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The Glorious Quran is filled with
thousands
of Numerical and Scientific Miracles.
We have listed them
here.
So it should be of no surprise to anyone, at
all, to see the Glorious Quran's description
of the sun's rising and setting to be
scientifically accurate.
He saw the Aurora lights: Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, saw the aurora lights covering the horizons of space above the earth when he was taken up to Heaven:
Narrated Abdullah: "Regarding the Verse: "Indeed he (Muhammad) did see. Of the Signs of his Lord, The Greatest!" (Quran 53.18) That the Prophet had seen a green carpet spread all over the horizon of the sky قَالَ رَأَى رَفْرَفًا أَخْضَرَ سَدَّ أُفُقَ السَّمَاء." (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 54, Number 456) Visit also: Islamic proof that the sun prostrates to Allah Almighty when it is above Mecca.
Noble Verses 53:18 and 18:91 are also prophetically linked together; that Prophet Muhammad also saw what Dhil-Qarnayn ذي القرنين saw. Also visit:
In the end, Allah Almighty uses the Glorious Quran to "...Thus doth God leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth..." (74:31). The infidels misuse the Glorious Quran to find "scientific errors". The Glorious Quran is Allah Almighty's Perfect Divine Holy Book. It contains no scientific error. Visit the following example and the link to see 1000s of Numerical and Scientific Miracles: 1- The root for message and all of its derivatives, such as messenger and others occurs 513 times throughout the Glorious Quran. The Prophets' and Messengers', peace be upon them, actual names (Muhammad, Moses, Noah, Abraham, Lot etc....) were also all combined mentioned 513 times in the Glorious Quran. The detailed breakdown of all of this is thoroughly listed here. Coincidence? See 1,000s of examples! [1]. (zip file). Quran's Stunning Numerical & Scientific Miracles. Stunning Prophecies [2] [3]
The sunsetless North Pole Quran-Miracle: "Dhil Qarnayn" ذي القرنين in Noble Verse 18:83 means "one with the two horns". We read about his story in more details in Noble Verses 18:83-100: Dhil = One who has. قرنين Qarnayn = two horns.
"Until he reached near حتى اذا بلغ where the sun is up مطلع الشمس, he found it above وجدها تطلع على people قوم whom We made no cover for them from it لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. (The Noble Quran, 18:90)"
They also spoke unintelligibly, the Quran says. They hardly spoke intelligibly (18:93). Historians have proven that the Barbarians of the North used to speak unintelligibly. The description of the people of the North, whose North Pole is truly sunsetless (see ample pictures), perfectly fits the Barbarians of the Vikings in the Scandinavian and other Barbarians in the near by lands:
Dhil = One who has. Was Dhil Qarnayn an idol-worshiping pagan?
Only said for the sun-up:
Allah Almighty did not say that He made
"no cover"
for them from it for the sunset. He
said it for the
sun-up only, which further proves
that indeed the sun being always up, in
Noble Verse
18:90
below, is referring to a geographical area
in the North, since so much geographical
proofs, and
1000-year old maps
below, also point to that location as well. "Until he reached near حتى اذا بلغ where the sun is up مطلع الشمس, he found it above وجدها تطلع على people قوم whom We made no cover for them from it لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. (The Noble Quran, 18:90)"
"We made no cover...." was never mentioned for sunset. Only to "where the sun is up...." مطلع الشمس in Noble Verse 18:90, which further supports that "We made no cover...." is indeed talking about the Northern territories near the North Pole. See ample pictures of the sun never sets at the North Pole. See below. Remember that they are located near where the sun never sets. In the north, no shade was made from it for them. It is almost always shining on them: لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. "We made no cover for them from it" (18:90). In other words, it never sets. Night almost never comes:
Reached all the way north: Late Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud, may Allah Almighty rest his soul and grant him Paradise, - Ameen, - gave old Islamic maps (video) that date 1000+ old that estimate that Dhil Qarnayn reached all the way north, near the North Pole, where the sun is always up, and reached the Black Sea for sunset, the body of water that is dark and murky. The Black Sea is also not very far from the northern parts of Russia and the North Pole:
"We made no cover...." was never mentioned for sunset. Only to "where the sun is up...." in Noble Verse 18:90, which further supports that "We made no cover...." is indeed talking about the Northern territories near the North Pole. See ample pictures of the sun never sets at the North Pole. They also almost spoke unintelligibly: "...people who almost spoke unintelligibly" (18:93) لايكادون يفقهون قولا. See the references below about the Vikings' language, and similar people of the North, when they were Barbarians. Historians precisely say they spoke unintelligibly [1]. In either case, the Glorious Quran is the Divine and Miraculous Book of Allah Almighty. The Holy Book is filled with thousands of Numerical and Scientific Miracles. We have listed them here. So it should be of no surprise to anyone, at all, to see the Glorious Quran's description of the sun's rising and setting to be scientifically accurate. At the top of the North Pole, the sun never sets, and shown in this video. I also quoted the scientific sources from Wikipedia. Also in the lands near by, the sun almost never sets either, and I quoted sources for that as well, and also showed pictures of the "polar night" skies on these lands. See ample pictures.
