Me Ed wrote:intermoon wrote:miltiades wrote:Get Real! wrote:miltiades wrote:Are you sick or what Plonker because from where I'm sitting you appear to be perversely obsessed and filled with hatred for the West.
I'm "filled with hatred" for ALL war criminals, but it just so happens that 99.99% of war crimes are being committed by the US, UK, and Israel.
If Muslims fight for their freedom, they are called terrorists but if US,UK and Israel occupied others lands and kill 100's of thousands innocent people inclding women and children, they lable it "War against Terrorism"
isn't it double standards?
When Hitler cicked out jews from germany, arabs welcome them and provided them land to live and today jews have cicked palestinins out of their homes and when todsy they are fighting to get their homes back, Israel call them terrorists. see the map of Israel before 1947 and today.
Intermoon,
I have a simple yes or no question for you:
Is the Earth the same shape as an ostrich egg?
The simple answer to your question is that The shape of an ostrich-egg
resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth.
Keep in mind that the Quran was reveled when people believed that the earth was flat. Let me remind you that the Quran is not the book of science but the book of signs(Ayaats). There are more than 6000 Sings(Ayaat) in the Quran in which more than 1000 speak about Science.
Refer to my post below
SHAPE OF THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL
In early times, people believed that the earth was flat. For centuries, men were afraid to venture out too far, for fear of falling off the edge! Sir Francis Drake was the first person who proved that the earth is spherical when he sailed around it in 1597.
Consider the following Qur’anic verse regarding the alternation of day and night:
“Seest thou not that Allah merges Night into Day and He merges Day into Night?” [Al-Qur’an 31:29]
Merging here means that the night slowly and gradually changes to day and vice versa. This phenomenon can only take place if the earth is spherical. If the earth was flat, there would have been a sudden change from night to day and from day to night.
The following verse also alludes to the spherical shape of the earth:
“He created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions): He makes the Night overlap the Day, and the Day overlap the Night.” [Al-Qur’an 39:5]
The Arabic word used here is Kawwara meaning ‘to overlap’ or ‘to coil’– the way a turban is wound around the head. The overlapping or coiling of the day and night can only take place if the earth is spherical.
The earth is not exactly round like a ball, but geo-spherical, i.e. it is flattened at the poles. The following verse contains a description of the earth’s shape:
“And the earth, moreover, hath He made egg shaped.” [Al-Qur’an 79:30]
The Arabic word for egg here is dahaahaa1 which means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur’an correctly describes the shape of the earth, though the prevalent notion when the Qur’an was revealed was that the earth was flat.
Who could have mentioned this in Qur’an 1400 Years ago?