An Atheist Explores the Qur'an Part 60: A Broken Moon, Plus: Taste My Punishment, Beeyatch (The Moon (al-Qamar))
The Moon (al-Qamar) 1-54 A Broken Moon, Plus: Taste My Punishment, Beeyatch. Welcome to the next instalment of An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Qur’an version). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Qur’an, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For more detail, see the introductory post https://bit.ly/2ApLDy0 For the online Qur’an that I use, see here http://al-quran.info and http://quran.com The Moon (al-Qamar) 1-20 “The Hour has drawn near and the moon is split.” The splitting moon appears to be some kind of symbol of the end times; although it’s phrased very simply and matter-of-factly here, it’s a great image; I love the way it was done in the Guy Pearce version of the Time Machine. Perhaps the less said, however, about the Doctor Who episode “Kill the Moon” the better. The verses then go on to say how the non-believers who claim things are just magic will emerge from their graves in the end times...