If earth were flat, it would not have a diameter. O Tribes of Jinn and humans, if you can penetrate the diameters of heavens and earth …Ī diameter is obviously a measure for a spherical object. Thus Yuksel has translated the verse as follows: It is a plural of the word Qutr or “diameter” and is frequently used in Arabic geometry texts. The Arabic word used for “regions” in this verse is Aqtaar. Let’s ponder a little more, like the Qur’an repeatedly asks us to do. You may very appropriately ask the question: Where does this verse say that the earth is spherical? O company of Jinn and men, if you have power to penetrate (all) regions of the heavens and the earth then penetrate (them)! You will never penetrate them save with (Our) sanction. (Some still do! Check out the ” International Flat Earth Research Society“).įar from a unique concept at the time, the Qur’an however does refer to the spherical shape of the earth. There is some evidence that the concept of a spherical earth was widely held by scientific community as far back as the early church period, but many lay people still believed in a flat earth model until few centuries ago. Aristotle had hinted at the spherical shape of the earth some 330 years before Christ. Though the concept of a spherical earth was developed in ancient Greece around the seventh century BCE, starting with Pythagoras, the issue of spherical shape of the earth remained rather unsettled until the sixteenth century. Do the Qur’an and the Bible support the flat earth theory, or the science on the subject of a round earth? Where is the belief coming from that they do?
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