My Thoughts On Islam

[Mystic]

they usually cite where the Quran says the Earth is a sphere, despite the fact it isn't.

The Quran potentially says it's an egg shape I believe. Not a sphere. But this seems to be a bad translation, and something people hearing at that time would not assume and all the Quran is really saying is that the earth was expanded as in made bigger after the creation of the heavens.

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Robert Spencer refers to it as 20% unintelligible...this because the original language was Syriac not Arabic and it doesn't work so well when you try to shoehorn it in.

Then maybe you don't know even how languages work ... because almost all languages have borrowed words from previous languages and then the words became incorporated them into their own by changing them around a little bit. For example, you know that the word "alcohol" is obviously an English word. But the word also has an Arabic origin, which comes from the root word al-kuhl, a powder used as an eyeliner. So in the same way, certain words in the Quran may have a Syro-Aramaic origin, but this doesn't mean that the words themselves are not Arabic or that the Quran is using words from other languages. The language of the Quran is, irrefutably, pure Arabic.

Muslim scholars are already aware that many of the words in the Quran are variations of words that are found in the Syriac and Aramaic languages. These words already became a part of the Arabic dictionary during that time, and again, this is a well-known phenomenon that has occurred in all the other languages as they gradually evolved over the course of time.

I would have to add, during the time Quran was revealed, Arabic language was not fully universal and there was different dialects and it was very loose, and it lacked universal grammar as well. The grammar developed after Quran and Quran was used to create the grammar and used as an axis, a universal frame of reference to give structure of the language after it was very loose.