12 Preface هُوَ الَّذي يُريكُمُ البَرقَ خَوفًا وَطَمَعًا وَيُنشِئُ السَّحابَ الثِّقالَYusuf AliIt is He Who doth show you the lightning, by way both of fear and of hope:1 It is He Who doth raise up the clouds, heavy with (fertilising) rain! Here then is the climax to the answer of the sarcastic challenge of the Unbelievers for punishment, in language of great sublimity. Why look to evil rather than to good?? to punishment rather than to mercy??to the fear in the force and fire of the lightning rather than to the hope of good and abundant crops in the rain which will come behind the lightning clouds? (Cf. 30:24)