THE SUN WILL EXTINGUISH

    THE SUN WILL EXTINGUISH

The light of the sun is due to a chemical process on

its surface that has been taking place continuously

for the past five billion years. It will come to an end

at some point of time in the future, when the sun

will be totally extinguished, leading to extinction of

all life on earth.

 Regarding the impermanence of the

sun’s existence, the Qur’an says:

“And the Sun runs its course for a period determined

for it; that is

the decree of (Him)

the exalted in Might,

the All-Knowing.”

                   [Al-Qur’an 36:38]

The Arabic word used here is mustaqarr, which

means a place or time that is determined. Thus the

Qur’an says that the sun runs towards a determined

place, and will do so only up to a pre-determined

period of time – meaning that it will end or

extinguish.