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New
scientific quotes, evidence and proofs regarding "dahaha" (egg-shaped and expanded in Arabic)
and its link to the earth's expansion, egg-shape, and its
egg-shaped orbit around the sun
were added to this article:
If the Noble Quran says the earth
is "egg-shaped" through a Notion, then why couldn't Prophet
Muhammad just say it clear in plain Arabic?
VIDEOS proving the Scientific Miracles in the Noble Quran
The moving mountains in the
Noble Quran.
The
function of mountains.
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Important
Notes on the
Scientific Notions
in the Noble Quran:
| Why does the Noble
Quran use words that have multiple meanings?
Why should
we accept the scientific meaning of the Word in the Noble Quran that
fits our discoveries today, and not accept any of its other meanings,
especially that the Word was revealed 1,500 years ago?
1-
The use of scientific notions in the Noble Quran:
It is
important to know that the Noble Quran doesn't give scientific
equations. It instead gives many scientific notions that had
been proven today to be clear Scientific Miracles
because they fit perfectly with modern science. One of the
Divine Miracles of the Noble Quran is that Allah Almighty (through His
perfect use of the complex and artistic language of Arabic) used
scientific notions to make the Noble Quran truly dynamic for all the
times that It is presented in. These scientific notions hid in them,
for many centuries, the scientific statements and discoveries that we
just came to know today, and perhaps are even hiding in them more
statements that our future generations will discover. These notions are basically key words and/or
terms that describe certain creations of GOD Almighty.
For example:
1- Allah Almighty
in one Word said that the Universe is expanding and in another term
said it will shrink back again. Science confirmed that today
through the big bang and the cosmic crunch theories.
2- Allah Almighty
in two Words mentioned the layers of waves and darkness inside the vast
oceans. Science today, again, confirmed that.
3- Allah Almighty
in one Word said that He made the earth as an egg. We all
know today that earth is spherical and science did confirm that the
earth is indeed egg-shaped. Please visit: If the Noble Quran says the earth is "egg-shaped"
through a Notion, then why couldn't Prophet Muhammad just say it clear
in plain Arabic? (detailed proofs demonstrating the
miracle of the Word/Notion "dahaha").
4- Allah Almighty
in few terms in several Noble Verses said that mountains prevent the
earth from shaking. Science today did indeed confirm that
mountains stabilize the earth and prevent it from constantly shaking
while it is rotating around its own axle.
5- Allah Almighty
in one term talked about the earth reducing in size. Science
today indeed confirmed that earth is shrinking in size due to volcanoes
and earth "debris" caused by erosions, earthquakes, sea-waves changing
the shape and condition of the land and other natural factors, escaping
to space. In fact, it is
estimated that earth lost approximately 10-40 miles from its radius or
depth size in the past 10 or so billion years!
(I heard this from Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar on TV. My numbers
may not be quite accurate because I am relying on memory, but the fact
of the earth shrinking is definitely true, and in the link above I have
provided several quotes from Western scientists demonstrating why the
earth is reducing/shrinking in size).
6- Allah Almighty
mentioned in one term the moon's fault line. Science today
confirmed that the moon's fault line, which is splitting it in half,
was caused by major moonquakes.
7- Allah Almighty
in one term talked about the earth's 7 properties. Science
today confirmed that the earth has 7 inner layers and 7 atmospheric
layers.
8- Allah Almighty
in one term talked about the region inside the human-brain that
controls the movements. Science today confirmed that.
Many more
examples (and the list is growing) are provided at: The
overwhelming Scientific Miracles in the Noble Quran section.
The Prophet of
Islam, peace be upon him, was already accused of being crazy by the
infidels. Have Allah Almighty given sophisticated scientific
statements that covered exact details as we scientifically know them
today, then no one would've believed the Prophet of Islam, because:
1-
He wasn't a scientist and such science wasn't known to man back then,
which makes it impossible for him to explain it, even if Allah Almighty
Inspired it to him. The information would not have been
understood by the nomad bedouins 1,500 years ago.
2-
People had already inclined toward declaring the Prophet as an insane
man, and many already did. Any extraordinary supernatural
statement that requires a lot of scientific explanations such as "we have people standing on the other side
of the world (under our feet), and all humans are actually
standing on the side of the earth not
on its top or back."
