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The Sun is made up of 70% hydrogen (H) and 28% helium (He)
atoms. 57 Other substances make up less than 2% of the Sun’s constitu-
tions. One of the most astonishing facts about the Sun is this: six hundred
million tons of hydrogen are converted into a mind-boggling 596 million
tons of helium in the Sun every second. The remaining 4 million tons is
given off as heat and light energy. 58 In that sense, the first thing that
comes to mind when the Sun is mentioned is the letters H (hydrogen) and
He (helium) that stand for the Sun. All the 15 verses in Surat ash-Shams
of the Qur'an (Shams meaning 'Sun'), end in the letters H and E. The
Arabic equivalent of these letters are:
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