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Rain

المطر

The rain by which God revives the earth after its death and scatters in it every kind of creature — the likeness of the guidance and knowledge He sends: good soil, hard soil and hollow ground are pictures of people with the revelation.

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Global / Diaspora

Environment and climateCosmology and creation

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Mentioned in
Muslim 2282 — The rain parable of guidance and knowledge· Qur'an 16:65· Qur'an 2:164· Qur'an 22:63· Qur'an 25:48· Qur'an 25:49· Qur'an 30:24· Qur'an 30:48· Qur'an 30:49· Qur'an 35:9· Qur'an 43:11· Qur'an 50:10· Qur'an 50:11· Qur'an 50:9· Qur'an 7:57· Qur'an 78:14

People and things also explored

Seeking knowledge· Abu Musa al-Ashari· Muhammad· The clouds· The earth· The moon· Mountains· Night and day

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Sahih Muslim
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islam.museum contributors. “Rain”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/rain/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Seeking knowledge

Seeking knowledge in Abu Hurayra's hadith — the thirty-sixth of the Forty — is among the greatest paths to Paradise: 'whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, God will ease for him by it a path to Paradise', and it is paired with gatherings of remembrance in God's houses, where the Book is recited and studied together, upon whom serenity descends, mercy envelopes and the angels surround while God mentions them among those with Him; the hadith closes by making deeds, not lineage, the rescuer — 'whoever is slowed by his deeds, his descent will not speed him along' — so that treading the path of learning and studying the Qur'an in company are means to serenity and divine mention, while reliance on ancestry is answered by the rule of works (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 731).