Ah, the monsoons. How can you not love ’em? Especially if they are the Pune monsoons. The ‘not-sticky, not-relentlessly-rainy, not-hot-humid’ monsoons. Very unlike Mumbai, my former home town. In short, it’s heavenly. How else can you describe it? Cool breeze to caress your face. Fresh greens that dance lushly all over. Water that quenches the summer charred earth. Bulbuous clouds pregnant with soothing benedictions. Ah, it inspires poetry, all of it.
After an oppressive summer come glad tidings. What would we do if it weren’t for these cottony white messengers? Their beauty is alluring enough, but collocate them with a summer that threatens to dry up every water molecule in your body and you begin to appreciate Allah’s gifts even better. 🙂 Sub-hanallah.
Here, a few verses of the Quran that talk about the rain; the first one in particular made me smile, I so identified: 🙂
- It is Allah Who sends the Winds, and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in the sky as He wills, and break them into fragments, until thou seest rain-drops issue from the midst thereof: then when He has made them reach such of his servants as He wills behold, they do rejoice!- Surah ar-Room(The Roman Empire), Chapter 30: Verse 48
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And He it is Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His mercy, and We send down pure water from the sky,- That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created,- cattle and men in great numbers. – Surah al-Furqan (The Criterion), Chapter 25: Verses 48- 49
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And We send down from the sky rain charted with blessing, and We produce therewith gardens and Grain for harvests – Surah Qaf, Chapter 50: Verse 9
- (He) That sends down (from time to time) rain from the sky in due measure;- and We raise to life therewith a land that is dead; even so will ye be raised (from the dead) – Surah az-Zukhruf (Oranaments of Gold, Luxury) Chapter 43: Verse 11)
Ah, the monsoons. How can you not love ’em?
What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed 