However, if Pluto is taken as the farthest planet, it revolves 4,600 million miles away round it. The vastness of the solar system in which our earth is included is such that its parent body, the sun, is 300,000 times bigger than the earth, and its farthest planet Neptune is at least 2,793 million miles distant from the sun. These verses are not intended to describe the realities of astronomy, but are meant to make man understand that if he looks around himself, with open eyes, and uses his common sense, he will find countless and limitless proofs of the existence of God and His Unity, and he will not come across a single proof of atheism and shirk. (4) That the movement of the stars in their orbits is similar to the floating of something in a fluid. (3) That the orbits are not moving with the stars in them, but the stars are moving in the orbits. (2) The falak, or orbit, of each one of them is separate. (1) That not only the sun and the moon but all the stars and planets and celestial bodies are moving. The sentence, “Each in an orbit is floating” points to four realities. The word falak in Arabic is used for the orbit of the planets, and it gives a different meaning from the word sama (sky). Nor does this happen either that the night should approach before the appointed period of the day comes to an end, and should start spreading its darkness suddenly during the time when the day is meant to spread its light.ģ7. It is not possible that the sun should suddenly appear on the horizon when the moon is shining at night.ģ6. (2) The sun cannot appear in the times which have been appointed for the rising and appearing of the moon.
(1) The sun does not have the power that it should draw the moon into itself, or enter its orbit and collide with it. This sentence can have two meanings and both are correct. (36:40) Neither does it lie in the sun’s power to overtake the moon nor can the night outstrip the day.
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