A lot of people believe that a scratch is found in the moon. And the scratch is made by Muhammad as a 'Mujija' ( supernatural act by a prophet) for his believers (Muslims).He divided the moon in two portion. After that the portions are gummed but still there remain a scratch. Still most of the muslims believe that. Buu till date i dont get any reliable source in this context. Plz help me.
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Oh; I'm sure that he surely would have done that, then he made a white rabbit appear out of his turban.\n\nIgnorant Muslims are as bad as ignorant Christians and ignorant Jews (not to mention ignorant atheists)... Please God give these people some brains.
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as far as i'm concern, there a lot of ameen from the quran, as well as the original-havent-been-manipulated-bible.\n\nso i strongly sure that the word come from allah.\nit's arabic, by the way.
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The theories presented so far have been pretty much debunked. The following link gives an elaborate explanation of this illusion. But even it fails to explain why we don't see this illusion every time the moon rises. It does not always appear larger at moonrise than when it is higher in the sky. Also, the moon may appear to be different sizes on different nights even in the same location. I'm still looking for a plausable explanation. \n\nhttp://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
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Actually, it makes perfect sense if you look at it as nothing more than a story meant to scare the superstitious herd, and keep them in line.\n\n"God promised to never do it again..." what crap.  This is a fail-safe, so that if the actual localized phenomenon never occurred again (and yes, it was local to the Euphrates region...check out the archaeological evidence), they can say, "See, god kept his word."
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While I've never heard that, I don't doubt that it was said. But it is false. Rumors like that start all the time. There has never been anything found on the moon. No alien structures, no "glass domes", nothing like that. Maybe they were seeing a weird inactive volcano of something. I don't know what it actually was, because like I said I've never heard that.
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Qur’an says that Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet. This gives an indication that the earth is flat. Does this not contradict established modern science? \n\nAnswer\n\n1.    Earth made as a carpet\nThe question refers to a verse from the Qur’an in Surah Nuh:\n\n"And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)." \n[Al-Qur’an 71:19]\n\nBut the sentence in the above verse is not complete. It continues in the next verse, explaining the previous verse. It says:\n\n"That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads."\n[Al-Qur’an 71:20]\n\nA similar message is repeated in Surah TaHa:\n\n"He Who has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels)...."\n[Al-Qur’an 20:53]\n\nThe surface of the earth i.e. earth’s crust is less than 30 miles in thickness and is very thin as compared to the radius of the earth which is about 3750 miles. The deeper layers of the earth are very hot, fluid and hostile to any form of life. The earth’s crust is a solidified shell on which we can live. The Qur’an rightly refers to it like a carpet spread out, so that we can travel along its roads and paths. \n\n2.    Carpet can also be spread on other than an absolute flat surface\nNot a single verse of the Qur’an says that the earth is flat. The Qur’an only compares the earth’s crust with a carpet. Some people seem to think that carpet can only be put on an absolute flat surface. It is possible to spread a carpet on a large sphere such as the earth. It can easily be demonstrated by taking a huge model of the earth’s globe covering it with a carpet.\n\nCarpet is generally put on a surface, which is not very comfortable to walk on. The Qur’an describes the earth crust as a carpet, without which human beings would not be able to survive because of the hot, fluid and hostile environment beneath it. The Qur’an is thus not only logical, it is mentioning a scientific fact that was discovered by geologists centuries later.\n\n3.    Earth has been spread out \nSimilarly, the Qur’an says in several verses that the earth has been spread out.\n\n"And We have spread out the (spacious) earth: how excellently We do spread out!"\n[Al-Qur’an 51:48]\n\nSimilarly the Qur’an also mentions in several other verses that the earth is an expanse:\n\n"Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse"\n"And the mountains as pegs?"\n[Al-Qur’an 78:6-7]\n\nNone of these verses of the Qur’an contain even the slightest implication that the earth is flat. It only indicates that the earth is spacious and the reason for this spaciousness of the earth is mentioned. The Glorious Qur’an says:\n\n"O My servants who believe! truly. spacious is My Earth: therefore serve ye Me –(And Me alone)!"\n[Al-Qur’an 29:56]\n\nTherefore none can give the excuse, that he could not do good and was forced to do evil because of the surroundings and circumstances.\n\n4.     Earth is geospherical in shape\nThe Qur’an mentions the actual shape of the earth in the following verse:\n\n"And we have made the earth egg shaped".\n[Al-Qur’an 79:30]\n\nThe Arabic word Dahaha means egg shaped. It also means an expanse. Dahaha is derived from Duhiya which specifically refers to the egg of an ostrich which is geospherical in shape, exactly like the shape of the earth.\n\nThus the Qur’an and modern established science are in perfect harmony.
