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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Can The Sun Rise From The West?

As-Salamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh:

Rawah Bukhari:
"Narrated Abu Dhar: The Prophet asked me at Sunset, "Do you know where the Sun goes (at the time of Sunset)?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: "And the Sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All-Knowing." (36.38) (Book #54, Hadith #421)"

The sun will set one night, but it will come up from where it set, when it set before it changed course.

Please brothers, stop with this mysticism of there being an alternate spiritual meaning. When things have moral meanings are when they are conveyed in parables e.g. a boy holding onto a kite in a windy day, he sees a woman forgets about the kite and it set flying miles away. This is a parable about the duniya, and how one can lose Iman or Al-Birr(piety) through getting involved in the duniya.

"Fixed course for a term decreed" Qur'an (36.38) means that there will be an end to the course that the sun/earth system are set upon.

If the Hadith explicitly talks about the sun, please do not involve theories about Planet x.
Was-Salamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh