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a specified term. He directs the whole affair. He and beasts and many of mankind? But many of
makes the Signs clear so that hopefully you will them inevitably merit punishment. Those Allah
be certain about the meeting with your Lord. humiliates will have no one to honour them.
(13:2) Allah does whatever He wills. (22:18)
And He has made the sun and moon subservient Do you not see how your Lord stretches out
to you holding steady to their courses, and He shadows? If He had wished He could have made
has made the night and day subservient to you. them stationary. Then We appoint the sun to be
(14:33) the pointer to them. (25:45)
He has made night and day subservient to you, (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her (Queen of
and the sun and moon and stars, all subject to Sheba) and her people prostrating to the sun in-
His command. There are certainly Signs in that stead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem
for people who use their intellect. (16:12) good to them and debarred them from the Way
Perform prayer from the time the sun declines so they are not guided.’ (27:24)
until the darkening of the night, and also the If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and
recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation is cer- the earth and made the sun and moon sub-
tainly witnessed. (17:78) servient?’ they will say, ‘Allah.’ So how have they
You would have seen the sun, when it rose, in- been perverted? (29:61)
clining away from their cave towards the right, Do you not see that Allah makes night merge into
and, when it set, leaving them behind on the left, day and day merge into night, and that He has
while they were lying in an open part of it. That made the sun and moon subservient, each one
was one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides running for a specified time, and that Allah is
is truly guided. But if He misguides someone, aware of what you do? (31:29)
you will find no protector for them to guide them He makes night merge into day and day merge
rightly. (18:17) into night, and He has made the sun and moon
So he followed a way until he reached the setting subservient, each one running until a specified
of the sun and found it setting in a muddy spring time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is
and found a people by it. We said, ‘Dhu’l- His. Those you call on besides Him have no
Qarnayn! You can either punish them or else you power over even the smallest speck. (35:13)
can treat them with gentleness.’ (18:85-86) And the sun runs to its resting place. That is the
Then he (Dhu’l-Qarnayn) followed a way until decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. (36:38)
he reached the rising of the sun and found it ris- It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for
ing on a people to whom We had not given any the night to outstrip the day; each one is swim-
shelter from it. (18:89-90) ming in a sphere. (36:40)
(We said to Adam,) ‘You will not go thirsty in it We subjected the mountains to glorify with him
(the Garden) or burn in the sun.’ (20:119) (Dawud) in the evening and at sunrise. (38:18)
So be steadfast in the face of what they say and He (Sulayman) said, ‘Truly do I love the love of
glorify your Lord with praise before the rising of good, with a view to the glory of my Lord until
the sun and before its setting. And glorify Him the sun disappeared behind its veil.’ (38:32)
during part of the night and at both ends of the He created the heavens and the earth with truth.
day, so that hopefully you will be pleased. He wraps the night around the day and wraps the
(20:130) day around the night, and has made the sun and
It is He Who created night and day and the sun moon subservient, each one running for a speci-
and moon, each one swimming in a sphere. fied term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the
(21:33) Endlessly Forgiving? (39:5)
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and Among His Signs are the night and day and the
everyone on the earth prostrates to Allah, and the sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun nor to
sun and moon and stars and the mountains, trees the moon. Prostrate to Allah Who created them,
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