Quran claims the Earth to be Sphere ( GEOID shape )
The Quran can continue to be interpreted in the light of new knowledge till the last day [as long as it's meanings are within the meanings of the Quranic Arabic].
Quran in many of it’s verses states the earth to be a Egg shaped rotating sphere. among all, I’ll mention some of them to proove that the Earth as accordance with the Quran is Egg Shaped Sphere.
Please read this POST word by word with patience.
Proof 1 - Surah Az-Zumar aayah 5 ( i.e. 39:5 )
Let’s begin with Surah Az-Zumar verse 5 which clearly states that the earth is egg shaped. I’ll explain this verse to the point with translation.
The below figures shows the verse in arabic and english translation as mentioned in Quran.com .
Figure 1.1
Arabic Text - Surah Az-Zumar Verse 5 ( 39:5 )
Source : Quran.com
Keep note of the highlighted text
Figure 1.2
English Text - Surah Az-Zumar Verse 5 ( 39:5 )
Source : Quran.com
Keep note of the highlighted text
The above aayah (as per Quran.com ) states that night wraps over the day and the day wraps over the night. The word wraps has been used as a translation for the arabic word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) which is not the actual meaning of it. instead it is just to make the verse sensible as a sentence.
Also if you refer to any different translation via different sources, you will notice the use of different words for the arabic word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer). The below image shows the translation of the same verse from a different source ( Al-Quran.info ).
Figure 2.2
Arabic Text - Surah Az-Zumar Verse 5 ( 39:5 )
Source : Al-Quran.info
Keep note of the highlighted text
Figure 2.2
English Text - Surah Az-Zumar Verse 5 ( 39:5 )
Source : Al-Quran.info
Keep note of the highlighted text
The english word for يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) used here in Al-Quran.info is winds which makes it clear that the translation in Al-Quran.info is different from that of Quran.com which further makes it clear that the translation of the arabic word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) is used different by different scholars.
So what’s the actuall meaning of the word يُكَوِّر?
The word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) is the verb of the word kura كرة ( kura ) which in arabic means ball ( Figure 3.1 ) . So, يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) means making a ball ( Figure 3.2 ). For your confirmation of this word you can refer to the figures below which shows the translation of the word ball in english and arabic using Google Translator.
Figure 3.1
Arabic translation of the word Ball
Source : Google Translator
Figure 3.1
English translation of the word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer)
Source : Google Translator
This makes it clear that the actual meaning of the word يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) is not winds and neither wraps. The actual english word for يُكَوِّر (Yukawer) is making a ball.
So, the translation of the above aayah (39:5) would conclude that according to Quran, overlapping of the night and the day makes a ball (sphere).
Hence the earth is like a ball ( not claimed to be circular but of like a sphere ).
Proof 2 - Surah Ar-Rahman aayah 33 ( i.e. 55:33 )
This aayah in surah Ar-Rahman ( 55:33 ) prooves that the earth has a diameter ( diameter is simply twice the radius ). The below figure shows the arabic and english translation of this aayah.
Figure 4.1
Arabic text of Ar-Rahman verse 33
Source Quran.com
Keep note of the highlighted text
Figure 4.1
English text of Ar-Rahman verse 33
Source Quran.com
Keep note of the highlighted text
This aayah states that if humans and jinns can pass beyond the regions ( diameter ) of the earth and the heavens then they cannot pass except by authority of Allah.
The highlighted word أَقطارِ (aqtar) has been translated to regions in Quran.com which is not the actuall meaning of it. Also, different scholars have used different word for أَقطارِ (aqtar).
The word أَقطارِ (aqtar) is the plural of the word (Kutr) قطر which is the arabic word for Diameter. For confirmation refer the below figures ( 5.1 and 5.2 ).
