Page 70 - The Glory in the Heavens

OUR EARTH'S SHAPE IN THE QUR'AN
OUR EARTH'S SHAPE IN THE QUR'AN

D D ear Children, you know that our Earth is round.
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Thanks to technological breakthroughs, this fact is

also observed in the photographs of Earth taken

from space. The Qur'an that Allah sent us 1,400 years ago
makes certain statements that led Muslim scientists to under-
stand that the Earth is round.

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"Takwir," the word used for "wrapping around" in Arabic,
means "to fold something round about as cover". The informa-
tion provided in the verse about night's wrapping around day
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and vice versa, (takwir) also stimulates one to think of the world
as a globe.
During that period, however, it was extensively believed
that the Earth was not round but flat. All scientific computa-
tions and explanations were based on this flawed approach. At
the period, people were so ignorant about space that some peo-
ple held the weird belief that the Earth was placed between the
horns of an ox.
Dear Children, you have recognized that the information
scientists could only attain centuries after the revelation of the
Qur'an were hinted at by Allah in the Qur'an a long time ago.
This is one of the obvious proofs that the Qur'an is the Word of
Allah, the One Who has created the entire universe and Who has
knowledge of all things.