what do you think of this verse in quran (christians and athiests)?

Question

And the sun runs (one course) into a "Resting Place" that is the decree of exalted in Might The "All Knowing"

36:38 (yasin)

THE HOLY QURAN ON THE SUN'S RESTING PLACE




"Resting place" is the translation of the Arabic word " Mustaqarr" which indicates an exact appointed place and fixed time. According to modern astronomy, the solar system is indeed moving in space at a rate of 12 miles per second towards a point situated in the constellation of Hercules (alpha lyrae) whose exact location has been precisely calculated.

Furthermore, astronomers have named that "Mustaqarr": The Solar Apex.



The notion of "a resting place" for the sun is vividly described in the Holy Qur'an

i suppose prophit mohhamad (pbuh) had this huge telescope and observing this matter ... :-?
(1400 years ago)
they lie he was an illiturate man
he had a degree in astronomy ... from MIT ...i suppose

these scientific points are the miracle of quran ... dont you get it ?
quran doesnt want to teach science...quran is sent down from god to guide people

and for the other comment unfortunately sun is not stable in the universe... read some astronomy

persians had scientists and liturate people
but saudi arabia never had
specially when profit mohhamad came there were nearly 20 people in the whole saudi which could only read and write...

Answer 1

Actually, my understanding of middle east history includes the idea that many were very literate. With some of the other accomplishments ancient men made, I am not surprised that this information was available.
The studies in astronomy from the Mayans can still be used today to predict lunar and solar eclipses and many other phenomena. Many cultures studied the stars and were very good at figuring out where things were going.

*The solar system does rotate within our galaxy which is also moving so no the sun is not stationary in reality. It just does not move around us. We move around it and as a big group we all go around the Milky Way and around the universe. We are really pretty fast.

Answer 2

"And the sun runs (one course) into a "Resting Place" that is the decree of exalted in Might The "All Knowing"

The sun doesn't move across earth's sky. That's an illusion from our perspective. And it has nothing to do with philosophy or emotion. It's a star and the earth is a tilted sphere that revolves around it. Galaxies and the stars within them move, but that movement is slow and imperceptible to us.

Whatever support you may have for your ancestors' accomplishments in Astronomy (and there were many brilliant scientists, Mohammad was just a guy who wrote a religious book and got others to believe in it) are pretty empty.

Consider what those parts of the world have become due to Islam. There is very little scientific advancement, and what technology that has arrived came from the modern West and their more secular policies. Scientists working in free countries have done far more to advance understanding than anyone in Mohammad's day. And they didn't push religion on others.

Answer 3

I think that is simplistic, and that the sun is hardly resting or moving towards a resting place....

Actually the whole solar system, not just the sun, is traveling at 45,000 mph. This speed is in a frame of rest if the other stars were all standing still.

The three-dimensional picture of the Sun's movement through the Galaxy is a little more complicated.

The Sun is moving upwards, out of the plane of the Milky Way, at a speed of 7 kilometers per second. Currently the Sun lies 50 light-years above the mid-plane of the galaxy, and its motion is steadily carrying it further away.

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsolsysspeed.html

Answer 4

Indeed Interesting! Let me ask you a question; what do you think about these verses in “Divine GEORGICA by Virgil” (written in so called Golden Latin in 28 BCE)?

1. “THE EARTH IS ORBITING THE SUN: Heliocentricity”

“Quid faciat laetas segetes, quo sidere terram vertere
Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vitis conveniat.”

(PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS GEORGICA, 1-2, Verses 1:4)
Transliteration: “What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star, Maecenas, it is meet to turn the earth and fasten vines to elms? “

:Now let’s look at the case of the word “sidere”, in this case an ablative is used. One use of the ablative is to designate a spatial relation between two objects: it is called an “ablativus loci”. So a more accurate translation of this verse would be: ‘in relation to what star is the earth to move in a circular path?’ This means that Virgil already knew that the earth is rotating around the sun (a circular movement in relation to it). VIRGIL ACCURATELY DESCRIBES THE SUN AS THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND NOT THE EARTH.

2. THE EARTH IS SPINNING AROUND ITS AXIS.

“Quid faciat laetas segetes, quo sidere terram vertere
Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vitis conveniat.”

(PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS GEORGICA, 1-2, Verses 1:4)
Transliteration: “What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star, Maecenas, it is meet to turn the earth and fasten vines to elms? “

:These are the very first lines of the GEORGICA. Of course we should look a bit deeper into the text to find the true divine wisdom hidden within this beautiful piece of poetry. Let’s investigate the ‘quo sidere terram vertere’, since this has a very significant meaning and at first glance already seems to contain at least three scientifically accurate statements.

quo = ‘what’ from qui (pronomen interogativum, ablitavus, singularis, neutr.)
sidere = ‘star’ from sidus (ablativus, singularis, neutr.)
terram = ‘earth’ from terra (accusativus, singularis, fem.)
vertere = ‘turn’ or ‘spin’ (infinitivus)

Virgil is clearly writing about the earth’s ‘spinning’ (vertere: changing it’s orientation facing a certain direction) around its own axis, something modern science has only recently discovered. This is a revolutionary insight (no pun intended). More primitive cultures many centuries later would still regard the earth as ‘fixed’ like a flattened abode, pinned down by mountains and a firm place to live, but Virgil is saying that it is in fact spinning! How did Virgil know this? Did he have a space rocket to observe the earth spinning?

i suppose prophit Virgil (pbuh) had this huge telescope and observing this matter ... :-?
(In 28 BCE)
he was an illiturate man
he had a degree in astronomy ... from MIT ...i suppose!

These scientific points are the miracle of Divine GEORGICA ... don’t you get it ?

Divine GEORGICA doesn’t want to teach science... Divine GEORGICA is sent down from “flying spaghetti monster” to guide people.

Answer 5

The Sun is heading in that direction at present, but it's a misnomer to call it a "resting place". The Sun's orbit bobs up and down in the galactic plane. It's not going to stop anytime in the next trillion years, and the direction of the velocity vector varies with time.

Answer 6

answer: so you do the same thing Christians do: "It's taken out of context! That's not really a contradiction! But we have to tell you that it isn't because if you just read the words it looks like a contradiction! You must let a Muslim explain away the contradiction!" Contradictions: Alcohol (can't drink alcohol, oh wait - you can. Wait again, you can't but you can in paradise) Pharaoh How to treat Christians and Jews treatment of wives slavery etc etc etc

Answer 7

And the sun runs (one course) into a "Resting Place" that is the decree of exalted in Might The "All Knowing"

maybe this means there is one God and we will all go to Him.

Answer 8

Sounds like that too was taken from the ancient Sun worship religion of Egypt.

Answer 9

I bet you $5 that the Aeneid has just as much or more hindsight science as the Qur'an.

Answer 10

So....? Mohammed wasn't the first person to realize that the sun was stationary.