Is
there a scientific miracle in the story of our master Joseph, peace be
upon him, concerning the number of planets in the solar system? And is
it true that there are only eleven planets?…
An
alleged miracle had spread lately about the number of the planets in
the solar system and that the Quran had pointed out to it in His, the
Almighty, speech on the tongue of our master Joseph, peace be upon him: "O my father! Verily, I saw (in a dream) eleven stars and the sun and the moon - I saw them prostrating themselves to me." (Yusuf: 4). so what is the fact behind this matter?
I
say my brothers and sisters that some people rush in giving the word
"miracle" on any phenomenon that he sees or believes, and the believer
is wise and clever and he has to make sure of the truth of the
information before spreading or believing it. The noble verse is not
necessarily pointing the number of planets in the solar system as our
master Joseph saw eleven planets and Allah, the Almighty, had not
informed us that there are no planets except eleven in our solar system;
rather, these planets are symbols for the brothers of our master
Joseph, peace be upon him.
One
of the western scientists who deeply studied the Universe and Galaxies,
and after doing statistical study for the number of galaxies and stars
in the Universe and with the probability of the presence of other
planets outside the solar system: the number of planets in the Universe
that are similar to our planet is more than the number of stars in our
galaxy, even there are thousands of billions or may be more!!
Therefore,
we can not limit the number of planets to eleven only, as the number of
planets rotating around the sun is ten including the earth, and if we
exclude the earth we find it nine, and may be the scientists will
discover other planets in the solar system because we are unable yet to
move out of the borders of the solar system.
This
is the solar system that Allah had estimated for us, and it is composed
of the sun and ten major planets in addition to number of moons
rotating around them, thousands of asteroids, millions of stones that
navigate around the sun in a controlled system, where there is no
collisions, disorder or troubles, but rather an estimated system that
shows the ability of the Creator, all praises to Him.
And
therefore, our information remains little, even if the scientists
discovered that the number of the planets in the solar system is eleven,
this does not invite us to say that the Quran specified this number
before 14 centuries as the scientists may discover more planets, and we
can give the following advices:
1.The noble verse " I saw (in a dream) eleven stars" does
not talk about the number of the planets but it talk about the number
of Joseph brothers, and the planet is a symbol for the brother in the
dream, while the number 11 symbolizes the number of Joseph brothers. And
dreams come symbolized or coded as we know.
2.The
number of planets rotating around the sun is unknown, we have known 10
of it and the scientists are still discovering more. And there are
billions of planets spread in the universe and the number is not limited
to eleven.
3.Any
information should be clarified before spreading it through the
internet as a response to His speech, all praises to Him: “So ask the people of the Reminder if you do not know.”
(7: Al Anbiya'a). Because we do not want the scientific miracles in the
Quran to be an entrance for the suspicious and disbelievers to
criticize this great religion.
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
www.kaheel7.com/eng
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