MOON SPLIT INTO TWO REPLY
The author of wikiislam.net says:
The Qur'an and Hadith claim that the moon was miraculously split into two pieces and then, presumably, put back together again. There is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that the moon has ever been split into two. Since the moon is visible to half the planet at any given time, we should expect to see numerous accounts from different parts of the world attesting to this event if it actually happened. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Chinese and Indians had avid astronomers who should have seen this event and recorded it in their histories. The absence of historical record from other civilizations, contemporary to Muhammad, is a strong indication that this event never happened.
REPLY
First of all let us make it clear that it is not impossible that a celestial body split into two and then again join under the action of gravity. MAULANA MODODI writes in TAFHEEM UL QURAN vol 5 page 230:
"But on the basis of the information collected about planets in modern days,it is easily possible to say that a planet split due to strong volcanic eruption in it and then join together due to gravity"
AYOUTULLAH NASIR MAKAREM SHERAZI writes in TAFSEER E NAMOONA VOL.13 page 160-161:
"By the descriptions of astronomers it is indicated that the cases like this are not difficult but they have also been observed. The split and then join of Solar System and its related things and other planets of sky is possible like this. For instance:
FORMATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM
It is evidenced that all the planets of solar system were once the part of solar system..........."(in short the planets of solar system split from sun)
ASTEROIDS
Big asteroids .............................were split from a planet 'asterodia'...
METEROIDS
Small meteroids......................................
(We for the sake of convenience have not written the complete description.Read it at momin.com)
Modern science confirms that a giant planet split into two Earh sized planets.See space.com
We read at
http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18432/what-if-the-earth-was-physically-split-in-half
Well the first thing that happens is that both halves immediately start collapsing into a sphere smaller by half the volume of the Earth. This would be a cataclysmic event unto itself. Likely nothing would survive for long. There was another question about taking out a huge hunk of the earth, all the same stuff as that only worse.
if the 2 halves where not set to orbiting each other at a decently fast speed, they would immediately begin to move toward each other and merge back together in another huge cataclysm. Either way this is the likely outcome, it just matters how long it takes will be dependent on how fast the 2 are set to orbit each other.
We get after reading the Hadiths regarding this event that moon split just for a few moment and then came back.Thus it can possibly fit above description.Moreover the concept of Roche Limit and Lobate Scarps also provides the basis that moon can split.
Scientific knowledge has not provided so much information about moon till today and we hope that coming generations and knowledge will surely prove the miracle of Holy Prophet SAW. Here we have just provided the basis that a celestial body can split and then join back.
Historical Record:
The reasons for the lack of historical record regarding this event are as:
1. It is well known that moon appears at half of the world at a time.Thus it is clear that half of the world could not see this miracle.
2. It was the time of half night so it is possible that most of people were sleeping at that time.
3. It is also possible that at that time some part of sky would have cloudy.
4. The accidents of sky such as thunder of sky can attract people easily but the event of moon split did not last longer or made thunder etc. Thus it is possible that most of people did not saw it.
5. Moreover at that time there were no good mean of communication,writings that time so it is also a reason it is not recorded in most of historical records.
(from Tafseer e Namoona vol. 13 page 162 and 163)
6. Were all the people eyeing towards moon at that particular instant?
7. There was no special Greek astronomy that time because it was took over by Christians and their rude behave regarding knowledge is clear to all.
8. All the old books of Greek,Roman,Egyptian,Persian,Chinese,Indian astronomy are not present this time because of several historical wars and other reasons so this claim of wikiislam author is absurd because he has not read all those books.It is also possible that this incident may be present in those destroyed books.
SOME RECORD:
We read in Khutbat e Madras Syed Slaiman Nadvi preface:
"The land of Madras is the one in Hindustan which got the light of Islam first.It occured when no Muslim warrior entered Hindustan.The light of the moon of "MIRACLE OF MOON SPLIT " was which entered Hind and then lit the hearts.If this narration of TOHFAT UL MUJAHIDIN is right whose recognition is provided by the description of our non-Muslim friend Doctor Ghulam Muhammad that he himself reached Madras and found the event as it is in a Hindi Sanskrit Book and then he published it."
We read in 14 Sitaray by Syed Najm ul Hasan Kararvi:
"This miracle (miracle of moon split) is also recorded in Tareekh e Farishta (a great History book of Hindustan)"
About Chakarvati Famas,we are copying from https://sites.google.com/site/amininbox/chakravatifarmas
The conversion of First Hindu King : King Chakrawati Farmas (of Malabar, located on the southwest coast of India) converted to Islam soon after the arrival of Muslims in India (around 711 CE). The incident relating to King Chakrawati Farmas is documented in an old manuscript in the India Office Library, London, which has reference number: Arabic, 2807, 152-173. It is quoted in the book “Muhammad Rasulullah,” by M. Hamidullah: “There is a very old tradition in Malabar, South-West Coast of India, that Chakrawati Farmas, one of their kings, had observed the splitting of the moon, the celebrated miracle of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) at Mecca, and learning on inquiry that there was a prediction of the coming of a Messenger of God from Arabia, he appointed his son as regent and set out to meet him. He embraced Islam at the hand of the Prophet, and when returning home, at the direction of the Prophet, died at the port of Zafar, Yemen, where the tomb of the “Indian king” was piously visited for many centuries.”The 87-year-old Raja Valiyathampuram of Kodungallur in Central Kerala is a descendant of King Cheraman Perumal [also known as King Chakrawati Farmas ], the first Indian to embrace Islam in the early 7th century. Talking to him is like talking with history. In an interview taken by A U Asif in Ernakulam, he dwells in detail upon his great early ancestor and the oldest mosque (above) of the sub-continent. He also asks North Indians to come to Kerala and see how people of different religions are living there for centuries in an atmosphere of harmony, fraternity and peace. How do you take your great great grandfather Cheraman Perumal? Cheraman Perumal was not only a king and my ancestor, but the first Indian to come into the fold of Islam. He was actually the person who gifted Islam and the first ever mosque to the Indian sub-continent. This happened much before the advents of Muhammad bin Qasim and Mahmood Ghaznavi. This shows that Islam didn't come to India with the sword. Cheraman Juma Masjid (Mosque) is named after India’s first Muslim convert, King Cheraman perumal Chakrawati Farmas. It was built in 629 AD by Malik Ibn Dinar who led the contingent that arrived in India. And it is a well established fact that there was no use of force for the first conversions to Islam in India.
All above discussion makes everything clear about the so called article of wikiislam.net.
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