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       MOUNTAINS ARE LIKE PEGS (STAKES)
       By: Al-Adavi Date: February 19, 2018, 2:22 pm
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       [font=andale mono]MOUNTAINS ARE LIKE PEGS (STAKES)[/font]
       In Geology, the phenomenon of ‘folding’ is a recently discovered
       fact.
       Folding is responsible for the formation of mountain ranges. The
       earth’s
       crust, on which we live, is like a solid shell, while the deeper
       layers are hot and fluid, and thus inhospitable to any form of
       life. It is also known that the stability of the mountains is
       linked to the phenomenon of folding, for it was the folds that
       were to provide foundations for the reliefs that constitute the
       mountains. Geologists tell us that the radius of the Earth is
       about 3,750 miles and the crust on which we live is very thin,
       ranging between 1 to 30 miles.
       Since the crust is thin, it has a high possibility of shaking.
       Mountains act like stakes or tent pegs that hold the earth’s
       crust and give it stability. The Qur’aan
       contains exactly such a description in the following verse: Have
       We not made The earth as a wide Expanse, And the mountains as
       pegs? [AlQur’aan 78:6-7]
       The word awtad means stakes or pegs (like those used to anchor a
       tent); they
       are the deep foundations of geological folds. A book named
       ‘Earth’ is considered as a basic reference textbook on geology
       in many universities
       around the world. One of the authors of this book is Frank
       Press, who was the
       President of the Academy of Sciences in the USA for 12 years and
       was the Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter. In
       this book he
       illustrates the mountain in a wedge-shape and the mountain
       itself as a small part of the whole, whose root is deeply
       entrenched in the ground. According
       to Dr. Press, the mountains play an important role in
       stabilizing the crust of the earth.
       The Qur’aan clearly mentions the function of the mountains in
       preventing the
       earth from shaking: And We have set on the earth Mountains
       standing firm, Lest it should shake with them [Al-Qur’aan 21:31]
       The Qur’aanic descriptions are in perfect agreement with modern
       geological data.
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