Quran: Clear Truth - THE QURAN ON MOUNTAINS

A book entitled Earth is a basic reference textbook in many
universities around the world. One of its two authors is Professor
Emeritus Frank Press. He was the Science Advisor to former US
President Jimmy Carter,and for 12 years was the President of the
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. His book says that
mountains have underlying roots. These roots are deeply embedded in
the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg. The English
dictionaries describe "peg" as pin or nail that is used to hold
something or to fasten parts of a thing together.
As seen on the above picture mountains have deep roots under the
surface of the ground. (Earth, Press and Siever, p. 413.)
This is how the Quran has described mountains. Allah has said in the Quran:
"Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?"
(Quran, 78:6-7)
Modern earth sciences have proven that mountains have deeproots under
the surface of the ground and that these roots can reach several times
their elevations above the surface of the ground. So the most suitable
word to describe mountains on the basis of this information is the
word 'peg,' since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the
surface of the ground. The history of science tells us that thetheory
of mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half
of the nineteenth century.
Mountains also play an importantrole in stabilizing the crust of the
earth. They hinder the shaking of the earth. Allah has said in the
Quran:
"And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake
with you..." (Quran, 16:15)
Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains
work as stabilizers forthe earth. This knowledge about the role of
mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood
in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960's.
Could anyone during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (to whom Allah
revealed the Quran) have known of the true shape of mountains? Could
anyone imagine that the solid massive mountain which he sees before
him actually extends deep into the earth and has a root, as scientists
assert? A large number of books of geology, when discussing mountains,
only describe that part which is above the surface of the earth. This
is because these books were not written by specialists in geology.
However, modern geology has confirmed the truth of the Quranic verses.
Source: A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam.

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