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AZAN ON THE MOON
The Moon reflects the light of the Sun.
God is One, eternal, and omnipresent, and the outstanding achievements of mankind confirm this over and over. The first spaceship to take man to the Moon was the U.S.A.’s Apollo 11. The flight took place on 16 July 1969. On board the spaceship were three astronauts – Neil A. Armstrong (Commander), Michael Collins (Spaceship’s Command Module Pilot), and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. (Lunar Module Commander). On 21 July at 5:56, the first man, Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the surface of the Moon, after which he was joined by Edwin Aldrin. The astronauts, wearing space suits with automatic life-support systems strapped to their backs, inspected the ship from the outside, set up a television camera, deployed scientific instruments on the Moon’s surface, and collected approximately 22 kg of moon surface samples. They brought to the Moon five medals with the images of deceased astronauts: Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee. Armstrong and his two fellow astronauts, Aldrin and Collins, saw an object on the Moon’s horizon, which looked like an open book, and then they heard some mysterious “music.” They reported this back to Earth. At first, no one on Earth believed them: how could there be a book on the Moon and music in airless space? But the “music” was also heard on Earth over the radio transmission, and the “book” was photographed. It is believed that the book the astronauts saw on the Moon is the prototype of the earthly Koran that exists in the heavens. But all this information was classified. On 21 July at 20:54, the astronauts took off from the Moon, after spending 21 hours and 36 minutes on it. On 24 July at 19:50, Apollo-11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to the southwest of the Hawaiian Islands. In February 1983, fourteen years after his flight to the Moon, Astronaut Neil Armstrong went to Egypt to participate in a scientific conference. During the meeting, the azan sounded. Armstrong, sitting in the presidium, went pale and asked: “What is that music?” Surprised by the astronaut’s behavior, the conference participants explained that it was the Muslim call to prayer. “That voice. That’s what I heard when I first stepped on the Moon, hearing it is giving me goose bumps!… O Allah! I found You not on Earth, but on the Moon!… I stepped onto the Moon without praying, but now I will pray, you can consider me a Muslim.” So the first person to walk on the Moon, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, became a Muslim. Later a NASA employee, who recorded all the conversations between the spaceship and Earth during the astronauts’ time on the Moon, declassified this information by allowing the public to listen to the tape.
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16 July 1969 Despite the unbearable Floridian heat and humidity, thousand correspondents from 55 countries of the world and approximately another million people outside the space vehicle launching site anxiously watched the launch of a spaceship. But there were many more waiting for the rocket to blast off. All over the world, hundreds of millions of people had their eyes glued to their television screens in anticipation of reports about the unprecedented flight. Why were people so excited and what prompted such interest in them? The thing was that at this hour, at this minute, man was preparing to fly to the Moon. This is what Van Brown, the astronauts’ instructor, said about the significance of this flight: “Ships that flew to the Moon without people prior to this provided us with a certain amount of information. These were undoubtedly great achievements in space exploration. But the flight of astronauts to the Moon will bring real progress in this field. It will be a new step forward in the development of mankind.” Yes, at this hour, mankind stood on the brink of new way of thinking, its sons, having wrested themselves from their cradle, the Earth, were to step for the first time on the celestial surface of a heavenly body. Time 9:32
Emitting a powerful jet of fire and smoke, and deafening everyone around with the roar of its powerful engines, Apollo 11 soars high into the sky to leave the Earth’s orbit, taking with it the first astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins) who were to walk on the Moon. Exactly 102 hours and 47 minutes later, Apollo 11 made a soft landing on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong had the honor, after descending nine steps from the spaceship, of being the first man to walk on its surface.
* * * 20 July 1969 The man who stepped onto the Moon informed the world of this with the following words: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” The Apollo 11 astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins, were convinced Christians. During their exploration of the Moon’s surface, they suddenly saw a strange sight. All the conversations at that moment were being recorded on tape. This is what the tape recorder picked up at the moment they saw the strange sight. Astronaut Aldrin: “We can see some object that looks like an open book. Right above the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis).” Astronaut Armstrong: “It looks like two rings, or to be more exact, like an open book.” Astronaut Collins: “I changed the position of the sextant, now we can clearly see that it is shaped like a book.” Observation from Earth: “What are you talking about, how can there be a book on the Moon?” The voices were recorded on tape. The next day the book disappeared, however some external interference constantly jammed the radio transmission, a sound kept breaking in similar to the siren of a fire engine. Collins: “Earth, can you hear me, get rid of the interference, that siren, or I’ll go deaf…” Earth: “That sound is not coming from Earth, it’s coming from without, are you sure there isn’t another ship there besides yours?” Armstrong: “And now some music has started, Earth, are you going to get rid of the music or not?” Earth: “Everything here is in working order. The music is coming from you.” Aldrin: “What nonsense! Can we agree or not? That music is coming from you!”
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The next day, Armstrong went onto the Moon again. “The Eagle has landed!” he said with emotion. A person was walking on the Moon for the first time. Suddenly the sound like a siren was heard again. But this time (this is all recorded on tape), the following words were heard: “RABBI-EL ARDZ-DINI ENDAHU-IZA-KUN-ALIM.” Earth: “Hey, who’s talking?” Armstrong was walking on the Moon at this time. Again the sound of music was heard: “Ashgadu ala illaga illallag.” (I testify – there is no God but Allah.) Earth: “UFOs again? What were the words in that music?” Collins: “Ashan mahatma rasamballa…,” something like that. Sounds like Indian…” Armstrong: “I heard it (the Arabian prayer presented above. – Ed.) to the end. It somehow makes you feel good. I think it’s from African radio stations…” Aldrin: “I changed the frequency, the same sound again. It’s coming from the Moon. It’s not a radio wave. It’s something hard to believe.” Earth: “What, have you all gone crazy up there? How can there be sound in airless space?” Collins: “So what is it then? UFOs?” Armstrong: “Can UFOs be shaped like books?” Earth: “A strange indisposition. Or some space wave? It’s obvious that the voices, sounds, are all figments of your imagination?” Armstrong: “You can’t take pictures of figments! You can’t record an imaginary voice on tape!” Earth: “Alright, but how can sound spread in airless space?” Sometime later, the astronauts returned to Earth. The cassettes were listened to again. In the meantime, consultations were held with Al-Baz, NASA’s executive secretary. He gave an explanation of the “music” heard on the Moon, declaring it to be a holy saying in Arabic. Much time passed, and Warden, an Apollo 16 astronaut, heard the same “saying.” What is more, while photographing the Earth in infrared rays, he picked up something akin to the aura of our planet, which looks like the Arabic inscription of the Creator’s name – Allah. This photograph, which was published in “National Geographic,” has traveled around the whole world.
(Information from “Divine Miracles” was used.)
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