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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sailani" data-source="post: 6955294" data-attributes="member: 228334">Early Muslim Consensus: The Earth is RoundIbn Taymiyyah (1328 CE), may Allah be merciful with him, in his famous (Majmu'ul-Fatawa, Vol. 6, pp. 546-ff). Ibn Taymiyah discusses the question of the earth is it round or flat? He writes: [That] celestial bodies are round (istidaaratul-aflaak) - as it is the statement of astronomers and mathematicians (ahlul-hay'ah wal-hisab) - it is [likewise] the statement of the scholars of the Muslims; 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]. Indeed Allah - taala - has said: And He (i.e., Allah) it is Who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon. They float, each in a falak. Ibn Abbas says: A falaka like that of a spinning wheel. 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. 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. This consensus was mentioned by the scholars of the second generation (the students of the Prophet's Companions) and was based upon Ibn Abbas' explanation to 21:33 (previously cited) and other evidences.</blockquote>

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