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'''And at the Earth, how it is spread out?'''}} | '''And at the Earth, how it is spread out?'''}} | ||
سَطَحَ = sataha = spread out or forth, expand | |||
The word ''sataha'' is used to describe making the flat top or roof of a house or chamber and making a top surface flat. Words derived from the same root mean: the flat top surface or roof of a house or chamber, a bounded plane in geometry, a level place upon which dates can be spread, a rolling pin (which expands the dough), plane or flat.<ref> | The word ''sataha'' is used to describe making the flat top or roof of a house or chamber and making a top surface flat. Words derived from the same root mean: the flat top surface or roof of a house or chamber, a bounded plane in geometry, a level place upon which dates can be spread, a rolling pin (which expands the dough), plane or flat.<ref>سطح sataha - [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume4/00000081.pdf Lane's Lexicon] page 1357</ref> Indeed, the modern Arabic phrase used to refer to the "flat earth" today is الأرض مسطحة (''al-ard musattaha'')<ref>{{Citation|title=Translation of "flat earth" in Arabic|url=https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-arabic/flat+earth|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214041522/https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-arabic/flat+earth|publisher=ReversoContext|access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref>, the word ''musattaha'' is from the same root as the word ''sutihat''. | ||
In the tafsir Al-Jalalayn (from the 15th century) the word ''sutihat'' is used to explain that the Earth is flat. The author of this section, al-Mahalli (d. 1460), maintains that the flat-earth is the opinion of the scholars of the revealed law. | In the tafsir Al-Jalalayn (from the 15th century) the word ''sutihat'' is used to explain that the Earth is flat. The author of this section, al-Mahalli (d. 1460), maintains that the flat-earth is the opinion of the scholars of the revealed law. | ||
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'''And the earth and Him Who spread it,'''}} | '''And the earth and Him Who spread it,'''}} | ||
طحو / طحى = taha = Spread out, expand, spread on the ground.<ref>طحو / طحى taha [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000117.pdf Lane's Lexicon] page 1832</ref> | |||
==Indirect references to a flat Earth in the Qur'an== | ==Indirect references to a flat Earth in the Qur'an== | ||