"The sun must not catch up the moon nor does the night outstrip the day. Each one is traveling in an orbit with its own motion."
-Surah 36, Ayah 40
The Quran claims that the sun revolves in an orbit. How do you explain that one?
2006-09-17 09:04:07 · 11 answers · asked by wd20x2 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1st u got the wrong interpretation of it second another question like that u r reported!
2006-09-17 09:08:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
What translation are you getting this stuff from? You can't just quote a verse out of nowhere and expect to understand it. Quote the verse before or after it and then it makes perfect sense. The ayahs (verses) in the Quran fit together like a puzzel.
" And the moon---- We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk." -36:39-
" It is not allowable [i.e possible] for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit swimming."
-36:40-
Do you understand it now?!?! If not take an astrology class and maybe you will!
2006-09-17 16:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by bttrfly* 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't know where the heck you got that translation of the quran from.but its jacked up.here is the right translation of it.
It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They all float, each in an orbit. (Ya-Sin 36:40)
what this verse means is that the sun,planets and moon are all in a orbit.it doesn't not mean that that the sun moves.but that the planets and moon revolve in such a way that it seems like the sun moves with the planets and moon not in a literal sense.its a metaphor.
2006-09-17 16:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is stressed in the Qur'an that the Sun and Moon follow specific trajectories:
It is He Who created night and day and the sun and moon, each one swimming in a sphere. (Qur'an, 21:33)
The word "swim" in the above verse is expressed in Arabic by the word "sabaha" and is used to describe the movement of the Sun in space. The word means that the Sun does not move randomly through space but that it rotates around its axis and follows a course as it does so. The fact that the Sun is not fixed in position but rather follows a specific trajectory is also stated in another verse:
And the sun runs to its resting place. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 36:38)
These facts set out in the Qur'an were only discovered by means of astronomical advances in our own time. According to astronomers' calculations, the Sun moves along a path known as the Solar Apex in the path of the star Vega at an incredible speed of 720,000 kmph. In rough terms, this shows that the Sun traverses some 17.28 million km a day. As well as the Sun itself, all the planets and satellites within its gravitational field also travel the same distance.
2006-09-17 16:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by Link 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
so that's what you mean!! ok where exactly do you see the sun revolves around the EARTH???
and yes the moon and the sun will never catch up.
read the verse and try to use your brain instead.
2006-09-17 16:28:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i`m not a muslim but i can explain it. It says so because the men that wrote the book at that time didn`t know that the Earth is orbiting around the sun and not vice-versa. The quran is just a book and nothing more.
2006-09-17 16:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
just because our holy book expalined scientific anamolies and yours didnt doesnt mean u can try and insult it
2006-09-17 16:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by Bryan S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
didnt any one told you that the sun moves around galaxy its amiracle of the qur`an
2006-09-17 16:06:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
It's poetry, it doesn't have to make sense.
2006-09-17 16:09:17 · answer #9 · answered by DRDAVE 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
DEATH TO ISLAM!
2006-09-17 16:07:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