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Mohamad Mostafa Nassar
Twitter:@NassarMohamadMR
In early times, people believed that the earth is flat. For centuries, men were afraid to venture out too far, lest they should fall off the edge. Sir Francis Drake was the first person who proved that the shape of the earth is spherical when he sailed around it in 1597.
Consider the following Quranic verse regarding the alternation of day and night:ย โSeest thou not that Allah merges Night into Day And He merges Day into Night?โย [Al-Qurโan 31:29]
Merging here means that the night slowly and gradually changes to day and vice versa. This phenomenon can only take place if the earth is spherical. If the earth was flat, there would have been a sudden change from night to day and from day to night.
The following verse also alludes to the spherical shape of the earth: โHe created the heavens And the earth In true (proportions): He makes the Night Overlap the Day, and the Day Overlap the Night.โ [Al-Qurโaan39:5]
The Arabic word used here is Kawwara meaning โto overlapโ or โto coilโโ the way a turban is wound around the head. The overlapping or coiling of the day and night can only take place if the earth is spherical. The earth is not exactly round like a ball, but geo-spherical i.e. it is flattened at the poles.
The following verse contains a description of the earthโs shape:
ย โAnd the earth, moreover, Hath He made egg shaped.โย 2 [Al-Qurโaan 79:30]
The Arabic word for egg here isย dahaha,ย which means an ostrich egg. The shape of an ostrich egg resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qurโan correctly describes the shape of the earth, though the prevalent notion when the Qurโan was revealed was that the earth is flat.
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