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       THE SPHERICAL SHAPE OF THE EARTH IN QUR'AN
       By: Captshittu Date: December 14, 2017, 7:41 pm
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       [font=verdana]THE SPHERICAL SHAPE OF THE EARTH[/font]
       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 earth is spherical when he sailed around it
       in 1597. Consider the following Qur’aanic verse regarding the
       alternation of day and night:
       “Seest thou not that Allah merges Night into Day And He merges
       Day into night?” [Al-Qur’aan 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:
       “He created the heavens And the earth In true (proportions): He
       makes the Night Overlap the Day, and the Day Overlap the Night.”
       [Al-Qur’aan 39:5]
       The Arabic word used here is Kawwara meaning ‘to overlap’ or ‘to
       coil’– 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 earth’s shape:
       “And the earth, moreover, Hath He made egg shaped.”  [Al-Qur’aan
       79:30]
       The Arabic word for egg here is dahaha, which means an
       ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg resembles the
       geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur’aan correctly
       describes the shape of the earth, though the prevalent notion
       when the Qur’aan was revealed was that the earth is flat.
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