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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The term “the oven gushed
forth” in the verse refers to
boiling lava being ejected from
within the mountain. (Allah
knows the truth.)

dained– and all who believe.' But those who believed with him
were only few. (Surah Hud, 40)
The beginning of the punishment is described as when "water bub-
bled up from the earth." The Arabic word translated as "earth" is "alttan-
nooru". This describes a kind of oven made by digging a hole in the
ground, and therefore refers to the volcanic fire inside a mountain. (Allah
knows the truth.) The Arabic word "wafara" in the verse means "burned
strongly, produced bubbles, boiled up, boiled over, produced a foam".
Therefore, the reference in the verse would seem to be to the flowing,
molten lava in the mountain.
In another verse, the moment when Prophet Noah (as) boarded the
Ark is dubbed "when water bubbles up from the earth". This may also
be a reference to hot steam or smoke rising from a volcano immediately

before an eruption:
We revealed to him: 'Build the Ship under Our supervision and
as We reveal. When Our command comes and water bubbles up
from the earth, load into it a pair of every species, and your fam-
ily – except for those among them against whom the Word has al-
ready gone ahead. And do not address Me concerning those

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