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Originally Posted by azim Salamu alaykum.
In this verse, I've heard it translated both as 'made the earth a wide expense' and 'made the earth egg-shaped'. Could an arab speaker please explain whether dahaahaa actually means egg? |
It doesnt mean egg my brother, neither does it mean flat..
Lane's classical Arabic dictionary (Which is one of the BEST on the earth) doesnt say that it means egg shaped, nor does any other dictionary, as far as I know!
Lane's dictionary gives a couple of explanaions and those are:
"To hurl, spread forth, expand, stretch out, cast away, extend, drive along. "
Now, these are the basic meanings, but if you want to go much into detail, then you will even find the word "Round like a toy the kids played with" and so on, but this is to go too far!
Visit:
http://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexico...3/00000023.pdf
For a total explanation if you will!
The word Daha is when the bird makes the ground spread to make it comfortable for its baby, the same as Allah did with our ground, he made it comfortable for us, it does not mean that he made it flat because this verse is talking about the GROUND (Ard) can mean Ground / or earth!
Allah was clearly talking about the ground (Wa Allahu Alam) and how he spread it for us, I.e. made it comfortable and spread the continents and made the earth bigger (I.e. expanded it to a larger size)... The word "Flat" in Arabic is not Dahaha nor any other word in the Qur'an is "Flat" like the missionLIARS want to make it look like!
See this video for an AWESOME explanation for this verse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Tyb...e=channel_page
May Allah bless you, ameen!