Al-Furqan 25:45 الم تر الى ربك كيف مد الظل ولو شاء لجعله ساكنا ثم جعلنا الشمس عليه دليلا ٤٥
أَلَمۡ
تَرَ
إِلَىٰ
رَبِّكَ
كَيۡفَ
مَدَّ
ٱلظِّلَّ
وَلَوۡ
شَآءَ
لَجَعَلَهُۥ
سَاكِنٗا
ثُمَّ
جَعَلۡنَا
ٱلشَّمۡسَ
عَلَيۡهِ
دَلِيلٗا
٤٥
Have you not seen how your Lord spread the shadow. If He willed, He could have made it still - But We have made the sun its guide (i.e. after the sunrise, the shadow shrinks and vanishes at midnoon and then again appears in the afternoon with the decline of the sun, and had there been no sunlight, there would have been no shadow).
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