Such statement
would require knowledge in gravity and astronomy, which man did not
know about 1,500 years go.
Like I said,
many have accused the Prophet of being a madman. Allah
Almighty did not want to complicate Islam, especially to the people who
did not know much about science:
"Say
(to them O Muhammad SAW): "I exhort you on one (thing) only: that you
stand up for Allahs sake in pairs and singly, and reflect (within
yourselves the life history of the Prophet SAW): there
is no madness in your companion (Muhammad SAW), he
is only a warner to you in face of a severe torment."
(The Noble Quran, 34:46)"
"And (O people) your companion
(Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) is not a madman;
(The Noble Quran,
81:22)"
That is why Allah Almighty used scientific notions instead of
statements and equations. They are for man to discover as he
advances in life. The more man advances, the more he will
find that many of his discoveries are mentioned in the Noble
Quran. That is why the Noble
Quran's Miracles are for all times and all places!
Again, please
also visit:
The overwhelming Scientific Miracles in
the Noble Quran section.
2-
The complex language of Arabic:
Arabic is a
very complex, artistic and poetical language by nature! A
single word can mean a host of meanings. The art and beauty
of Arabic comes in how a person constructs and puts together words to
form a sentence or paragraph. The art and creativity in the
style and poetry are what determine the strength and beauty of the
sentence or poem. That is why the Noble Quran is extremely
difficult to understand sometimes, even by the fluent and professional
Arabic speakers. That is why
Muslims always say that the translations of the Noble Quran do it
absolutely no justice,
because the poetry and complexity of language-art are completely
compromised in the
translation. What the English reader, for instance, is left
with when reading the
English Noble Quran, is the subject that the Noble Verses are talking
about. But
he/she doesn't see the beautiful and complex stylistic and linguistic
Divine Miracle that
the Arabic text carries in it.
At any rate,
Allah Almighty Chose for the Noble Quran to be Difficult to comprehend,
and to be quite a challenge to interpret and translate, because:
1-
He Chose
to have the Miracle of the Noble Quran be an ever lasting one by living
in the text of the
Holy Book Itself.
2-
To
demonstrate Its Divinity to the Arabs back then, who were very
experienced/mature, fluent
and also addicted to poetry, along with the Arabic-speaking people
today, and to challenge
them and to show them that certainly the Noble Quran is not just an
average everyday
book. It is indeed a Divine Miracle, proving that Prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon
him, is indeed a Truthful and real Prophet.
3-
This is
Allah Almighty's way to Lead to the Right Path whom He pleases and to
Lead astray whom He
pleases.
|
The
Earth is round according to Islam:
The sections of this article are:
- Muslim
scientists in the 14th century concluded that the
earth is round from the Noble Quran.
- The "two Easts" and "two Wests"
on
earth in the Noble Quran and the roundness of the earth.
- The earth literally has
two sun rising points and two sun setting points! Noble Quran
and
Science agree on this.
- The Round earth does have
two easts and two wests.
| The Rashad Khalifa translation:
It is important to know that modern translators such as
Rashad Khalifa do use "egg-shaped"
as the accurate meaning and translation for the Word "dahaha":
79:30 He made the earth egg-shaped. (Source)
|
This article was taken from multiple Islamic web
sites. I added some coloring to
help the reader see the most important points.
The following section was taken from http://www.thetruereligion.org/earth.htm
Early Muslim Consensus: The Earth is
Round
Author
Unknown
Ibn
Taymiyah (d.
728 H / 1328 CE), may Allah be merciful with him, in his famous
treatise, ar-Risalah
al-'Arshiyah, refutes the position of the neo-Platonic philosophers who
identified Allah's
Throne with the ninth celestial sphere (Majmu'ul-Fatawa, Vol. 6, pp.
546-ff). In the
course of his response, Ibn Taymiyah discusses the question of the
earth is it round or
flat? He writes:
[That] celestial bodies are round (istidaaratul-aflaak) - as it is the
statement of
astronomers and mathematicians (ahlul-hay'ah wal-hisab) - it is
[likewise] the statement
of the scholars of the Muslims; as Abul-Hasan ibn al-Manaadi, Abu
Muhammad ibn Hazm,
Abul-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi and others have quoted: that the Muslim
scholars are in agreement
[that all celestial bodies are round]. Indeed Allah - taala - has said:
And He (i.e., Allah) it is Who
created the night and the day, the sun and
the moon. They float, each in a falak
(The
Noble Quran, 21:33).
