© 2020 SAUDI RESEARCH & PUBLISHING COMPANY, All Rights Reserved And subject to Terms of Use Agreement. The similitude of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a luminary.
In the same way, it is acceptable to designate the moon as a light source. The first among these would seem to be the planets, as we have just seen. They revolve around the Sun, Earth being one of them. We’ve already talked about some of the most captivating—and deadliest—planets that orbit the stars, but these luminous celestial bodies are intriguing in their own right. Verse 39-42: Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 1441H / In Surah As-Saffaat-verse 6, we see the following:We have indeed adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planetsIs it possible that the expression in the Qur'an 'lowest heaven' means the 'solar system'? There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. The sun is a shining glory (diya) and the moon a light (nur). Do the 'luminaries' referred to in the same verse have something to do with the shooting stars mentioned above? Planets do not emit light, they can onlyreflect the rays of the sun that fall on them. Resurrection is in the future "at the last trump." It is the function of the heavenly light-producing-bodies, to send us light, either their own or that reflected by them; to be light-bearers for the earth. We often think of stars as huge, hot, round masses of hydrogen and helium even though they are not always so. Temporary Body At Death Another theory says that, at death, believers receive a temporary body. The planets do not have their own light. 2020 to Alukah.NetAlukah is a rich, cultural website supervised by Dr. Khaled El-Jeraissy and Dr. Saad El-HmedThe difference between Sun and Moon will be made clearer by further quotes from the Qur'an.Blessed is the One Who placed the constellations in heaven and placed therein a lamp and a moon giving lightDid you see how God created seven heavens one above another and made the moon a light therein and made the sun a lampWe have built above you seven strong (heavens) and placed a blazing lampHere the moon is defined as a body that gives light (A man of Prophet Muhammad's time could easily distinguish between the Sun, a blazing heavenly body well known to the inhabitants of the desert, and the Moon, the body of the cool of the night. They are heavenly bodies that produce their own light.The word 'star' appears thirteen times in the Qur'an (By the sky and the Night-Visitor, who will tell thee what the Night-Visitor is, the Star of piercing brightnessThe evening star is qualified in the Qur'an by the word takib meaning 'that which pierces through something' (It is difficult to say whether these are referred to in the Qur'an with the same exact meaning that is given to the heavenly bodies in the present day. This is the only explanatory detail referring to this word to be found in the Qur'an.The word is quoted in other verses. When however the Qur'an associates material notions intelligible to us, enlightened as we are today by modern science, with statements of a purely spiritual nature, their meaning becomes obscure.Thus the verse quoted could easily be understood, except that the following verse (7) of the same Surah As-Saffaat speaks of a 'guard against every rebellious evil spirit', 'guard' again being referred to in Surah Al-Anbiya’-verse 32 and Surah Fussilat-verse 12, so that we are confronted by statements of quite a different kind.What meaning can one attach moreover to the 'projectiles for the stoning of demons' that according to verse 5, Surah Al-Mulk are situated in the lowest heaven? Please write: COMMENT in this box to verify that you are human In fact there is little difference in meaning since diya belongs to a root (dw) which, according to Kazimirski’s authoritative Arabic/French dictionary, means ‘to be bright, to shine’ (e.g. Three have been discovered in recent times: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.The Qur'an would seem to designate these by the word Here is the text in question: (Surah An-Nur-verse 35)God is the light of the heavens and the earth. Hence, there is an interval of time between death and the resurrected state.
Therefore, it can not be said that the planets are heavenly bodies that shine themselves. Site was last updated on : 8/12/1441H - at: 14:18 They revolve around the Sun, Earth being one of them.