Never mentioned for Sunset: "Until he reached near حتى اذا بلغ where the sun is up مطلع الشمس, he found it above وجدها تطلع على people قوم whom We made no cover for them from it لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. (The Noble Quran, 18:90)"
Reaching Gog and Magog: Allah Almighty in Noble Verses 18:83-100 mentioned three different geographic locations that Dhil Qarnayn marched to:
1-
The place where the sun never sets.
Regarding the two barriers and a tribe from Gog and Magog: [018:094] They said, `O Dhu'l Qarnain, verily, Gog and Magog are creating disorder in the earth; shall we then pay tribute on condition that thou set up a barrier between us and them ?' The following historical account seems to describe this event accurately: "The Gates of Alexander was a legendary barrier supposedly built by Alexander the Great in the Caucasus to keep the uncivilized barbarians of the north (typically associated with Gog and Magog [1]) from invading the land to the south. The gates were a popular subject in medieval travel literature, starting with the Alexander Romance in a version from perhaps the 6th century. The wall, also known as the Caspian Gates, has been identified with two locations: the Pass of Derbent, Russia or with the Pass of Dariel, west of the Caspian Sea. Tradition also connects it to the Great Wall of Gorgan (Red Snake) on its south-eastern shore. Historically, these fortifications were part of the defence lines built by Sasanians of Persia. The Great Wall of Gorgan may have been built by the Parthians. The name Caspian Gatesoriginally applied to the narrow region at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea, through which Alexander actually marched in the pursuit of Bessus, although he did not stop to fortify it. It was transferred to the passes through the Caucasus, on the other side of the Caspian, by the more fanciful historians of Alexander. Josephus, a Jewish historian in the 1st century, is known to have written of Alexander's gates, designed to be a barrier against the Scythians. According to this historian, the people whom the Greeks called Scythians were known (among the Jews) as Magogites, descendants of Magog in the Hebrew Bible (Luke 2:52: GOD forgave Jesus' sins and was "charitable" with him). These references occur in two different works. The Jewish War states that the iron gates Alexander erected were controlled by the king of Hyrcania (on the south edge of the Caspian), and allowing passage of the gates to the Alans (whom Josephus considered a Scythic tribe) resulted in the sack of Media. Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews contains two relevant passages, one giving the ancestry of Scythians as descendants of Magog son of Japheth, and another that refers to the Caspian Gates being breached by Scythians allied to Tiberius during the Armenian War. [a][2]" (Source) References:
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Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius 8; Alexander
Romance, epsilon recension 39. Historians and archeologists are now discovering that the ancient Vikings have discovered and reached vast lands on earth, including being the first to discover the lands of Canada and America. So there is so much that remains unknown about the Barbarians of the Vikings and other similar tribes from other nations. Again, please visit:
Some of his stories: Keep in mind that Allah Almighty began Noble Verses 18:83-100 by saying that He will tell us some of the stories of Dhil Qarnayn. So there is a lot more to Dhil Qarnayn and his people than what is mentioned in the Noble Verses: ويسألونك عن ذي القرنين قل ساتلو عليكم منه ذكرا [018:083] They ask thee concerning Dhil Qarnayn. Say, "I will rehearse to you something of his story منه ذكرا."
Key Words: Allah Almighty in the Glorious Quran, in Noble Verses 18:83-100, said the following key Words about Dhul or Dhil Qarnayn:
بلغ when used physically or geographically, it means reaching near the area/land, or in it. This is for Noble Verse 18:86. For example:
اذ جاؤوكم من فوقكم ومن اسفل منكم واذا
زاغت الابصار وبلغت
القلوب الحناجر وتظنون بالله الظنونا
مطلع الشمس. Again, see ample pictures of the sun never sets at the North Pole. 18:90 حتى اذا بلغ مطلع الشمس وجدها تطلع على قوم لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر "Until he reached near حتى اذا بلغ where the sun is up مطلع الشمس, he found it above وجدها تطلع على people قوم whom We made no cover for them from it لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. (The Noble Quran, 18:90)" مطلع الشمس where the sun is up. It does not mean sunrise. In Arabic, sunrise is مشرق الشمس, where مشرق is derived from شرق east. See ample examples from the Glorious Quran about sunrise and sunset. مغرب الشمس is sunset. مغرب is derived from غرب west. But here, Allah Almighty used مطلع الشمس , which literally here means where the sun is always up. مطلع is derived from طلع which means going up, which is why some Muslims a few centuries after Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, believed that Dhul Qarnyn reached up north, not east. Late Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud, may Allah Almighty rest his soul, presented these maps.
See
ample examples from the Glorious Quran about
sunrise.
