What is the meaning of Mujahid's saying: "The sun and the moon are by calculation, like the calculation of a millstone"?
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The sun and moon revolve in an orbit like the rotation of a millstone, as mentioned by Ibn Atiyyah and Al-Qurtubi in their exegeses.
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