is the cumulonimbus cloud.  Meteorologists have studied how cumulonimbus clouds are formed and how they produce rain, hail, and lightning.
They have found that cumulonimbus clouds go through the following steps to produce rain:
1)  The clouds are pushed by the wind: Cumulonimbus clouds begin to form when wind pushes some small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds) to an area where these clouds converge (see figures 17 and 18).
Figure 17 (Click here to enlarge)
Figure 17: Satellite photo showing the clouds moving towards the convergence areas B, C, and D.  The arrows indicate the directions of the wind. (The Use of Satellite Pictures in Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Anderson and others, p. 188.)  (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
Figure 18 (Click here to enlarge)
Figure 18: Small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds) moving towards a convergence zone near the horizon, where we can see a large cumulonimbus cloud. (Clouds and Storms, Ludlam, plate 7.4.)   (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
2)  Joining: Then the small clouds join together forming a larger cloud1 (see figures 18 and 19).
Figure 19 (Click here to enlarge)
Figure 19: (A) Isolated small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds).  (B) When the small clouds join together, updrafts within the larger cloud increase, so the cloud is stacked up.  Water drops are indicated by ·. (The Atmosphere, Anthes and others, p. 269.)  (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
3)  Stacking: When the small clouds join together, updrafts within the larger cloud increase.  The updrafts near the center of the cloud are stronger than those near the edges.2  These updrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so the cloud is stacked up (see figures 19 (B), 20, and 21).  This vertical growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of the atmosphere, where drops of water and hail formulate and begin to grow larger and larger.  When these drops of water and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them, they begin to fall from the cloud as rain, hail, etc.3
Figure 20: A cumulonimbus cloud.  After the cloud is stacked up, rain comes out of it. (Weather and Climate, Bodin, p.123.)
Figure 20
Figure 21
Figure 21: A cumulonimbus cloud. (A Colour Guide to Clouds, Scorer and Wexler, p. 23.)
God has said in the Quran:
 Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it....  (Quran, 24:43)
Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced equipment like planes, satellites, computers, balloons, and other equipment, to study wind and its direction, to measure humidity and its variations, and to determine the levels and variations of atmospheric pressure.4
The preceding verse, after mentioning clouds and rain, speaks about hail and lightning:
 ....And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever He wills. The vivid flash of its lightning nearly blinds the sight.  (Quran, 24:43)
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),5 like mountains, as the Quran said, “...And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky...” (see figure 21 above).
This verse may raise a question.  Why does the verse say “its lightning” in a reference to the hail?  Does this mean that hail is the major factor in producing lightning?  Let us see what the book entitled Meteorology Today says about this.  It says that a cloud becomes electrified as hail falls through a region in the cloud of supercooled 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.  Hence, the hailstone becomes negatively charged.  The same effect occurs when supercooled 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.6  We conclude from this that hail is the major factor in producing lightning.
This information on lightning was discovered recently.  Until 1600 AD, Aristotle’s ideas on meteorology were dominant.  For example, he said that the atmosphere contains two kinds of exhalation, moist and dry.  He also said that thunder is the sound of the collision of the dry exhalation with the neighboring clouds, and lightning is the inflaming and burning of the dry exhalation with a thin and faint fire.7  These are some of the ideas on meteorology that were dominant at the time of the Quran’s revelation, fourteen centuries ago. 

The Quran is not claiming hail comes from mountains !! Once again the deceivers are taking us for fools if they believe people in 7th century Arabia thought hail came from mountains, surely Arabians who did live next to mountains could tell this by simple observation. Well, according to the liars, they could not. The sceptics are being foolish and amateur.
Actually the verse confirms that hail comes from the sky as it states “ He sends down FROM THE SKY hail” . This scuppers and disproves the sceptics claim. Were they unable to comprehend a simple English translation of the meanings of Quran.
As for the “mountains” reference, it clearly refers to the initial clouds holding the hail. Hail is a result of suspended ice in the air and hail forms in cumulonimbus clouds (which are like mountains). So the Quran is super accurate and seems to bring forward something people could view as a scientific miracle!
Footnotes:
(1) See The Atmosphere, Anthes and others, pp. 268-269, and Elements of Meteorology, Miller and Thompson, p. 141. Back from footnote (1)
(2) The updrafts near the center are stronger, because they are protected from the cooling effects by the outer portion of the cloud. Back from footnote (2)
(3) See The Atmosphere, Anthes and others, p. 269, and Elements of Meteorology, Miller and Thompson, pp. 141-142. Back from footnote (3)
(4) See Eejaz al-Quran al-Kareem fee Wasf Anwa al-Riyah, al-Sohob, al-Matar, Makky and others, p. 55. Back from footnote (4)
(5) Elements of Meteorology, Miller and Thompson, p. 141. Back from footnote (5)
(6) Meteorology Today, Ahrens, p. 437. Back from footnote (6)
(7) The Works of Aristotle Translated into English: Meteorologica, vol. 3, Ross and others, pp. 369a-369b. 

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