Figure 5.1
English translation of word قطر (Kutr)
Source : Google Translator
Figure 5.2
English translation of word أَقطارِ (aqtar)
Source : Google Translator
So it is clear that this aayah (55:33) talks about the earth’s diameter and we know that Radii and Diameters are properties of circles or spheres only. This confirms that the earth has a diameter and hence it’s a sphere. This also conforms with the previous verse (39:5), to make into a ball[Yukawer يُكَوِّر].
This verse prooves that the earth is egg shaped. Refer to the following firgures ( 6.1 and 6.2 ) with arabic and english text of surah An-Naziat verse 30.
Figure 6.1
Arabic Text of An-Nazi'at (79), Verse: 30
Source Quran.com
Figure 6.2
English Text of An-Nazi'at (79), Verse: 30
Source Quran.com
The above verse states that God spread the earth ( Figure 6.2 ) where the word spread ( highlighted text of Fig. 6.2 ) is the translation used for the arabic word دَحاها ( daha - highlited text of fig. 6.1 ).
Amazingly the word “دَحَا” (dahaa) is derived from word “دحية” (duhyah) wich specifically means ”egg of ostrich” (not just any egg). Some scholars had used the word “smoothed out” instead of “spread out” as the meaning of the arabic word دَحاها (daha).
For you to clearly understand the arabic word daha, I’ve to elaborate my explanation to the depth.
The Arabic Word Dahaha
Dahaha = Daha + ha
دحاها = دحا + ها
Root verb is دحو / دحا
Pronoun- ها
There are a lot of meanings of Daha ( دَحَا )
1st General Meaning
Daha
دفعه و رمى به
dafa'aahu wa ramaa bih
Caused it to Move, pushed it, Rolled, or Threw it.
i.e دُحُورًاۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ-
[the Jinn who spy in the heavens are]Repulsed[Dahoowra], and for them is a constant/painful punishment. [Saffat 37:9]
دحرجَ (dahraja): toroll, roll along, to roll down.
In Surah Inshiqaq - ayah 84:6 - the word kaDHan
كَدح
advancing towards' your Master) comes from the word
Dahaa = to Move towards something.
Qirasah
(Round) - Synonymous to
Dahaa
:
In the hadith of Abi Rafiaa':
و في حديث أبي رافع:كنت أُلاعب الحسن و الحسين,رضوان الله عليهما,بالمداحي,هي احجار أمثال القِرصة
"I used to play with Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein, may Allah Almighty be pleased with them, with AL-MADAAHI, which means STONES that look like AL-QIRASAH."
So what does Al-Qirasah mean?
According to Lisan Al-Arab dictionary [1], Book 4, Page 516:
القِرصة(al-qirasah): قرِّصي العجين أي سوِّيهقِرصة- Cut the dough into small round pieces.
القِرصة(al-qirasah): قرص الشمس اي عينها -The qurs of the sun means the eye of the sun, which is round.
2nd Meaning:
Dahaa = Round and Spherical
The following statements are phrases which have been used in our Islamic history from many centuries ago:
إندحَّ بطنه إندحاحاّ اي إتّسع
His tummy became round and bigger.
In Prophet Muhammad's Hadith:
كان لأسامة بطننٌ مُندحٌ اي متسع
Osama had a round and big tummy.
و بطنٌ مُنداحُ أي خارخٌ مُدوّر
His tummy is mun-daahun means it is OUT THERE AND ROUND مُدوّر.
و رجلٌّ دحدحُ اي قصير غليظ البطن
A man is dahda-hun which means he is short, stocky and has a big and fat tummy.
الدحداح هو المستدير الململم
The dahdaah is the person who is ROUND and STOCKY.
الدِردِحة من النساء التي طولها و عرضها سواء
Al-dir-dihati from the women is the one whose height and width look the same! SHE LOOKS ROUND,and the by the way, the distance between the earth's north and south poles is approximately only 45 miles shorter than the earth's width.
Ustadh
(Teacher)
Nouman Ali Khan
says about this ayah in his Tafseer
(35 minutes [Nazi'at part B]);
The word;
Daha - Dahwa - the egg of an Ostrich.
