Abdurrahman
"The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Muhammad to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon)" [54]
Them Abdurrahman, the people LIVING THEIR AT THAT TIME who asked Muhammed a trick.
This has nothing to do with the moonlanding- rock collecting- whatever. Neither is rock collecting a miracle, since everything done to land on the moon is explainable in earthly physics.
But if you insist in believing this to be a true miracle:
then here's my standard rebutal for that ridiculous claim.
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Muslim Defence:
One must keep the prophecy in mind: “The moon has split.” This is a metaphor. Parts of the moon have left its surface. They no longer are part of the moon. So, the prophecy does not refer to the landing on the moon or to the first step made by Neil Armstrong but to the fact that Armstrong and Aldrin collected 21 kilograms of lunar rocks to bring them back to earth. The prophecy was fulfilled at the very moment the Astronauts left the moon in the lunar module containing 21 kilograms of rocks that had belonged to the moon.
Muslim reasoning behind this: This prophecy has come to pass on July 21 1969. Let us write those numbers down in the format used by almost all countries : 21 / 07 /1969. We get 21071969 and 21071969 = 19 x 1109051 It is interesting to note that the american date of landing is coded. The lunar module landed on July 20 : 7 / 20 1969. Indeed : 7201969 = 379051 X 19....
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Christian Answer: why is the Christian year taking to proof this far out theory? why not the Muslim calendar? What kinda of answer would that be? Muhammed points at the moon in orde to convince the two unbelievers with a miracle and then nothing happen 'at least not now'. over thousands of years from now. I wouldn't be convinced either!!! i agree with those two poor people who wasted 5 minutes of their precious time, wasting it on bs! and on top of that if they didn't see anything why would they say 'old trick' (since magic doesn't really excist) 'seen that allready', bye mister prophet. so far the trick isn't possible and isn't supported to be either and the prophecy doesn't make sence either. Basiclly 'the miracle' didn't occur at all.
Jesus said, "...false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect -- if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time" (Matthew 24:24-25).