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Glory to Allah (he who said):
(He draweth the night as a
veil O'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid
succession)
Al-A'raf 54
(the phrase
"seeking the other in rapid succession" was expressed in
Arabic as" Yatlbho Hathithan")
which means following it rapidly, without stopping.
Lets image that.....the day is an organism of
light emitted from the sun filling all the space and the
surroundings in all directions and the night is another
organism that is having no light in it except the glow of the
stars following the day rapidly and the day is following it
also . this one runs and the other one seeking it without
stopping.
But to where? And how? Are they running
in a straight way its terminal is the infinity? If it was like
this so there will be only one day pass over the earth
followed by only one night and then its over .
But we see them following each other, as the
day comes out every day from the same direction it came out
from the previous day, and it's sun moves to comes down in the
same direction it came down at yesterday and also the darkness
from the east and it depresses in the west, then this scene is
repeated and repeated as much as God wants so.
Lets image the movement in the words of Allah
(seeking the other in rapid
succession) from
this reality we find that the way is rounded no doubt about
it. To understand this easily we have to comprehend the
descriptional phraseology in the Holy Quran very well then, it
will appear to us clearly through out the verse a picture of a
spherical way around the earth, running on it the day and the
night this draweth that and that draweth this.
God said:
(He makes the Night
overlap the Day , and the Day overlap the Night) Az-Zumar 5
(the word overlap was expressed in
Arabic as makes it
spherical or round) so by this way the verse would be very clear.
Overlapping the night on the day so it hide it and makes the
night as a sphere, and overlap the day on the night so it hide
it and makes the day as a sphere. And so by making both of
them rounded around each other we can see a spherical body
rolling between both of them gathering them and making them
rounded around each other. This body is the earth.
Lets image that we are in the day reign and
after a few hours the night will cover this reign but it won't
cover it in a normal way, no it will get rounded and rounded
which means that it bends in a spherical way, and logically
the reign must be spherical so that words could be understood.
Humanity was ignoramus and knew nothing about that except for
some common superstitions. So how did Mohammed peace and
priers of Alla be upon him know it and assure it?! Praise and
glory to Allah who said: (And it is he who spread out the earth ,and set thereon
mountains standing firm"Ar-Ra'd
3 "And the earth we have spread out (like a carpet);set
thereon mountains firm and immovable) Al-Hijr19.
How
can the earth be spread out? And what does it mean? "This
means that we flattened walking on it so it will be extended
in front of us, you won't end up at a barrier that hide what
is behind it, or an eternal gap that we stand in front of it
handicapped, so lets walk in any direction we want, and let
the nights, months, years and all of the age pass and as we
keep walking as it will keep extending, and so there isn't any
geometrical shape fulfill this status except the spherical
shape, so as you keep walking on it, it keeps extending in
front of you, and any other shape can't fulfill the meaning of
this verse".
Many Muslim scholars and explainers
pointed to the Sphericity of the earth from what they had
understood from Allah's book (The Holy Quran) such as: Muslim
scholars (Imam) pointed to this reality a long time ago, as
Imam”Ibn Alkim Al Gozia" pointed in his book "Al Tibian fy
aksam alquran" or the clarification of the chapters of the
Holy Quran pointed to the Sphericity of the earth, also Imam
"Fakr Al Razi" pointed to the Sphericity of the earth in his
clarifying book "Mafatih Alkaib" or the keys of the unknown
saying: " the spread out of the earth is extending it to where
we can't approach its end, and God made the earth's mass great
so the eyesight can't reach its end, and if the sphere was
very big each part of it is seen as an extended straight
surface".
And to that also pointed Sheik Al-Islam "Ibn
Timia" in his book "the right answer to whom changed the
religion of Jesus" he said: “know that they have agreed on
that the earth is spherically shaped and there is nothing
under its surface except its middle and the end of beneath is
the center which is called the area of heaviness".
And the Sphericity of the earth while
it is swimming in the space didn’t appear to the people except
when the Russians released the first satellite " Spotenik" to
it’s orbit around the earth in October 1957, and so the
scientists could have a clear photos of the planet earth
through the photographing tools that were fixed on the
satellite, in 1966 the satellite "Lonic 9"landed on the
surface of the moon accompanied by its advanced instruments,
and so it sent back to the receiving stations on the earth
photos of the planet earth, so how did Mohammed peace and
priers of Allah be upon him know that? It is the inspiration
from Allah, which proves that the one who sent down the Holy
Quran is the creator of the universes, and it is He who knows
every thing.
References :
"Islam and the scientific realities" Written by Mahmmod
Al-Qassem
"The scientific miracles in the Holy Quran" - Professor ,Dr\
Hasan Abuel Inan |
