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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ya-Sin — Ayah 38

36:38
وَٱلشَّمۡسُ تَجۡرِي لِمُسۡتَقَرّٖ لَّهَاۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَقۡدِيرُ ٱلۡعَزِيزِ ٱلۡعَلِيمِ ٣٨
The sun is running its course to its appointed place.1 That is the ordaining of the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing.
Footnotes
  • [1] Qira’at: All except for Nafieʻ, Yaʻqub and Hafs read it as: “. . . liars. 9And the fifth is: may Allah’s wrath indeed be upon her . . .”Nafieʻ read it as: “. . . liars. 9And the fifth is that Allah’s wrath will have fallen upon her . . .”Yaʻqub read it as: “. . . liars. 9And the fifth is: may Allah’s wrath be upon her . . .”
  • [2] “Place of rest” may either mean the place where the sun will ultimately come to a halt, or the time when it will come to a halt. The true meaning of this verse can be determined only when man has attained the full and exact knowledge of the realities of the universe. But man’s knowledge is such that it has been changing in every age and what he seems to know today might change tomorrow. The people of the ancient times on the basis of their observations of the sun believed that it was moving round the earth. Then after further research and observation the view became that the sun was stationary and all the planets of the solar system were revolving round it. But this theory also did not last long. The later observations revealed that not only the sun but all the stars are also moving in a particular direction, at speeds of 10 to 100 miles per second. About the sun the modern astronomers hold the view that it is moving at a speed of 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) per second along with its whole family of the planets. (See Star and Sun in Encyclopedia Britannica).