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Various verses explain the shape of the sun's course. Apparently Allah brings the sun from east, it travels high and eventually goes down. Most of these can be dismissed as the same kind of convenient language we would use today ({{Quran|20|059}}, {{Quran|20|130}}, {{Quran|17|078}}, {{Quran-range|6|77|78}}, {{Quran|18|17}}). Some are more interesting, however. | Various verses explain the shape of the sun's course. Apparently Allah brings the sun from east, it travels high and eventually goes down. Most of these can be dismissed as the same kind of convenient language we would use today ({{Quran|20|059}}, {{Quran|20|130}}, {{Quran|17|078}}, {{Quran-range|6|77|78}}, {{Quran|18|17}}). Some are more interesting, however. | ||
Allah brings ( | The Qur'an quotes a few lines from a debate between Abraham and a disbelieving King, where Abraham replies that Allah brings the sun / makes the sun to come (yatee biashshamsi يَأْتِى بِٱلشَّمْسِ) from the east. The arabic verb suggests that the sun actually moves there.<ref>alif-taa-ya [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume1/00000052.pdf Lane's Lexicon Book 1 page 15]</ref> | ||
{{Quote|{{cite Quran|2|258|end=259|style=ref}}| | {{Quote|{{cite Quran|2|258|end=259|style=ref}}|Abraham said, ‘Indeed Allah brings the sun from the east; now you bring it from the west.’}} | ||