Shooting Stars in the Quran: Difference between revisions

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→‎The Qur'an: Actually removing the 'separately to stars and flames being used as a protection' part of the sentence, as Ibn Abbas is quoted as this star burning satans (in Ibn Kathirs tafsir here), so is not 100% unrelated in Islamic works.
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(→‎Ancient beliefs around stars and meteors pre-Islam: Have added another Quran verse that traditional accounts have written exegesis (in the form of the book of circumstances of revelation) confusing the piercing/illuminating star with a meteor - and linked/cited the sources.)
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And [https://quran.com/21?startingVerse=32 Quran 21:32], which many classical commentators have associated with protection against devils:
And [https://quran.com/21?startingVerse=32 Quran 21:32], which many classical commentators have associated with protection against devils:
{{Quote|{{Quran|21|32}}|And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs, are turning away.}}Also separately to stars and flames being used as a protection, we see in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Tariq Surah At Tariq]: (known as 'the morning star' or 'the nightcomer' - الطارق), in verse 3, using the term (najm/نجم), which means star,<ref>[https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume8/00000282.pdf نجم ''(najm) pp 3028''] - Lane's Lexicon Classical Arabic Dictionary.</ref> for piercing star.
{{Quote|{{Quran|21|32}}|And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs, are turning away.}}Also separately we see in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Tariq Surah At Tariq]: (known as 'the morning star' or 'the nightcomer' - الطارق), in verse 3, using the term (najm/نجم), which means star,<ref>[https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume8/00000282.pdf نجم ''(najm) pp 3028''] - Lane's Lexicon Classical Arabic Dictionary.</ref> for piercing star.
{{Quote|{{Quran|86|1-4}}|By the sky and the night comer - And what can make you know what is the night comer? <b>It is the piercing star (najm)</b> - There is no soul but that it has over it a protector.}}
{{Quote|{{Quran|86|1-4}}|By the sky and the night comer - And what can make you know what is the night comer? <b>It is the piercing star (najm)</b> - There is no soul but that it has over it a protector.}}
In al-Wahidi's (d. 468AD / 1075CE) famous ''Asbab Al-Nuzul'' (''circumstances of revelation'' - a book/exegesis covering the context each Quranic verse was revealed in), which is the earliest surviving book dealing solely with this subject matter,<ref>''Asbāb al-Nuzūl'' ''By: Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī'' Translated By: Mokrane Guezzou Edited and with a brief Introduction by Yousef Meri. [https://www.altafsir.com/Books/Asbab%20Al-Nuzul%20by%20Al-Wahidi.pdf ''Introduction: pp iv.'']  
In al-Wahidi's (d. 468AD / 1075CE) famous ''Asbab Al-Nuzul'' (''circumstances of revelation'' - a book/exegesis covering the context each Quranic verse was revealed in), which is the earliest surviving book dealing solely with this subject matter,<ref>''Asbāb al-Nuzūl'' ''By: Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī'' Translated By: Mokrane Guezzou Edited and with a brief Introduction by Yousef Meri. [https://www.altafsir.com/Books/Asbab%20Al-Nuzul%20by%20Al-Wahidi.pdf ''Introduction: pp iv.'']  
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