Moon is mentioned 28 times in the Noble Quran,
exactly as the number of times and phases it appears to earth!
The sections of this article are:
1- The Noble Quran's Divine Claims.
2- Proofs from Western Scientists.
3- Conclusion.
1-
The Noble Quran's Divine Claims:
The Noble Quran is filled with scientific statements and
notions. These are statements of Allah Almighty describing how He created
things on earth and in the Universe. What's most amazing is that all of
these scientific statements and notions had been proven to be in
perfect
agreement with science and our modern-day scientific
discoveries. Allah Almighty made the Noble Quran be Prophet Muhammad's
(peace be upon him) Everlasting Divine Miracle and proof for Prophethood.
The Holy Book certainly stood the test of time 1,500 years ago with Its
Claims, Prophecies and Miraculous language eloquence, and it does again and
again in our day today with Its overwhelming agreement with science and
discoveries that were not known to man 1,500 years ago.
Allah Almighty Said:
"We will soon show them Our
signs in the Universe and
inside their selves, until it will become quite clear to them
that it is the truth. Is it not sufficient as regards your Lord that He is a
witness over all things? (The
Noble Quran, 41:53)"
With this said, let us look at Dr. Zaghlool Al-Najjar
mentioned from the Noble Quran:
According to Dr. Zaghlool Al-Najjar, the moon had been directly mentioned and
referenced 28 times in the Holy Quran. Click on the video
above to hear him in Arabic. Also,
click here to see the Noble Verses (
قمر
mentioned 27 times in 26 Noble Verses) and
here
(1 time in reference to the crescents).
Question: “How long does it take the Moon to go around
the Earth?(28 days)
Question: “How long does it take the Moon to rotate?
(28 days.)2
(Footnote #2)
2 The
Moon makes 1 rotation as it makes an orbit. This means that the same side of the
Moon is always facing the Earth. The student modeling the Moon must always be
facing the Earth, but the student facing the Earth does not need to be facing
the Moon all the time." (Source;
PDF file is also
on this site)
Article #2:
Another US-Government Sponsored article:
"Another factor in the variation of tides is based on
the orbit of the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun.
Both orbits are not circles but ellipses. The distance between the earth and
moon can vary by up to 13,000 miles (31,000 km). Since the tidal force increase
with decreasing distance then tides will be higher than normal when the moon is
at its closest point (called perogee) to the earth,
approximately every 28 days.
Likewise, the earth's elliptical orbit also causes
variations in the sun's pull on the tides as we move from the closest point to
the farthest point (called apogee) over the course of a year. And just to
complicate things even more, the moon's orbit is inclined 5° to
the earth's rotation. So the north/south orientations of the bulge also varies
between the northern and southern hemisphere over this same
28-day orbital period.
As the
moon completes one orbit around the earth (about every 28 days),
there are two times in each orbit when the earth, moon and and sun are inline
with each other and two times when the earth, moon and sun are at right angles."
(Source)
Article #3:
Dr. Zaghlool Al-Najjar's videos above. He has a PhD in Geology and one
of the world's renowned and top 7 Geologists.
"Eclipses, be they solar or lunar, occur
when the Earth, Sun and Moon are in a line. If the Moon is in-between the
Earth and the Sun, it blocks the view of the Sun from some parts of the
Earth, and this produces a solar
eclipse. If, on the contrary, it is the Earth that is in-between the Sun and
Moon, then the earth will block the light from the Sun before it can get to
the Moon. Since moonlight is just the light the Moon reflects from the Sun,
this will darken the Moon, and we get a lunar
eclipse.
Since the Moon goes around the Earth
every 28 days, shouldn't we expect a solar eclipse about
every 28 days (when the Moon is new), and a lunar one in the same
period, (when the Moon is full) ?
Well, this would be so if
the orbit of the Moon were in the same plane as the orbit of the Earth
around the Sun. But we know
eclipses are rarer than that; and the Moon's orbit is not in the same plane.Instead, it is
tilted with respect to it, and the Moon does not in general pass directly on
the Earth-Sun line.
Moreover, the Moon's orbit tilt varies slowly. To have an eclipse,
then, it is not enough that the three bodies be in the right order;
the Moon's orbit should also be at
the right tilt." (Source)
Article #5:
"Q: How long is a day on the Moon?
A:
roughly 28 days, which corresponds to the length of time from one full
moon to the next and is equal to the Moon's orbital period around the earth.
