It's the Ancient Arab way of keeping track of the seasons even though they use a lunar calendar, because a certain "lunar station" always corresponds to a certain time of the solar calendar | Arabs associate Pleiades with good luck, especially when comparing it to the lunar station immediately after it, Aldebaran |
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See the comments below for an interesting excerpt from Al-Kisaa2i's "Tales of the Prophets | It is they who will be given dominion over Gog and Magog, who will be destroyed by them |
The inhabitants are a nation called Hajla, who are numerous and who eat each other | Muslim believe we occupy the first of seven earths, and look up to see the first of seven heavens, that God created |
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8-9 Well, the Quran has a few words that hardly seem to occur elsewhere in Arabic literature, like sijjin, for example, and throughout history, Muslim exegetes have attempted to decipher such cryptic references by drawing from pre-Islamic traditions | The inhabitants thereof are a nation called Qays, who eat dirt and drink mothers' milk |
Pleiades is used in Arabic figuratively to refer to that which is really out of reach.
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