Re: Real Islam vs Mullahism
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 326:
Narrated Abu Dharr:
Once I was with the Prophet in the mosque at the time of sunset. The Prophet said, "O Abu Dharr! Do you know where the sun sets?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know best." He said, "It goes and prostrates underneath (Allah's) Throne; and that is Allah's Statement:--
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Dying Sun Hadith
Modern science has shown that the sun is in a state of constant deperdition of energy and that it will inevitably die as a star, implode, and engulf the earth into its supra-dense mass. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrate from Abu Dharr - Allah be well-pleased with him - that the Prophet - upon him and his House blessings and peace - said as the sun was setting:
Do you know where it goes? It goes to where it prostrates under the Throne and asks permission to rise again. Then it receives permission. The time is very close when it will prostrate but it will not be accepted, and it will ask permission but not receive it. It will be told, "Go back whence you came." At that time it will rise from its place of setting. This is His saying – Most High is He! - {and the sun runs its course until its place of rest (mustaqarr); that is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise} (36:38).
The Prophet said that the sun went to a certain place he described as its place of "prostration" in every day-and-night cycle. The repetitive "prostration" of the sun refers to its perceived movement of "rising" and "setting" in relation to the earth, as in the verse referring to the prostration of all the heavenly bodies in the sky of the earth - {The sun and the moon are made punctual and the stars and trees adore} (55:5-6). This rising and setting is described as a prostration under the Throne to signify the seemingly replenished energy which these innumerable and massive objects possess. The end of their prostration signifies the termination of their energy.
Western cosmology traces this energy back to the Big Bang and extrapolates that its universal end occurs in the Cosmic Crunch of which the so-called Black Holes are miniature models in the view of the Princeton physicist who coined the latter term, John Archibald Wheeler. The Sunna names the Throne as the source of this energy and describes the end of the supply as the termination of Divine permission for the sun to "rise again" in the usual manner. At that time it will "go back whence it came" in the sense of stopping its course, reversing it, or imploding. This end-of-time even signifies the end of the function of the sun in relation to the earth, at which time the sun will go to its mustaqarr or "place of rest," i.e. it will die as a star. The Cosmic Crunch is essentially a cosmic reversal of motion - from expansion to implosion – and the hadith expressed this reversal of motion by describing the sun as rising from the West.
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