Page 47 - The Glory in the Heavens

shows the mercy Allah pours down on us. That is

because, if Allah had not tuned the distance between

the Sun and Earth so delicately, life on Earth would be

much harder for us. There might even be no life at all.
As we have explained earlier, Allah created the

Sun and the Moon exactly the way it has to be for

human life to exist on our planet. In the Qur'an, Allah

informs us that the Sun and the Moon move by the

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(Surat ar-Ra'd: 2)
The Gravitational
The Gravitational
Attraction of the Sun
Attraction of the Sun
Countless celestial bodies move in an orderly
manner without colliding with one another because
Allah placed them in finely-adjusted orbits. An orbit is
the path a planet or comet follows as it revolves