Response to the allegation that We erased the verse of the night

 

Praise be to Allah and prayers and peace be upon our Master the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

In this doubt, the man likens the verse of erasing the night (of the moon) to an eraser! He claims that the black spots that appear on the surface of the moon are the result of meteorites and the contrast of the surface of the moon between high mountains and deep craters. The man forgets what modern science has reached and decided, which he denies and interprets the verses according to his whims and what his soul accepts. This is what we will explain, God willing, in our response.

The man says:

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The moon appears to the naked eye with black spots that man did not know what they were until the advancement of modern science and after man reached the moon and discovered that they were the result of the variation in the moon’s surface between high mountains and deep craters caused by meteor collisions with the moon’s surface... but come on, let’s laugh at the ### Quran ### (deleting Christian vulgarity as their piled-up book commands them) and let’s see how he explained these dark spots on the moon’s disk to his Muslim followers ### who had previously believed him when he announced to them that the earth was not spherical but rather flat and carried on the back of a huge whale. He interpreted it to them as the effect of the divine eraser on the moon, which is the sign of the night (stupidity and ignorance without limits from this Christian). Let us read together this ridiculous Quranic farce ##### in Surat Al-Israa: **And We have made the night and the day two signs, so We erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible, that you may seek bounty from your Lord and that you may know the number of years and the account. And We have explained everything in detail ** Al-Israa 12 Tafsir Jami’ Al-Bayan fi Tafsir Al-Qur’an/ Al-Tabari (d. 310 AH) Classified and Proofread ----- ... Mention of those who said that: Ibn Hamid told us, he said: Jarir told us, on the authority of Abdul Aziz bin Rufai’, on the authority of Abu Tufail, he said: Ibn Al-Kawwa’ said to Ali: O Commander of the Faithful, what is this stain on the moon? He said: Woe to you, do you not read the Quran ** We have erased the verse of the night **, so this is... an erasure. (i.e. the effect of the divine stick on the verse of the night.. Masha Allah on knowledge and enlightened minds) Abu Kurayb told us, he said: Talq told us , on the authority of Zaidah, on the authority of Asim, on the authority of Ali bin Rabi’ah, he said: Ibn Al-Kawwa’ asked Ali and said: What is this blackness on the moon? Then Ali said: **So We erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible** That is the erasure. Ibn Abi Al-Shawarib told us, he said: Yazid bin Zurai’ told us, he said: Imran bin Hudayr told us, on the authority of Rafi’ bin Abi Katheer, he said: Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him , said: Ask whatever you wish . Then Ibn Al-Kawwa’ stood up and said: What is the blackness in the moon? He said: May Allah kill you, why didn’t you ask about your religion and your afterlife? He said: That is the erasure of the night. Abu Kuraib told us, he said: Ibn Abi Zaydah told us, he said: Ibn Jurayj mentioned, on the authority of Mujahid, regarding his statement: **And We have made the night and the day** two signs, he said: The sun is a sign of the day, and the moon is a sign of the night. **So We erased the sign of the night** He said: The blackness in the moon,

Firstly :

Allah the Almighty said: “And He made the moon a light therein and made the sun a lamp.” (16) Noah The Holy Qur’an focused on the precise distinction between the light of the sun and the light of the moon, and between the sun being a lamp and the moon being a light. Allah the Almighty said: “It is He who made the sun a radiance and the moon a light and measured for it phases - that you may know the number of years and the account . Allah did not create this except in truth. He details the verses for a people who know.” (Yunus: 5) Allah, the Most High, said: “Have you not seen how Allah created seven heavens one above the other? And made the moon a light therein and made the sun a lamp .” (Noah: 15-16) And He, the Most High, said: “Blessed is He who placed in the heaven constellations and placed therein a lamp and a moon giving light.” (Al-Furqan: 61) And He contrasted darkness with light, not with brightness, in many verses, such as the Almighty’s saying: “Praise be to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and made darkness and light. Then those who disbelieve equate others with their Lord.” (Al-An’am: 1). And He described the sun as a “lamp” and a “blazing lamp,” as He, the Almighty, said: “And We made a blazing lamp.” (An-Naba’: 13). And when He described the Seal of His Prophets, may God bless him and grant him peace, as a lamp (meaning that he is self-illuminating) and added to the description of the lamp that it is luminous, He, the Almighty, said: “O Prophet, indeed We have sent you as a witness and a bringer of good tidings and a warner * And one who invites to God, by His permission, and as an illuminating lamp . ” (Al-Ahzab: 45-46) When He described the fire, He described it as light and described its rays falling on those around it as radiance, so the Almighty said: “Their example is like that of one who kindled a fire, but when it illuminated what was around him, Allah took away their light and left them in darkness [so] they could not see.” (Al-Baqarah: 17) And He described the rays of lightning as light, saying - and He is the most truthful of speakers - {The lightning almost snatches away their sight. Whenever it lights up for them, they walk therein, and when it darkens for them, they stand still.} (Al-Baqarah: 20) . And the Almighty described the oil as illuminating, and described the falling of its light on what is around it as light, saying: {Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is as if there were a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is in glass, the glass as if it were a pearly star lit from a tree.} Blessed is an olive, neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things. (An-Nur: 35) He said about the setting of the sun: “Say: Have you considered: if Allah made the night continuous for you until the Day of Resurrection, what god other than Allah could bring you light? Then will you not hear?” (Al-Qasas: 71).








