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There is no denying that the Ancient Arabs had developed, over the centuries, their own popular knowledge of the Sky and celestial bodies and phenomenon. They knew the fixed stars and planets. Hundreds of stars were known by name and there were indigenous names for the planets. The Bedouins used the stars for orientation in the migrations by night.** However, the majority of translators of Grand Qur'aan, unfortunately, did not use different words feeling convenience in describing various Arabic words of absolutely different origins and significations by a single word "Star".
It is conspicuously stated that Sydena
Iebra'heim
عليه السلام
had seen the celestial object in the Sky
when Night had spread darkness
veiling
his
surroundings. In the darkness of night, one does not see a single star in
the Sky but quiet a large number of stars are visible to naked eye.
One celestial object he saw in the darkness of that Night was:
Grand Qur'aan came in 7th century, but people have known the distinction between stars and planets from couple of centuries BC. The basic difference between both, as we know, is that stars emit light but planets do not have their own light; they reflect light. How both could have same meanings and termed as stars? After the Sun and the Moon, planet Venus is the most shining object. It is visible in Sky three hours before Sunrise and for three hours after Sunset. After these three objects, planet Jupiter is the brightest object. It is three times brighter than the brightest star Sirius. Because of its prominence, Romans had given it name Jupiter after the name of their bigger god, idol. A word is needed to convey and transmit a specific perception or verbal mirroring of an object. Words serve as a medium to communicate perceptions. It is for this reason that, a language will be considered rich, clear, perspicuous, eloquent, distinct, free from admixture, void of indistinctness or without concealment, apparent like the daybreak and divested of the froth, if its words have the capability of transporting the perception from one mind to a listener and reader, in a manner that it generates in the recipient mind exactly the same neurological process of observation and interpretation, and creates a true copy of that perception.
The Arabic language is
portrayed as:
We find mention of specific Planets in the Classical works about the above statement in 6:76 Learned Al Qurtabi said: و رأي المشتري أو الزهرة
And he saw either Jupiter or Venus
Al Jalalain said: هو الزهرة "That is Venus"
Who was right and precise? The difference between Venus and Jupiter is that Venus after three hours of Sunset disappears from the Sky and is not visible till three hours before Sunrise. However, Jupiter, when it is visible from Earth, does not disappear but remains visible on the Sky. Grand Qur'aan informs us that the Planet towards which he drew the attention of his people, later on disappeared from the scene.
o Thereafter, when the planet disappeared from the scene he said to them: "I do not like to consider as lord those who disappear from the scene." [Refer 6:76]
The Grand Qur'aan has vividly pointed out that on that Night Iebra'heim [علیہ السلام] had drawn the attention of people around him towards Venus. Therefore, we can visualize the session of that Night that it was held after quite some time of Sunset but within three hours of the Sunset, and continued till morning, Sunrise. The Grand Qur'aan describes the Sky as one which was layered into Seven Segments, one above the other. The Layer of the Sky immediately above the Earth is referred as the Sky of the Earth. The information about this specific Layer of the Sky is that it is beautified by the presence of Planets:
The Grand Qur'aan has drawn distinction between Planets and Stars. It says:
Here Plural:
And they people get the direction-guidance with the help of the Star. [Ref 16:16]
The Grand Qur'aan is declared as:
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The Stars are declared as helping people in finding direction in the bewilderment of oceans and deserts, no-clue places. But the Planets are stated as beautification and attraction embedded in the Sky of Earth. Stars and Planets are distinct celestial objects, which is also evident from their destined end:
[Read with
81:06]
The common factor in this pair is that both absorb as well as reflect light. Both the verbs relating their end share the commonality of fragmentation and dispersing.
[Read with
81:2] In consequence [of first blow in the Trumpet] when the Stars are obliterated/scattered/lost luster; [77:08]
[Read with
77:08] And when the Stars would have become disintegrated losing their luster/light; [81:02]
How Many Planets are in the Solar System? We are not sure at the moment about the number of planets in our solar system. The International Astronomical Union has already put Pluto out of the Planet Club declaring it as a "dwarf planet". Under the new definition, planets must orbit a star, be spherical in shape, and clear out their neighborhood of orbital debris.
There is a similarity between the planets and 11 brothers of Yu'suf عليه السلام. They did not have their own "light", they owe their recognition and popularity to Yu'suf عليه السلام. They at that point in time, unlike their past conduct resembled definition of Planet suggested by International Astronomical Union, that is "clear out their neighborhood of orbital debris". But the fact remains that he had seen 11 planets. The question is can we see-perceive even in dream a thing which does not exist in reality somewhere? What he had seen also happened in reality. Can neurons create and pass on a signal for storage in the memory without existence of a thing somewhere? One thing is certain that Messengers of Allah never see a dream which does not exist as a fact in the past, present or future. He has seen 11 planets, excluding the Earth. We will find them sooner or later; it is promise of Allah the Exalted:
[Read with
27:93]
May I suggest to NASA that whenever they find 11 Planets, two should be named after two brothers of Yu'suf عليه السلام, one from his own mother and the eldest from his second mother which may be proposed by our cousins, Bani Israel living in Israel. I suggest to all Muslim communities/countries to recognize Israel as there lives Bani Israel whom Grand Qur'aan addresses directly. When Allah the Exalted, his Last Elevated Messenger and the Last Book recognizes them, why Muslim countries should not recognize them as a nation and obviously a nation lives in a geographical territory?
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It is
one such word that was translated
: Verb: Perfect; Third person; Singular; Masculine.
Root: 
-
Active Participle; [Form IV], the
language that makes things individually and collectively distinct and differentiated from others.
:
"Thereafter, when that planet disappeared
from the scene"
: It
is necessarily something in which there is an attraction. Anything that
does not absorb attention-attraction cannot be referred by this word. We know that man has always attraction and interest in the
Planets. Moreover, the Planets are related to the Sky of the Earth-the
Solar System in relation to the Lower World-Earth.
the help of One specific Star [it
is singular]. Grand Qur'aan was
meant, not only for those Arabs who were to listen it first, but is for the
entire humanity in time and space. Therefore, its language is such that
it contains and narrates a fact in such manner that it should seem and
could have been perceived as an absolute truth by its first listeners,
and prove to be an absolute fact for the posterity for whom the
knowledge of the universe will keep unfolding. The above statement of
the Grand Qur'aan is a fact from whatever angle it may be seen.
In common knowledge, people perceive that North/Pole Star is
the one but that
is not the fact. Today North Star is Polaris but in 7500 there
will be some other Star as Pole Star and in 15000 another one will take
this place and after 9000 years today's North Pole Polaris will again be
stationed there. Let us verify the fact with thanks from Encarta, and
online
Verb: Perfect; Third Person; Singular;
feminine; Intransitive;
[Form-VIII]; Subject pronoun hidden; مصدر-إِنْتِثَارٌ
Verbal noun.
Verb: Perfect; Third Person; Singular; Feminine;
Passive;
[Form-II]; تَ Proxy Subject pronoun hidden;
تَفْجِيرٌ Verbal Noun.
It is an Active Participle, plural, accusative,
used for circumstantial state/description. After having stated the
objects seen in his dream, he repeated the word
which
signifies expression of wonder and strangeness that he saw them in a
state of reverent for him.
