He replied to him: {God is He who has sent down the Book in truth and [also] the balance. And what will make you perceive? Perhaps the Hour is near. Those who do not believe in it are impatient for it, but those who believe are fearful of it and know that it is the truth. Unquestionably, those who dispute concerning the Hour are in extreme error}.

He said: "The Hour shall be on such a day of such a month," and he mentioned the specific day, saying: "It shall be on a Friday."

Then he recited the saying of the Mighty and Majestic: {The example of [this] worldly life is but like rain which We have sent down from the sky that the plants of the earth absorb—[those] from which men and livestock eat—until, when the earth has taken on its adornment and is polished and its people suppose that they have capability over it, there comes to it Our command by night or by day, and We make it as a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus do We explain in detail the signs for a people who give thought}.

Sending down the rain

(151) Regarding His saying: {and sends down the rain}: It has been narrated by consensus that the tribe of Bani Darim came to our Master Amir Almuminin, Mighty is His Might, and complained to him of the withholding of rain and that distress had exhausted them. He said to them: "Go to your dwellings, for you have been given water this very day." They returned to their camp and found that their land had been rained upon on that same day they were in the presence of our Master, Mighty is His Might.