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→The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling: I have added another more recent example of the skies 'non-protection' in 2013 Russia of meteors going through the atmosphere that is known to have injured humans. The first link is National Geographic confirming the size of the earths atmosphere for context, showing the meteor penetrated it. The second link is to the NASA article about the meteor/event listing the damage caused, which you can see is largely copied from the final paragraph of that page.
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(→Earth as spread out and flat: I have updated my previous source explaining Plotemy's Almagest stated the Earth is spherical from Wikipedia to a more 'professional' one, 'britannica', which also mentions the translations into Arabic. Secondly I have added dates (and referenced) to when al-Jalalyan's tasfir was written, showing even significantly after the spherical Earth was known, the matter was far from settled (due to their analysis of the wording of the quran).) |
(→The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling: I have added another more recent example of the skies 'non-protection' in 2013 Russia of meteors going through the atmosphere that is known to have injured humans. The first link is National Geographic confirming the size of the earths atmosphere for context, showing the meteor penetrated it. The second link is to the NASA article about the meteor/event listing the damage caused, which you can see is largely copied from the final paragraph of that page.) |
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===The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling=== | ===The sky/heaven as a guarded ceiling=== | ||
{{Quran|21|32}} says Allah made the sky/heaven a guarded ceiling, and is most likely related to the verses about devils chased by shooting stars (meteors) that guard the lowest heaven. One of those verses, {{Quran-range|37|6|10}} discussed above, contains a noun meaning "guard" from the same Arabic root (hafiza) as the verb in this verse.<ref>[http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume2/00000237.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 601 حفظ]</ref> Interestingly, modern science has revealed that the things by which the sky / heaven is said to be guarded can also pose a threat to living things on Earth - asteroids and meteorites have penetrated the atmosphere and hit the earth throughout the course of history. This includes the [[w:Chicxulub crater|massive meteorite]] that hit near the [[w:Yucatán Peninsula|Yucatán Peninsula]] 65 million years which killed off numerous species, including most dinosaurs. | {{Quran|21|32}} says Allah made the sky/heaven a guarded ceiling, and is most likely related to the verses about devils chased by shooting stars (meteors) that guard the lowest heaven. One of those verses, {{Quran-range|37|6|10}} discussed above, contains a noun meaning "guard" from the same Arabic root (hafiza) as the verb in this verse.<ref>[http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume2/00000237.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 601 حفظ]</ref> | ||
Interestingly, modern science has revealed that the things by which the sky / heaven is said to be guarded can also pose a threat to living things on Earth - asteroids and meteorites have penetrated the atmosphere and hit the earth throughout the course of history. This includes the [[w:Chicxulub crater|massive meteorite]] that hit near the [[w:Yucatán Peninsula|Yucatán Peninsula]] 65 million years which killed off numerous species, including most dinosaurs. | |||
And more recently in 2013, in Chelyabinsk, Russia, a house-sized meteoroid entered the atmosphere at over 11 miles / 18 kilometers per second and blew apart 14 miles / 23 kilometers above the ground (For context, Earth’s atmosphere stretches from the surface of the planet up to as far as 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles) above. After that, the atmosphere blends into space<ref>https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/atmosphere/</ref>). The explosion released the energy equivalent of around 440,000 tons of TNT and generated a shock wave that blew out windows over 200 square miles (518 square kilometers) and damaged buildings. More than 1,600 people were injured in the blast, mostly due to broken glass.<ref>https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/in-depth/</ref> | |||
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