As'salamu Alaikum akhi Ramihs,
Here are my responses to your points above:
Noble Verse 51:48:1- 51:48 والارض فرشناها فنعم الماهدون
FARASHNAHA فرشناها is derived from FARASHA فرش, which means:
1. To spread out.
2. To clothe. As in farasha al-sareer (placing the cover on the bed). Farasha al-sareer also means prepared the bed, as in made it neat and ready.
الماهدون MAAHIDOON is derived from MAHD, which means:
1. Make comfortable.
2. Cradle. As in from cradle to grave (Mina al-madh المهد ila al-lahd لحد).
So basically earth is a
PREPARED BED for us. But this bed is also a rocking one as Allah Almighty Said in:
78:6 الم نجعل الارض مهادا
[078:006] Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse rocking cradle مهادا,Notice the following:
مهد means bed.
مهادا means a rocking bed.The relationship and balance between مهد and مهادا in Arabic is like:
1-
حرث (harth), tilth, and
حراث (hiraath), plowing the earth.
2-
قتل (qatl), kill, and
قتال (qitaal), fighting.
3-
جهد (juhd), effort, and
جهاد (jihaad), struggling.
So مهد is bed. مهادا is a bed in action.Let us now look at our planet earth's "Axial Tilt" that makes it look like a cradle:
www.answering-christianity.com/detailed_meanings_of_scientific_words_in_verses.htm#geology_moving_earth_rain Noble Verse 84:3:This is a future Prophecy regarding the streching of earth that had been scientifically confirmed. It is a STUNNING one and I have written an article on it with detailed Western scientific references and also videos proving this:
www.answering-christianity.com/end_of_times_volcanoes_caused_by_stretching_of_earth.htmNoble Verse 21:44:There are two scientifically proven answers for this Noble Verse:
1- The actual planet earth is shrinking. This had been confirmed by NASA and other Scientific agencies:
www.google.com/#q=earth+is+shrinking2- The rising seas (a Quranic Prophecy) are reducing the livable lands that we live on. Entire towns will drowned by the sea:
www.google.com/#q=sea+levels+are+risingThe rising seas before the Hour is an End-of-Times Prophecy in the Glorious Quran;
[052:001] By the Mount (of Revelation);
[052:002] By a Decree inscribed
[052:003] In a Scroll unfolded;
[052:004] By the much-frequented Fane;
[052:005] By the Canopy Raised High;
[052:006] And by the Ocean filled with Swell;-[052:007] Verily, the Doom of thy Lord will indeed come to pass;-
[052:008] There is none can avert it;-
[052:009] On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion.
[052:010] And the mountains will fly hither and thither.
[052:011] Then woe that Day to those that treat (Truth) as Falsehood;-
52:1 والطور
52:2 وكتاب مسطور
52:3 في رق منشور
52:4 والبيت المعمور
52:5
والسقف المرفوع52:6
والبحر المسجور52:7 ان عذاب ربك لواقع
52:8 ماله من دافع
52:9 يوم تمور السماء مورا
52:10 وتسير الجبال سيرا
52:11 فويل يومئذ للمكذبين
By the way, the atmosphere being our raised and protective roof is also mentioned in several Noble Verses in the Glorious Quran:
www.answering-christianity.com/ozone_layer_protecting_earth.htmAs to "sides", the spherical earth does still have boundaries. Lands on earth are divided into sections. Perhaps this is even referring to the continents after they broke off from each others as the earth expanded:
13:4
وفي الارض قطع متجاورات وجنات من اعناب وزرع ونخيل صنوان وغير صنوان يسقى بماء واحد ونفضل بعضها على بعض في الاكل ان في ذلك لايات لقوم يعقلون
[013:004] And in the earth are neighbouring tracts وفي الارض قطع متجاورات, and gardens of vines, and green crops (fields etc.), and date-palms, growing out two or three from a single stem root, or otherwise (one stem root for every palm ), watered with the same water, yet some of them We make more excellent than others to eat. Verily, in these things, there are Ayat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs) for the people who understand.
This is explained in more details in the following sub-section.
Also, the Glorious Quran supports this through the
The land-sea ratio Miracle - Mentioned in the Glorious Quran and confirmed by Science. Please visit:
www.answering-christianity.com/land_sea_ratio_miracle.htm The earth expanded spherically:Also, if you read in
my material, you will find that Allah Almighty Said that He has expanded the earth spherically:
1- To push.2- To throw.دحا (daha): دفعه و رمى به (dafa'aahu wa ramaa bih) Caused it to move, pushed it, or threw it.
دحا الصبي المِدحاةَََ أي دفع الصبي المِدحاةَََ Daha the boy the rolling toy, means the boy pushed the rolling toy.
3- To make something roll, as in
DAHA the barrel from the top of the hill, which means he rolled it down from the top of the hill. Also, this is where the Arabic word DAHRAJA is derived from, which means to make something roll down.
4- To make something round. I used several examples for
ROUND AND BULGED TUMMY, and making round objects. I even used a Hadith from Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, when he said:
In Prophet Muhammad's Hadith: كان لأسامة بطننٌ مُندحٌ اي متسع Osama had a round and big tummy.
Also the dictionary says:
الدحداح هو المستدير الململم The dahdaah is the person who is ROUND and STOCKY.
و بطنٌ مُنداحُ أي خارخٌ مُدوّر His tummy is mun-daahun means it is OUT THERE AND ROUND مُدوّر.
So when Allah Almighty DAHA THE EARTH, it means that Allah Almighty
EXPANDED IT SPHERICALLY through rotating it around itself and moving it in its orbit in space. And this is why Allah Almighty Said after that (after He DAHAHA), He brought forth from it
its water and pasture. Science has proven this to be 100% accurate and True:
1- Water was brought forth from the earth - Science confirmed it and the Holy Quran claimed it 1400 years ago:
2- Our earth expanded and produced its own water:
And
So
اطراف (sides) can refer to either the entire earth shrinking, or the lands that we live on shrinking and sinking. And Allah Almighty Always Knows Best. Please visit:
www.answering-christianity.com/detailed_meanings_of_scientific_words_in_verses.htm#geology_moving_earth_rain
www.answering-christianity.com/bringing_forth_its_waters.htm
www.answering-christianity.com/egg-shaped_earth.htm
http://www.answering-christianity.com/ac20.htm#linksThe doomed-to-Hell infidels have nothing but noise on Islam.
But Prophet Muhammad didn't interpret them like this:I get this lame argument a lot. But Prophet Muhammad himself admitted, and Allah Almighty thoroughly confirmed that the
Prophet couldn't interpret much of the Glorious Quran:
www.answering-christianity.com/prophet_muhammad_did_not_know_everything_about_quran.htmSo this lame argument that if it's not in the Hadiths (sayings) of the Prophet, then we don't accept it fails.
Take care,
Osama Abdallah