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The moon although is a sphere, but it is so far away that it appear a flat round disk. there is nothing strange about this and if people are not educated that moon is a spherical rock, they'd probably think it's a round flat disk.\n\nBut for me, I see it as a hole in the ceiling.
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Based on the information out there, I now believe that they never went  to the moon. There is no wind on the moon, yet the flag blows in the background. The angles of lighting do not match the way they are supposed to, unless lighting was set up...and an extensive amount. The temperatre that the films would have been subjected to, would have destroyed the pictures. And for the picture of the footprint on the moon, there would have had to have been moisture to create such a mark. If you take completey dry sand and try to make a castle out of it, what happens? It crumbles...any child who has been to the beach knows that you need a little water. so, anyone can believe what they want, but im going on facts :)\n\nps...dont mind my spelling
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Muslims don't believe in that.You can not find this in Quran nor in Hadith. God says in Quran that if you kill one person, for me it's like you have killed everyone(it's something that he won't forgive)Muslims are only allowed to go to war if some one attacked them they aren't allowed to start a war.(Mohammad him self NEVER started a war) and the last thing is that there is no such thing as Holy war that CNN is making up for Muslims.
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http://www.grand-illusions.com/moon.htm\n\nThe Moon Illusion\n\nThe moon illusion is one of the most famous of all illusions. Stated simply, the full moon, when just above the horizon, appears much larger than when it is overhead. Yet the moon, a quarter of a million miles away from the earth, always subtends the same angle wherever it is in the sky, roughly 0.5 degrees.\n\nThe first problem is for photographers. A wonderful picture presents itself, with the full moon just rising above a spectacular horizon. Click, the picture is taken. Yet the result is disappointing. The moon seems much smaller in the photograph than it did when viewed with the naked eye. Even professional photographers fall for this one. Yet on a normal lens, 50mm on a 35mm camera, the field of view is around 50 degrees, and the width of the moon, subtending an angle of 0.5 degrees, will be 100th of the width of the photo! Many photographs that you see in magazines, containing both a moon and a landscape, will be composites. The landscape will be taken with a normal lens, the moon taken with a telephoto lens, to get a bigger image.\n\nHow does this illusion come about? Since the moon always subtends an angle of 0.5 degrees, the image on the retina must always be the same. Clearly the problem is one of interpretation. One simple experiment shows this to be so. A full moon just above the horizon will not appear so large to the human eye if a piece of paper is held up to that eye with a hole in it, so that only the moon can be seen through the hole and not the horizon. If the other eye is open at the same time, viewing both the moon and the horizon, the two eyes will each see different sized moons!\n\nThe explanation is believed to be as follows. We 'know' that a cloud that is overhead will be larger than when it moves towards the horizon. And an airplane that is a mere speck on the horizon becomes large when it is overhead. And we are all familiar with standing under a tree which seems enormous, yet at a couple of hundred paces seems insignificant. It would seem that so much of our world is interpreted this way that we are ill-equipped to cope with an object like the moon, that subtends the same angle at the eye, whatever position it occupies in the sky. And so our brain 'interprets' the image that it 'sees', and tells us that the moon is larger than it really is.\n\nHendrik Ball\n\n\n\nFrom: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_110.html\n\n\nDear Cecil:\n\nI have noticed that the moon (and the sun, for that matter) appears very large just as it rises and sets. When it is overhead, it seems tiny by comparison. The color is also vastly different, but this can be easily explained by the fact that we view the moon through varying ''thicknesses'' of atmosphere as it makes its way across the sky. But this explanation seems insufficient to account for the change in size. So what's the straight dope? --Frank M., Los Angeles\n\nCecil replies:\n\nBelieve it or not, Frank, they've been arguing about this for two thousand years, and it's about time I got things straightened out. First of all, let me make it clear that the effect is an optical illusion. If you measure the moon with a ruler held at arm's length (a paper clip bent into the shape of a calipers will also work), you'll find it's always the same size no matter where it happens to be in the sky. If anything, the moon is slightly smaller at the horizon than it is at the zenith, mainly because it's 4,000 miles (the radius of the earth) farther away. (If you don't understand why this is so, draw yourself a picture.) Nonetheless, most people are convinced that, area-wise, the moon's at least twice as big when it's near the horizon as when it's overhead.\n\nNumerous theories have been advanced to explain the ""moon illusion.'' At one point people thought it had something to do with the angle at which you hold you
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Science is a concept use by this level of mankind, which is proven fact and experimental basis. Many unexplained phenomena or ( the future science which not yet proven ), scientist will push it into the category of mythology, religion sort of thing. Religion is not created by man, is from another civilization of other time space and only few scientist understand that, as different religion is from  different civilization in space time. And we our soul is origin from that part of time and space. To earth is to purify our energy then we can up to higher level else will reborn here over again.
