God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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because the latest observations show that the
celestial bodies exist in an infinite space with the
invisible pull of gravity that holds them in position.
Of the sun and other celestial bodies, the Quran
says, “Each floats freely in an orbit of its own”
(21:3).
Ancient man was familiar with the movement of
celestial bodies, so he was not confused by this,
“floating” being the most appropriate term to
describe the movement of celestial bodies in a vast
and subtle space. And how much more significance
had been lent to this word by recent discoveries.
Day and night, the results of such movement by a
celestial body, are depicted thus in the Quran: ‘He
throws the veil of night over the day. Swiftly they
follow one another’ (7:54).
Dr. Maurice Bucaille, in his
The Bible, the Quran and
Science
, lists a number of similar extracts from the
Quran, which gave accurate descriptions of the
alternation of day and night, long before modern
deductions or the observations of cosmonauts bore
this out. He then makes the important point that at
a time when it was held that the Earth was the
