Surah al-Qamar was revealed in Makkah. It has 55 Ayahs.
The contents of the Suarh may be highlighted as under:
It relates to:
The “Nearness of the Day of Resurrection”, rent
asunder of the moon, negation from opposition,
The hostile people of the Prophet Noah,
The chastisement of the people of A’d,
The opposition by the people of Thamud to the
Prophet Saleh and the She camel,
The people of Prophet Lot and their irregular sexual
behavior and the painful chastisement,
The Pharaoh
(Fir’aun) and his followers, their punishment,
According
to the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.): “Whoever recites this Surah on alternate
days, his face will be shining like the full moon on the Day of Resurrection”
In order to attain
the maximum benefits of this Surah, one should ponder and think over the
contents of this Surah and make every effort to put into practice in his life.
Like other Surahs of the Glorious Qur’an revealed in
Makkah, this Surah also deals with the Roots of Islam e.g. Unity of Allah, Prophet
Hood of the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.) and the Day of Resurrection.
As the unique style of the Glorious Qur’an is to discuss
and describe various concepts and the events of many Prophets and their people’s
hostile behavior and the Divine Chastisement. Similarly, in this Surah also the
stories of the Prophet Noah, Prophet Saleh and Prophet Lot are described.
The rent asunder
of the moon had been narrated by some reliable sources. The companions such as
Anas bin Malik, Ibne Masood, Huzaifa-e-Yamani, Jabir bin Mat ‘am have also narrated
this event. This was a unique miracle of the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.). It is
reported that Abu Jehl and some Jews came to the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.) and
said: “O’ Muhammad, if you are in fact the Apostle of God, cause the moon to
get rent asunder.” The Noble Prophet prayed to the Lord and with God’s help, he
pointed to the moon with his finger and the moon was seen split into two parts.
Ibne Masood says that he saw the peak of the Mount Hira interposing between the
two parts. Then the people wanted the two
parts to be joined together and it was done. The Jew, convinced of the great miracle, embraced Islam but Abu Jehl remained the same saying that
it was a transient sorcery. According
to the tafsir of Dur al-Mansour, the caravans from Syria when arrived in Makkah
did confirm the miracle but the Polytheists did not change.
In reply to the
objections from certain quarters about the lack of universal attestation of
this miracle, it may be stated:
The earth is always lighted by
the sun’s light on the half of the globe, hence only half of the globe was in
dark.
As this miracle occurred past
the midnight, naturally about one-fourth of the inhabitants may be aware of this.
Even in parts of the globe might
be covered by clouds.
People may be looking towards
sky only in abnormal conditions like thunder storms or Lunar Eclipse etc.
At that period of time the means
of communications were not as prompt as the modern times.
The Ayah “We made
the Qur’an easy to understand, but is there anyone who would take heed?” has
been repeated in this Surah four times.
NASA Photograph:
Appolo Mission photographs of Rima Ariadaeus revealed a rift line across the
surface of the moon. A 2004 book by Naghloul El-Naggar reproduces one of these
photographs and says that British Muslim David Musa Pidcock told him he had
seen a 1978 “program” (sic) in which he claimed that unnamed US space
scientists had said that “the moon had been split a long time ago and rejoined,
and there is a lot of concrete evidence on the surface of the moon to prove
this.”(WIKIPEDIA)
Sources used:
The Glorious Qur’an (English translation) by Ayatollah
Agha H.M.M. Pooya Yazdi
The Glorious Qur’an (Urdu translation) by Ayatollah Nasir
Mukarem Shirazi
WIKIPEDIA
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