وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلَّيۡلَ وَٱلنَّہَارَ وَٱلشَّمۡسَ وَٱلۡقَمَرَۖ كُلٌّ۬ فِى فَلَكٍ۬ يَسۡبَحُونَ
Al Quran 21:33
Above i quote you the Al Quran verse based on which early muslim scholars considered earth is round. also you guyz will see i highlight in red the arabic word FALAQ. we MUSLIMS give damn shit abt your commentary or anti-islamists commentary for above quranic verse or the word FALAQ.
let see what was the openion of the early muslim scholars abt the shape of earth before your so called modern science tell you ...
first evidence
Ibn Abbas says: A falaka like that of a spinning wheel.
note *** we all know spinning wheel is not a flat thing
second evidence
Ibn Taymiyah continues: The [word] falak [in the Arabic language] means that which is round. From which is the statement [of the Arabs]: <> (Vol. 6, pp. 566-567)
In another passage (Vol. 5, p. 150) Ibn Taymiyah clearly states the earth is spherical.
both Ibn Abbas (Allah be merciful with him) and Ibn Taymiyah (Allah be merciful with him) are great scholars of islamic history we all know they both of them knew earth was round.
also note
Significantly Abu Ya'la in his work Tabaqatal-Hanabilah (Biographical Entries of the Hanabali Scholars) quotes the unanimous consensus (ijma) of all Muslim scholars that the earth is round.
in addition to that scholars of the Muslims like ; as Abul-Hasan ibn al-Manaadi, Abu Muhammad ibn Hazm, Abul-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi and others have quoted:that the Muslim scholars are in agreement [that all celestial bodies are round].
all of them came to the conclusion earth is round based on 21:33 Al Quranic verse many centuries before your so called modern science tell you.