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Miracles Of The Quran


                              THE ORBIT OF THE MOON

                  The word "Qamar," a direct reference to the Moon, appears a total of
              27 times. The elliptical orbit of the Moon around the Earth also takes 27
              days. But this is not a number that someone looking from Earth could ac-
                                                  tually determine. Because there is
                                                  a 29-day period between full
                                                  moons, it used to be thought it

                                                  took the Moon this amount of
                                                  time to travel around the Earth.
                                                  However, the reality is that whilst
                                                  the Moon revolves around the
                                                  Earth, the Earth is also orbiting
             This photograph of the Earth, taken by  the Sun. Interestingly, because of
             Bill Anders, one of the crew of Apollo 8,
             on December 24, 1968, was taken from the  the movement of the Earth, the
             surface of the Moon. (NASA)          Moon completes its orbit with a
                                                  delay of 2 days. This is another
              reference in the Qur'an consistent with modern astronomical findings.
              (Allah knows the truth.)



                    Number of times the word "Moon" appears in the Qur'an = 27
                    Time it takes the Moon to travel round the Earth (in days) = 27





                      THE RATIO OF THE SEA TO THE LAND

                  The ratio of the appearances of the words "sea" and "land" in the
              Qur'an is identical to the ratio between sea and land in modern science.
              The continents had not yet been discovered at the time the Qur'an was
              sent down, and it was impossible to determine the ratio between the land
              and sea. Even such a large continent as America was only discovered in
                        th
                   the 15 century.




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