Since the Moon rotates in such a way that the same hemisphere always faces the
Earth, the Sun will rise over, say, Grimaldi (on the far western limb) when the
Moon just reaches Full (when seen from Earth). The Sun will appear to set over
Grimaldi as the Moon wanes to New, and then will rise again at the next Full
Moon." (Source)
Article #6:
"The reversal of the sequence is easily explained. The
moon rotates around the Earth; you would expect a reversal every 14 days. If you
extend your rock picture to the right, you would see that the full
dominant-subordinate-dominant cycle is completed over the
length of the lunar cycle, 28
days." (Source)
Article #7:
"At present day, the Earth rotates once in 24 hours
while the Moon orbits the Earth
once in about 28 days. At stasis in the distant future, the
Moon's orbital period won't be the present lunar 28 days, but something quite a
bit longer. However, the angular momentum of the system must be conserved. So as
the Moon's pull causes the Earth's rotation to slow, the Moon drifts farther
outward into a longer period orbit. The system will stabilize where the two
bodies are gravitationally locked. The total angular momentum of the pair will
remain constant. (This is not quite accurate. The Sun also has a tidal effect on
both Earth and Moon. This might be better said as, "The total angular momentum
of all bodies involved will remain constant.")" (Source)
"The
orbit of the
Moon
around the
Earth
is completed in approximately 27.3 days. The
Earth and Moon orbit about their common center of mass, which
lies about 4,700 kilometres from Earth's center (about three
quarters of the Earth's radius). On average, the Moon is at a
distance of about 385,000 km from the center of the Earth, which
corresponds to about 60 Earth radii. With a mean orbital speed
of 1.023 km/s, the Moon moves relative to the
stars
each hour by an amount roughly equal to its
angular diameter,
or by about 0.5°. The Moon differs from most
satellites
of other
planets
in that its orbit is close to the plane of the
ecliptic,
and not to the Earth's
equatorial plane.
The lunar orbit plane is inclined to the ecliptic by 5.1°,
whereas the Moon's
spin axis
is inclined by only 1.5°." (Source)
My
Note:
As we've seen above, Allah Almighty directly mentioned the
Arabic word قمر
,
"moon," 27 times in
the Noble Quran. The 28th time was in reference to the
crescents. Obviously, the number 27.35, which is almost
always rounded to 28 as the articles above clearly show, is
still in perfect harmony with the Noble Quran's number of
mentions of the moon. Also, the Arabic word قمر
,
"moon," is mentioned
directly and indirectly 28 times in 27 Noble Verses.The 27 Noble Verses are
listed above. So no matter how one looks at it, I personally see the 28
and 27 in the Noble Quran to be in perfect harmony with
science's 28 and 27.3. This all looks more impressive when
we learn that Allah Almighty Said that the
moon's orbit around earth is shaped like the English-letter "S"
(an old and twisted date-tree branch), which science has also
just recently and perfectly confirmed.
So there is definitely
a Divine Message and Wisdom behind the number of references to
the moon in the Noble Quran.
3-
Conclusion:
Again, the Noble Quran is filled with scientific
statements and notions. These are statements of Allah Almighty
describing how He created things on earth and in the Universe. What's
most amazing is that all of these scientific statements and notions had
been proven to be in
perfect
agreement with science and our modern-day scientific
discoveries. Allah Almighty made the Noble Quran be Prophet Muhammad's
(peace be upon him) Everlasting Divine Miracle and proof for
Prophethood. The Holy Book certainly stood the test of time 1,500 years
ago with Its Claims, Prophecies and Miraculous language eloquence, and
it does again and again in our day today with Its overwhelming agreement
with science and discoveries that were not known to man 1,500 years ago.
The number of direct and indirect occurrences of the
Arabic word قمر
, "moon," is in perfect agreement
with what Scientists have just recently discovered and confirmed about
the moon's orbit around the earth: 27 and 28
(see note on Article #8 above). It is also
worth mentioning that Allah Almighty Said that the
moon's orbit around earth is shaped like the English-letter "S"
(an old and twisted date-tree branch), which science has also
just recently and perfectly confirmed.
Allah Almighty's comparison of the moon's orbit around
the earth with the shape of an old and dried-out branch of a date tree
is truly amazing! No man could've possibly thought about this 1,500
years ago, because the S-shaped orbit of the moon around our planet was
not known to man back then. On the contrary, man thought that the earth
was flat and that the sun and the moon were rotating around it in
perfectly circular motion. Not only that, but in some of the far
eastern pagan scriptures such as in Hinduism, they are even taught that
the earth has two holes at its "ends" that the sun goes through during
its rising and setting! Allah Almighty in the Noble Quran, on the other
hand, described the
earth as egg-shaped [2]
[3],
and talked about its motion in space and
around its own axle in numerous Noble
Verses [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5].
And now, the Almighty GOD perfectly described for us how the moon
orbits our planet earth!
Indeed, all Praise and Glory are due to Allah Almighty
alone for making the Noble Quran be the Perfect and Everlasting Miracle,
for us humans, out of all of His Divine Miracles! And may Allah
Almighty send His Peace, Mercy and Blessings upon our Beloved and
Blessed Prophet, Teacher and Role Model, Muhammad. Ameen.
This is not the only time Allah Almighty used a notion
for astronomy. In another Noble Verse, He described the shape
of the earth's orbit around the sun
as egg-shaped which had also been confirmed by science.
