11 Preface وَالَّذي نَزَّلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً بِقَدَرٍ فَأَنشَرنا بِهِ بَلدَةً مَيتًا ۚ كَذٰلِكَ تُخرَجونَYusuf AliThat sends down (from time to time) rain from the sky in due measure;-1 and We raise to life therewith a land that is dead; even so will ye be raised (from the dead);-2In due measure: i.e., according to needs, as measured by local as well as universal considerations. This applies to normal rainfall: floods and droughts are abnormal conditions, and may be called unusual manifestations of His power, fulfilling some special purpose that we may or may not understand.The clause 'And We raise . . . (from the dead)' is parenthetical. Cf. 35:9, n. 3881. Note the transition from the third to the first person, to mark the Resurrection as a special act of God as distinguished from the ordinary processes of nature ordained by God.