Also, let us look at Noble Word طلع in depth: طلع , which is what مطلع is derived from, means that something (the sun in our case here) appears from somewhere, such as from behind a big object, such as a chain of mountains or clouds, or when the sun is always up. For example:
"The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the summer solstice (approximately 21 June in the Northern Hemisphere and 22 December in the Southern Hemisphere), the sun is visible for the full 24 hours, given fair weather. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the closer towards either pole one goes. Although approximately defined by the polar circles, in practice the midnight sun can be seen as much as 55 miles (90 km) outside the polar circle, as described below, and the exact latitudes of the farthest reaches of midnight sun depend on topography and vary slightly year-to-year." (Source)
Polar Nights in lands near by the North Pole:
Again, Allah Almighty didn't say مشرق الشمس sunrise, which is the term that counters مغرب الشمس sunset. مغرب is derived from غرب west. No, instead, the Almighty used مطلع الشمس. The Noble Verses were talking about near by lands to the North Pole. Again, even early Muslims interpreted the Noble Verse to refer to the people of the farthest norths of the earth:
Maps of Early Muslims: The early Muslims believed that Dhil Qarnayn reached the people of the farthest norths of the earth. The following is a map of Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi in year 1154 giving the geographic location of where Dhil Qarnayn went according to the understanding of the early Muslims of Noble Verses 18:83-100:
"...people who almost spoke unintelligibly" (18:93) لايكادون يفقهون قولا.
This
perfectly fits the Vikings, Icelandics and
others when they were
considered
barbarians. They were
brute, uncivilized, very primitive, disconnected from other civilizations, and
didn't have a fully developed and
intelligible language. In fact, the
word itself, barbarian, originates from
Greek, and it means one who
speaks unintelligibly:
"The word
barbarian
conjures up more for us than the original
Greek notion of
someone whose
unintelligible
non-Greek language sounds like "bar-
1- "barbarian (adj.)mid-14c., "foreign, of another nation or culture," from Medieval Latin barbarinus (see barbarian (n.)). The meaning "of or pertaining to savages, rude, uncivilized" is from 1590s. also from mid-14c. barbarian (n.) early 15c., in reference to classical history, "a non-Roman or non-Greek," earlier barbar (late 14c.) "non-Roman or non-Greek person; non-Christian; person speaking a language different from one's own," from Medieval Latin barbarinus (source of Old French barbarin "Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian"), from Latin barbarus "strange, foreign, barbarous," from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange; ignorant," from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer")." (Source)
2-
"A ‘barbarian'
was a Graeco-Roman word for someone who spoke an
unintelligible language
and lived beyond the political limits of these great dynasties (‘bar-bar'
literally being used to imitate the sound that came out of their mouths). Yet
beyond this surface level definition, the perception of ‘barbarians' in the
Roman world quickly became one of uncivilised and brutish people who were
unable to accept law, despite the fact that Romans made little to no effort to
understand their culture. Some barbarians were even thought to represent a more
primitive form of life, with the Huns being described as ‘exceeding every degree
of savagery' and ‘monstrously ugly and misshapen'.
3 - Also from Indiana University: "....And finally, Maurice F. Hurley considers "Craft and Handiwork: Wood, Antler and Bone as an Everyday Material in Viking-Age Waterford and Cork," reminding us that most of the raw materials for urban crafts came from the surrounding hinterlands, even when these were marked by disparate political allegiances, mutually unintelligible languages or sharp differences in ethnicity...." (Source)4- "So what happened in the Northern Isles?I don't think that the Picts were ‘absorbed' in Viking Shetland, or Viking Orkney, ...... I don't think the Picts were just ‘overwhelmed', or ‘submerged', as Wainwright put it, while continuing to practise their religion and speak an unintelligible language at home." (Source)
Dhil Qarnayn ذي القرنين (one with the double horns: Quran 18:83):Again, "Dhil Qarnayn" ذي القرنين in Noble Verse 18:83 means "one with the two horns". We read about his story in more details in Noble Verses 18:83-100: Dhul or Dhil = One who has.
Horn in Arabic from Google Translate:
قرنين Qarnayn = two horns:
Also this English translation:
قرنين Qarnayn = two horns. It is a dual plural of قرن horn. Quroon قرون is three or more Qarn قرن .
They also spoke unintelligibly, the Quran says. They hardly spoke intelligibly (18:93). Historians have proven that the Barbarians of the North used to speak unintelligibly. The description of the people of the North, whose North Pole is truly sunsetless (see ample pictures), perfectly fits the Barbarians of the Vikings in the Scandinavian and other Barbarians in the near by lands:
Dhil = One who has.