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That was the original statement:  "If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain."\n\nIf the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain. This expression is based on a tale that Muhammad once sought proof of his teachings by ordering a mountain to come to him. When it did not move, he maintained that God had been merciful, for if it had indeed moved they all would have been crushed by it. [Late 1500s] \n\nWhen he preached, he preached on top of the mountain or high grounds so as the people can hear him and see him better.  People kept asking for proof that he was a Prophet, as many prophets before him, did many miracles and he never did any. So, one day he decided to order the mountain to come to him, but the mountain did not move, and as usual, the Angel comes to his rescue and explained though Muhammad that the mountain didn't move for the protection of the people!! \n\nNow, you have to ask yourself why Muhammad asked the mountain to move!  The reason is that Jesus said: " if a person has enough faith in God, and asked the mountain to move, it will move."   Do you see the connection!
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It is said of an absurbity, as: "He wants me to believe the moon is made of green cheese". \nWriting a good book....in which he proved that the moon was made of green cheese.\nCHARLES KINGSLEY: The Water Babies, ch.1v (1863)
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It is called an anthropological argument for the existense of God. Why in the world do we have the urge to seek for an ultimate creator? 90% of all civilations have believed in ultimate beings (I'm not saying they were right). To say there is no God just doesn't make sense. Even secular scientist admit that after so much there is still answer for man's exitstense and for any of the universe to exist. We spent millions of dollars to find out where the moon came from but man doesn't know. All of creation screams out that there is a creator. The amont of information that is in a simple organism like R. coli would be the equivalant to 100 million pages of The encyclopedia Britannica.
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While many of the Holy books of many religions confirm the same astronomical facts discovered by science, I think you are going overboard in claiming that the Q'ran proves ALL the scientific facts established by astonomy.\n\nFor example, does the Q'ran confirm that Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the solar system?  That vacuum fluctuations can cause black holes to evaporate? That there are approximately 10 million stars in the Omega Centauri globular star cluster? Can we go to the Q'ran to confirm if water does in fact exist in the polar craters of Mercury?\n\nI certainly would agree that God or Allah, being all-knowing, knows these facts and many more.  He knows infinitely more about the universe than we could ever hope to know or imagine.  But to claim that one small book proves ALL astronomical facts is going overboard.\n\nI hope my answer has not been disrespectful to your faith.
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I think most of the others have it right. The key thing is to remember that the half of the Moon that you can't see is NOT in the Earth's shadow, but it is in the Moon's own shadow. Another way of looking at it is that when we see a "half moon", the people on the moon see a "half Earth". Where is the other half of the Earth? It is in darkness(night time) so you can't see it, but it is still there, isn't it? I hope this helps.
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Lots of things make people say that. There are pieces of evidence pointing in both directions (yes/no). I'm not sure what to believe, myself. I'm kind of leaning toward no, simply because the claims against the moon landing make sense, and the attempts to refute those claims don't sound very credible.\n\nBut honestly, I don't really care. Maybe we did, maybe we didn't. Unless you went yourself, or helped fake the whole thing, or are given adequate proof, you really can't know for sure.