Isostasy In The Quran?
A sentence can serve both purposes ( scientific and literary ). As I have mentioned somewhere earlier, it could’ve scientific connotations too, but the message gets delivered in all cases ( the scientific understanding of those statements will keep evolving as time and our knowledge progresses ) How Arabs would’ve understood seven skies? of course not scientifically, but definitely they knew the way they see the sky, six other similar skies would exist and there would be similar view of them the way they have a view for their sky. But now we know the manifestation of that in a much better way. Probably in the coming days, it might become even more sophisticated. Similar is the case with mountains. Mountains as pegs, mountains as providing stability serves a literary purpose (reminds one of God’s creation along with its poetic beauty) and at the same time, it has every capacity to give an Arab some idea of stability, not in geological terms, but to some extent one can get this idea.