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→The course of the sun in relation to the course of the moon: Fixed garbelled mixture of translations, and removed v36 which is explicitly about things that grow on earth
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The courses of the sun and the moon are also a pair of sorts, according to the Qur'an: | The courses of the sun and the moon are also a pair of sorts, according to the Qur'an: | ||
{{Quote|{{cite quran|36| | {{Quote|{{cite quran|36|37|end=40|style=ref}}|A token unto them is night. We strip it of the day, and lo! they are in darkness. And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise. And as night occurs the sun goes of to its resting place, before returning the following day. And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.}} | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|21|33}}|And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They all float in rounded courses.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|21|33}}|And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They all float in rounded courses.}} | ||