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| <!-- {{Quote|{{Quran|40|64}}|It is God who made for you the earth '''a fixed place''' and heaven for an edifice; And He shaped you, and shaped you well, and provided you with the good things. That then is God, your Lord, so blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.}} --> | | <!-- {{Quote|{{Quran|40|64}}|It is God who made for you the earth '''a fixed place''' and heaven for an edifice; And He shaped you, and shaped you well, and provided you with the good things. That then is God, your Lord, so blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.}} --> |
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| Response: What was said here is just illogically interpreting verses. It is not understandable how mentioning the movements of both the Sun and moon without the Earth makes it "an error". The old beliefs were that both the Sun and the moon orbit around the Earth but this is not mentioned likewise in the Qur'an. As for responding for the examples from Qur'an that were given:
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| The first verse: {{Quote|{{Quran|36|38}}|
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| And the Sun runs his course for a period determined for him: that is the decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, the All-Knowing.}}
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| This verse only mentions that the Sun moves (and the word used in Arabic to describe the motion of the Sun has the meaning of moving just like a horse moves) and has nothing wrong in it.
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| The 2nd verse: {{Quote|{{Quran|36|40}}|
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| It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit. }}
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| It merely states that both the Sun and the moon move in orbits. Nothing is wrong with that. And on a side note, orbits in Arabic are usually referred to as مدار which is a circular (or oval) kind of orbit, but it's not used as such in the Qur'an. The word used is فلك which doesn't specify the trajectory's shape.
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| As for this group of verses: {{Quote|{{Quran-range|91|1-2}}|
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| By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; By the Moon as she follows him; }}
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| {{Quote|{{Quran|21|33}}|And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.}}
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| {{Quote|{{Quran|14|33}}|And maketh the sun and the moon, constant in their courses, to be of service unto you, and hath made of service unto you the night and the day. }}
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| These verses don't contain any piece of information that is rejected by science. They also only state that the Sun and moon have orbits.
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| As for the last 2 verses, the ones that were shown as evidence that Qur'an views Earth as fixed and motionless:
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| the first verse:{{Quote|{{Quran|35|41}}|Lo! Allah graspeth the heavens and the earth '''that they deviate not''', and '''if they were to deviate''' there is not one that could grasp them after Him. Lo! He is ever Clement, Forgiving.}}
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| This is clearly a translation error. It is not "that they deviate not" but would have been a better translation as "that they vanish not" because the word used is تزولا which almost has the same meaning of vanish or be gone.
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| As for the last verse mentioned,{{Quote|{{Quran|40|64}}|It is God who made for you the earth '''a fixed place''' and heaven for an edifice; And He shaped you, and shaped you well, and provided you with the good things. That then is God, your Lord, so blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.}}
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| This verse is mistranslated too. Words in Arabic have various understood meanings and the meanings that can be understood from the word describing Earth are various too. The 2 that are mostly understood are "fixed" and "a place of settlement and rest", so if "fixed" is eliminated, it can be easily said that the meaning is "a place of settlement", so it's nothing like a mistake.
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| ===Setting and Rising Place of the Sun=== | | ===Setting and Rising Place of the Sun=== |