Surah al-Qamar (The Moon ) 54 : 11

Explanatory Note

This is a huge and overwhelming universal action described in well-chosen words and phrases. It begins by attributing the action directly to God: "We opened', so that we see that it is the hand of the Almighty that opened "the gates of heaven," in the plural, "with water pouring down in torrents," one wave after another. By the same token and movement, We "caused the earth to burst forth with springs". We see through the words water bursting forth everywhere, as though the whole earth has become an immense and gushing spring. Thus the water pouring from the skies and the water gushing from the earth "met for a preordained purpose". These waters met in implementation of what God had preordained, obeying His divine command and bringing it to fulfilment.