What the sky and the earth are saying to anyone who looks
The Qur'an treats the natural world as address. The word it uses for a rainstorm, for the orbit of the moon, for a field coming back green is ayat, meaning signs, and it is the same word it uses for its own verses. Someone walking out into an ordinary morning is already being spoken to, in a language that asks for nothing but attention.
Much of that speech is about provision. Water comes down, seed opens, ground that had gone dead carries a crop again, and the passage almost always ends by naming who did it. The sequence matters because it repeats. What happens to a field after rain is offered as evidence for what the Qur'an says will happen to a body after death: a thing you can go outside and check, given as the argument for a thing you cannot.
The order overhead is the other half of it. The sun and the moon keep an exact reckoning, and the night never overruns the day. Precision on that scale is presented as care rather than as machinery, the work of someone still holding it in place. Reading the world this way is close to what the Qur'an means by wisdom, and it is why knowledge in these passages so often begins with looking rather than with arguing.
Animals are given standing of their own. Birds are described as communities with their own forms of praise, and the reach of that attention goes down to the smallest thing in a wood: "No leaf falls without his knowing it…" A world watched that closely is not raw material, and how it is handled is answerable. The Qur'an's repeated instruction against corrupting the land follows from this rather than from a separate argument about the environment.
What the reader is asked for is noticing, the same noticing that turns provision into gratitude. The verses below are where the case is made most directly, and they are worth reading slowly: each one ends by handing the observation back as a question about who is behind it.
2:164 — Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alternation of night and day, in the ships that run upon the sea carrying what benefits people, in the water God sends down from the sky — reviving the earth with it after its death and scattering across it every kind of creature — and in the shifting of the winds and the clouds held in service between sky and earth: in all of this are signs for a people who reason.
6:99 — And it is God who sends down water from the sky, and with it we bring forth growth of every kind. From it we bring forth greenery, and from that we bring forth grain piled in layers, and from the date palm — from its emerging spathes — clusters hanging low, and gardens of grapevines, and olives and pomegranates, alike and yet unlike. Look at their fruit as it forms and ripens. Indeed, in that are signs for a people who believe.
7:57 — It is God who sends the winds as glad tidings before his mercy, until, when they bear heavy clouds, we drive them to a dead land and send down water through them, and bring forth fruits of every kind. So will we bring forth the dead — perhaps you will take heed.
13:3 — And it is he who spread out the earth and placed in it firm mountains and rivers, and of every kind of fruit he made two pairs. He draws the night over the day. In this are signs for people who reflect.
36:40 — The sun is not permitted to overtake the moon, nor does the night outrun the day — each glides in its own orbit.
16:79 — Have they not seen the birds, held aloft in the open sky? Nothing holds them up but God. In that are signs for a people who believe.
24:41 — Do you not see that God is glorified by all who are in the heavens and the earth, and by the birds with wings outspread? Each knows its own prayer and glorification, and God knows well what they do.
6:38 — There is no creature moving on the earth, nor any bird flying with its wings, except that they are communities like you. In the Book, we have left nothing out. Then to their Lord they will be gathered.
6:59 — With him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them but he. And he knows what is on the land and in the sea. No leaf falls without his knowing it, nor is there a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything fresh or dry, that is not in a clear record.