{"id":779,"date":"2012-07-19T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/web\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-07-19T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T08:56:14","slug":"the-quran-on-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"The Quran on Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

A book entitled Earth is a basic reference textbook in many universities around the world.\u00a0 One of its two authors is Professor Emeritus Frank Press.\u00a0 He was the Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter, and for 12 years was the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. His book says that mountains have underlying roots.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 These roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg (see figures 1, 2, and 3).<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground. (Earth, Press and Siever, p. 413.)<\/p>\n

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Figure 2: Schematic section.\u00a0 The mountains, like pegs, have deep roots embedded in the ground. (Anatomy of the Earth, Cailleux, p. 220.)<\/p>\n

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Figure 3: Another illustration shows how the mountains are peg-like in shape, due to their deep roots. (Earth Science, Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 158.)<\/p>\n

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This is how the Quran has described mountains.\u00a0 God has said in the Quran:<\/p>\n

\u201cHave We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?\u201d (Quran 78:6-7)<\/p>\n

Modern earth sciences have proven that mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground (see figure 3) and that these roots can reach several times their elevations above the surface of the ground.[2]<\/a>\u00a0 So the most suitable word to describe mountains on the basis of this information is the word \u2018peg,\u2019 since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the surface of the ground.\u00a0 The history of science tells us that the theory of mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half of the nineteenth century.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

Mountains also play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth.[4]<\/a>\u00a0 They hinder the shaking of the earth.\u00a0 God has said in the Quran:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake with you…\u201d (Quran 16:15)<\/p>\n

Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth.\u00a0 This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960\u2019s.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

Could anyone during the time of the Prophet Muhammad have known of the true shape of mountains?\u00a0 Could anyone imagine that the solid massive mountain which he sees before him actually extends deep into the earth and has a root, as scientists assert?\u00a0 A large number of books of geology, when discussing mountains, only describe that part which is above the surface of the earth.\u00a0 This is because these books were not written by specialists in geology.\u00a0 However, modern geology has confirmed the truth of the Quranic verses.<\/p>\n


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Footnotes:<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Earth<\/em>, Press and Siever, p. 435.\u00a0 Also see Earth Science<\/em>, Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 157.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/a> The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran<\/em>, El-Naggar, p. 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/a> The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran<\/em>, p. 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[4]<\/a> The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran<\/em>, pp. 44-45.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[5]<\/a> The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran<\/em>, p. 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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