Friday 9 December 2011

The Significance of The Rainbow and The Milky Way

The Significance of The Rainbow and The Milky Way

Upon the authority of Abut Tufail who said: Ibnil Kawwaa asked Ali – Radhiyallahu ‘Anhu – about the Milky Way so he replied:


It is the ‘Sharaj’ (broad opening to the heavens) and from it Allah sent water down in abundance (i.e during the flood of Nooh)


(Collected by Imaamul Bukhaari in his Adabul Mufrad 766/589)


Shaikh Al Albaani declared its isnaad ‘Saheeh’ then commented:


The ‘Sharaj’ of a valley is its expansive wider opening (i.e. its mouth, its broad beginning)”


Upon the authority of Ibn Abbaas – Radhiyallahu ‘Anhumaa – who said: The rainbow is a safeguard for the inhabitants of the earth that they will not be drowned (as a form of destruction as in the time of Nooh) and the Milky Way is the door of the heavens and the splitting of the heavens will begin from it (i.e on the day of Judgement)”


(Collected by Imaamul Bukhaari in his Adabul Mufrad 767/590)


Shaikh Albaani declared its isnaad ‘Saheeh’

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