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| <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift who ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option> | | <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Prophet Muhammad. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift. He then ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option> |
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Revision as of 18:13, 20 May 2013
Also see: Template:Pictorial-Islam
The Geocentric Qur'an
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According to the Qur'an, the Sun (and the moon and the five known planets) follow a curved course. This course starts in the east, goes high above the earth and ends after sunset with the Sun resting at night at a hidden place. All this took place around an earth that was spread out and had a firmament built on invisible pillars above it. This was a common belief at the time. Sahih hadiths affirm this geocentric cosmology, and great ancient, and even modern-day, Muslim astronomists agree that the Qur'an is geocentric. In ancient times, many people - but certainly not all - did not know any better than what they seemed to observe everyday: the sun appeared to be going around the earth through our skies. We cannot blame a 7th century Bedouin for not knowing this, but should not the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe know better? (read more)
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