An advice?
Don't use Yusuf Ali's translation man, it has proven really out of context.
Here is abetter translation: (READ IT ALL NOT JUST ONE LINE)
[74] Absolutely, (I swear) by the moon
[74] And the night as it passes.
[74] And the morning as it shines.
[74] This is one of the great miracles
[84] I solemnly swear by the rosy dusk.
[84] And the night as it spreads.
[84] And the moon and its phases.
[84] You will move from stage to stage.
Did you not read what I wrote above? or should I write it again?
Allah clearly defined himself in the Quran as the God of everything not the Moon God. If Islam was derived from a pagan religion, then at least the moon god would have claimed to create everything and still keep the name moon god or hubal. If the moon god was Allah then muhammad wouldn't have destroyed Hubal when he took Mecca back.
And for your information. Meccans believed in Allah as creator of everything and they also believed that Hubal (moon god) was helping God rule everything.
Did I not tell you that this symbol is used hundredsd of years after the prophet Muhammad, or would you rather live in denial about it?///////