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==Arguments that the story is told from Dhu’l Qarnayn’s point of view== | ==Arguments that the story is told from Dhu’l Qarnayn’s point of view== | ||
===Argument that otherwise "he found" would be | ===Argument that otherwise "he found" would be omitted=== | ||
A slightly different defence of the Quranic passage is that even if the wajada phrase must mean actually finding the sun setting in a spring, the phrase is just described from Dhu’l Qarnayn’s point of view, and the author of the verse does not claim it happened as described. Al-Baydawi’s comment on 18:86 is sometimes cited in discussions of this topic in which he says: | A slightly different defence of the Quranic passage is that even if the wajada phrase must mean actually finding the sun setting in a spring, the phrase is just described from Dhu’l Qarnayn’s point of view, and the author of the verse does not claim it happened as described. Al-Baydawi’s comment on 18:86 is sometimes cited in discussions of this topic in which he says: | ||