Transliteration:( Walqamara qaddarnaahu manaazila hattaa 'aada kal'ur joonil qadeem )
 58. There are twenty-eight stages, which it completes in twenty-eight nights. If the month of thirty days, then it remains concealed for wo nights. If it consists of twenty-nine days, hen it remains concealed for one night. The iscussion on this has taken place in Surah Yunus.
59. During the latter nights of the month, the moon becomes thin and slanted and looks pale, as it was in the earlier nights of the month. This is the intervening condition of man. In his old age, he is unintelligent and he tends to become weak, just as in childhood. Pure is He who is free of any change.
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The tafsir of Surah Yaseen verse 39 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Yaseen ayat 37 which provides the complete commentary from verse 37 through 40.
34. That is, the phases of the moon go on changing throughout the month. It begins as a crescent, then goes on waxing every day till it becomes the full moon on the 14th of the month. Then it starts waning every day till at last it returns to its original shape of the crescent. The same has been happening for millions of years with perfect regularity, and no change has ever occurred in the phases of the moon. That is why one can always calculate and find out exactly in what phase the moon will be on a particular day. If the movement of the moon had not been bound in a system, estimation of its phases would not have been possible.
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