"Earth is Flat in the Quran"
No its not, rather your brain is Flat
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No its not, rather your brain is Flat
(Thread)🧵
One of the oldest and silliest arguments of Islamophobes is that Quran indicates a Flat Earth and they use these ayat:
"And at the Earth, how it is spread out?"
[Quran 88:20]
"And Allah has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse)."
[Quran 71:19]
"And at the Earth, how it is spread out?"
[Quran 88:20]
"And Allah has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse)."
[Quran 71:19]
Does these verses really say that Earth is literally flat ⁉️
Let's see what the Ulamā (scholars) say,
Let's see what the Ulamā (scholars) say,
Shaykh Muhammad Amīn ash-Shanqeeti رحمه الله said:
If the scholars of Islam affirm that the earth is round, then what would they say about the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says
"And at the earth, how it is spread out?”
[Quran 88:20].
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If the scholars of Islam affirm that the earth is round, then what would they say about the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says
"And at the earth, how it is spread out?”
[Quran 88:20].
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Their response will be the same as their response concerning the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says :
“Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black muddy (or hot) water”
[al-Kahf 18:86]
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“Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black muddy (or hot) water”
[al-Kahf 18:86]
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that is, as it appears to be in the eye of the beholder, because the sun sets on one country, but remains up in the sky for another, until it rises from the east on the following morning. So the earth looks flat in every region or part of it, because of its immense size.
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This does not contradict its real shape, because we may see a very high mountain, but if we climb it and reach its summit we may find a flat surface there, and find an entire nation living there, and some of the people there may not know anything about the rest of the world, ++
..and so on.
[Adwa’ al-Bayaan, 8/428]
[Adwa’ al-Bayaan, 8/428]
Shaykh Rafee‘ ad-Deen ibn Waliullah ad-Dahlawi said in his book at-Takmeel:
Some may understand words such as “made the earth as a bed” [an-Naba’ 78:6], “He spread the earth” [an-Naazi‘aat 79:30] and "how it is spread out” [al-Ghaashiyah 88:20] as meaning that it is flat,
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Some may understand words such as “made the earth as a bed” [an-Naba’ 78:6], “He spread the earth” [an-Naazi‘aat 79:30] and "how it is spread out” [al-Ghaashiyah 88:20] as meaning that it is flat,
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, whereas the scholars affirm that it is round on the basis of sound evidence, so it is thought that there is a conflict. That may be refuted by the fact that the visible part of it (for a person standing on it) appears flat, because the larger a circle is, the more spread ++
..out it is, so we may say that it is flat on the basis of that part of it that is visible to us, and it is round in its totality, on the basis of rational thinking.
Quoted from him by Nawab Siddeeq Hasan Khan in his tafseer, Fath al-Bayaan, 15/208
Quoted from him by Nawab Siddeeq Hasan Khan in his tafseer, Fath al-Bayaan, 15/208
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen رحمه الله said:
The earth is round, based on the evidence of the Qur’an, reality, and scientific views.
The evidence of the Qur’an is the verse in which Allah says:
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The earth is round, based on the evidence of the Qur’an, reality, and scientific views.
The evidence of the Qur’an is the verse in which Allah says:
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“He created the heavens and earth for a true purpose; He wraps the night around [yukawwir] the day and the day around the night”
[az-Zumar 39:5]
The word yukawwir (translated here as “wraps around” means to make something round, like a turban. It is well-known that night ++
[az-Zumar 39:5]
The word yukawwir (translated here as “wraps around” means to make something round, like a turban. It is well-known that night ++
..and day follow one another on earth, which implies that the Earth is round, because if you wrap one thing around another thing, and the thing that it is wrapped around is the Earth, then Earth must be round.
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With regard to real-life evidence, this has been proven. If a man were to fly from Jeddah, for example, heading west, he would come back to Jeddah from the east, if he flew in a straight line. This is something concerning which no one differs.
This is not contradicted by the verses in which Allah, may He be exalted,
"And at the earth, how it is spread out?”
[al-Ghaashiyah 88:20]
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"And at the earth, how it is spread out?”
[al-Ghaashiyah 88:20]
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Because the Earth is huge and its curvature cannot be seen from a short distance, it appears to be spread out and one cannot see anything that would make one fear living on it, but this does not contradict the fact that it is round, because it is very big. ++
However they say that it is not evenly round; rather it is indented or pushed in at the north and south poles. Hence they say that it is egg-shaped.
[Fataawa Noor ‘ala ad-Darb]
[Fataawa Noor ‘ala ad-Darb]
Moreover, Scholars like Ibn Hazm رحمه الله and Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله reported an Ijma (concensus) of Muslims that earth is round.
Hence proved,
that women who is also the one who insulted our beloved Prophet ﷺ , her brain is Flat not the Earth.
that women who is also the one who insulted our beloved Prophet ﷺ , her brain is Flat not the Earth.
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