Quran and the Places for the Moon - 2

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This verse says that the sun and the moon are always "moving and floating" in their "course". This continuous movement is so "regular" that one never surpasses the other. "Floating" contradicts the "stopping" of the moon in a place. Therefore, the meaning of "Manzel" is not "a place" for the "stop" of the moon, which mistakenly comes to mind. Rather, it refers to the "different time positions" of the moon relative to the viewer who witnesses it in a certain orbit from the earth. In other words, the meaning of "Manazel/Places" is the same as the twenty-eight places that the moon passes before " equinox " and absolute darkness. When the moon is full for thirty days, it can be seen in the sky until the twenty-eighth night, and it has different shapes and sizes. On the twenty-eighth night, it appears as a very thin, yellow crescent moon, and it cannot be seen on the remaining two nights, which is called "equinox". Of course, in months that have twenty-nine days, the moon is usually seen in the sky from the twenty-seventh night, and the remaining two nights are "equinox".

These stations are completely accurate and calculated so that astronomers can predict it hundreds of years ago according to their accurate calculations. This strange system gives order to people's lives and is a heavenly natural calendar that can be read by the literate and the illiterate. So that if a person has a little precision and practice in the position of the moon in different nights, he can know exactly or approximately which night of the moon it is, by looking at its position. Because at the beginning of the month, the tips of the crescent are facing upwards and the volume of the moon gradually increases until the seventh. when half of the full circle of the moon is revealed, it increases again until the fourteenth. Then it becomes a full moon. From then on, it decreases from the lower side of the moon until the twenty-first. when it becomes a semi-circle again, its volume decreases again until the twenty-eighth night. Then it becomes a weak, pale crescent whose tips is facing down. [1]

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