Quran

Quran /10- Jonas YUNUS Meccan/

Verse 22

22- It is He who enables you to travel by land and sea and when you are on board a ship and a gentle breeze arises and the sails catch it and cause the vessel to move through the water before the wind, people rejoice beyond a common joy*. But when the light wind changes to a brisk gale** and waves rise in billows tossing them in every direction and they think they are enclosed by danger on all sides and they are bereaved of hope, they invoke Allah with an unconscious common feeling of an intuitive cognition and belief in Him, reasoning high exclusively of Providence to the end that if He delivers them from this catastrophe they would be indeed thankful.**see V.7, C.69 Commentary: * The earth's rotation modifies the pattern of air flow. There is a westward drift of air in the lower atmosphere, then an eastward one in mid-latitudes and finally another westward drift near the equator. Each hemisphere's pattern of air flow is a mirror image of the others: the easterly winds of the northern tropics -the trade wind- blow from the northeast while the same easterly trades below the equator blew from the southeast. The name trade wind originated in the days of sails when these steady winds were the mainstays of ocean commerce. Reference: Life Nature Library

22- It is He who enables you to travel by land and sea and when you are on board a ship and a gentle breeze arises and the sails catch it and cause the vessel to move through the water before the wind, people rejoice beyond a common joy*. But when the light wind changes to a brisk gale** and waves rise in billows tossing them in every direction and they think they are enclosed by danger on all sides and they are bereaved of hope, they invoke Allah with an unconscious common feeling of an intuitive cognition and belief in Him, reasoning high exclusively of Providence to the end that if He delivers them from this catastrophe they would be indeed thankful.**see V.7, C.69 Commentary: * The earth's rotation modifies the pattern of air flow. There is a westward drift of air in the lower atmosphere, then an eastward one in mid-latitudes and finally another westward drift near the equator. Each hemisphere's pattern of air flow is a mirror image of the others: the easterly winds of the northern tropics -the trade wind- blow from the northeast while the same easterly trades below the equator blew from the southeast. The name trade wind originated in the days of sails when these steady winds were the mainstays of ocean commerce. Reference: Life Nature Library "The Earth" p.60, 1962 ** when the wind blows at the rate of 1 - 3 or 4 - 6 knots per hour ( the knot is 1 - 15 Miles) is considered light wind and it is gentle wind when its velocity ranges between 7 and 10 knots. When however, we come to a velocity between 22 and 33 knots then it is a strong wind which with the addition of a few more knots becomes a gale or a storm. Fearful hurricanes blow at a velocity between 64 and 71 knots. When waves are whipped together by a storm traveling at different speeds, waves by combine in super waves that can rise out of the driving howling sea to rake the biggest ship. To experience a storm of big waves tossing the ship up and dawn, right and left is to experience terror personified and the feeling of inescapable death.


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