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Surah 84. Al-Inshiqaq, Ayah 18

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وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا ٱتَّسَقَ Qur’an Al-Inshiqaq (84:18)
Wa a lqamari i tha ittasaq a
and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:9
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

Thus God "calls to witness" the fact that nothing in His creation is ever at a standstill, since everything moves unceasingly from one state of being into another, at every moment changing its aspect and its condition: a phenomenon aptly described by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus by the phrase panta rhei ("everything is in flux").

by the moon, when she grows full:
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And by the moon when it waxes full!
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And by the moon when she is at the full,
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
And the Moon in her Fullness; 6046
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

(3) The astronomical Full Moon does not last a moment. The moment the moon is full, she begins to decline, and the moment she is in her "inter-lunar swoon", she begins her career anew as a growing New Moon. So is man's life here below. It is not fixed or permanent, either in its physical phases, or even more strikingly, in its finer phases, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual.

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