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Was Surat Yunus revealed before Surat Al-Qamar, and does Allah's statement in Surat Yunus: "Why has no sign been sent down to him from his Lord? Say: 'The unseen belongs only to Allah; so wait, indeed I am with you among those who wait'" contradict the miracle of the splitting of the moon mentioned in Surat Al-Qamar?

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Surat Al-Qamar was revealed before Surat Yunus, and both are Makkan by the consensus of scholars, except for slight disagreement regarding some of their verses. There is no contradiction between the verses of the two surahs, because the meaning of "sign" (آية) in Surat Yunus refers to a specific sign that the polytheists proposed out of stubbornness, and not every sign, as they had already seen many miracles before that.

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