Only said for the sun-up: Allah Almighty did not say that He made "no cover" for them from it for the sunset. He said it for the sun-up only, which further proves that indeed the sun being always up, in Noble Verse 18:90 below, is referring to a geographical area in the North, since so much geographical proofs, and 1000-year old maps below, also point to that location as well. "Until he reached near حتى اذا بلغ where the sun is up مطلع الشمس, he found it above وجدها تطلع على people قوم whom We made no cover for them from it لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. (The Noble Quran, 18:90)" "We made no cover...." was never mentioned for sunset. Only to "where the sun is up...." مطلع الشمس in Noble Verse 18:90, which further supports that "We made no cover...." is indeed talking about the Northern territories near the North Pole. See ample pictures of the sun never sets at the North Pole. See below. Remember that they are located near where the sun never sets. In the north, no shade was made from it for them. It is almost always shining on them: لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر. "We made no cover for them from it" (18:90). In other words, it never sets. Night almost never comes:
The infidels' nonsense: So the sun sets inside a body of water? [1] And how exactly does it rise back up again according to the anti-Islamics?
Possible Geographical and Astronomical Significance: I also believe that since Allah Almighty speaks also in plural about the sunrise and sunset points of the sun on earth, then it is possible that Allah Almighty here referred to geographical locations that have astronomical alignment significance. The sun and the earth orbit each other in an S-shaped or number 8 orbit:
This is also all demonstrated in good details in the following video file and articles:
www.answering-christianity.com/egg-shaped_earth.htm This is why the sun doesn't orbit around the earth in one straight line. This is due to earth's axle tilt and change of orbit. So the sunset and sunrise points (plural) in the Glorious Quran could be astronomical points. This might be similar to the location of Mecca, and the location of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, where Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was taken up to Heaven from that rock (before the Dome was built above it).
Consider the following moon's orbit Miracle
in the Glorious Quran. Notice below
"...until it ends up
looking like
حتى عاد...".
Where does it astronomically begin and end
up
عاد?
Again, Where does the moon astronomically begin and end? Read ample Noble Verses, analysis, quotations from scientific sources, and so much more in this article.
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Also, a Muslim brother recently on this website's blog posted two links of a detailed article:
Quick Note:
The sun never ceases nor disappears [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]:
Prophet Muhammad: The sun is in constant orbit always rising on people while setting on others (See also Isaiah 1:9-17: Yahweh called Israel Sodom, because it spreads evil and is unjust). عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل :هذه المغارب اين تغرب ؟ وهذه المطالع اين تطلع ؟ فقال صلى الله عليه وسلم هي على رسلها لا تبرح ولا تزول , تغرب عن قوم وتطلع على قوم ,وتغرب عن قوم وتطلع , فقوم يقولون غربت ,وقوم يقولون طلعت "Ibn Abbas narrated on Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, that the Prophet was asked: Where does the sun go after all of these sunsets? And where does it come from after all of these sunrises? The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: It is in constant motion. It doesn't stop nor disappear. It sets on people and rises on others, and it sets on people and rises on others (See also Isaiah 1:9-17: Yahweh called Israel Sodom, because it spreads evil and is unjust). So people would say it has risen while others say it has set." Sources:
1- Jami'a Al-Usool li-ibn Al-Atheer.
2- Musnad Al-Imam Abi Is'haq Al-Hamadani
3- Al-Ijaz Al-Ilmi Fe Al-Sunna Al-Nabawiyyah, Dr. Zahloul Al-Najjar,
Page 132.
www.answering-christianity.com/egg-shaped_earth.htm
Did Prophet Muhammad know think that the earth was spherical or flat? Answer:
In this Hadith, above, he certainly seems to have
known this fact very well. And this Hadith is even older than Sahih
Bukhari. It is important to know that Imam Bukhari and others
have declared that they have
discarded thousands of Hadiths:
Also, Allah Almighty in the Holy Quran declares that the earth is:
Let us analyze Noble Verse 18:86,90: Yusuf Ali Translation: [018:086] Until, when he reached (بلغ) the setting of the sun, he found it (وجدها) set in a spring of murky water (تغرب في عين): Near it (the water) he found (ووجد عندها) a People: We said: "O Dhul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."
[018:090]
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom
We had provided no covering
I colored them so that it would be easier for you to locate them and to follow through. Now while below we will find ample detailed analysis that I've provided from Arabic, but the following points are very important to keep in mind:
2- In the Glorious Quran, wajada وجد (found) has multiple meanings, which among them is "to see", as the Noble Verses, below, clearly and indisputably reveal. Wajada وجد here means that the sun disappeared from Dhul-Qarnayn's naked eye, especially since the neighborhood was mountainous (18:93). As Dhul-Qarnayn was looking at the sun, he saw it disappearing inside or behind a murky body/pond/lake/sea of dark/murky water. Now, since the Iron Gates were near the city of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan, and it is well known that the waters there are murky, then there is strong evidence that suggest that Dhul-Qarnayn reached a lake, or a body of water, which is in a MOUNTAINOUS AREA as the Glorious Quran states, at sunset:
And of course, as I mentioned below, if the sun were to literally set inside a pool of water, then it would have to rise back again from that location and set into another body of water, which the Glorious Quran makes no mention of, and then rise back again from that body of water and set again in Dhul-Qarnayn's body of water, and so on. This never happened, and nor did the Glorious Quran mention it. The sun simply does not bounce back and forth between the east and the west on earth, and nor does the moon. The Noble Verses also do not say that the Dhul-Qarnayn went to the east or the west of the earth. No east nor west were mentioned in any of the Noble Verses, and as I mentioned below, neither does the Glorious Quran mention that there are ends of the earth. On the contrary, the Glorious Quran, as I also mentioned below, clearly and indisputably Declares that the earth is Spherical, Round, is Suspended and orbiting in Space, and is rotating around its own axle. See the ample Noble Verses and ample Arabic Analysis for the proofs, in the link. Now as to wajada's (وجد) meanings throughout the Glorious Quran:
3- In the Noble Verse, endaha عندها (near it) is referring to the spring of the murky water. Both the sun (الشمس) and the spring (عين) are feminine. They are not masculine. عندها is also feminine, and the context of the Noble Verse clearly suggests that Dhul-Qarnayn found settlers near the spring at sunset.