Ibn
Abbas says: A falaka like that of a spinning wheel.
Ibn
Taymiyah continues: The [word] falak [in
the Arabic language] means that which is round. From which is the
statement [of the
Arabs]: <<The young girl's breasts have ta-fa-la-ka when
they become round.>>
(Vol. 6, pp. 566-567)
In an earlier passage (Vol. 6, pp. 565-566), Ibn Taymiyah discusses why
those on the other
side of the earth are not below us, just like we are not below them. He
writes:
As for the other side of the earth it is surrounded by water. [Note:
Admittedly, Ibn
Taymiyah - as all Muslim scholars of his day- were not aware of the
Americas and believed
that the Old World was encompassed by an ocean.] There are no human
beings or anything
like that [on that side]. Even if we were to imagine that people were
on that side of the
earth, such individuals would still be on the face of the earth. Those
on that side of the
earth are not below those who are on this side; just like those on this
side are not below
those on that side. For as all spherical bodies surround a center point
(markaz), no one
side of a spherical body is under the other, nor is the north pole
under the south [Note:
Unlike Western maps, Muslim cartographers (map-makers) would draw the
world with the
south-side up.] or vice versa.
In another passage (Vol. 5, p. 150) Ibn Taymiyah clearly states the
earth is spherical.
Significantly Abu Ya'la in his work Tabaqatal-Hanabilah (Biographical
Entries of the
Hanabali Scholars) quotes the unanimous consensus (ijma) of all Muslim
scholars that the
earth is round.
This consensus was mentioned by the scholars of the second generation
(the students of the
Prophet's Companions) and was based upon Ibn Abbas' explanation to
21:33 (previously
cited) and other evidences.
The later belief of Muslim scholars, like as-Suyuti (died 911 AH / 1505
CE) that the earth
is flat represents a deviation from this earlier opinion.
The "two Easts" and "two
Wests" on earth in the Noble Quran and the roundness of the earth:
The earth literally has two sun rising points and two sun
setting points! Noble
Quran and Science agree on this:
Before we look at the Noble Verses, it is
important to know when the sun
rises on one half of the earth, it is at the same time setting on the
other half, and when
it sets on one half of the earth, it is at the same time rising on the
other half. This
clearly means that the earth literally has two sun rising points (mashriqayn)
and two sun setting points (maghribayn)!
Now let us look at what Allah Almighty Said in the Noble Quran:
"GOD
of the two Easts, and GOD of the
two Wests. (The
Noble Quran, 55:17)"
The Arabic words "mashriqayn"
and "maghribayn" were
translated as "two Easts" and
"two Wests" respectively. It is important to know that Noble
Verses
55:10-25 are speaking about the earth and the some of the Creations
that exist on it.
The two
root Arabic words "Sharq" and
"Gharb", which mashriqayn and maghribayn are derived from respectively,
can
also literally mean the rising point of the sun, and the setting point
of the sun.
Important
Note: "two Easts" would've be an
accurate translation if the
word was "Sharqayn" and NOT "mashriqayn". As I said above,
"Sharq" means "East", and "Sharqayn" is two easts. But
"Mashriqayn" is a plural of "Mashriq", which is used for referring to
sun rising as in "Mashriq Al-Shams" (the rising of the sun).
***
The same for
"two Wests" and "Gharbayn". This is the literal and accurate
meaning for "two Wests". "Maghribayn" is plural of
"Maghrib", which is used for referring to sung setting as in "Maghrib
Al-Shams" (the setting of the sun).
The fact that Allah Almighty chose to use
"Mashriqayn" and
"Maghribayn" as opposed to "Sharqayn" and "Gharbayn" is a
clear proof that Noble Verse 55:17 is referring to the two sun's rising
and setting, and
not to east and west.
The
Round earth does have two easts and two
wests:
Here is another interpretation to the "two
Easts" and "two
Wests" of planet earth in the Noble Quran:
The following section was taken from http://www.islamic-book-depot.org.uk/bulletins/august_2001.htm
Lord of the two Easts, and
Lord of the two Wests.
