The Mesopotamian Trinity in the Qur’an: From Doubt to Miracle

- December 26, 2024

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful

And when the night covered him, he saw a star. He said, "This is my Lord." But when it set, he said, "I do not like those that set." (76) And when he saw the moon rising, he said, "This is my Lord." But when it set, he said, "Unless my Lord guides me, I will surely be among the people gone astray." (77) And when he saw the sun rising, he said, "This is my Lord. This is greater." But when it set, he said, "O my people, indeed I am innocent." Of what you associate with Him (78) Surat Al-An’am

The question is: Is the planet smaller than the moon in the view of the Holy Quran , so that it is placed in this order?

Answer: The Quranic verses prove that the sun is larger than the moon and the planet, but does the Quranic wording prove anything about the relationship between the moon and the planet? The Holy Quran cannot do that. Why? Because until the nineteenth century, the sizes of the moons and the planets were not known. If the Quran said that the planet is much larger than the moon, then the validity of the Holy Quran for all times and places would be negated, and the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula would have immediately denied the Quran because their eyes and sciences see that the moon is larger than the planets and stars. However, the Holy Quran is credited with not transmitting a single scientific error, as it did not say that the moon is larger than the planet.

Here comes the question: Why this order then: the planet, then the moon, then the sun?

The answer is this is a historical miracle of the Holy Quran, as the trinity among the Mesopotamian peoples consisted of Venus, the moon and the sun (Inanna or Ishtar, Sin (the moon) and Shamash (the sun)) and Venus was presented in worship over the moon and the sun. Rather, whoever reads the pagan religions clearly notices that the greatest deity is the last, just as in the Christian trinity , where Jesus is the most important in the churches, then the Holy Spirit, then the Father. This was also the case in the past, where Venus was more important than the moon and the sun, and was called Inanna and Ishtar according to the era in which it lived. The worship of Venus continued and even spread to other peoples neighboring ancient Iraq. This is a proven historical fact and can be verified from Wikipedia or from writings such as (The Mystery of Ishtar by Faras Al-Sawah) and (Ishtar and the Tragedy of Tammuz by Fadhel Abdul Wahid Ali) and others. The question is who informed Muhammad, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace, of these details that were not known except by archaeological excavation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting that the Holy Quran did not mention names but left information Let's search and make sure.