4- As for تغرب في عين (disappear in a murky water), the following points make it quite clear. This point is also discussed in great details throughout this article: 5- As to مطلع الشمس وجدها تطلع :
مطلع الشمس
means
where the sun is up,
and
تطلع
means "rising".
This had been thoroughly
discussed
in great details above.
6- The following Noble Words are further discussed in this table, below:
Another Important Point: Allah Almighty never Said that Dhul-Qarnayn had reached the "ends of the earth" where the sun supposedly rises and sets. In fact, no where in the entire Quran is "ends of the earth" mentioned. The Glorious Quran, on the contrary, says clearly that the earth is spherical [2]. Also on the contrary, it is the Bible that says that:
Please visit: The Bible declares that the earth is flat [2]. Also read the article for ample more proofs, Noble Verses and details. Clearly, the Glorious Quran is in no scientific blunder regarding the shape of the earth, and the solar system. In fact, there are ample Noble Verses that clearly and indisputably state:
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So why
did Allah Almighty Choose "he
I certainly can't speak on behalf of Allah Almighty, but I could give you few possibilities as to why would the use of وجدها would be most appropriate: 1- Dhul-Qarnayn seems to have been following the path of the sun. On a cloudy day or in mountainous areas, the sun during the day, or the moon during the night, could disappear either behind the thick clouds or the mountains. A traveler 1000s of years ago, who had no compass to guide him through the North and South Poles' magnetic fields, could easily get lost.
Behind Mountains: 2- So the use of the word وجدها in this case, if the case was true, is more accurate then just رآها (saw it), because وجدها now becomes more encompassing to the situation, and is more accurate and descriptive.
What about the people who had no cover from the sun in Noble Verse 18:90? (لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر) Let us look at Noble Verse 18:90: Yusuf Ali: [018:090]
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom
We had provided no covering 18:90 حتى اذا بلغ مطلع الشمس وجدها تطلع على قوم لم نجعل لهم من دونها ستر The following key Words are analyzed in great details below: 1- لم = did not. 2- نجعل = caused it to be, evolved it.
3- لهم = to them, for them. 4- من = from. 5- دونها = under it. See this detailed article for ample details and proofs on the ample uses of this Noble Word throughout the Glorious Quran. I also used many reputable Arabic dictionaries, including the Encyclopedic 10-Book Lisan Al-Arab dictionary, to demonstrate and prove this Noble Word's meanings. Click on the link for the details. So the sun was never physically near the people, nor near Dhul-Qarnayn and his army. 6- ستر = (atmospheric) cover, shade. 1- دونها, which clearly means "under it" [1] [2]. So the sun was never physically near the people, nor near Dhul-Qarnayn and his army. Throughout the Glorious Quran, Allah Almighty used certain words in many Noble Verses that spoke about being physically close to something. The following Noble Words clearly and indisputably prove this: 2- نجعل, as I demonstrated with the ample Noble Verses above, means that Allah Almighty Creates, Develops and/or Makes a creation through the process of (1) Evolution, (2) Natural development of a creation, or (3) A process of engagement, mixing and/or development through two or more creations being combined or put together; similar to a chain reaction. Therefore, the Noble Words and Verses are clearly and indisputably speaking:
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Did the Noble Quran really say that the sun sets and rises on earth?
The sections of this article are:
1- The Noble Quran's Divine Claims and detailed analysis about them.
- Aayn (spring) VS hufra (hole, pit) are clear proofs in Noble Verse 18:86.
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Noble Verse 18:90:
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2- "balagha" is metaphoric and
"yudrik" is literal.
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3- Further clear-cut proofs from
the moon in the Noble Quran!
4- The Prophecies of the Iron Gates did come true, and
the Iron Gates were found!
5- The Miracles and Prophecies of the Noble Quran which prove its
Divinity.
6- Conclusion.
7- Articles on other web sites explaining Noble Verses 18:86 and 18:90.
