The holy Quran is laden with scientific facts and proves that humankind has only discovered recently. This series attempts to highlight some of those scientific facts such as the proof of the spherical shape of the earth, proof that the moon light is reflected, thereby proving and validating the Quran’s authenticity.
The Geo Spherical Shape of the Earth
In the prehistoric times, people were conceived that the earth was flat and it had remained a widespread fear that one may not go too far, lest he would fall off. The first person to have proven the earth’s spherical shape was Sir Francis Drake who, in 1597 sailed around the earth.
However, the Quran had declared so in the 7th century verse:
“Do not you see that Allah merges Night into Day and Day into Night?” [Quran 31:29]
By merging, it is meant that the night gradually shifts into a day and vice versa. If one were to pay attention, this could happen only if the earth were spherical. In case the earth was flat, the night would suddenly change into a day and vice versa.
Here is another verse that also refers to the same point.
“He (Allah) created the heavens and earth in true (proportions): He makes the ight Overlap the Day, and the Day Overlap the Night.” [Quran 39:5]
The actual word used in Arabic here is Kawwara, which means ‘to coil’ or ‘to overlap’. Its literal meaning is to coil as a turban wound around a head. The overlapping of the night and day can only happen if the earth is spherical. Hence, these verses from the Holy Quran provided references to the true shape of the earth fourteen hundred years ago when none of the scientists or astrologists had the slightest hint of it. Not only this, today we all know that the earth is not perfectly round. Rather, it is geo-spherical, meaning flattened at the poles The Holy Quran even mentions this very fact in the following verse:
“And He (Allah) has made the earth, egg shaped.” [Quran 79:30]
The Arabic word used here is dahaha, which precisely means an ostrich-egg in Arabic. If one were to look at an ostrich egg, on would observe that an ostrich-egg is exactly geo-spherical in shape. It is neither perfectly round nor spherical. Rather, geo spherical i.e. flattened at the ends. Hence, all these verses are a clear proof of the authenticity and divinity of the Holy Quran. If, nauzubillah, the Quran were to be a man made book and not a revelation, how could somebody have mentioned the earth’s exact geo spherical shape whilst the popular notion remained that it was flat even until the time of Christopher Columbus in the late fifteenth century? Not even the most learned man in the entire Arabia knew about this fact back then. Therefore, after reading the scientific discovery of this very fact alone, there should remain no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Quran is indeed a book of Allah; the one and only.
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