Does the Qur'an or sunnah state the earth is flat? What does Islam say about the shape of the earth? 🧵:
Islamaphobes claim that in islam, the earth is flat! Which is false, there are consensus that have been reported by scholars which state the earth is round.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (رحمه الله) narrated [that] from Abu’l-Husayn ibn al-Munādi (رحمه الله) when he said: "Imam Abu’l-Husayn Ahmad ibn Ja‘far ibn al-Munādi narrated from the prominent scholars who are well known for knowledge of reports and major works in religious...
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...sciences, from the second level of Ahmad’s companions, that there was no difference of opinion among the scholars that the sky is like a ball.
He said: Similarly they unanimously agreed that the Earth, with all that is contains land and sea, is like a ball.
He said: Similarly they unanimously agreed that the Earth, with all that is contains land and sea, is like a ball.
He said: That is demonstrated by the fact that the sun, moon, and stars do not rise and set over those who are in different parts of the earth at the same time; rather that occurs in the east before it happens in the west.
Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) was asked about [two] men who debated about the nature of heaven and earth: were they both round bodies? One of them said that they were, but the other denied that and said there is no basis for that. What is the correct view?
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He replied:
The heavens are round, according to Muslim scholars. More than one of the scholars and Muslim leaders narrated that the Muslims are unanimously agreed on that, such as Abu’l-Husayn Ahmad ibn Ja‘far ibn al-munādi
The heavens are round, according to Muslim scholars. More than one of the scholars and Muslim leaders narrated that the Muslims are unanimously agreed on that, such as Abu’l-Husayn Ahmad ibn Ja‘far ibn al-munādi
, one of the prominent figures among the second level of the companions of Imām Ahmad, who composed nearly four hundred books. Consensus on this point was also narrated by Imam Abu Muhammad ibn Hazm and Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī.
The scholars narrated that with well-known chains of narration from the companions and successors, and they quoted that from the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah of His Messenger. They discussed that in detail with orally transmitted evidence.
There is also mathematical evidence to that effect, and I do not know of anyone among the well-known Muslim scholars who denied that, apart from a few of those who engaged in arguments who, when they debated with the astrologers denied it for the sake of argument and said:
It may be square or hexagonal and so on. They did not deny that it could be round, but they said that the opposite of that was possible. I do not know of anyone who said that it is not round –with any certainty– apart from some ignorant people to whom no one pays any attention."
Ibn Hazm (رحمه الله):
'Evidence for the earth is round': "Abu Muhammad (Ibn Hazm) said: We are going to examine some of the statements against the idea that the earth is round. They said: There is sound evidence that the earth is round, but the common folk says otherwise.
'Evidence for the earth is round': "Abu Muhammad (Ibn Hazm) said: We are going to examine some of the statements against the idea that the earth is round. They said: There is sound evidence that the earth is round, but the common folk says otherwise.
Our response –and Allāh is the source of strength– is that none of the leading Muslim scholars who deserve to be called imāms or leaders in knowledge denied that the earth is round, and there is no narration from them to deny that.
Rather the evidence in the Qur’an and Sunnah stated that it is round." …and he quoted evidence to that effect -some were, يكور الليل على النهار ويكور النهار على الليل and وجعلنا آية النهار مبصرة-.
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