"Today we can look at a globe and know that the earth is somewhat like a ball, a sphere. The Qur'an makes certain statements that led Muslim scientists to understand long before their European counterparts that the earth is spherical.
When Europe was in the dark ages thinking that the earth was flat, Muslim students were using globes for studying the earth in Islamic universities.
Since it was not the purpose of the Qur'an to teach science, the Qur'an did not need to state explicitly that the earth is spherical in shape (or more precisely, a geoid). But some of what the Qur'an says stimulates you to think of the world as a globe. Take, for example, the following verse: "Have you not seen how God merges the night into the day and merges the day into the night?" (Quran 31:29).
Another verse tells us that God coils the day and night around: "He coils the night upon the day and He coils the day upon the night" (Quran 39:5)."
http://english.islamway.com/bindex.php?section=article&id=33
2006-07-19 09:42:28 · 23 answers · asked by trusolja_dareal23 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-19 09:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by miss_gem_01 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does the koran have some special magic power that makes it's words appear to say different things to muslims than non-muslims? Because I see a LOT of this right here, where someone claims the koran has some great scientific knowledge, and then to prove it, they post... scripture or whatever it's called when it's from the koran, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the topic they were discussing. As usual neither of those verses have anything even remotely to do with the earth being spherical. So... what's the deal with that, I really want to know?
2006-07-19 16:51:46 · answer #2 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a slightly flattened sphere,fatter at the equinox
But this is another bloody Islamic question
So yes arabic scholars knew the Earth was a sphere hundreds of years ago,but so did the Greeks
And on the same theme,What has Islam done since?
Apart from forment religious rage.
2006-07-19 16:49:55 · answer #3 · answered by salforddude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That makes sense, since the Greeks knew the earth was round long before Islam came about, and much of Islam's foundation is Hellenistic.
2006-07-19 16:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The official records of Europe record this as a theft. Europeans have been using this, and many other ancient ideas as if they were their own. But the really sad part is, Islam hasn't produced anything worth stealing in several centuries...go figure...
2006-07-19 16:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth has an up side down shape of a pear like form.
2006-07-19 16:47:15 · answer #6 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible stated all of this long before the Quran did. Maybe those who wrote the Quran read the Bible first... that would have been really smart.
2006-07-19 16:47:07 · answer #7 · answered by Caboman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is an ill-shaped sphere.
2006-07-19 16:46:18 · answer #8 · answered by suraj_krsna1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How did you pull the Earth being round from that verse?
2006-07-19 16:45:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody knows the earth is flat!
2006-07-19 16:47:05 · answer #10 · answered by FunnieBunnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's telling s that Islam is right and he's trying to convert us.
Oy skip! Another one! Bring in the frying pan!
2006-07-19 16:46:28 · answer #11 · answered by Coffee-Infused Insomniac 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