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| THE LIGHT OF THE MOON IS REFLECTED LIGHT (QUR'AN AND SCIENCE) | |
| By: Captshittu Date: February 6, 2018, 9:44 am | |
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| [font=courier]THE LIGHT OF THE MOON IS REFLECTED LIGHT FROM | |
| QURAN[/font] | |
| It was believed by earlier civilizations that the moon emanates | |
| its own light. | |
| Science now tells us that the light of the moon is reflected | |
| light. However this fact was mentioned in the Qur�aan 1,400 | |
| years ago in the following verse:. | |
| �Blessed is He Who made Constellations in the skies, And placed | |
| therein a Lamp And a Moon giving light.� [Al-Qur�aan 25:61] | |
| The Arabic word for the sun in the Qur�aan, is shams. It is | |
| referred to as siraaj, which means a �torch� or as wahhaaj which | |
| means �a blazing lamp� or as diya which means �shining glory�. | |
| All three descriptions are appropriate to the sun, since it | |
| generates intense heat and light by its internal combustion. | |
| The Arabic word for the moon is qamar and it is described in the | |
| Qur�aan as muneer, which is a body that gives nur i.e. light. | |
| Again, the Qur�aanic description matches perfectly with the true | |
| nature of the moon, which does not give off light itself and is | |
| an inert body that reflects the light of the sun. | |
| Not once in the Qur�aan, is the moon mentioned as siraaj, | |
| wahhaaj or diya or the sun as nur or muneer. This implies that | |
| the Qur�aan recognizes the difference between the nature of | |
| sunlight and moonlight. | |
| Consider the following verses related to the nature of light | |
| from the sun and the moon: �It is He who made the sun To be a | |
| shining glory And the moon to be a light (Of beauty).� | |
| [Al-Qur�aan 10:5] | |
| �See ye not How Allah has created The seven heavens One above | |
| another, �And made the moon A light in their midst, and made the | |
| sun As a (Glorious) Lamp?� [Al-Qur�aan 71:15-16] | |
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