سورة الحِجر
Surah Al-Hijr 15:22
The Rock · Verse 22 of 99
وَأَرْسَلْنَا الرِّيَاحَ لَوَاقِحَ فَأَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمُوهُ وَمَا أَنْتُمْ لَهُ بِخَازِنِينَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
And We send impregnating winds and pour water from the clouds and give it to you to drink. You are not the ones to store it up.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores.
Ahmed Ali
We send rain-impregnated winds, and water from the sky which you drink, but you are not the keepers of its store.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
And We send the winds to fertilize, and so We send down water from the sky, and give it to you to drink (and use in other ways); it is not you who are the keepers of its stores (under earth).
Daryabadi
And We send the winds fertilizing, then We send down water from the heaven and We give it to you to drink, and thereof ye could not be the treasurers.
Faridul Haque
And We sent the winds that relieve the clouds’ burden, therefore caused water to descend from the sky, then give it to you to drink; and you are not at all its treasurers.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And We send the winds fertilizing, then send down water from the clouds, so We give it to you to drink; not is it you who store it up.
Maulvi Sher Ali
And WE send fecundating winds, then WE send down water from the clouds, then WE give it to you to drink, and you could not yourselves store it.
Muhammad Asad
And We let loose the winds to fertilize [plants] and We send down water from the skies and let you drink thereof: and it is not you who dispose of its source -
Muhammad Musin Khan
And We send the winds fertilizing (to fill heavily the clouds with water), then caused the water (rain) to descend from the sky, and We gave it to you to drink, and it is not you who are the owners of its stores [i.e. to give water to whom you like or to withhold it from whom you like].
Muhammad Pickthall
And We send the winds fertilising, and cause water to descend from the sky, and give it you to drink. It is not ye who are the holders of the store thereof.
Muhammad Sarwar
We send impregnating winds and send down water from the sky for you to drink and you have no (control over its) storage.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And We send the winds fertilizing, then send down water from the cloud so We give it to you to drink of, nor is it you who store it up.
Rashad Khalifa
And we send the winds as pollinators, and cause water to come down from the sky for you to drink. Otherwise, you could not keep it palatable.
Shabbir Ahmed
We send the winds as pollinators that fertilize plants, and cause water to come down from the height for you to drink. Who holds the stores of the Universe? You do not.
Commentary 15:22 Allâh lets loose the winds to fertilize plants by pollination as well as to bring rain clouds. Lawâqih لَوَاقِحَ are the winds that raise clouds bringing…
وَأَرْسَلْنَا الرِّيَاحَ لَوَاقِحَ فَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمُوهُ وَمَا أَنتُمْ لَهُ بِخَازِنِينَ
15:22 Allâh lets loose the winds to fertilize plants by pollination as well as to bring rain clouds. Lawâqih لَوَاقِحَ are the winds that raise clouds bringing rain; vapours rising from the sea are carried by the winds to the upper regions where they assume the form of clouds. The word also denotes the winds that carry pollen from the male to the female plants to fecundate them. Here they also represent the signs of revelation symbolized by the rain.