In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
The Perishing Star
Extract from Chapter 53 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir
PART II:
53:1. By the star when it perishes!1
1.
The Arabic word hawa has been used in
Verse 20:81 in the sense of something getting perished. But, here, the people
living at the time the Qur’aan was revealed – and for centuries thereafter – had
difficulty in understanding a star getting perished or destroyed. So those
people rendered the said Arabic word as ‘sets’ or ‘disappears’. And they
understood the Verse as alluding to a star that disappears from the sky as day
breaks. But this obviously is a contrived rendering. At day-break, not one, but
all stars [other than the Sun of course] disappear to the naked human eye. It
is but an illusion. Now, when human knowledge has taken a quantum jump, we know
for a fact that stars do get destroyed! Watch this video!
Qur’aan is a living Book valid for all times till the Last Day. We cannot hold
it hostage to the limited understanding of any people in the past.
Friday, the 13th
of July 2018.
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