NASA confirms Sun can rise from the West?
I got this in my InBox recently and immediately I realised it was just some lazy Pakistani journalist trying to fill some column inches.
He says:
“The science of astronomy states that the speed of planet Mars has been decreasing in its course toward the eastern direction in the past few weeks”
No, Mars has not been slowing down, the speed of its orbit hasn’t changed, it’s just a quirk of geometry that it seems that way relative to the Earth.
Quite clearly this hack doesn’t understand the phenomenon in question, namely the retrograde motion of Mars. He proudly states:
“Then in the months of August and September… Mars changed its course in the opposite direction to the West- and that until the end of September which means the sun will rise now from the west on Mars!!”
No! Mars has not changed direction, it is still going the same way in its own orbit around the Sun, even on Mars the Sun rises and sets as it has always done, he does go on to say
“And this weird phenomena of the opposite movement is called “Retrograde Motion”
but completely fails to understand what this means. Here a nice animation that will demonstrate Retrograde Motion.
You’ll see from the animation that it is an illusion, nothing has changed.
He also says:
“Most scientist state that all the planets will go through the same once at least and our planet Earth is one of them. Planet Earth will move in the opposite direction some day and the sun will rise from the west!!”
Really? And which scientists would that be? If the Earth were to either spin in the opposite direction or change it’s orbit to be in the opposite direction, then way before even any of that comes close life on Earth would have come to an end.
He ends with:
“This piece of news is very important as it brings with it a great sign of warning and remembrance of the coming of a new WORLD”
It would be important if it was accurate and if you bothered to check with a science teacher at your local primary school then you would have written a piece of news.
Now, he is right that there is a hadith about the Sun rising from the West. The hadith, more than likely, is alluding to something else perhaps, or some strange inexplicable phenomenon. What happens on Mars relatively to us viewing from Earth is not relevant to the hadith.
The point I am making here is that we should not take third party sources that seemingly quote a credible source (NASA) as fact when the facts of the citation have not been established and then link them to prophecy or Qur’anic verses. Too many times I have seen such things being circulated only for the facts to be quite different and then Muslims end up looking stupid.
Again, I am not surprised that this is in a Pakistani Newspaper, I have read and seen many idiotic things in them by lazy hacks who just aren’t doing their jobs and writing about real issues.
Here’s the article:
Signs of the Day of Judgement: NASA confirms possibility of sun rising from the West
ARTICLE (April 09 2010): The science of astronomy states that the speed of planet Mars has been decreasing in its course toward the eastern direction in the past few weeks to the level we notice the “waver” between the east and the west and on Wednesday the 30th of July the planet movement stopped going toward the eastern direction.
Then in the months of August and September… Mars changed its course in the opposite direction to the West- and that until the end of September which means the sun will rise now from the west on Mars!! And this weird phenomena of the opposite movement is called “Retrograde Motion” Most scientist state that all the planets will go through the same once at least and our planet Earth is one of them. Planet Earth will move in the opposite direction some day and the sun will rise from the west!!
This might occur soon and we are unaware! The rise of the sun from the west is mentioned in the hadith and this is the major sign of the day of judgement, most if not all, the minor signs have occurred. Wake up. Our beloved messenger Mohamed (Peace Be Upon Him) said: “One of the signs of the hour the sun will rise from the west, where no longer tauba (forgiveness) will be granted”!!
And the strange thing most of our Shariah scholars mentioned that the rise of the sun from the west occurs only once on that day the sun will rise from the west then again from the east and continues until Allah wishes and this is similar to what is happening to Mars it stops, then it changes its course of direction for a short period of time then returns to way once it was.
And Abdullah Bin Amro (R.A.) said: (I memorised from the messenger (SAW) a hadith I will never forget I heard the messenger of Allah (SAW) say: The first aya to come the rise of the sun from the west) [Ahmad]. And the messenger SAW “Allah places HIS hand at night to forgive his morning sinners, and places in the morning to forgive his night sinners until the sun rises from the west” [Muslim].
