Hazrat Sha’bi narrates that Hazrat Umar went out to supplicate for rain and ascended the pulpit and recited these verses: Seek forgiveness from your Lord, surely He is Most Forgiving, He will send down upon you abundant rain from the sky, and will grant you wealth and children, and will provide for you gardens and will cause rivers to flow for you, and seek forgiveness from your Lord. Then he descended from the pulpit. So it was said to him: O Commander of the Faithful! If only you had also asked for rain. He replied: Indeed, I have sought water through the means by which drops of water are sent down from the sky.