For those of you who wanted proof that these things were stated in the Quran.

The verse:

[I swear] by Heaven and the Tariq! And what will convey to you what the Tariq is? The Star Piercing [the darkness]! (Qur'an, 86:1-3)

The word "Tariq," name of the Sura 86, comes from the root "tarq," whose basic meaning is that of striking hard enough to produce a sound, or hitting.
Bearing in mind the word's possible meaning as "beating," "striking hard," our attention may be being drawn in this to an important scientific fact. ( Sura means chapter )

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