Re: Islam promoting thought and false accusations: Att. Ummm
067.005 *
*YUSUFALI:* And we have, (from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with Lamps, and We have made such (Lamps) (as) missiles to drive away the Evil Ones, and have prepared for them the Penalty of the Blazing Fire. *
**PICKTHAL:* And verily We have beautified the world's heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame. *
**SHAKIR:* And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning.*
Getting past the remote possibility that God send a meteroids millions of light years across the universe to intercept a devil at the precise moment he is coming to earth to tell his secrets, there are two factual problems with this verse. First, the universe is full of stars (lamps), not just "the lowest heaven". Secondly, shooting stars are not stars (lamps) at all, they are meteroids that are otherwise unseen until they enter the atmoshphere.