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How does the sun's prostration beneath the Throne of the Most Merciful after every sunset accord with modern science, in light of the Arab Christians' skepticism regarding this Hadith?

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The sun's movement and its course occur in a manner of prostration and rising. It moves, and with it the rest of the solar system. There is no contradiction between its prostration and its movement, for its prostration every night beneath the Throne does not impede its rotation in its course.

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