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Does the Ayah refer to the fact that the moon will split before the destruction of the world ?Ali Unal's commentary - Surah Qamar 54:1:
"Some modern commentators claim that the verse refers to the fact that the moon will split before the destruction of the world.
However, the second verse rejects this assertion. The signs to appear before the destruction of the world will decisively prove that the Last Hour has come and this is the time when the world will be destroyed.
But the second verse clearly says that the unbelievers reacted to the splitting of the moon by claiming that it was sorcery, and they showed the same reaction to many similar signs.
Hasan al-Basri and 'Ata' ibn ar-Rabah, who asserted that the moon would split before the destruction of the world, did not deny the occurrence of this miracle as evidence of the Prophethood of Muhammad, in Makkah."
So, moon splitting isn't a sign of the last day- hereafter ?It is !
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim > the Day of Judgement, Paradise and Hell - كتاب صفة القيامة والجنة والنار > Hadith
Abdullah said that five signs have (become things) of the past (and have proved the truth of the Holy Prophet):
(Enveloping) by the smoke, inevitable (punishment to the Meccans at Badr), (the victory of) Rome, (violent) seizing (of the Meccans at Badr) and (the splitting up of) the Moon.
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ خَمْسٌ قَدْ مَضَيْنَ الدُّخَانُ وَاللِّزَامُ وَالرُّومُ وَالْبَطْشَةُ وَالْقَمَرُ .
The Prophet, upon whom be peace, said, whilst pointing with his index and middle fingers, "The time of my advent and the Hour are like these two fingers." In another report he said, "The Hour almost came before me."
This indicates how close we are, relatively speaking- to history of life on earth, to the Hour.
Prophet Muhammad himself is a sign of the last day !
Full:
http://quranscientificerror.blogspot.com/2013/06/re-moon-split-in-two-quran-error-refuted.htmlhttps://islamgreatreligion.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/the-signs-before-the-day-of-judgment-day-minor-and-major-signs/