If Allah is the creator, how could Allah make such a stupid mistake?

Question

In Sura 18.86 of the Quran, Allah says the sun sets in a dirty pond on earth. If Allah is the creator, how could Allah make such a stupid mistake? Shouldn’t Allah have known the world to be round and the sun does not dip into a dirty pond on earth everyday, unless Allah is not God and the Quran is not from God.

Answer 1

because it is NOT THE GOD!

another ! >>
The sun has its orbit like the moon. Quran 36:40

Answer 2

There are plenty of passages in the Bible that assume a flat earth, too, not to mention any number of physical impossibilities (such as Joshua stopping the sun from setting).

Don't mistake poetic metaphor for science...it is the inevitable mistake of literalists and skeptics and makes them look far more foolish than any scripture they are trying criticize.

Answer 3

You are taking the line from Quran out of context. Complete text of the passage is:
"Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."
It is obvious this line describes perspective of a human being named "Zul-qarnain". Don't you observe the illusion of sun setting into the sea if you are sitting on a beach on west side?

Answer 4

18:86 [And he marched westwards] till, when he came to the setting of the sun, [84] it appeared to him that it was setting in a dark, turbid sea; [85] and nearby he found a people [given to every kind of wrongdoing]. We said: "O thou Two-Horned One! Thou mayest either cause [them] to suffer or treat them with kindness!" [86]

[84]
I.e., the westernmost point of his expedition (Razi).(Quran Ref: 18:86 )


[85]
Or: "abundance of water" - which, according to many philologists (cf. Taj al-'Arus), is one of the meanings of `ayn (primarily denoting a "spring"). As for my rendering of the phrase "he found it (wajadaha) setting...", etc., as "it appeared to him that it was setting", see Razi and Ibn Kathir, both of whom point out that we have here a metaphor based on the common optical illusion of the sun's "disappearing into the sea"; and Razi explains this, correctly, by the fact that the earth is spherical. (It is interesting to note that, according to him, this explanation was already advanced in the - now lost - Qur'an -commentary of Abu `Ali al-Jubba’i, the famous Mu'tazili scholar who died in 303 H., which corresponds to 915 or 916 of the Christian era.)(Quran Ref: 18:86 )


[86]
This divine permission to choose between two possible courses of action is not only a metonymic statement of the freedom of will accorded by God to man, but establishes also the important legal principle of istihsan (social or moral preference) open to a ruler or government in deciding as to what might be conducive to the greatest good (maslahah) of the community as a whole: and this is the first "lesson" of the parable of Dhu 'l-Qarnayn.(Quran Ref: 18:86 )

Answer 5

First learn to not insult the creator.... we should keep respect for any other religions beliefs and you have misunderstood the verse.
that verse's translation is: "Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found itset in a pool of murky water: and near it he found people: we said: 'O Zul-Qarnain! you either punish he or treat them with kindness;'''
Who said that it set in a pool of water? is it man or Allah???

don't cherry pick.... read the verses before and after it before you come to a conclusion.

Answer 6

Just try to separate in your own mind, ups!, perhaps better yet, in your own imagination, Fantasy, from truth?, which is not what I will say if I have use the World Reality!, Then think in this to our convenience, we can understand, something like Einstein, formula?, in a different way, if someone wouldn't though to not only put this in writhing but in words?, other than as E=h2O????, I really don't know such a formula although I know, it has nothing to do, whit what you are interesting in Understand?, so do you see, in reality any and everything man said?, is saying? and we will say?, to you may not even be Important yet!, but what is Important is that your interest is compering different though? point of view, to learn the difference between you been able to do, better in what we have fail to see to interpreted, to understand to smell, to ear, to perceived in search for whom has promise us, he is the best and by following our heart in this case, we can become like HIM, perhaps not in his time but in our own time, and HIM is more than willing to help, because we are the prove, of his own Evolution, into powers, God for us, (Dios=Spanish), it can easily be Allah, or Yahweh, or and for Gautama Buddha, Vishnu?, AmonRa for Egyptians?, Jehovah?, You see some people stuck in something they don't know and to make their self feel Important they say anithing?, but in reality the material world is as real as we make it?, by following our own desires, our earth, our mind's, and then the World will give our self's something back that we can't see, but we know is there. That is what many have done, to make a profit out of their though. you want the ture, well God is true, and it doesn't matter what name peoples give HIM(God), and that isn't a fantasy, for HIM(God), is very real, in base of what we can find and build more of our own Reality, even......, in......., some....., instances...., using to scape....., of...., our ..., own Realty......, some....., Fantasy.

Answer 7

You mean its not 100% literally true? You mean the holy texts are just bronze-age myths from primitive, scientifically-illiterate desert peoples with no basis in reality?

Shock!

Horror!

**So we shouldn't take the holy texts literally Christopher, maybe we should view them as allegory or literature? Well that's our whole point, isn't it?**

Its kind of funny seeing ignorant Christians say Allah isn't God - yet you don't often hear them saying Jehovah or Yahweh isn't god - ITS THE SAME GOD, OK?

Answer 8

Hey, the god of the bible, Jehovah, says the earth is flat, and that rabbits chew their cud.

Answer 9

The world is a small place for the literal minded.

Answer 10

there is nothing like this stupid kid, Allah is God but you wont now cause u r nothing but a racist