It is He who maketh the lightning to appear unto you, [causing] fear and hope of rain, and formeth the pregnant clouds.
And the thunder proclaimeth His perfection with His praise; and [likewise] the angels, in fear of Him. And He sendeth the thunderbolts, and striketh with them whom He pleaseth, whilst they dispute concerning God; for He is mighty in power.[52]
(xiii. 13, 14.)
XII.
With Him are the keys of the hidden things: none knoweth them but He: and He knoweth whatsoever is on the land and in the sea, and there falleth not a leaf but He knoweth it, nor a grain in the dark parts of the earth, nor a moist thing nor a dry thing, but [it is noted] in a distinct writing.[53]
And it is He who taketh your souls at night, and knoweth what ye have gained in the day; then He reviveth you therein,[54] that an appointed time[55] may be fulfilled. Then unto Him shall ye return: then will He declare unto you what ye have done.
And He is the Supreme[56] over His servants, and He sendeth watchers over you,[57] until when death cometh unto any one of you, Our messengers take his soul, and they fail not.
Then are they[58] returned unto God their Lord, the True.[59] Doth not judgment belong to Him? And He is the most quick of reckoners.
Say,[60] Who delivereth you from the darknesses of the land and of the sea, when ye supplicate Him humbly and in secret, saying, ‘If Thou deliver us from these dangers, we will assuredly be of [the number of] the thankful’?