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The verb translated "tear" is kharaqa, which meant to make a hole in, perforate, pierce, or bore through something or to tear or rent such as a cloth, and appears also in {{Quran|18|71}} when Allah's servant makes a hole in a ship.<ref>kharaqa خرق [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume2/00000363.pdf Lane's Lexicon] page 737</ref> The verse seems to imply that the earth has the kind of predominantly two dimensional shape to which this verb is often applicable, even if humans lack the power to do so. | The verb translated "tear" is kharaqa, which meant to make a hole in, perforate, pierce, or bore through something or to tear or rent such as a cloth, and appears also in {{Quran|18|71}} when Allah's servant makes a hole in a ship.<ref>kharaqa خرق [http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume2/00000363.pdf Lane's Lexicon] page 737</ref> The verse seems to imply that the earth has the kind of predominantly two dimensional shape to which this verb is often applicable, even if humans lack the power to do so. | ||
===Qur'an | ===Qur'an 26:28 - Lord of the east and the west and what is between them=== | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|26|28}}| قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْمَشْرِقِ وَٱلْمَغْرِبِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ ۖ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ | |||
Qala rabbu almashriqi waalmaghribi wama baynahuma in kuntum taAAqiloona | |||
[Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."}} | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|55|17}}|رَبُّ ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ وَرَبُّ ٱلْمَغْرِبَيْنِ | This verse says Allah is Lord of the east and the west "and what (is) between them" (wamā baynahumā with dual pronoun suffix). The same Arabic words are also used slightly earlier in verse 24 of the same dialogue with Pharaoh, where Moses describes Allah as "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them". Clearly, the meaning in verse 28 is that Allah is Lord of the entire earth, but the phrase attributed to the prophet Moses and narrated approvingly in the Quran here naturally evokes a flat earth conception. | ||
===Qur'an 55:17 - Lord of the two easts and the two wests=== | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|55|17}}| رَبُّ ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ وَرَبُّ ٱلْمَغْرِبَيْنِ | |||
Rabbu almashriqayni warabbu almaghribayni | Rabbu almashriqayni warabbu almaghribayni | ||
(He is) Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests}} | (He is) Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests}} | ||