When the Moon Split (A Biography of Prophet Muhammad)

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This tradition has inspired many Muslim poets, especially in India. [17] In poetical language Muhammad is sometimes equated with the Sun or the morning light. As such, part of a poem from Sana'i, a renowned early twelfth century Persian Sufi poet, reads: "the Sun should split the Moon in two". [7] Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a renowned Persian poet and mystic, in one of his poems conveys the idea that to be split by Muhammad's finger is the greatest bliss the lowly Moon can hope for and a devoted believer splits the Moon with Muhammad's finger. [7] Elaborating on this idea, Abd ar-Rahman Jami, one of the classical poets and mystics of Persia, plays with the shapes and numerical values of Arabic letters in a complicated way: the full Moon, Jami says, resembles the Arabic letter for M, a circular mīm ( ـمـ), with the numerical value 40. When Muhammad split the Moon, its two halves each became like a crescent-shaped nūn ( ن) (the Arabic letter for N) whose numerical value is 50 each. This would mean that, thanks to the miracle, the value of Moon had increased. [7] A beautiful deluxe colour special edition of the classic biography of the Prophet Pbuh, The Sealed Nectar. Limited by the narrative boundaries that define such biographies, our modest goal was to produce a text accessible to those who are somewhat familiar with the life of the Prophet.

This establishes that this was nothing more than an honest mistake on Dr. Morey’s part and wasn’t trying to be deliberately malicious, since he obviously had no intention of making stuff up or fabricating stories about Muhammad. Nevertheless, many readers may still find certain concepts, terms, or even certain events difficult to comprehend.It has not been said of any people on the earth that the Moon was observed that night such that it could be stated that it was not split. Even if this had been reported from many different places, so that one would have to exclude the possibility that all agreed upon a lie, yet, we would not accept this as proof to the contrary, for the Moon is not seen in the same way by different people... An eclipse is visible in one country but not in the other one; in one place it is total, in the other one only partial. [7] Other perspectives In another place Rumi, according to Schimmel, alludes to two miracles attributed to Muhammad in tradition, i.e. the splitting of the Moon (which shows the futility of man's scientific approach to nature), and the other that Muhammad was illiterate. [7] In 2001, then-graduate student Paul Withers of the University of Arizona put numbers on the lunar meteor shower that would have fallen on Earth if Giordano Bruno’s crater had been created in 1178. In his study, the astronomer detailed that the crater was created by the impact of an asteroid between one and three kilometres, which according to previous estimates would have released ten million tons of lunar material in the direction of Earth. He is fair and handsome. From his face, mercy falls like rain. He is a shelter for the orphan and a protector of widows.” I liked this a lot better than Sealed Nectar (which I never finished). Obviously i read the English translations and i think this is a lot easier to read, less stiff. It's really well written--the battle of Uhud read like a novel, honestly.

It required the adaptation of a text with its unique cultural framework to the standard narrative conventions of another culture.For Withers, this would explain why only a few people witnessed the alleged moon anomaly, which was, in his view, nothing of the sort. Unlike the asteroid whose impact more than one million years ago scarred the lunar surface with Giordano Bruno’s crater, the meteorite that could have caused the optical illusion of 1178 would have been of a small enough size to have burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere without major consequences.

More often than not we ponder learning more about Prophet Muhammad’s (SAW) life, his etiquettes, sunnah and teachings, and the advent of Islam, but are left with limited authentic resources. Muhammad points out the splitting of the Moon. Anonymous 16th-century watercolor from a falnama, a Persian book of prophecy. Muhammad is the veiled figure on the right. Part of a series on All truthful narrators and scholars of Hadith narrated this incident through various authentic channels of transmission. All people of truth and sainthood, as well as of inspiration and spiritual discovery, testify that this event took place. All foremost theologians and learned scholars confirm this event, despite other differences of opinions. At the same time, the translators were required to adhere to the outline of standard Arabic biographies of the Prophet.Hartung favoured the possibility that the origin was an enormous impact on the lunar surface. In the region where Gervasio had located the phenomenon, a 22-kilometre crater is located, named after the Italian philosopher and astronomer Giordano Bruno. Studying the high-resolution images taken in the 1970s by t he Apollo missions, Hartung could see that the long, bright radial marks produced during the formation of the crater had not yet been erased by the lunar dust spread by micrometeorites, indicating that its origin was recent and, therefore, could correspond to the phenomenon seen in 1178. An enormous impact or a meteorite So, read this book to delve into the history of Islam and understand the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) life from his birth and youth till the end of his days. We all should actively indulge in activities that increase our knowledge, increase our Imaan because our Prophet ﷺ believed that knowledge brought us closer to Allah. This wasn’t simply the story of Sayyadina Salman Farsi, but it also marked the history of that period. The arrival of the last Prophet was eagerly awaited by the true believers at that time. This fact has been mentioned in multiple books written on the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). As Allah Almighty says in the Holy Quran (البقرة: 146). Both the Jews and Christian were eagerly awaiting the Prophet (PBUH) arrival and proudly said that when He (Muhammad (PBUH)) would come He would free us from all kinds of humiliation. a b c d e Annemarie Schimmel, And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, University of North Carolina Press, 1985, pp. 69–70