Water on Earth coming from outer space in the Qur’an?

Water on Earth coming from outer space in the Qur’an?

2:164 Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and alternation of the night and the day, and the ships which sail in the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah sent down from the sky of water, giving life thereby to the earth after its death, and dispersing therein of every moving creature, and directing the winds and the clouds controlled between the sky and the earth, surely are Signs for a people who use their intellect.

(According to the article “Does our water really come from outer space?” by “Jaymi Heimbuch”, in “treehugger(dot)com”, a new theory poses that water was brought here as ice on incoming meteors)(Another source, the article “Origin of water on earth” in wikipedia, says “Multiple geochemical studies have concluded that asteroids are most likely the primary source of Earth’s water. Two 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites found on Earth that contained liquid water alongside a wide diversity of deuterium-poor organic compounds further support this”)(Notice that Verse 2:164 says “water” instead of “rain”, so the Qur’an is in accordance with science)(Allah knows best)

34:9 Then, do they not see what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and the earth? If We will, We could cause the earth to swallow them or cause to fall upon them fragments from the sky. Indeed, in that, surely, is a Sign for every slave who turns.

(An interpretation of Verse 34:9 is that the fragments are, for example, asteroids or meteors, because an interpretation of Verse 24:43 is that ice is also from mountains / masses (e.g. asteroids, meteors). The mention of “mountains” does not necessarily make it to be from earth but explicitly mentions “from the sky”, then the mountain could have come from the sky (meteors). The root of “mountain” is “Jiim-Ba-Lam”, and it means “Big / think / coarse / rough; much / numerous; any of the mountains of the earth that is big and long; relating to mountain / mountains, etc.”. So, according to the context, “Jiim-Ba-Lam” could not necessarily mean “mountains of the earth”)(Allah knows best)

30:48 Allah is the One Who sends the winds, so they raise the clouds, then He spreads them in the sky how He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain (l-wadqa) coming forth from their midst. Then when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His slaves, behold, they rejoice.

(According to the context, “fragments” could also refer to “rain”. Verse 30:48 explicitly says that ‘fragments’ refers to rain)(The root of “wadqa” (rain) is “Waw-Dal-Qaf”, and it means “to drop (rain), approach (rain), drizzle, any kind of rain (heavy or light)”)(Allah knows best)

78:6 Have We not made the earth a resting place? 78:7 And the mountains as pegs,

(According to Verses 78:6-7, the “mountains” are not necessary anchored per se, but it was made to be so. Then, according to the context, it could also refer to asteroids or meteors)(Allah knows best)

24:43 Do you not see that Allah drives clouds, then joins between them, then makes them (into) a mass, then you see the rain come forth from their midst? And He sends down from the sky, from mountains, within it is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lighting almost takes away the sight.

(“Within it” refers to “sky”, because “Within it” and “sky” are both feminine in Arabic, while “mountains” is masculine (24:43); so, the Verse explicitly says that the hail (ice) is within the sky (e.g. clouds which are in the sky), not within the mountains, but “mountains” are also involved. The relation between “mountains” and “hail” is confirmed by the article “Hail” in wikipedia; the mountains could facilitate to make the hail happen, quoting the article: “hail is much more common along mountain ranges because mountains force horizontal winds upwards, thereby intensifying the updrafts within thunderstorms and making hail more likely. The higher elevations also result in there being less time available for hail to melt before reaching the ground)(Another interpretation is that, considering that Verses 30:48 (about rain) and 24:43 are similar: “He causes it to fall upon whom He wills” (30:48), and “He strikes with it whom He wills” (24:43). And, in these two sentences, “to fall” and “to strike” have both the same root word in Arabic (the root of “asaba” and “yusibu” is “sad waw ba”), so the interpretation is that both Verses speak about rain (“rain” is mentioned in Verse 30:48), because the Verses of the Qur’an are not mutually exclusive, but complement each other)(Another interpretation of Verse 24:43 is that it is telling that water came from outer space, because even if “it (hail)” only refers to “sky”, the Verse explicitly says “from mountains” (e.g. meteors), in addition to “from the sky”, so it is from both. So, according to this interpretation, the ice is also from mountains / masses (meteors). The mention of “mountains” does not make it to be from earth but also mentions “from the sky” (24:43), then the mountain could have come from the sky (meteors))(In regard to “striking with it” (24:43), for example, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was the size of a mountain. According to the article “the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs” in “psi(dot)edu”, “an asteroid roughly 10 km across hit Earth about 65 million years ago… leading to the extinction of roughly 3/4 of species that existed at that time”)(Either interpretation of the Verse is in accordance with science)(Note: “Mountains” in Verse 24:43 could be interpreted as “a mass or large quantity (of clouds)”, because the root of “jibillan” is “Jiim-Ba-Lam”, and according to the dictionary, it also means “big, thick, coarse, rough, crowd, multitude, number of people, generation”. It is confirmed by Verse 36:62, in which “mountain” (jibillan) is translated or interpreted as “multitude”, according to the context. So, “jibalin” does not necessarily mean “mountains”, but, according to the context, the hail is sent from both, the sky, and the multitude/mass of clouds which are in the sky. The root of “baradin” (hail) is “Ba-Ra-Dal”, and it means “hail / snow, beverage that cools the heat of thirst, etc.”. So, it is interpreted that the rain might not be rainwater, but hail)(Allah knows best)

See also: Is the Qur'an scientifically correct? (1) (Astronomy)

http://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/is-quran-scientifically-correct.html

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https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/is-quran-scientifically-correct-2.html