Sekedar tambahan informasi, saya ulang mengirim alinea ini:
"The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist
deserving of punishment." (Sheik Abdel-Aziz ibn Baaz, the
supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia, 1993, quoted by
Yousef M. Ibrahim, The New York Times, 12 February 1995)
On 24 Dec 2004, at 9:46, batara guru wrote:
>
> The Earth
>
>
> Several thousand years ago, the Holy Bible clearly recorded that the earth is
> round and that it is hung on nothing.
>
> "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth" (Isa. 40:22).
>
> "He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing"
> (Job 26:7).
>
>
>
> Yet, the Qur�an challenges these established scientific facts. In many
> places, it alludes to the fact that the earth is flat and its mountains are
> like poles which create a balance so that the Earth does not tilt. Let us
> consider what the Qur�an says about the Earth:
>
> In chapter 88:17,20, it is recorded,
>
> "Will they not regard the camels how they are created...and the Earth how it
> is spread?"
>
> In page 509, the Jalalan says,
>
> "In his phrase, �how it is spread�, he denotes that the earth is flat. All
> the scholars of Islami
c law agree upon this. It is not round as the physicists claim."
>
> The Qur�anic teaching is obvious from the comment of Jalalan that "the earth
> is flat and not roun
d as the scientists claim". What made Jalal al-Din say so is that the Qur�an
hints in many chapters
that the earth is flat(refer to 19:6, 79:30, 18:7, and 21:30). Also the Qur�an
indicates that:
>
> "We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake so as not to sway and
> hurt people" (21:31).
>
> Scholars who agree upon the meaning of this verse believe as the Jalalan
> states (pp. 270-271),
>
> "God has founded firm mountains on earth lest it shake people."
>
>
> On page 429, al-Baydawi says,
>
> "God has made firm mountains on earth lest it sway people and quake. He also
> made heaven as a cei
ling and kept it from falling down!"
>
> The Zamakhshari agrees with the above authors and reiterates the same words
> (refer to Zamakhshari
part 3, p. 114).
>
>
> In the Qur�an (chapter 50:7), we find another verse which carries the same
> meaning,
>
> "And the earth have we spread out, and have flung firm hills therein" (Surah
> Qaf: 7).
>
> This is accompanied by the same comment by the above Muslim scholars (refer
> to Jalalan, p. 437; B
aydawi, p. 686, Tabari, p. 589, and Zamakhshari, part 4, p. 381). All of them
assure us that "if it
were not for these unshakable mountains, the earth would slip away."
>
> Zamakhshari, the Baydawi and the Jalalan say: "God has built heaven without
> pillars but He placed
unshakable mountains on Earth lest it tilts with people." Concerning chapter
50:7, the Suyuti says
that scholars indicate that "Qaf is a mountain which encompasses the entire
earth" (refer to Itqan
, part 3, p. 29). Qaf is an Arabic L like K.
>
>
> These are the comments of the ancient Muslim scholars word for word. Even
> some Saudi scholars wro
te a book a few years ago to disprove the spherical aspect of the earth and
they claimed that it is
a myth, agreed with the above mentioned scholars, and said we must believe the
Qur�an and reject t
he spherical aspect of the earth.
>
>
> It is also well-known that the Qur�an proclaims that there are seven
> earths�not just one (refer t
o the commentary of the Jalalan, p. 476, al-Baydawi, p. 745 as they interpret
chapter 61:12, Surah
Divorce: 1 2).
>
>
> It is very clear that the sun does not traverse the heaven and set down in a
> murky, muddy well, o
r slimy water, or a place which contains both of them as the Baydawi,
Zamakhshari, and the Qur�an r
emark.
>
>
> Nor is the earth flat and the mountains the pillars and the towerings which
> prevent the earth fro
m moving as the Qur�an and the scholars said. Nor is there a mountain which
encompasses the whole e
arth�nor are there seven earths.
>
>
> Neither is the lightning an angel whose name is Rafael, nor is the thunder an
> angel. It never hap
pened that the angel Gabriel inspired Muhammad to write a complete chapter
about his friend the ang
el thunder! The thunder and lightning are natural phenomena and not God�s
angels like Michael and G
abriel as the prophet of Islam claims.
>
>
>
>
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