580
edits
The Islamic Whale: Difference between revisions
→See Also: Added a section on the Cosmic Bull
| [checked revision] | [checked revision] |
(→See Also: Added a section on the Cosmic Bull) |
|||
| Line 249: | Line 249: | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|2|168|169}}| O mankind, eat from whatever is on earth [that is] lawful and good and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy. He only orders you to evil and immorality and to say about Allah what you do not know.}}A position that entails Ibn Abbas did both of the above things would appear to collide with the Islamic doctrine regarding the unerring reliability of Muhammad's [[companions]] as narrators. | {{Quote|{{Quran-range|2|168|169}}| O mankind, eat from whatever is on earth [that is] lawful and good and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy. He only orders you to evil and immorality and to say about Allah what you do not know.}}A position that entails Ibn Abbas did both of the above things would appear to collide with the Islamic doctrine regarding the unerring reliability of Muhammad's [[companions]] as narrators. | ||
== The Cosmic bull == | |||
As well as the Islamic whale, further cosmic animals supporting the Earth have appeared in Islamic folklore cosmography throughout the early and medieval periods, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujata Kujata,] the Islamic Cosmic Bull (which some scholars believed was in-between the whale and Earth - as can be seen in this [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html#obj104 Islamic World Map] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakariya_al-Qazwini Zekeriya Kazvinî]). While these are not all necessarily linked to traditions or the Qur'an, they are somewhat problematic to those that propose the Qur'an contains [[:en:Scientific_Miracles_in_the_Quran|scientific foreknowledge]] of modern cosmology. | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
[[Cosmology of the Quran]] | |||
* [[Cosmology of the Quran]] | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||