Quran & Nature - Shape of Earth and Rotations of Sun and Moon|| Br Mohammed Hijab
Channel: Islamic Direction
Date: 08/04/2022

This video explains why 'if you are a fan of science' that the most coherent religious narrative to subscribe to is the Islamic one. This is not to say that science is perfect, as there are what Thomas Kuhn calls 'paradigm shifts' which means that even established scientific facts/ the framework in which science operates can change from time to time.

Islamic References:-

Ahmed Ibn Hanbal  - as is narrated by his students. 
 Abu Muhammad al Juwani (438 HD) Al istawaai al fawqiyah 
Ibn Taymiyyah - Kitab al Arsh (Fatwa)(728 AH)

For those who say that the earth is depicted as flat in the Quran as a desperate attempt to disprove it, they ought to refer to the oldest dictionaries of Arabic (like mufradaat al Quran) which refer to the word urd as meaning that which is below your feet as well as the whole planet. So when Allah refers to 'spreading the earth' as he does in many places in the Quran using different arabic words like maddadnah, farashna and 'wal urd kayo suthiat' this is clearly referring to the crust of the earth which is below our feet, and had this not been the case the scholars above would have said the earth was flat based on these verses. 

Christian sources:- 

Acts 10 v 11 

Matthew 4:8 says, “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.”

In Job 9:6 it says, "Who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars (ydwmu) tremble." The LXX says, "Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations and its pillars (stuloi) totter." In Psalm 75:3 it says, "The earth and all its inhabitants are melting away; I set firm its pillars (ydwmu)." The LXX says, "I have strengthened its pillars (stuloi)." In I Samuel 2:8 it says, "For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he had set the world upon them." The Hebrew word for pillar is yqxm. The root is qx meaning "to melt" (BDB 1980, 848). Therefore, yqxm means, "a molten like pillar." The only other place it occurs is in I Samuel 14:5 referring to a mountain. Probably the pillars of the earth are the same thing as the foundations of the earth which were mountains.

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