Salaamun aleikum, Brother Joseph.
Insha'Allah, I hope you and yours are well.
I wonder if you could help me resolve a "knotty issue" and in the process perhaps generate another article for your website.
The issue concerns the interpretation of the word noor as used in The Qur'an, specifically with reference to (10:5) and (24:35). According to my CURRENT understanding, the word noor means "light which subsists by means of something else". (This appears to be the meaning contained in Lane's Lexicon.)
This rendering of noor is fine when used to describe the moon as in (10:5) since the light of the moon is clearly a derived/borrowed/reflected light; however, this rendering becomes problematic since its use in (24:35) would entail that Allah/God is the derived/borrowed/reflected light of the heavens and the earth.
In this connection, I should like to refer you to the following website:
http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Science/moonlight_wc.html I am confident that there is a way to resolve this issue, but am currently unable to do so. Can you help?