He it is who sends down winds as harbingers of His mercy; and as and when they gather rain bearing clouds, We direct them to a dead land upon which they pour water and from it We bring forth a myriad kinds of fruits! Thus do We bring forth the dead! Perhaps you will heed admonition.

(The verse contains a reminder to the disbelievers that, in the same way as Allah is able to direct rainfall towards a land which had parched and died from lack of it and bring it back to life, He is able to resurrect human remains out of dust and ashes so that they stand trial in the Hereafter for the deeds which they had perpetrated in life. The theme of emaciation and revival is a concurrent theme which runs throughout the Qur'aan, sometimes reflected in the various aspects of nature such as Autumn destroying the blooms and Spring restoring them again; nightfall bringing darkness in the world and daybreak replacing it with light; sometimes reflected in various aspects of our changing fortunes such as asperity giving way to prosperity; or shame leading to fame; communities thriving with success falling into ruins and recovering all over again. The lesson to learn from these fluctuations is that, He who creates can destroy; He who destroys can re-create; He who designs can deform and He who deforms can re-design.

There is also an allegorical dimension to the verse which implies that, if it is Allah's will, He can direct the gentle gusts of faith towards the human soul which has succumbed to moral depredation by reason of solecism and cause it to rejuvenate all over again so that it can withstand the whirl blasts of temptation with a greater rigor than before; it can pick up the gauntlet of sin thrown at it by the devil and defy his challenge;, it can exonerate itself and put the second chance given by Allah to proper use).