[IslamCity] I Swear by the positions of stars

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:54:53 -0800

I Swear by the positions of stars

Men & The Universe

By Capt Anas Abdul Hameed Al-Qoz

A primitive observer will think that stars are close to us, that if he climbed a mountain he might be able to touch some of them. This was the attitude of Pharoah of Egypt when he declared, as recounted by the Quraan:

“O Haman! Build for me a tower that haply I may reach the roads, The roads of the heavens, and may look upon the God of Moses,...”
[Surah Ghafir Ayah 36-37]

The scientific progress, however has revealed the distances of stars, which were unknown to humans over the ages. The sun for instance, is 93 million miles from us (150 million km), a distance that light travelling at a speed of 300 km/sec covers in eight minutes. Light covers the distance between the nearest star to earth in four and a quarter years. Some stars are one hundred, light years away from us (i.e. light takes a hundred years to cover the distance from that star to the earth), some are a million years away, some are 340 million years away, and some are many more million years away! Does not this reveal to us new meanings, unknown to previous generations, of the following verses:

“Nay, I swear by the Mawaqi (positions) of the stars - And lo! that verily is a tremendous oath, if you but knew”
[Surah Al-Waqiah Ayah 74-75]


SOURCE:		  
http://www.quraan.com/index.aspx?&tabid=40&artid=110

026.083 "O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me,and join me with
the righteous;
026.085 And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of
Delight," (THE HOLY QUR'AN)  ameen
MODERATOR
 

Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday!
Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

***************************************************************************
{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)

{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of IslamCity unless sanctioned or approved otherwise.

If your mailbox clogged with mails from IslamCity, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".


Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
ADVERTISEMENT
Children International
Would you give Hope to a Child in need?
 
· Click Here to meet a Girl
And Give Her Hope
· Click Here to meet a Boy
And Change His Life
Learn More

Yahoo! Groups Links

Reply via email to