Allah's cosmology in the Qur'an

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Sep 3, 2008 at 06:56

Plato wrote

>It is quite obvious that the Koran is talking of the paths/orbits that the heavenly bodies follow.

Yes this is very correct and if you read Qur'an 36:40 where Allah explains his Ptolemy like cosmos (see Almagest and this is what the whole world at the time believed that this is the way things are and indeed this was the view until Kepler and Copernicus provided us with the real structure of the universe) and I'm translating here:

and the sun does not overtake the moon, and the night does not run ahead of the day, and each (sun and the moon) swims/floats in an orbit/path

The word used here for orbit/path is falak.

Now Allah's comsmology is as follows: He had a ratq of a pieace of cloth and he unstitched it and now we have the flat earth and the skies. Now the skies are not unlike qubat al-khayma (or the dome of a tent and this is not Quranic) and then the mountains are rawasi or pegs so the dome of the tent which is the skies does not come down crashing on our beds!! (Allah was for sure an Arab because he was thinking about tents and the likes to explain the universe) Now the sun and the moon run in a falak or orbit/path which is no more than the path/orbit known as Hbk al--nujum or the path of the stars and the earth is the center of the universe

So much for this bogus cosmology and it is indeed sad that Muslims spend hours trying to read in this poor Quranic science instead of reading a real book

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