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The Ocean of the Quran

Al-Wāqiʿah 56:69

ءَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْمُنزِلُونَ ﴿٦٩﴾

Is it you who bring it down from the rain-cloud, or is it We who bring [it] down?

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Exegesis

Al-muzn is the plural of al-muznah, meaning cloud. It is sometimes specifically defined as bright clouds or rain-clouds.1 The usage of different names and descriptions for clouds in the Quran (such as muzn, saḥāb, ghamām, ʿāriḍ, etc.) could be against a common tendency to disregard this phenomenon on the account that they are simply clouds and that is all there is to it. Rather, there is a lot to the phenomenon of clouds; there are many aspects associated with them which should be looked into and pondered upon. Muzn has also been interpreted as samāʾ (sky, heaven) by Ibn Abbas and Sufyān al-Thawrī.2

Footnotes · 2

  1. 1

    Raghib; Fayyumi; Bahrayn; Tahqiq; Farhang, under m-z-n.

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  2. 2

    Tabari, 27/116; Qurtubi, 18/221.

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