1- The Noble Quran's Divine Claims and detailed analysis about them:
Let us look at the following Noble Verses from the Noble Quran. Please pay close attention to the bolded and underlined parts.
Let us look at Noble Verses 18:83-110:
83. They ask thee concerning Zul-qarnain [or Dhul-qarnain]. Say, 'I will rehearse to
you something of his story.'
84. Verily We established his power on earth, and We gave him the ways and the means to
all ends.
85. One (such) way he followed,
86. Until, when he reached ("balagha".....it
doesn't mean literal arrival. See Noble Verses 6:19, 12:22, 18:61, 18:86, 18:90,
18:93, 24:59, 28:14, 37:102, 46:15 in the next section below. "adraka" or "yudrik" mean literal arrival or
reaching as also shown in the next section below) the setting
of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it (the water) he found a People:
We said: 'O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them
with kindness.'
87. He said: 'Whoever doth wrong, him shall we punish; then shall he be sent back to his
Lord; and He will punish him with a punishment unheard-of (before).
88. But whoever believes, and works righteousness,- he shall have a goodly reward, and
easy will be his task as We order it by our Command.'
89. Then followed he (another) way,
90. Until, when he came (balagha....not literal.
See the next section) to the rising of the sun, he
found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the
sun.
91. (He left them) as they were: We completely understood what was before him.
92. Then followed he (another) way,
93. Until, when he reached (balagha.....not
literal. See the next section) (a tract) between two
mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word.
94. They said: 'O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief on earth:
shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us
and them?'
95. He said: '(The power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute):
Help me therefore with strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier between you
and them:
96. Bring me blocks of iron.' At length, when he had filled up the space
between the two steep mountain-sides, He said, 'Blow (with your bellows)' Then, when he
had made it (red) as fire, he said: 'Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten lead.'
97. Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it.
98. He said: 'This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass,
He will make it into dust; and the promise of my Lord is true.'
99. On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the trumpet will
be blown, and We shall collect them all together.
100. And We shall present Hell that day for Unbelievers to see, all spread out,-
101. (Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, and who had
been unable even to hear.
There are several points and proofs to notice here:
1- The sun had always risen from the east and set in the west in a constant circular motion. To our human perspective, the sun had always rose from the east, and set in the west, and then goes under the earth to rise back from the east and so on.
2- The sun could not physically set on a lake or Spring, because that area of water could not have space or hole under it where the sun would go through it to then go under the earth so it would rise back up again from the east.
3- Not a single Muslim scholar interpreted this Noble Verse as the SUN SETTING INSIDE THE Murky spring water. See the "Aayn (spring) VS hufra (hole, pit) are clear proofs in Noble Verse 18:86." sub-section below.
4- On the contrary in point #3, the Muslim scholars were
the first to recognize earth as a spherical globe.
5- If the intention of
Noble Verses 18:83-110 was that the sun literally set inside the murky
spring, then it would have had to rise back again from the West and
set into another murky spring in the East, which the Glorious
Quran never made any mention of, and rise back from the East and
set in the West, and rise back from the West and set in the East, and so on.
Did the sun ever rise from the
west?
Did the sun ever bounce back and forth between the east and the west in its rising and setting?
See the "Aayn
(spring) VS hufra (hole, pit) are clear proofs in Noble Verse 18:86." sub-section below.
6- If we take the above Noble Verses LITERALLY, then this means that the sun would have to bounce back and forth between the west and the east.
7- While the Noble Verses above don't give specific timing on how long it took Zul-Qarnayn to roam through the lands, but people back then were believed to do a lot of traveling on foot. While they didn't have the convenient and time-saving transportation that we have today, but nonetheless, they did travel through the lands without a problem. They were very physical in their life styles and they were able to build so much resistance against tiredness.
8- Some might say that the Noble Verse meant to say that the sun set on a place or through a hole near that Spring. In this case, this interpretation had refuted their "Literal Speech" interpretation, because they now had NULLIFIED their point and fixed position about the sun setting exactly in that murky lake or spring. Since they now agree that it doesn't NECESSARILY mean that the sun literally set on the water, then the "setting through a hole near the water" claim is only an interpretation without clear cut certainty and proofs. See the sections below regarding the mentioned Iron Gates (only mentioned in the Noble Quran and no where else) were indeed found, and see the Scientific and Divine Miracles in the Noble Quran along with the modern scientific proofs confirming their Truthfulness.
