Do you not see that Allah gently drives the clouds, then joins them together, piling them up into masses, from which you see raindrops come forth? And He sends down from the sky mountains ˹of clouds˺ loaded with hail, pouring it on whoever He wills and averting it from whoever He wills. The flash of the clouds’ lightning nearly takes away eyesight.
Explanation
These readings convey the same meaning using verb forms I and IV, respectively. In Abū Jaʿfar's reading, the particle bā' is otiose [Fakhir].