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ISLAM: ROTATION OF SUN IN QUR'AN, BIBLE, A VEDAS ETC..
Assalamu alaikum sir...one of my friend posted that sun and moon are rotating in their own axis....then i commented that it is known to muslims 1400 years back then he replied that it is known to christians 2000 years back and 3000 years back to jews and for hindus from time immortal..how to answer him...I need your help..jazakallahumma qairann
ANSWER:
Praise be to Allah
THE SUN ROTATES IN THE QUR'AN:
For a long time European philosophers and scientists believed that the earth stood still in the center 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 center 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’anic 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’an 21:33]
The Arabic word used in the above verse is yasbahoon . This word is derived from the word sabaha. It carries with it the idea of motion that comes from any moving body. If you use this word for a person on the ground, it would not mean that he is rolling but would imply that he is walking or running. If you use this word for a person in water, it would not mean that he is floating but would imply that he is swimming. Similarly, if you use the word yasbah for a celestial body such as the sun, it would not only mean that it is flying through space but would also mean that it is rotating as it goes through space. Most school textbooks have now 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 top of a table, 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 round its axis. The sun travels through space at roughly 240 km per second, and takes about 200 million years to complete one revolution around the centre 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’an 36:40]
This verse mentions an essential fact discovered. This verse mentions an essential fact discovered
only recently 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 precisely 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 Lyrae) whose exact location is now firmly established. The moon rotates around its axis in the same duration that it takes to revolve around the earth. It takes approximately 29½ days to complete one rotation. One cannot help but be amazed at the scientific accuracy of the Qur’anic verses. Should we not ponder over the question: “What is the source of knowledge contained in the Qur’an?”
REGARDING THE HEAVENS IN THE BIBLE:
The pillars of the Heaven will tremble.
[ Bible says in Job, Ch. 26, Verse 11]
Don`t you see?
Bible says heaven have got pillars. Not only do the Heavens have got pillars - Bible says in the first book of
“[Even the earth have got pillars”
[Samuel, Ch. No.2 Verses No.8, as well as the book of Job Ch. No.9, Verse No.6, and the book of Psalms Ch. No.75, Verse No.3]
Ask him or her where it mention in the bible about the Sun and its rotation ? Heavens(sun etc..) don’t move, got pillars , earth got pillars.
REGARDING THE HEAVENS IN THE HINDU SCRIPTURE:
ERRORS IN HINDUS SCRIPTURES:
1) Earth is fixed, don't rotate or revolve.
2) Sky stand on support.
3) Even earth got pillars.
4) Sun Revolve around the Earth.
5)Horse take the Sun to the Sky.
"He who fixed firm the earth that staggered, and set at rest the agitated mountains, who measured out the air's wide middle region and gave the heaven support, he men is indra.
[Rigveda Book 2 hymn 12 Mantra 2]
"God has firmly fixed that earth with pegs around it
[Yajur Vedas Ch 5 Mantra 16]
"A lamp kept in a windless place does not shake."
[Bhagavad Gita Ch 6 verse 19]
2. VEDAS SAY SUN MOVES AROUND THE EARTH ON A GOLDEN CHARIOT WITH HIS 7 HORSES
As the Vedas Claim that the earth is static and so they tried to prove that the sun moves around the earth. The following statement from the rig Ved tries to clarify it:
1. "Sun is full of light and knows all the human beings, so his (horses) take him to sky to look at the world" [Rig Ved Book 1 Hymn 50 Mantra 1]
2. "O, Bright sun, a chariot named harit with seven horses takes you to sky"
[Rig Ved Book 1 Hymn 50 Mantra 8]
3. "O, man, the sun who is most attractive, takes round of the earth, on his golden chariot through the sky and removes the darkness of the earth"
[Yajur Ved Ch 33 Verse 43]
There are many unscientific things or potion in the Vedas and Baghwath Geeta. One scientific error is enough to prove it’s not the books of God neither completely guidance to whole mankind.
"And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish."
[Al-Qur'an ch 17 Verses 81]
Sister it very clear that what other scripture speak about the Sun and its nature etc.. And According to the Science, its came to know recentely means 100 year back, 300 year back for Science. Allahamdulilah The creator of the Universe is Allah himself, mentioned in the Qur’an 1400 year ago. That time Unknow to Humankind. All the people says this and that….etc.. only theory only and nothing else.
Allah says in the Qur’an
“produce a proof if your truthful”
[Al-Qur’an ch 2 Verse 112]
Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?
[Al-Qru’an ch 41 Verse 53]
Allah knows the best.
