RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 10, 2015 at 7:35 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 7:46 am by GrandizerII.)
Figured out which verse the OP is referring to. It's from Surat az-Zumar, verse 5.
Link:
http://quran.com/39
The English translation in the link is sound by the way. But even if the OP's preferred arbitrary translation is more accurate, the verse itself says nothing about the earth being round, only that Allah rolls the night over the day (sort of like how you open wide a scroll). Nothing miraculously scientific about this one.
And to make it worse for the OP, the same verse talks about the the sun running its course for a specified time (in the sky during the daytime, that is). Not at all scientific.
And if the OP does not agree that "youkawwer" can mean "to roll", one of the definitions in the link he provided actually mentions "rolling" as part of the definition:
كَوَّرَ الشيءَ : لفَّه على جهة الاستدارة
Link:
http://quran.com/39
The English translation in the link is sound by the way. But even if the OP's preferred arbitrary translation is more accurate, the verse itself says nothing about the earth being round, only that Allah rolls the night over the day (sort of like how you open wide a scroll). Nothing miraculously scientific about this one.
And to make it worse for the OP, the same verse talks about the the sun running its course for a specified time (in the sky during the daytime, that is). Not at all scientific.
And if the OP does not agree that "youkawwer" can mean "to roll", one of the definitions in the link he provided actually mentions "rolling" as part of the definition:
كَوَّرَ الشيءَ : لفَّه على جهة الاستدارة
