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mNeed to keep these focused on the verses where it is most clearly literally that the heart is a locus of thought. Saw in his heart is too easily dismissed as metaphorical. There are countless verses of that nature (hearts full of doubt etc.).
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→Meteors as stars fired at devils: Removed lengthy digression about asteroid belt. Supplimentary points need to be brief and the 98% from asteroid belt figure in the source is for meteorites (meteors which reach the ground), a small subcategory of all meteors; angels only mentioned in the hadith, and Muslims would see it as a mere theological matter that Allah could redirect meteoroids already near earth. Added brief response to some modern apologetics.
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→Functions of the heart: Have added another 'Heart/cardio-centric' verse in this paragraph
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1 September 2023
→Noah's ark holding every species: Just added in the word 'etc.' for clearer context
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→Noah's ark holding every species: I have added a line in adding some more context to Noah's Ark, two of every species section
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→Meteors as stars fired at devils: Added the word 'main' source as technically some are comets - I will update this section further explaining the issues with comets as well :)
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→Meteors as stars fired at devils: Changed spelling mistake, repeated words 'in space' and added some more context around how far asteroids are from each other.
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→Stars:: Removed the 'title' 'Stars' to be a 'paragraph'/normal text as was supposed to be in my previous edit. Apologies! And added a few words about meteors burning up in the atmosphere as there is oxygen there, to clarify a point being made in my previous update. Thank you.
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→Meteors as stars fired at devils: I have added more sections explaining the problematic issues of both meteors and stars as a protection against jinn listening into angels meetings, with easy-to-access references applied for scientific knowledge. As the text is getting chunky I've added a bold title for both 'meteors/asteroids' and stars separately to make it easier to read - especially as I plan on adding a few more points to the 'Stars' section. It is just bold text and not a proper title
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30 August 2023
→Meteors as stars fired at devils: Have added in some more context around the Exalted Assembly story for a more easy understanding to someone unfamiliar with it.
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When adding external links (especially long urls - this time it could be shortened) we usually use the two-part [url title] format rather than bare links. The very long link was messing up the format of the references section and on mobile shifted the entire page to the left. Also for verses we use the {{Quran}} or {{Quran-range}} templates. Still think adornment point has a too obvious refutation (20th century onwards anyone can marvel at Hubble images etc.) but will leave for now.
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→Implied similar size and distance of the sun and moon: I have improved the grammar of a previously updated paragraph for this section.
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→Meteors as stars fired at devils: Added a sentence about the challenge of stars being made as a adornment/beauty, when so few are actually visible to us.
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28 August 2023
→Meteors as stars fired at devils: I have added the relevant quran quotes for stars/shooting stars thrown at devils/jinns
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→Geocentricism: Added one word to make sentence read more effectively.
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→Noah's ark holding every species: rewording sentence slightly to make more sense and not repeat the word 'species' so much
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→Noah's ark holding every species: Have updated the previous 'few hundred thousand' species to the more accurate few 'million' and listed the number of land animals appearing that make Noahs ark story 'difficult' to believe has happened. Sources are now provided for these claims too which weren't previously.
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→Implied similar size and distance of the sun and moon: I have changed a previous 'moon would need to travel 98 million miles' mention to 'tens of millions' as the figure they provided does not have a source, and the figure seemed to contradict NASA (and other sources) that the sun and both Earth and moon are 93 million miles away (so would lie c.41m miles apart). And added sections explaining what would happen should the sun move toward the Earth (on judgement day).
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→Geocentricism: Added some more context on geocentricism and the sun's final resting place stating this happens after it's joined to the moon with a link to the quran verse
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→Geocentricism: Previously a line simply stated some exegetes had a different interpretation of the sun's resting place verse - however I had added some context of the later tasfirs working with the now accepted astronomers geocentric view of planets orbiting the Earth. References are given where appropriate :)
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→The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling: I have added another more recent example of the skies 'non-protection' in 2013 Russia of meteors going through the atmosphere that is known to have injured humans. The first link is National Geographic confirming the size of the earths atmosphere for context, showing the meteor penetrated it. The second link is to the NASA article about the meteor/event listing the damage caused, which you can see is largely copied from the final paragraph of that page.
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27 August 2023
→Earth as spread out and flat: I have updated my previous source explaining Plotemy's Almagest stated the Earth is spherical from Wikipedia to a more 'professional' one, 'britannica', which also mentions the translations into Arabic. Secondly I have added dates (and referenced) to when al-Jalalyan's tasfir was written, showing even significantly after the spherical Earth was known, the matter was far from settled (due to their analysis of the wording of the quran).
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→Earth as spread out and flat: I have added a section showing when the spherical model of the Earth was known by the caliphate. The first link is just to wikipedia to show what Plotemy's Almagest is, (a scholarly link is not needed due to just providing a quick summary of what it is here). The second link is to download an article from scholar of Islamic astronomy (David A King), stating when the translations from Greek took place and so would have been known far before al-Jalalayans tasfir.
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