How can what is stated in the Quran, that the sun revolves, be reconciled with what modern science has proven, that the sun is stationary?
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The sun runs to its fixed resting place, as the Holy Qur’anic verse states. This is what modern science proved in the early twentieth century, after it was thought to be stationary and that its apparent movement from east to west was not real.
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