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Until he reached the rising of the Sun and found it rising on a
people to whom We had not given any shelter from it.
(Surat al-Kahf, 90)
The Arabic word "sitran" in this verse means "cover, protection, veil"
while "lam naj’aal lahum min dooniha sitran" describes an environment de-
void of any shelter or protection against the Sun. In the light of present-
day knowledge, this is suggestive of the ozone layer that protects living
things against harmful solar rays.
The area where the ozone layer offers the least protection against so-
lar radiation is at the poles of our planet—North and South. Scientific re-
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search has established a severe thinning of the ozone layer at the North
Pole at the moment the Sun
rises 86 and this scientific dis-
covery has been described as
Sunrise Ozone Destruction
(SOD). 87
During their research,
American scientists deter-
mined a rapid decrease in
ozone concentration at the
Sunrise at the North Pole.
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