Qur'an 88:20 -
sutihat
("spread out flat")وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat
And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
Quran 88:20
سَطَّحَ = spread out or forth, expand
The word sataha is used to describe making the flat top or roof of a house or chamber and making a top surface flat. Words derived from the same root mean: the flat top surface or roof of a house or chamber, a bounded plane in geometry, a level place upon which dates can be spread, a rolling pin (which expands the dough), plane or flat. Indeed, the modern Arabic phrase used to refer to the "flat earth" today is الأرض مسطحة (al-ard musattaha) , the word musattaha is from the same root as the word sutihat.
In the tafsir Al-Jalalayn (from the 15th century) the word sutihat is used to explain that the Earth is flat. The author of this section, al-Mahalli (d. 1460), maintains that the flat-earth is the opinion of the scholars of the revealed law.
And the earth how it was laid out flat? and thus infer from this the power of God exalted be He and His Oneness? The commencing with the mention of camels is because they are closer in contact with it the earth than any other animal.
As for His words sutihat ‘laid out flat’ this on a literal reading suggests that the earth is flat which is the opinion of the scholars of the revealed Law
Tafsir al-Jalalayn 88:20
EARTH IS FLAT ACCORDING TO Q’URAN . I am an ex-muslim . I left islam because I found it illogical and scientifically incorrect . These are my opinions and I want justice as a human being for following what my mind tells me . I can’t follow anything blindly / I am unable to have faith in islam anymore / let me speak up