Which then of the bounties of thy Lord will you deny?
(The Noble Quran, 55:17-18)
In
the verse, Lord of the two Easts, and Lord
of the two Wests, there is sure evidence that the earth is
round because two Easts and
two Wests can come about only when the earth is round; for when the sun
rises over one
region it sets in another, and when it sets in one sphere it rises in
another. Thus the
actuality of two Easts and two Wests can clearly be seen.
Now
let us look at the inner or spiritual world
of man. It is an established fact in the physical world that the reason
for the rising and
setting of the sun is that, in the course of the earth’s
revolution, whichever half
of the earth faces the sun gets the sunrise and becomes bright.
Similarly, the other half
of the earth which is turned away from the sun, or which, in a manner
of speaking, has its
back to the sun, experiences the setting of the sun and its consequent
darkness.
The
same thing happens in the spiritual world.
Any nation that turns its face towards guidance finds that the sun of
guidance and
progress begins to shed its rays on it, and this is so whether the
enlightenment is
physical or spiritual. In other words, to whatever kind of education a
man directs his
attention, the sun of that kind of guidance shines on him.
On
the other hand, if a nation turns its face
away from guidance it will be enveloped in the darkness of decadence
and perdition. Thus,
there is one East that pertains to the physical growth and perfection
and another East
that relates to spiritual advancement and perfection, and these are the
two Easts
mentioned in the verse above. Similarly, there are two Wests
— one pertaining to
physical decline and decay and the other to spiritual degradation and
deviation from the
true path. These conditions overtake nations in turns and this is so
because of
people’s own deeds.
From another vantage point, we
find that today, too, the world is divided into two Easts — a
near East and a far
East — and two Wests — a near West, referring to
Europe, and a far West, meaning
America.
In
short, these verses tell us that Allah is the
complete Lord of both Easts and both Wests. As proof of His physical
Providence, His
physical sun shines on people in the East as well as those in the West.
Similarly, why
should His spiritual Providence not allow the Holy Quran, His spiritual
sun, to illuminate
the nations of the East and the West as well? And why should the East
and the West not
live under the same spiritual law? This comprises the second East and
the second West.
In
fact, these verses contain a prophecy that
although at this time the sun of the Holy Quran shines on the Eastern
nations, yet a time
will come when that light will also irradiate the people of the West.
But this has a
resemblance to the physical system, that is, just as when the physical
sun sets on the
East it rises in the West, so, too, this spiritual sun of the Holy
Quran will rise in the
West just when the people of the East turn their backs on the Holy
Quran, and because of
this abandonment of the Book all kinds of misery and darkness will
overtake them. When
this happens, this spiritual sun will rise over the Western nations who
will then bow
their heads before the verities of the Holy Quran and will be
illuminated by its
splendour. This is the meaning of the prophecy recorded in the Hadith
that before
the Day of Resurrection the sun shall rise in the West. Thus, there is
a remarkable
prophecy hidden in this verse that the sun of the Holy Quran which now
shines through the
grace of the Holy Prophet (sas) in the East will one
day illumine the Western
world. And why should this not be so when Allah is not only the Lord of
both East and West
but the Lord of both kinds of Easts and Wests, that is, the physical
and the spiritual
East and West, and His Providence encompasses the physical as well as
the spiritual
kingdoms? If the physical sun gives light to both the East and the
West, why should the
spiritual sun of the Holy Quran not illumine both East and West? Thus,
how unjust it is to
deny these marvellous bounties of the Almighty!
Back
to Science in Islam.
Allah Almighty said that the
earth is "egg-shaped".
The
Earth is flat according to the
Bible.
AUDIOs from Dr. Zaghlool Al-Najjar
Lack
of Oxygen
and low air pressure in space.
The
constant reduction of earth's size: The
earth used to be 200 times bigger!
Iron
was sent down
to earth from space.
VIDEOS proving the Scientific Miracles in the Noble Quran
The moving mountains in the
Noble Quran.
The
function of mountains.
Related
video I.
Related
video II.
Related
video III.
Related
video IV.
Related
video V.
Iron
was sent down from space - A
Discovery Channel program with Noble Quranic Verses edited
into it.
The
mystery in Iron Miracle of the Quran.
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