What is the mark on the Moon

Question

Question: A mark resembling patches of cloud is seen on the Moon. What is this mark from?

Answer

There is, first, the view that Allah the Pure initially made the Moon and the Sun alike; then, of the seventy parts of the Moon’s light, one part remained in the Moon, while 69 parts Hazrat Jibril ﵇, by God’s command, rubbed off with his wing, removed from the Moon and transferred to the Sun. This is the trace of that rubbing. The second view is that the letters «جميل»

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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