This extreme precision in distinguishing between the light emitted from a burning, self-luminous body, and the light falling on a cold, dark body and being reflected as light from its surface, could not have had a source fourteen hundred years ago other than God the Creator. This subtle difference was not realized by scientists until the last two centuries, and in our time many people still do not realize it.
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Based on this, it becomes clear to us that God Almighty has distinguished in the noble verse: {It is He who made the sun a radiance and the moon a light}, between the rays of the sun that are luminous by themselves and the moon that is illuminated by light acquired from something else, as we explained above, so He called the first radiance and the second light.

Second:

Almighty said:
“And We have made the night and the day two signs, and We have erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible - that you may seek bounty from your Lord and that you may know the number of years and the account. And all things We have explained in detail.” (12) Al-Isra’.

In Al-Saadi’s interpretation:

Allah the Almighty says: {And We have made the night and the day two signs} meaning: two signs indicating the perfection of Allah’s power and the vastness of His mercy and that He is the only One to whom worship is due. {So We erased the sign of the night} meaning: We made it dark for rest and relaxation , {And We made the sign of the day visible} meaning: bright {that you may seek bounty from your Lord} in your livelihoods, crafts, trades and travels.
{And that you may know} by the succession of night and day and the difference of the moon {the number of years and the reckoning} so that you may build upon it whatever interests you wish.

Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, mentioned in his interpretation that Abdullah bin Abbas, may God be pleased with them both, said in his interpretation of the verse: The moon used to shine as the sun shines, and it is a sign of the night, then it was erased, so the blackness in the moon is the effect of that erasure . Ruh al-Ma’ani by al-Alusi ( : [15/26].

If the moon had remained burning until now, life would not have existed on Earth. However, as a result of the Earth’s continuous distance from the sun and the moon’s distance with it, the moon’s crust cooled and its light was erased and it began to derive its light from the sun to reflect it to Earth.

This fact took decades to discover. The moon was once blazing and extremely hot and luminous, then its light went out and was completely erased.
As scientific evidence of the truth of this statement, the surface of the moon is full of volcanic craters that analyses have proven were once ejecting millions of tons of molten material. Another evidence is that the interior of the moon is still blazing, and there is much scientific evidence of this fact.
In this verse, there is a statement from the Lord of Glory, the Most High, that the moon was luminous and then God erased this light, that is, removed it, and this cosmic fact was not known until recently.

See:

Alley, David. Sky: All About Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Eclipses, and More, Firefly, 1993. Branley, Franklyn. The Planets in Our Solar System, HarperCollins 1999

The Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/391266/Moon states that the Moon currently has little seismic activity and little heat flow, suggesting that most of the Moon's internal activity has ceased long ago. It is known that billions of years ago the Moon underwent intense ignition, resulting in crustal differentiation, followed by lava flows. Once the lava flows in the great basins subsided, the Moon's sources of ignition apparently ceased. For the last few billion years of its history , the Moon has been quiet and essentially geologically inactive, except for a series of impacts (from meteors and asteroids). Scientists now believe that the Moon is the result of a collision between the ancient Earth and a smaller, preceding planet, 4.6 billion years ago. The great impact sent vaporized material into a disk that orbited the Earth. This vapor later cooled and contracted into droplets, which in turn condensed toward the Moon. The Moon presently has very slight seismic activity and little heat flow, indications that most internal activity ceased long ago. It is now known that billions of years ago the Moon was subject to violent heating - resulting in a differentiated crust - followed later by volcanic outpourings of lava. Once the huge mare lava eruptions had diminished, apparently the Moon's heat source had run down. The last few billion years of its history have been calm and essentially geologically inactive except for the continuing rain of impacts. Scientists now believe that the Moon formed as a result of a collision between the early Earth and a former, smaller planet about 4.6 billion years ago. The giant impact sprayed vaporized material into a disk that orbited the Earth: This vapor later cooled into droplets that coagulated into the Moon. About 4 billion years ago, a series of major impacts occurred, forming huge craters. These craters are now the sites of basins called maria (eg, Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis). Between 4 and 2.5 billion years ago, volcanic activity filled these basins with dark-colored lavas, called basalts. After this time of volcanism, the Moon cooled down, and has since been relatively inactive, except for the occasional “hits” of meteorites and comets. For more: http://quran-m.com/container.php?fun=artview&id=786 Related topic: https://www.kalemasawaa.com/vb/t8438.html So this is not what you went to and interpreted as you wished from likening the verse of erasing the night to an eraser!

Then you say:

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Those who previously believed him when he announced to them that the Earth is not spherical, but rather flat and carried on the back of a huge whale.

Glory be to God, you want to stick what is in your book to the Quran, so where is your evidence for what you said and where is it mentioned in the Quran that the Earth was not spherical?
Oh man, the Quran is the one who mentioned that the Earth is spherical and confirmed that, while your Holy Book mentioned that it is square. Look with me:

The Earth is square with four corners: Revelation 20:8 “And he will go out to deceive the nations who are in the four corners of the earth ” Isaiah 11:12 “And he will raise an ensign for the nations, and will gather the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth” Ezekiel 7:2 The end has come to the four corners of the Earth. For more, read this research: The Earth is Spherical in the Quran: Conclusive Evidence

The scholar Ibn Hazm, may God have mercy on him, says in the second part of his book “Al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa wa al-Nihal” (written in the year 400 AH, i.e. a thousand years ago) in the chapter on the requirement to explain the sphericity of the Earth , the following: Abu Muhammad said: This is when we take, God willing, to mention some of the objections they have raised, and that is that they said that the evidence has been proven that the Earth is spherical, and the common people say otherwise. Our answer, and God Almighty is the Grantor of success, is that none of the imams of the Muslims who deserve the name of imam through knowledge, may God be pleased with them, denied the sphericity of the Earth , and no word has been preserved for any of them to refute it. Rather, the evidence from the Qur’an and Sunnah has come with its sphericity. God Almighty said: He wraps the night over the day, and He wraps the day over the night. He wraps it (Az-Zumar 5). This is the clearest statement of the sphericity of some parts over others, taken from the turban’s sphericity, which is its rotation. This is a text on the sphericity of the Earth and the rotation of the sun as well, and it is from it that the light of day comes with its rising and the darkness of the night with its setting, and it is the sign of the day according to the text of the Qur’an. God Almighty said: And We made the sign of the day visible (Al-Isra 12). It is said to the common people who deny what they are ignorant of from that, “Did not Allah, the Almighty, make it obligatory for us to pray the noon prayer when the sun has passed its zenith?” So yes, they ask about the meaning of the sun’s passing its zenith. It is necessary that it is the sun’s movement from facing the one who faces the disc with his face and faces with his face and nose the middle of the distance between the place of sunrise and the place of its setting at every time and every place, and taking it to the direction of his eyebrow that is next to the place of sunset, and that is only at the beginning of the second half of the day. We have learned that the cities of the inhabited earth take on its surface from east to west and from south to north. It is necessary for the one who says that the earth is erect on top and not spherical that everyone who is residing at the beginning of the east must pray the noon prayer at the beginning of the day, necessarily, and it is necessary after the dawn prayer by a little, because the sun undoubtedly passes from facing what is between the eyebrows of each one of them at the beginning of the day, necessarily, and it is necessary that the matter be as you say. It is not permissible for a Muslim to say that the noon prayer is permissible to pray before midday. It is also necessary for them that whoever is residing at the end of the west, the sun does not pass from facing what is between The eyebrows of each one of them except at the end of the day, so they do not pray the noon prayer except at a time that does not allow for the afternoon prayer until the sun sets, and this is outside the ruling of the religion of Islam. As for the one who said that it is round, then everyone who has the surface of the earth does not pray the noon prayer except after the middle of its day, ever, in every case, at every time, and in every place, and praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.