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What Was The Moon Like When It Split?
The word used in surah qamar is أنشق. This is used for a rock cracking. So did the moon split in half like the ahadith say or did a part just come off and float away? I wrote word used in the Quran so what would make us accept a certain intepretation? Since clearly the Quran is creating imagery so we should be able to imagine it
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What Was The Moon Like When It Split?
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kindly watch the series Shaqqul Qamar in 23 Aetrazaat series.
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I have seen it but to say it was above two mountains implies that we have to understand quran from ahadith
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Assalam-u-Alaikum, I don’t think there is a contradiction between the two. So, while the Quran doesn’t go into the details and tells us that the moon was cleft asunder/burst apart, the ahadith describe it a bit more in detail as to how exactly it looked like after it burst apart.
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وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته
It’s very different if something splits in two and comes back compared to a part of the moon just cracking off and floating away in my opinion
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There doesn’t seem to be any hint in the Quran about either of the two situations. So, I don’t see how ‘burst open’ necessarily implies that it has floated away never to come back.
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It simply says that it cracked. Like a rock cracks. So the implication should be that when a rock cracks it can’t come back together
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It is not necessary that the opposite meaning are always necessary to imply. Quran mentions only its split. it does not mean the two parts never came back to join. since we see the moon complete we can can come to conclusion by ourselves that the two both the parts had come back to join again. same said the narration.
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Couldn’t the word imply that a part of the moon split off and then flew away?
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It is a good point. Splitting a part of it and split part small enough for moon to regain its round shape by isostatic adjustment. Or just another miracle.
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Further is speculations, can’t be confirmed by the religious sources.
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But the Quran is supposed to be clear. It’s creating an image. So surely the image should be clear somehow by the Quran itself
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Quran talk about the only the miraculous part of the incident. and it is clear about it. The rest is not its subject.
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