The Noble Quran, Bible & Science: SHAPE OF THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL

Thursday, May 19, 2011

SHAPE OF THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL

بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST BENEFICENT AND MERCIFULL

اللہ کے نام سے شروع جو نہایت مہربان رحم والا

الصلواة والسلام عليک  يارسول الله 

الصلواة والسلام عليک  ياحبيب الله 

الصلواة والسلام عليک  يانبي الله 

الصلواة والسلام عليک  يا نور الله 

YAH ALLAH SEND BLESSINGS ON PROPHET MUHAMMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM

AND ON CHILDREN OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM

SHAPE OF THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL

In early times, people believed that the earth was flat. For centuries, men were afraid to venture out too far, for fear of falling 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’anic 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’an 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’an 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’an 79:30]

The Arabic word for egg here is dahaahaa1 which means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg

resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur’an correctly describes the shape of the

earth, though the prevalent notion when the Qur’an was revealed was that the earth was flat.