Aayn, VS hufra are clear proofs in Noble Verse 18:86:
Noble Verse 18:86:
(a)- Proofs that "aayn" means spring or lake or a body of water:
"And remember Moses prayed for water for his people; We said:
"Strike the rock with thy staff." Then gushed forth therefrom twelve
springs (fainfajarat minhu ithnata AAashrata
AAaynan). Each group knew its own place for water. So eat and
drink of the sustenance provided by God, and do no evil nor mischief on the (face of the)
earth. (The Noble Quran, 20:60)"
"We divided them into twelve tribes or nations. We directed Moses by inspiration, when his (thirsty) people asked him for water: "Strike the rock with thy staff": out of it there gushed forth twelve springs (ithnata AAashrata AAaynan): Each group knew its own place for water. We gave them the shade of clouds, and sent down to them manna and quails, (saying): "Eat of the good things We have provided for you": (but they rebelled); to Us they did no harm, but they harmed their own souls. (The Noble Quran, 7:160)"
"And to Solomon (We made) the Wind (obedient): Its early morning (stride) was a month's (journey), and its evening (stride) was a month's (journey); and We made a Font of molten brass to flow for him (waasalna lahu AAayna alqitri); and there were Jinns that worked in front of him, by the leave of his Lord, and if any of them turned aside from our command, We made him taste of the Penalty of the Blazing Fire. (The Noble Quran, 34:12)"
"In them (each) will be two Springs flowing (free) (AAaynani tajriyani); (The Noble Quran, 55:50)"
"In them (each) will be two Springs (AAaynani) pouring forth water in continuous abundance: (The Noble Quran, 55:66)"
"A fountain (AAaynan) there, called Salsabil. (The Noble Quran, 76:18)"
"A spring (AAaynan), from (the waters) whereof drink those Nearest to God. (The Noble Quran, 83:28)"
"The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring (AAaynin aniyatin), (The Noble Quran, 88:5)"
"Therein will be a bubbling spring (AAaynun jariyatun): (The Noble Quran, 88:12)"
(b)- Proofs that "aayn" DOES NOT mean hole or open space:
"And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches
out for you), and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude God's
favour on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His
Grace, ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit (hufratin) of Fire,
and He saved you from it. Thus doth God make His Signs clear to you: That ye may be
guided. (The Noble Quran, 3:103)"
The Arabic word "hufra" literally means a hole or a pit. Allah Almighty never used this word in the rising and setting of the sun.
(c)- "taghrubu" means to go away:
"Until, when he reached the setting of the sun (ghuroob al-shams), he found it set (taghrubu) in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness." (The Noble Quran, 18:86)"
"taghrubu" in Arabic is derived from the root word "ghuroob", which has one literal meaning which is "to go away" or "to leave" or "to disappear". "gharb" means "west".
"taghrubu" does literally mean to "going away" or "disappearing", and doesn't necessarily have to be in the direction of the west.
Get out of my face!
"ughrub aan wajhi" literally means "get out of my face" or "go away from me now!".
So taking this literal meaning of the words in Noble Verse 18:86,
the Noble Verse would then read as follows:
"Until, when he reached sunset, he found it disappearing in a spring (aayn) of murky (or dark) water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness." (The Noble Quran, 18:86)"
By the way, "spring" (aayn), can also mean a body of water and not necessarily a pond or a fount. When Allah Almighty refers to the SPRINGS in Heaven, He is probably referring to large bodies of blissful water!
Again, as I mentioned above in the fifth point:
5- If the verses were to be taken literally, then the sun would have to set in the west, and would have to then rise back from the west, and then set in the east and then rise back from the east and so on.
Did the sun ever rise from the west?
Did the sun ever bounce back and forth between the east and the west in its rising and setting?
Noble Verse 18:90:
(a)- Examples of Sunrise in the Glorious Quran:
Dhul-Qarnayn did not go to the ends of the earth according to the Noble Quran. You won't find any statement of this kind in the Glorious Quran. Unlike the Bible, for example, with its four corners of the earth, and other unscientific statements:
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Allah Almighty never declared
that Dhul-Qarnayn reached the ends of the earth. No mention of
ends of the
earth in the entire Glorious Quran. Unlike the Bible,
for example, where it talks about earth's "four
corners", the Quran has no such phrases. Allah Almighty never Said that Dhul-Qarnayn had reached the "ends of the earth" where the sun supposedly rises and sets. The Glorious Quran says clearly that the earth is spherical [2]. Also on the contrary, it is the Bible that says that:
Please visit: The Bible declares that the earth is flat [2]. Clearly, the Glorious Quran is in no scientific blunder regarding the shape of the earth, and the solar system. In fact, there are ample Noble Verses that clearly and indisputably state:
Ample vocabularies
from seven encyclopedic Arabic dictionaries about earth in
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You don't find statements that clash with science in the Glorious Quran.
Now, notice in Noble Verse 18:90, Allah Almighty said "matliaaa alshshamsi" AND NOT "mashriqa alshshamsi". This is very important because the Arabic words "sharq" and "gharb" which mean "east" and "west" respectively, are the root words for the sun's rising "mashriq alshams" and sun setting "maghrib alshams". "Mashriq" is derived from "sharq" and "maghrib" is derived from "gharb".
