This is the textual translation of what was printed in Fars News Agency. 

News number: 8211120195

A Cultural and Literature Service. 

The discovery of the scientific evidence of splitting the Moon brings a wave of new converts to Islam in America and Europe.

Fars News reported that according to the information provided by the Iran Quranic News Agency the American astronauts in their latest geological researches came to the conclusion that the planet Moon in a distant past had been split in two halves and it again has come together as the result of an action/reaction.

Iran Quranic News stated that according to the “Kuwait Chat News Base” this fact that was mentioned in a television by a spokesperson of a space agency of America was discovered when the American astronauts who wanted to hoist the flag of the USA on the "top" of the Moon were not successful to do that. 

To find the cause of this problem, the astronauts conducted geological researches and as the consequence it became obvious to them that many years earlier the Moon had been split in two halves and then those halves were rejoined. 

This news that testifies to the truth of the Quran and the holy prophet of Islam (pbuh) has resulted that many people in Europe and America express their interest to embrace the clear religion of Islam. 

End of message.

The majority of Iranians do not have the basic necessities of life yet the Islamic Republic finds enough money to create a Quranic News Agency to make these kinds of asinine reports. The clerics realize that for them to survive, people must be kept ignorant. However, they only fool themselves. The Iranian youth laugh at these jokes even though the thinking Iranians weep at what has befallen to their country that was once upon a time the cradle of civilization and culture. 

 

 

 1. The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.2  But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic." Quran: Surah 54 (The Moon)

Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 208:

Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The people of Mecca asked Allah's Apostle to show them a miracle. So he showed them the moon split in two halves between which they saw the Hiram' mountain.

Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 387:

Narrated Ibn Masud:
During the lifetime of Allah's Apostle the moon was split into two parts; one part remained over the mountain, and the other part went beyond the mountain. On that, Allah's Apostle said, "Witness this miracle."

Maududi the commentator of the Quran writes:  

The incident of the shaqq-al-Qamar (splitting of the moon) that has been mentioned in it, determines its period of revelation precisely. The traditionists and commentators are agreed that this incident took place at Mina in Makkah about five years before the Holy Prophet's hijrah to Madinah.

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