Hadith.1496 - Abu Basir asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) about the thunder, saying,
"What does it say?"
Imam (as) said: "It is like a man among the camels who drives them, saying 'Hai, Hai,' just as it is."
I asked: "May I be your ransom, what about the lightning?"
Imam (as) said: "Those are the whips of the angels striking the clouds, driving them to the place where Allah (swt), the Mighty and Glorious, has decreed the rain to fall."