Reply To The Article "The Causes Of Shadow And Changing Length"

Reply To The Article "The Causes Of  Shadow And Changing Length"

The author of wikiislam.net says:

Shadows are produced when the sun's light is blocked by an obstacle. It is the Earth's rotation that causes these shadows to change size and lengthen. However, verse 25:45 seems to say that the reason that shadows lengthen rather than being stationary is because Allah has made the sun their guide. Yet if the Earth did not rotate (so shadows were stationary) and then the Earth was made to rotate (so that they could lengthen and draw in) the sun would not need to be made to do anything different in either case. Thus the most likely explanation is that the verse represents a geocentric worldview where the sun moves across the sky, guiding the shadows.

Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide; Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.

Qur'an 25:45-46

Then the next verse, 25:46, says that shadows are drawn towards Allah which has no scientific meaning.

Reply:

'Alam Tará 'Ilá Rabbika Kayfa Madda Až-Žilla Wa Law Shā'a Laja`alahu Sākināan Thumma Ja`alnā Ash-Shamsa `Alayhi Dalīlāan

Sahih International: Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.

" The meaning of the word  Dalīlāan is that the recognition of shadow occurs through sun.If there had been no sun there would have been no shadow.The recognition of things occur through their opposite." Tafseer e Madarik vol 2 page 824

The simple answer to this question is that the Holy Quran says right because the author of wikiislam.net himself does not know why the shadows change their length.The reason is the angle of sunshine.Surely the sun is the pilot/source of the change of length of shadow.Here is a link:

https://www.reference.com/science/shadows-change-length-during-day-e2128b67e50507#

"Shadows change length throughout the day because the angle at which the sun shines on stationary objects changes with the Earth’s rotation. For example, early in the morning, when the sun is near the horizon, it casts long shadows when an object blocks the light. Conversely, when the sun is high overhead during the middle of the day, the shadows become shorter, as the angle of the sun has changed."

So,the sunshine is the real source of shadow.And because of its angle shadows change their length.If there had been no sun there would have been no shadow and no change in length.Holy Quran is not discussing whether shadows change due to the motion of sun or Earth. It says it changes and sun is its guide and its source which is right.The sun,s angle with earth is the source of changing length of shadow.Holy Quran is not discussing whether this angle changes due to the motion of Earth or of sun.It says sun is the source of shadow which is right.

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