{"id":166,"date":"2025-03-02T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proveislam.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:20:06","slug":"orbit-of-sun-earth-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proveislam.com\/ar\/orbit-of-sun-earth-and-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit of Sun, Earth and Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sun Rotates | Miracles of The Quran | Mindblowing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FUpKjBCcvyc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For as long as humans have lived, the sky and universe that we see every night have always been a spectacle of intrigue and curiosity. And consequently, many theories on astronomy have been made over the years\u2014many of them being proven true, and confirmed by the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid-second century, the Ptolemaic system was the widely accepted model for how the universe functioned; formulated in 150 AD, it claimed that the Earth acted as the center of the universe and that everything else in the universe moved in a perfect, circular path around our planet. 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