Moon Emits Light Reply

MOON EMITS LIGHT REPLY

Allah says in Holy Quran Chapter 10 verse 5:

SAHIH INTERNATIONAL: "It is He who made sun a shining light and moon a derived light ad determined for its phases that you may know number of years and may count {of time}.Allah has not created it except in truth.He details the signs for a people who know."

The problem with the author of wikiislam.net is that Allah says Moon as Noor in several verses in Quran as 10:5,71:16 and 25:61 and thus it is a contradiction with Science because Noor means only "light."Let us first see the meaning of Noor:

1. "to receive enlightenment" Hans Wehr 4th ed. page no.1183
2. "accidental light" Lanes Lexicon page 2865
3. "Some said Zia(word used in this verse for sun) means personal light and Noor(word used in this verse for moon) is the light which is not personal.........but its meaning will be reflected light only when it will be compared with Zia." Lughat ul Quran page 1670
4. "Mutakallamin says the thing wich is itself illuminated is Zia like sun and which gets light from someone other is noor like Moon." Riaz us Salikin ( I copied it from Tafseer Anwar un Najaf vol 7 page 147)

Now I quote some of interpretations of Quran indicating that moon is said Noor in the verse because it reflects light from sun.Some references are as:

1. Tafseer e Naeemi vol. 11 page 196
2. Tafseer e Namoona vol. 5 page 41

3. Tafseer Anwar u Najaf vol. 7 page 147

4. Tafseer Roh ul Bayan  Para 9,10 and 11 page 881(Urdu translation by Muhammad Faiz Awaisi)

5. Tafseer Kamalain Sharah Jalalain vol. 3 page 36

6. Tafseer Mazhari vol. 5 page 312

As a reference the author of wikiislam.net Quotes a verse from Holy Quran 24:35 which says:

"Allah is the Noor of the heavens and the Earths......................................"

ANSWER:

All the Muslim scholars agree that allah is not NOOR but He is the creator of noor because noor is that body which itself appears,make other appeared but Allah has no body so here noor means CREATOR OF LIGHT  OF HEAVENS AND EARTH The word Noor in names of Allah also means BEAUTIFUL. The Hadith of Holy Prophet of Sahih Muslim is its interpretation. (From Tafseer e Naeemi vol. 11 page  200)

All above discussion clearify that Holy Quran says that moon reflects light not that moon is a light.

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