2وَالقَمَرِ إِذا تَلاهاMir Ahmed AliBy1 the moon when she followeth after it!The moon following the sun, and - its native reflective property, its acting as the substitute of the sun in illuminating the world as the sun’s vicegerent—the contrast in its effect of the coolness, in its light quite different from the heat producing light of the sun, though the light reflected by the moon is nothing else other than the light of the sun, and what makes the same light of the sun to become the opposite in effect and nature, to its original properties it possesses before the reflection, is another mystery left till now for the scientist to only speculate and imagine and to go on revising their own theories, one after another.’Tala’ meaning—following of a thing as a consequence of another one as antecedent, i.e., the former is next to the latter deriving its strength from it. In this sense it has been used—11:17 (A.P.)