God be he exalted says: (Have
you not seen how your Lord spread the shadow. If He willed, He could
have made it still - But We have made the sun its guide, then We
withdraw it to Us a gradual concealed withdrawal.) [Surat Al-Furqan, verses: 45, 46].
The explanation of the verses:
Almighty
God talks about the movement of the shadow on the ground, and that God
be He exalted has made the sun a guide for this shadow and (spread)
means that it moves and sweeps away all what encounters it. This means
that God be He exalted is telling us that the shadow moves and lengthens
and this is definitely because of the earth's movement according to the
sun.
But
God be He exalted told us that the sun is a guide to the shadow's
movement. And we know from astronomy that the indication on the movement
of an object is the stable thing that is measured according to it the
moving object. For example, we say that the car moves with a speed of
100 km/hour according to a stable thing. That's how the shadow moves
according to the movement of the earth and the sun is stable with
respect to the earth because the earth rotates around it.
Scientific fact:
It
was shown that the earth isn't stable as it was thought in the past,
but it revolves around the sun and around itself. Therefore as a result
of this movement, the length of the object's shadow always changes due
to the movement of the earth around the sun and around itself.
This
is a picture of the surface of the earth as it appears from the surface
of the moon. The length of the shadow changes because of the rotation
of the earth around itself. And due to the rotation of the earth around
the sun, the length of the shadow slightly changes and varies according
to the four seasons. And this is what the Quran referred to as God be He
exalted says: (Have you not seen how your
Lord spread the shadow. If He willed, He could have made it still - But
We have made the sun its guide, then We withdraw it to Us a gradual
concealed withdrawal.) [Surat Al-Furqan, verse: 45, 46].
The point of inimitability:
In God's saying: (Have
you not seen how your Lord spread the shadow. If He willed, He could
have made it still - But We have made the sun its guide) an
indication to the rotation of the earth around itself and the sun is the
guide, i.e., the sun is the body that the movement is measured
according to it.
And in His saying: (then We withdraw it to Us a gradual concealed withdrawal)
an indication to the rotation of the earth around the sun because the
length of the shadow changes not only in day and night but also
according to the seasons of the year as the earth rotates around the sun
and it inclines on its axis of rotation for about 23 degrees, therefore
the length of the shadow varies due to the angle that the sunrays fall
in.
These
facts weren't known at the time of the descending of Quran, therefore
these verses are considered to be a sign of the scientific miracles in
the holy Quran, as they talked about the rotation of the earth around
itself and around the sun.
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