Tuloo Al-Shams:
Also, Allah Almighty used the root word "tuloo", which is what "matliaaa" is derived from, in the following Noble Verses:
"Therefore be patient with what they say, and celebrate (constantly) the praises of thy Lord, before the rising (tulooAAi) of the sun, and before its setting; yea, celebrate them for part of the hours of the night, and at the sides of the day: that thou mayest have (spiritual) joy. (The Noble Quran, 20:130)"
"Bear, then, with patience, all that they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord, before the rising (tulooAAi) of the sun and before (its) setting (alghuroobi). (The Noble Quran, 50:39)"
Again, the fact that the sun rises above all of the nations of this earth, then there is no question that "tuloo" is metaphoric and not literal since one does not need to be near the hole where the sun rises from (assuming that the Noble Quran embraces the flat-earth theory, which is bogus, because the Noble Quran declared that the earth is egg-shaped).
By the way, "maghrib" is not literal either, because in Noble Verse 50:39 above, "alghuroobi" is a sister word of "maghrib" (both derived from the same root word "gharb" or "west"), and since the sun sets on every nation on earth, and one does not have to be physically near the hole where the sun sets in (again, assuming that the Noble Quran embraces the flat-earth theory, which is bogus, because the Noble Quran declared that the earth is egg-shaped), then this clearly means that Dhul-Qarnayn did not physically reach the setting of the sun, as further proven in the sections below, nor did the Noble Quran say that he went to the "ends of the earth". In fact, no where in the Noble Quran does the term "ends of the earth" exist!
The fact that Allah Almighty never used the word "mashriq" instead of "matliaaa" proves:
1- Dhul-Qarnayn did not go to the "ends of the earth".
2- Allah Almighty specifically made it clear that Dhul-Qarnayn did not go to the far west where the sun sets and then went to the far east where the sun rises, since the word "mashriq" was never used in the Noble Verses.
3- Allah Almighty did use in OTHER Noble Verses "mashriq" and "sharq" when referring to places located in the east, and to the rising of the sun, in the Noble Quran. See the following Noble Verses.
Shorooq Al-Shams:
"Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East (makanan sharqiyyan). (The Noble Quran, 19:16)"
"God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west (la sharqiyyatin wala gharbiyyatin), whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! God doth guide whom He will to His Light: God doth set forth Parables for men: and God doth know all things. (The Noble Quran, 24:35)"
"To God belong the east (almashriqu) and the West (waalmaghribu): Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of God (Luke 2:52: GOD forgave Jesus' sins and was "charitable" with him). For God is all-Pervading, all-Knowing. (The Noble Quran, 2:115)"
"The fools among the people will say: "What hath turned them from the Qibla to which they were used?" Say: To God belong both east and West (lillahi almashriqu waalmaghribu): He guideth whom He will to a Way that is straight. (The Noble Quran, 2:142)"
"It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West (qibala almashriqi waalmaghribi); but it is righteousness- to believe in God and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and a dversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing. (The Noble Quran, 2:177)"
"Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with Abraham About his Lord, because God had granted him power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who Giveth life and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham: "But it is God that causeth the sun to rise from the east (almashriqi): Do thou then cause him to rise from the West (almaghribi)." Thus was he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth God Give guidance to a people unjust. (The Noble Quran, 2:258)"
"(Moses) said: "Lord of the East (almashriqi) and the West (waalmaghribi), and all between! if ye only had sense!" (The Noble Quran, 26:28)"
"Till, when (such a one) comes to Us, he says (to his Qareen (Satan / devil companion)) "Would that between me and you were the distance of the two easts (almashriqayni)" a worst (type of) companion (indeed)! (The Noble Quran, 43:38)"
"(He is) Lord of the two Easts (almashriqayni) and Lord of the two Wests (almaghribayni): (The Noble Quran, 55:17)"
"(He is) Lord of the East and the West (almashriqi waalmaghribi): there is no god but He: take Him therefore for (thy) Disposer of Affairs. (The Noble Quran, 73:9)"
"It was We that made the hills declare, in unison with him, Our Praises, at eventide (bialAAashiyyi) and at break of day (waal-ishraqi), (The Noble Quran, 38:18)"
"(He is) Lord of the two Easts (almashriqayni) and Lord of the two Wests (almaghribayni): (The Noble Quran, 55:17)"
Again, as we clearly see, Dhul-Qarnayn DID NOT go to the ends of the earth according to the Noble Quran! Unlike the Bible, for example, with its four corners of the earth, and other unscientific statements:
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Allah Almighty never declared
that Dhul-Qarnayn reached the ends of the earth. No mention of
ends of the
earth in the entire Glorious Quran. Unlike the Bible,
for example, where it talks about earth's "four
corners", the Quran has no such phrases. Allah Almighty never Said that Dhul-Qarnayn had reached the "ends of the earth" where the sun supposedly rises and sets. The Glorious Quran says clearly that the earth is spherical [2]. Also on the contrary, it is the Bible that says that:
Please visit: The Bible declares that the earth is flat [2]. Clearly, the Glorious Quran is in no scientific blunder regarding the shape of the earth, and the solar system. In fact, there are ample Noble Verses that clearly and indisputably state:
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