The Sequence of Day and Night

 

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The Sequence of Day and Night

--sura 7, verse 54:

"(God) covers the day with the night which is in haste to follow it . . ."

--sura 36, verse 37:

"And a sign for them is the night. We strip it of the day and they are in darkness."

--sura 31, verse 29:

"Hast thou not seen how God merges the night into the day and merges the day into the night."

--sura 39, verse 5:

". . . He coils the night upon the day and He coils the day upon the night."

What actually happens however in space?

American astronauts have seen and photographed what happens from their spaceships, especially at a great distance from Earth, e.g. from the Moon. They saw how the Sun permanently lights up (except in the case of an eclipse) the half of the Earth's surface that is facing it, while the other half of the globe is in darkness. The Earth turns on its own axis and the lighting remains the same, so that an area in the form of a half-sphere makes one revolution around the Earth in twenty-four hours while the other half-sphere, that has remained in darkness, makes the same revolution in the same time.

This perpetual rotation of night and day is quite clearly described in the Quran. It is easy for the human understanding to grasp this notion nowadays because we have the idea of the Sun's (relative) immobility and the Earth's rotation. This process of perpetual coiling, including the interpenetration of one sector by another is expressed in the Quran just as if the concept of the Earth's roundness had already been conceived at the time-which was obviously not the case.

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