A debate between an Iraqi "Researcher on Astronomy" and a physicist on Iraqi television. Apparently, this is an important question in the Islamic world...
-From the transcript-
Interviewer: Lunar...
A debate between an Iraqi "Researcher on Astronomy" and a physicist on Iraqi television. Apparently, this is an important question in the Islamic world...
-From the transcript-
Interviewer: Lunar and solar eclipses, sunset and sunrise, and the changing of seasons -- how would you explain all these phenomena, if the Earth is not round, as you claim?
Fadhel Al-Sa'd: The sun circles the Earth because it is smaller than the Earth, as is evident in Koranic verses.
Have you ever seen how the sun moves? I have seen the sun moving. The sun makes one move every 24 hours.
What I say is based on Koranic science. He bases his arguments on the kind of science that I reject categorically -- the modern science that they teach in schools. This science is a heretic innovation that has no confirmation in the Koran. No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false.
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To HDyNguyen You are wrong(,with my respect.). Because the Middle East lives now in the year 620,they are still debating and killing each other for a particular and certain event which had happened 1400 years ago, as if it happened yesterday. Russia,America,Britain,France, China,,,etc,,etc,,etc from the advanced countries,all are planning for the next hundred years.The Middle East all,is still debating and planning for the year 620 ,did you understand the spirit of the problem?
The Middle East is 500 years behind us, it is still in the Dark Ages. 500 years later, when the Western man goes to Iraq, he shall see a world similar to that's of today. 500 years later, Iraq shall generate huge tourist avenue, as we will be paying millions to see the Kent Hovinds of the 26th Century.
ur link doesn't work- just show me the verse from the quran why send me in circles? you obviously just copy paste links without understanding wither the verse or the quran...
Obviously you are too dumb to do a simply google search. Which means you'll never understand the implications of what I've told you even if you tried hard. It doesn't look good for you Sir.
Suppose after his Zohar prayer a Muslim starts for Saudi Arabia by plane from Bangladesh at 3000 m/h. On reaching his destination he founds that it was yet to be noon. Does he have to say the Prayer again when the time comes? The authors of the Quran didn't know better and thought that the sun needs a definite rising/setting place and believed the earth was flat. When you believe these are Allahs words it proves he has no concept of "local time". I can give you MANY links to educate yourself.
Check this article: mukto-mona D O T c o m /Articles/kasem/flat_earth The author not only went into all the verses but cited also Hadiths related to the erroneous idea of a flat earth. Funnily the same notion lead to the Muslim prayer-schedule. If the sun rises in NY it has already risen in London thus prayers are forbidden in NY but not in London. Same goes for prescribed hours: Since any moment is a prayer time in some place what is the point in fixing certain hours for certain prayers?
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You are wrong(,with my respect.).
Because the Middle East lives now in the year 620,they are still debating and killing each other for a particular and certain event which had happened 1400 years ago, as if it happened yesterday. Russia,America,Britain,France, China,,,etc,,etc,,etc from the advanced countries,all are planning for the next hundred years.The Middle East all,is still debating and planning for the year 620 ,did you understand the spirit of the problem?
Which means you'll never understand the implications of what I've told you even if you tried hard. It doesn't look good for you Sir.
The authors of the Quran didn't know better and thought that the sun needs a definite rising/setting place and believed the earth was flat. When you believe these are Allahs words it proves he has no concept of "local time".
I can give you MANY links to educate yourself.
mukto-mona D O T c o m /Articles/kasem/flat_earth
The author not only went into all the verses but cited also Hadiths related to the erroneous idea of a flat earth.
Funnily the same notion lead to the Muslim prayer-schedule. If the sun rises in NY it has already risen in London thus prayers are forbidden in NY but not in London. Same goes for prescribed hours: Since any moment is a prayer time in some place what is the point in fixing certain hours for certain prayers?