this rare natural phenomenon was known only the previous century
The verse in the Holy Quran that mentioned a very rare natural phenomenon
Would any of you like to have a garden of palm-trees and vines, with rivers flowing underneath it, with all kinds of fruit for him therein;
and old age hath stricken him and he hath feeble offspring;
and a fiery whirlwind striketh it and it is (all) consumed by fire. Thus Allah maketh plain His revelations unto you, in order that ye may give thought . The Holy Quran 2:266.