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Started by MaryK, June 19, 2017, 06:23:50 PM

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MaryK

Why in Quran it says that mountains are immovable when they do move as the result of tectonics??

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Have you seen a mountain move?  ;D
I've never seen one.

I dont know geology, but if its said in Quran that mountains dont move, then those geologists got it wrong. I dont know geology, but is it possible the crust moves and not mountains?

Also, which verse is it?

imrankhawaja

first of all we need to understand that earth is moving and everything on earth is also moving that include mountains too..

next part is there is a motion in motion? what we say a hidden side of things..
same like there is a motion of particles in atom what is hidden from our sight..

there are some hidden sides of mountains now ponder on these verses each verse is unique in its appearance...

27:88 You see the mountains, you think they are solid, while they are passing by like the clouds. The making of God who perfected everything. He is Ever-aware of what you do.

RED it appears to us mountains are solid like standing
GREEN a possible/logical hint of inmotion of tectonic plates .. 

21:79 So We gave Solomon the correct understanding, and both of them We have given wisdom and knowledge. And We commissioned the mountains with David to praise, and the birds. This is what We did.

(birds and mountains commissioned with david)

22:18 Do you not see that to Allah prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the moving creatures and many of the people?

33:72 We have offered the trust to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they refused to bear it, and were fearful of it. But the human being accepted it; he was transgressing, ignorant.
(it appears that mountains has freewill or they also given a choice along with heavens, earth and human beings)

59:21 Had We sent down this Quran to a mountain, you would have seen it trembling, crumbling, out of reverence for God. Such are the examples We cite for the people, that they may reflect

(it appears mountain also fear from God and they aware about the supremacy of lord.)

yes brother it looks like there is not any contradiction at all, science just discover the phenomenon of 27:88 where as quran take you further down the depthness of mountain hidden side which is not apparent to the science yet..

God bless you

huruf

Quote from: MaryK on June 19, 2017, 06:23:50 PM
Why in Quran it says that mountains are immovable when they do move as the result of tectonics??

This has been abundantly discussed in other threads, and the Qur'an does not say that it says the opposite, but the translators have wrongly trnaslated, because, as in many other cases they guessed that what the Qur'an wanted to say was something else.

Salaam

imrankhawaja

the birth of mountains ,rivers and planetary system is process of billion of years ..

the movement depend on how you look at it..

you cant feel the movement if you compare your movement with mountain

right now we see the size of mount everest at more than 8000 meters , but if we go back to time there was not even himalaya exist let say millions years ago..
it takes it times to come into existence from 1 meter to more than 8000 meters...

so the process of mountain birth is same like a process of a seed converting into a massive tree..

MaryK

Thank you ver much for your reply.

"Or, Who has made the earth firm to live in; made rivers in its midst; set thereon mountains immovable; and made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water? (can there be another) god besides Allah? Nay, most of them know not."

Could you also please exlain why in some verses it says that mountains move and in some it says that they r immovable??


huruf

No, I do not know of any aya that say that mountains do not moe in any way-

Please quote or fie the number of the aya where you deem it to say so, so that we can review it properly.

Salaam

Wakas

peace,

Quote from: MaryK on June 20, 2017, 08:12:54 AM

"Or, Who has made the earth firm to live in; made rivers in its midst; set thereon mountains immovable; and made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water? (can there be another) god besides Allah? Nay, most of them know not."

Could you also please exlain why in some verses it says that mountains move and in some it says that they r immovable??

The verse you seem to be referring to is 27:61
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=27&verse=61#(27:61:1)

The word in question is "rawasiya" and can have various shades of meaning from mountains / firm mountains / immovable mountains, research more at: http://www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm

Ra-Siin-Ya = to be firm, stable, immoveable, still, lat at anchor, moor (ship), come to pass. rawasiya (pl. of rasiyatun, f. of rasin for rasiyin) - things which are firmly and immovably fixed, mountains. arsa (vb. 4) - to fix firmly. mursan - that which is fixed with regard to time or place.

rasa vb. (1) pcple. act. f. 34:13

mursa n.f. 7:187, 11:41, 79:42

rawasi n.f. (pl. of rasiyah) 13:3, 15:19, 16:15, 21:31, 27:61, 31:10, 41:10, 50:7, 77:27

arsa vb. (4) perf. act. 79:32

LL, V3, p: 252, 253  ##  http://ejtaal.net/aa/#q=rsy




Seems like the translator in the translation you are using interpreted it as "mountains immovable" which is a theoretically possible translation but not the only option.
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Quote from: Wakas on June 20, 2017, 09:23:42 AM
Seems like the translator in the translation you are using interpreted it as "mountains immovable" which is a theoretically possible translation but not the only option.
Salam dear human brother Wakas what meaning do you think is most accurate?

God (SWT) bless you all.

imrankhawaja

Quote from: MaryK on June 20, 2017, 08:12:54 AM
Thank you ver much for your reply.

Could you also please exlain why in some verses it says that mountains move and in some it says that they r immovable??

peace brother,

quran use a word الجبال when i address all those references..

for the word روسى its better to interpret it as stablizer , anything that hold a firm grip .. in case of earth the mountains along with force of gravity & lot of other things give us a grip on multiple ways and there are things in earth that give a grip to mountains too and grip upon grip until the bottom on earth core.. even magnetic field is a kind of GRIP..

i was watching the documentary on mountains in which the researcher was telling us how mountains provide us a safe-guard against the violent winds if mountains were not there the wind will make it impossible for us to move..

at one occassion this phenomenon is well described in this verse..
78:6 Did We not make the earth a resting ground?
78:7 The mountains as pegs/stakes/anchors?

the question mark will take us more deep for understanding what is pegs/stakes lets cross reference it with other verses
quran use this same root two more times reffering to this thingie

38:12 And before them denied the truth, the people of Noah, ?Aad and Pharaoh of the firm stakes
89:10 And Pharaoh with the pyramids/stakes/anchors?

In Geology, the phenomenon of ?folding? is a recently discovered fact. Folding is responsible for the formation of mountain ranges. The earth?s crust, on which we live, is like a solid shell, while the deeper layers are hot and fluid, and thus inhospitable to any form of life. It is also known that the stability of the mountains is linked to the phenomenon of folding, for it was the folds that were to provide foundations for the reliefs that constitute the mountains. Geologists tell us that the radius of the Earth is about 3,750 miles and the crust on which we live is very thin, ranging between 1 to 30 miles. Since the crust is thin, it has a high possibility of shaking. Mountains act like stakes or tent pegs that hold the earth?s crust and give it stability

BTW according to your understanding of moving, if mountains moves like we human move from one place to another then you will see mount everest and K2 from the ranges of himalaya & karakoram to america which is not the case as you clearly see..

so moving depend on how you perceive the movement of things.. like a tiny seed result in a big tree.. (its also a movement)..


now look at this verse in which both الجبال (mountain) & روسى(stablizers) used by author

79:32 The mountains He fixed firmly.

DR Frank Press, who was the President of the Academy of Sciences in the USA for 12 years and was the Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter. In this book he illustrates the mountain in a wedge-shape and the mountain itself as a small part of the whole, whose root is deeply entrenched in the ground.According to Dr. Press, the mountains play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth. 

hope this help
God bless you