Quran and modern science compatible or incompatible
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unning. If you use this w<strong>or</strong>d f<strong>or</strong> a person in water,<br />
it would not mean that he is floating but would<br />
imply that he is swimming.<br />
Similarly, if you use the w<strong>or</strong>d yasbah f<strong>or</strong> a celestial<br />
body such as the sun, it would not only mean that it<br />
is flying through space but would also mean that it<br />
is rotating as it goes through space. Most school<br />
textbooks have now inc<strong>or</strong>p<strong>or</strong>ated the fact that the<br />
sun rotates about its axis. The rotation of the sun<br />
about its own axis can be proved with the help of an<br />
equipment that projects the image of the sun on the<br />
top of a table, so that one can examine the image of<br />
the sun without being blinded. It is noticed that the<br />
sun has spots which complete a circular motion once<br />
every 25 days i.e. the sun takes approximately 25<br />
days to rotate round its axis.<br />
The sun travels through space at roughly 240 km<br />
per second, <strong>and</strong> takes about 200 million years to<br />
complete one revolution around the centre of our<br />
Milky Way Galaxy.<br />
“It is not permitted<br />
to the Sun to catch up the Moon,<br />
n<strong>or</strong> can the Night outstrip the Day:<br />
Each (just) swims along<br />
in (its own) <strong>or</strong>bit<br />
(acc<strong>or</strong>ding to Law).”<br />
[Al-Qur’an 36:40]<br />
This verse mentions an essential fact discovered
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