For example imagine that there is big model of the earth, the globe, say about 10 feet in radius – Very big – Very well you can spread a carpet around it – It is possible. It is wrong – A carpet, can also be spread on a spherical surface. It gives a similitude that… ‘We have spread out the Earth like a carpet’. People normally have a misconception that… ‘A carpet can only be spread on a flat surface’. No where does the Qur’an say, that the earth is flat. The deeper layers are hot and fluid, and inhospitable for existence of life.
As I mentioned in my talk – the Geologists, they tell us today, the earth which we live- on the surface is hardly one to 10 miles, and less than 1% of the total radius of the earth which is 3750 miles. But it gives the answer in the next verse, in verse number 20, ‘So that you may walk and travel in the spacious path’. 19 and 20, which does say… ‘that we have spread out the Earth like a carpet’.
(Dr.Zakir): The question posed was – and people are astonished out here… that the Qur’an says the earth was like a carpet… spread out like a carpet – So does it mean, it was flat? What the person is referring- from the Ayat from the Holy Qur’an, in Surah Nur, Ch.
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