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Today's parable is actually quite complex, so I need you to pay attention to this one.

It surat al-Rajd verse 17.

And within this ayah there's actually two embedded parables, so there's two opposites.

When we did surat al-Bukhara, if you remember, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned the parable

of lighting a fire and the parable of rain coming down, fire and rain.

In this ayah as well, you have rain and you have fire.

And this is also of the methodology of the Qur'an to give contrasting parables for the same

thing.

So I need you to pay attention, this is actually a complex parable.

Allah says in the Qur'an, Anzalamina Sema Ima'an.

He has caused the rain to come down from the heavens.

Fasalat Audiyatum bi-Kadariha.

So the valleys are going to fill up with that rain water.

Each one in accordance with how large or how deep the valley is, now pause here.

What is being demonstrated, what is being shown as an example, is when it rains and from

the mountains that rain comes down and there are dry valleys that during the rain season

they become full of water, otherwise they're empty.

And this is some phenomenon that every single person who is aware of nature knows this,

that there are certain places in the world, valleys are dry, valleys are empty.

And the rain season, those same valleys will be full of water, those same valleys will

be absolutely brimming.

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