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THE SUN ROTATES ACCORDING TO QUR'AN
By: Captshittu Date: January 31, 2018, 12:32 pm
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THE SUN ROTATES ACCORDING TO QUR'AN
For a long time European philosophers and scientists believed
that the earth stood still in the centre of the universe and
every other body including the sun moved around it. In the West,
this geocentric concept of the universe was prevalent right from
the time of Ptolemy in the second century B.C. In 1512, Nicholas
Copernicus put forward his Heliocentric Theory of Planetary
Motion, which asserted that the sun is motionless at the centre
of the solar system with the planets revolving around it.
In 1609, the German scientist Yohannus Keppler published the
‘Astronomia Nova’. In this he concluded that not only do the
planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun, they also
rotate upon their axes at irregular speeds.
With this knowledge it became possible for European scientists
to explain correctly many of the mechanisms of the solar system
including the sequence of night and day.
After these discoveries, it was thought that the Sun was
stationary and did not rotate about its axis like the Earth. I
remember having studied this fallacy from Geography books during
my school days. Consider the following Qur’aanic verse: “It is
He Who created The Night and the Day, And the sun and the moon:
All (the celestial bodies) Swim along, each in its Rounded
course.” [Al-Qur’aan 21:33]
The Arabic word used in the above verse is yasbahűn . The word
yasbahűn is derived from the word sabaha. It carries with it the
idea of motion that comes from any moving body. If you use the
word for a man on the ground, it would not mean that he is
rolling but would mean he is walking or running. If you use the
word for a man in water it would not mean that he is floating
but would mean that he is swimming.
Similarly, if you use the word yasbah for a celestial body such
as the sun it would not mean that it is only flying through
space but would mean that it is also rotating as it goes through
space. Most of the school textbooks have incorporated the fact
that the sun rotates about its axis. The rotation of the sun
about its own axis can be proved with the help of an equipment
that projects the image of the sun on the table top so that one
can examine the image of the sun without being blinded. It is
noticed that the sun has spots which complete a circular motion
once every 25 days i.e. the sun takes approximately 25 days to
rotate around its axis.
In fact, the sun travels through space at roughly 150 miles per
second, and takes about 200 million years to complete one
revolution around the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
“It is not permitted To the Sun to catch up The Moon, nor can
The Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along In (its own)
orbit (According to Law).” [Al-Qur’aan 36:40]
This verse mentions an essential fact discovered by modern
astronomy, i.e. the existence of the individual orbits of the
Sun and the Moon, and their journey through space with their own
motion. The ‘fixed place’ towards, which the sun travels,
carrying with it the solar system, has been located exactly by
modern astronomy. It has been given a name, the Solar Apex. The
solar system is indeed moving in space towards a point situated
in the constellation of Hercules (alpha Layer) whose exact
location is firmly established.
The moon rotates around its axis in the same duration that it
takes to revolve around the earth. It takes approximately 29˝
days to complete one rotation.
One cannot help but be amazed at the scientific accuracy of the
Qur’aanic verses. Should we not ponder over the question: “What
was the source of knowledge contained in the Qur’aan?”
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