Ud-hiyyah - the place where the ostrich lays its egg.
So some have said that because there is an implication of Daha being something similar (like an ostrich's egg) and Allah has used this word - it is possible that it has this implication in it. And Allah knows best.
[then he begins to explain the other meaning of Daha... (mentioned in point 3)]
In his book, The Qur'ân and the Orientalists, Dr. Muhammad Mohar Ali, former Professor of the History of Islam at the Islamic University of Madinah and Al-Imâm University in Riyadh, provides an extensive and detailed discussion on the Qur'anic view of the earth. Here is a relevant excerpt:
Now, the very first expression in the series, dahâhâ, is noticeably distinctive and different in genre from the rest. Watt, following many other previous translators, renders it as "spread out". But the exact and correct meaning of the term, keeping in view its root, rather provides a very positive Qur'anic evidence in support of the spherical shape of the earth. For dahâ means to "shape like an egg", its noun being dahiyah, which the Arabs still use to mean an egg.
[2] M. FATHÎ 'UTHMAN, "Al-'ard Fî al-Qur'ân al-Karâm", Proceedings of the First Islamic Geographical Conference", Riyadh, 1404/1984, Vol. IV, 127; A. M. SOLIMAN, Scientific Trends in teh Qur'ân, London (Ta-Ha Publications), 1985, p. 16.
(
M. Mohar Ali, The Qur'ân and the Orientalists, Jam'iyat 'Ihyaa' Minhaaj Al-Sunnah 2004, p.75)
دحا (daha): دحّفي الثّرى بيتاً إذا وسعه - He expandedthe house.
دحى (daha): الدُّحُحْ(al-duhuh), which is plural of دحى - daha, which means:الارضون الممتدّة expandedearths.
دحا (daha): مدحوحاّأي مُسوّى - maDhoohaa which is similar in meaning to; muSawwa = evened, balanced, equaled, leveled.
4th meaning:
Dihya = Best, extremely powerful, and exalted.
دحا (daha): الدّواح أي العظيم الشديد العلو al-dawwah is something that isgreat, extremely powerful, and exalted.
دحا (daha): الدِّحْية هو رئيس الجُند,و به سمِّي دِحية الكلبي Al-dihyais the leader of the soldiers, and from this was namedDihya Al-Kalbay, [who was one of Prophet Muhammad's close Companions.]
الدِّحْية هو رئيس القوم و سيدهم -Al-dihyaisthe chief of the tribe or the group and the BEST AMONG THEM و سيدهم.
Planet earth is indeed the best planet in our Solar System. It is the only planet that has water, life and Paradise-like Scenic Views. The others are dead planets with no life like that of earth's exists on them
Definitions of Daha - according to:
1. Lisan Al-Arab dictionary [1] , Book 2, Pages 215-218.
2. Lisan Al-Arab dictionary [1] , Book 8, Pages 236-238.
6. Arabic-English dictionary the Hans Wehr dictionary [6], Page 273
Conclusion:
So based on all of these meanings, what do we find?
We find that:
1- The earth is a moving object that waspushed or thrown by Allah Almighty into space.
2- The earth is a qurs and indahhat and is dihdaaha, which means it is around and a spherical object.
3- The earth is mad-hooha ( مدحوحا), which is balanced and evened.
4- The earth is dihya, which means it isthe best among its group. This is true since all of the planets in our solar system are pretty much similar to our moon. They are lifeless and have no life and no water in them. Earth, on the other hand, has (1)ample water, which is why it is called the BLUE PLANET, (2)ample life, and even(3) Paradise-like views and nature in places such as Hawaii, Alaska, the Carribeans, places in Europe, Asia, Africa etc...
5- The earth is also dahdah and dahdaah, which means it is round and compressed.
All these meanings are covered in one word; Daha.
وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَاهَا
And the Earth after that He
made round/balanced/made best/exalted
it.
May Allah Almighty Give You Hidayah My Brother
Their are more verses that I’ll post in here with detailed explanation.
