In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
1. Iqtarabati alssaAAatu wainshaqqa
alqamaru
54:1.
The Hour (the time when the present world will end and the Hereafter begin) has drawn near and the moon is breached.1
1.
The Arabic word shaqqa has several meanings.
Most translators have given it here the meaning of ‘split’ and thus attributed
to Prophet Muhammad [peace on him] the performing of the miracle of splitting
the moon in two and then rejoining the two parts. Such a miracle – if it did
happen – would have indeed been a unique one! The Qur’aan does say that the
earlier Prophets were endowed with the gifts of performing various miracles.
But none of such miracles involved moon or any other heavenly body! All those
miracles were restricted to things of this earth. This miracle attributed to
Prophet Muhammad is preposterous on another count as well. Nowhere else in the
Holy Book does Allah Almighty mention performance, by Muhammad, of any miracle
as those performed by earlier Prophets like Moses and Jesus. The Book, on the
other hand, points out the fact that the earlier peoples had failed to follow
their Prophets despite the latter showing them the miracles! The stress was
therefore laid on Prophet Muhammad’s Ummah to look for miracles in the natural
creation of their own selves and of all things around them, and thus attain to
faith in Allah Ta’ala. That being the unmistakable tenor throughout in the
Qur’aan, it was indeed preposterous for the Prophet to come up suddenly with
such an unlikely miracle. Moreover, shaqqa alqamar is meant in this
Verse to be the Sign for the approaching end of this world. There were no signs of the approaching Doom
over 1400 years ago when this Verse was revealed. But there definitely are such
signs now when nation after nation is engaged in piling up weapons of mass
destruction [WMD]. And this piling up was preceded by Man’s first visit to the
moon in the late sixties [Watch the Video].
This Verse foretold that visit, when the virginity of the surface of the moon
was for the first time breached by human steps and man-made tools.
Friday, the 27th
July 2018.
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