Sun And Shadow

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سُورَةُ الفُرۡقَانِ
Al-Furqaan (The Criterion)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوْ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنًۭا ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّمْسَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًۭا
Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.
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Related Hadiths

Sahih Muslim#1278

The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said the afternoon" prayer as the sun shone in my apartment, and the afternoon shadow did not extend further. Abu Bakr said: The afternoon shadow did not appear to extend furt...

Narrated by A'isha reported:
Sahih Muslim#2425

The dawn is not like it, as one says (and he lifted his hand) till he (dispersed his fingers) and said: It is like this.

Narrated by Ibn Mas'ud (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying The Adhan of Bilal should not restrain anyone among you from eating Sahur (last meal before daybreak during the month of Ramadan) for he announces Adhan (or he calls) at (the fag end of) the night to make him turn who stands for prayer among you, and to awaken those who are sleeping among you. And he said:
Sahih Muslim#2426

The dawn is not like it as it is said; he then gathered his fingers and lowered them. But he said, it is like this (and he placed the index finger upon the other one and spread his hand).

Narrated by This hadith has been narrated by Sulaiman al-Taimi with the same chain of transmitters (but with a slight variation of words) that he (the Holy Prophet) said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#400

The extent of the shadow when the Messenger of Allah prayed (the noon prayer) was three to five feet in summer and five to seven feet in winter.

Narrated by Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:
Sunan Abu Dawud#406

By the life of the sun is meant that you may find heat in it.

Narrated by Khaythamah said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#4823

AbulQasim (ﷺ) said: When one of you is in the sun (Shams)--Makhlad's version has "fay'"--and the shadow withdraws from him so that he is partly in sun and partly in shade, he should get up.

Narrated by Narrated AbuHurayrah:
Sunan Ibn Majah#3458

"forbade sitting between the shade and sun."

Narrated by It was narrated from Ibn Buraidah, from his father, that the Prophet(ﷺ) :

Related Tafsir

Evidence of the existence of the Creator and the extent of His Power
Surah 25 · Ayahs 45–47
Allah presents evidence of His existence and power through the natural phenomena of shadows and the night, illustrating ...

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