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Surah 45. Al-Jathiya, Ayah 5

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وَٱخْتِلَـٰفِ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مِن رِّزْقٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَتَصْرِيفِ ٱلرِّيَـٰحِ ءَايَـٰتٌ لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ
Wa i khtil a fi allayli wa al nnah a ri wam a anzala All a hu mina a l ssam a i min rizqin faa h y a bihi alar d a baAAda mawtih a wata s reefi a l rriy ah i a y a tun liqawmin yaAAqiloon a
And in the succession of night and day, and in the means of subsistence4 which God sends down from the skies, giving life thereby to the earth after it had been lifeless, and in the change of the winds: [in all this] there are messages for people who use their reason.
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., rain, with the symbolic connotation of physical and spiritual grace often attached to it in the Qur'an.

and in the alternation of night and day, in the sustenance that Allah sends down from heaven with which He revives the earth after its death and in the changing of the winds, there are signs for those who use their common sense.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And 'in' the alternation of the day and the night, the provision1 sent down from the skies by Allah- reviving the earth after its death- and the shifting of the winds, are signs for people of understanding.
  - Mustafa Khattab

 i.e., rain.

And the difference of night and day and the provision that Allah sendeth down from the sky and thereby quickeneth the earth after her death, and the ordering of the winds, are portents for a people who have sense.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
And in the alternation of Night and Day and the fact that Allah sends down Sustenance from the sky and revives therewith the earth after its death and the change of the winds are Signs for those that are wise. 4739 4740
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"Sustenance" is almost equivalent here to "rain". And "rain" itself, and its revival of a dead earth, refer symbolically to Revelation and its putting new life into a dead soul. Similarly the alternation of Night and Day, and the change of the winds, besides being Signs as wonderful phenomena of Nature, refer to spiritual ignorance and knowledge, rest and activity, and the constant beneficent changes that are going on in the world, making for the spread of the blessing of Allah's Revelation.

(3) These are our daily experiences from external things, but they affect us and our lives intimately: here are questions of deductions "for those that are wise."

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