This piece of news is very important as it brings with it a great sign of warning and remembrance of the coming of a new WORLD – the world of he Hereafter When we show this hadith that was told 1400 years ago about this miracle..you will see InshaALLAH, a lot will revert to right path…And the Muslims if they see this phenomena happening in Mars who knows maybe it would bring them closer to our CREATOR. May Allah keep all of us in the right path and provide us with success in this world as well as in the hereafter.
The Source for this was a Pakistani Newspaper called The Business Recorder.
11 thoughts on “NASA confirms Sun can rise from the West?”
Ha! Don’t they know that the Sun only rises in the west when astronauts hear the adhan on the Moon?
i saw this same thing on a nasa site, tht mars did change direction. i have noticed tht the minor signs of day of judgement are all around us. look up minor signs of the day of judgement and you will find tht many of them have alredy happened.
The sun rising for the west is not a minor sign. It’s a major sign. When the sun rises from the west the door of repentance will close. This is one of of last things to happen before the final hour.
I agree that there are many signs all around us, but we still shouldn’t make stuff up, and before broadcasting information to everyone you know you should make sure that the information is accurate first, I have searched the NASA website and found nothing about the topic, and these kind of information have been spreading a lot lately, I just heard about it so I came here in my research to find if it’s true or not, and so far it doesn’t seem that it is. So good job for trying to inform people about it.
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And here is a picture ‘from NASA’ about Retrograde Mars.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100613.html
Thanks Mas’ud for pointing this out! NASA has a video on this to help visualize how the illusion of Mars changing directions works.
http://mars.nasa.gov/allaboutmars/nightsky/retrograde/
But it is possible ..read below article
There are real retrograde motions in the solar system. Venus rotates in the opposite direction from every other planet! If the clouds ever parted, the Venusians would see the sun rise in the west and set in the east.
Some moons also have retrograde orbits around their planets. Most of the large moons orbit in the same direction their planet spins. But not Triton, the largest moon of Neptune. And among the smaller asteroid-like moons that swarm about the giant planets, many have retrograde orbits.
Triton
A photomosaic from Voyager 2 of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. The moon orbits Neptune opposite the direction that the planet rotates. Does this mean that Triton came from the Kuiper Belt and was eventually captured by the ice giant? Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab / U.S. Geological Survey
A retrograde orbit most likely means the moon was captured after the planet formed. Triton probably came out of the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy debris beyond Neptune where Pluto lives. Perhaps a collision in the belt sent Triton careening inward toward the sun. A close encounter with Neptune could have slowed it down and forced it to settle into a backwards orbit around the distant planet.
In the past decade, astronomers have also discovered planets in other solar systems with retrograde orbits. These exoplanets orbit their suns in the opposite direction from how the star rotates. This is puzzling because planets form out of debris disks that orbit young stars, disks which share the star’s rotation. The only way to get a planet orbiting backwards is either by a near-collision with another planet or if another star once passed too close to the system. Close encounters tend to disrupt orbits.
Retrograde motion refers to the occasional backwards motion of the planets. It is entirely an illusion caused by the moving Earth passing the outer planets in their orbits. Real retrograde motions—of planet rotation, orbiting moons, and planets in other solar systems—are a sign of long forgotten collisions and captures. They are one way that astronomers piece together the history of our solar system, and the systems of other stars in our galaxy!
Apart from all things,how about the mechanics of sun rising from the west other than “retrograde motion”.If the globe turns upside down,direction of sun rising would be reversed without any change in the direction of spin of globe.If mass of molten elements in the core of earth shifts towards an empty space,as having been created by enormous removal of fossil fuel,such an event may happen perhaps .
Agreed TahirAbrar. The only way this may apply to sun setting snd rising on our earth is if we have a rotational reversal caused by a collision perhaps, or a magnetic pole shift. Several times in geological history this magnetic flip has occurred and it may accompany a perception by a theoretical survivor on the same spot on the planet, that the directions one is used to, have switched.
This future magnetic pole flip may be the real reference of the Hadith…since it could be imminent…
The other motion ‘changes’ are illusions according to our relative perceptions.
This type of journalism is I’m embarrassing.