The Quran and Astronomy

When the moon is buried in darkness, and, the sun and the moon are joined together (Surah Quyamah) The above verse of the Quran depicts the scenario of the doomsday. When all the present laws of our solar system will be shattered. According to this verse we are told that the gravitational pull of the earth and moon will be gone and that the moon will be caught by the sun. It is great and highly magnificent information provided to mankind by Allah about 1400 years ago, of which man knew nothing u-till recently. Now let s see what astronomy has to say about it: Moon is our nearest, only 384,000 kms away. It pull regulates t he sea tides, thus helping marine life for us. Capture hypothesis (1955) suggests that the moon was born about five billion years ago. The orbit of moon is, now opening up at the rate of 3cm per year. If it goes on like this, eventually, earth will not be able to hold its moon, and then it may fall into sun. At the current rate of 3cm per annum drift, it can happen in about five billion years from now, but due to some external causes this may occur much earlier . Now just ponder upon these lines; an event described, in fact predicted by the Holy Quran several centuries before, the scientific speculations of today is found not only to be correct but even the details about it are presented. The Holy Quran also says that the sun is not stationary but moves. But a few decades back when the modern concept of movement of sun was not comprehended by the astronomists, they used to ridicule the verses of Holy Quran. But now by the grace of Allah, they have been compelled to accept a scientific truth, the research has now revealed. So make it a point that our understanding and experiment can be wrong but Allah s words are faultless as He has full knowledge of everything hidden or open. May Allah help us to tread the right path. (Aameen)