ALLAH SAYS THE EARTH IS LIKE A CARPET—SO ALLAH DID NOT CREATE THE EARTH

Wednesday, October 26, 2016
ALLAH SAYS THE EARTH IS LIKE A CARPET—SO ALLAH DID NOT CREATE THE EARTH

Understand that verse numbers vary across different Qur’an editions. The following verse numbers are taken from the (revised) Yusuf ‘Ali edition. I have corrected capitalization.

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THE EARTH IS SUPPOSEDLY LIKE A CARPET

Surah 20:53
"He Who made the earth for you like a carpet (spread out)…"

THE STRANGE CLAIM: ALLAH CREATED THE EARTH LIKE A “CARPET”
Surah 50:7
"And the earth—We have spread it out, and placed thereon firmly-set mountains…"

Yusuf ‘Ali’s footnote 4946 says: “Compare xiii.3; xv.19 and footnote 1955.”

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THE EARTH IS FLAT AND SPREAD OUT

Surah 67:15
"It is He Who has made the earth manageable for you…". Some translations use “level.”

Yusuf Ali’s footnote 5571:
“Zalul is used in ii.71 for a trained animal who can be controlled: here it describes the earth, and I have translated it as ‘manageable.’…”

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THE CLAIM THAT THE MOON GIVES LIGHT

Surah 71:15-16
"Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another, and made the moon a light among them, and made the sun a lamp?"

Even if someone claims this is figurative language, nothing here reflects modern astronomy.

THE QUR’AN CLAIMS THE MOON EMITS LIGHT—A SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC ERROR.

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THE EARTH IS A CARPET AGAIN

Surah 71:19
"And Allah has made the earth for you like a carpet (spread out)…"

Yusuf ‘Ali footnote 5718: “Compare xx 53.”

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THE EARTH IS A WIDE FLAT EXPANSE WITH MOUNTAIN PEGS

Surah 78:6-7
"Have We [Allah] not made the earth as a wide expanse, and the mountains as stakes?"

Yusuf ‘Ali footnote 5890 says:
“See footnote 2038 to xvi.15. Compare also xiii.3 and xv.19. A wide open expanse can be compared to a carpet, with mountains as pegs.”

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ZUL-QARNAIN IN SURAH 18 AND ASTRONOMY

Surah 18:85-86
"One (road) he followed, until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of murky (black, muddy) water, and near it he found a people. We said: ‘O Zul-qarnain! You have the authority either to punish them or treat them kindly.’"

“Murky” is also translated as “black,” “muddy,” or “dirty.” Some translations say “a spring of water.” M. H. Shakir translated it as “a black sea.”

Surah 18:89-90
"Then he followed another road, until he reached the rising place of the sun; he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it."

Muslim commentators differ on the identity of Zul-qarnain (the man with two horns):

• Some say Alexander the Great

• Others say Cyrus of Persia

• Others say a king from Yemen

But it does not matter. According to the Qur’an, Zul-qarnain literally traveled to the place where the sun rises and where it sets. This assumes a flat-earth cosmology.

Most importantly, the Qur’an claims:

• He reached the place where the sun sets in a muddy spring.

Ask any astronomer whether the sun sets in a muddy spring, and they will say: “No.”

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CONCLUSION

The Qur’an teaches the following:

1. The earth is flat, spread out like a carpet.

2. Mountains act as pegs that fasten the earth down.

3. The sun travels along its own track, sets in a muddy spring at night, and rises from a specific physical location in the morning.

4. The heavens contain “hanging lamps” (stars).

5. Muhammad taught early Muslims that these things were literal truths, not metaphors.

Allah has failed to demonstrate that he created the earth—he cannot even describe its shape correctly.

Therefore, Allah did not create the earth.

By Max Shimba, servant of Jesus Christ

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