why do muslims update the quran to fit with modern science?

the quran 79;30 used to read;

And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse); (Yusuf Ali)
And after that He spread the earth, (Pickthall)
And the earth, He expanded it after that. (Shakir)

but a few years ago they changed it to

He made the earth egg-shaped."

are muslims that desparate for an afterlife so they can go to heaven to the extent they even change gods words?

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  • blackflags
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    do your own business and let others be!

  • ~A Content Slave
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Either understanding of the word "Dahaha" works and is in accordance with modern science…

    The word Dahaha can mean "to spread, cause to drift, make an expanse, to seperate…" But it has also been used in some dialects to refer to an Ostrich egg. And what is amazing is that both are accurate.

    If we understand the first meaning, it is a perfect description of the continental drift phenomenon, and how the earth actually formulated [at first being a tight, red hot ball of lava and rock, and over billions of years, cooling, absorbing iron-based meteorites, etc, and thus expanding to it's present form and size] -and the meaning is absolutely correct.

    The secondary meaning of "Dahaha" -being egg-shaped, is also correct for obvious reasons… but a little known fact is that the earth is not a perfect circle… It actually is a bit wider in the middle than the two poles… thus it is literally "egg shaped."

  • Creativity4humans
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    priest got mad now

    pathetic priest

    The Arabic word for egg here is dahaahaa which
    means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg
    resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth.

    In early times, people believed that the earth was
    flat. For centuries, men were afraid to venture out
    too far, for fear of falling off the edge! Sir Francis
    Drake was the first person who proved that the
    earth is spherical when he sailed around it in 1597.

    and when yusuf ali ,pickthall and shakir translated the Quran ??

    priest go and die please because of insult you bear here
    daily
    for $$$$$$$$$

  • OK
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Well, the Muslims always need to find something or the other to justify anything about Islam; even though a lot of it is very evidently wrong.

    Other than what is in their Book, which has been done threadbare and where scores of scholars have proved beyond any shade of valid doubt that most of their Religion is made up of superstition and lies, they still insist that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

    .

  • Tom
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    sura 79:30 has completely nothing to do with egg shape [ baidaiwiy means egg shape in arabic], if translated consisely 79:30 should read and the earth after that he [allah[ spread out like a carpet and flattened. dahaahaa means spread out like a carpet and flatten. why arabic speaking don’t speak out is a disgrace. why want arabic speaking muslims tell these people this?

  • HELLO【ツ】
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    muslims do not change the Quran. if you got two different Qurans from anywhere in the world, they would be exactly alike

    Unlike the bible, the Quran was never changed. It was from Allah, and we dont change Allah’s words. i a sure you guys belive that the bible was written by people

    anyway, all those you have listed have the same meaning

  • WATwat
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Peace to you Tom,

    Is there? I was told there is only one Islam, I like to keep believing that.
    Ankaboot is gone for the sake of fitna.
    So we lost more than him along the way.

    we also lost you, so may you be found inshAllah all that Quran you are reading and posting surely will turn you back to Allah SWT one day I will pray for that inshAllah amin!
    Salam Tom, Natassia, Lexi, M.D. and the rest you know who you are.
    If you don’t know who you are, or any one else doesn’t know have a look at TERMINATED Ankaboot account and you will see the contacts and faves of those who love to hate and spew filth that we have to clean up that makes terror and error and then more filth and then gathering filth all over and so on.
    Get the message about the filth yet? HAHA! Unreal

    http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=Ao8w.9ws61HBzDRnaEG2CErAFQx.;_ylv=3?show=Q0BwWvJOaa

  • Nur-el-Masih Ben Haq
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    THE QUR’AN CLEARLY IMPLIES THE EARTH IS FLAT
    if you are among the gullible and ignorant Westerners who were lured or deceived into Islam, your claimed that the Qur’an says the earth is LIKE THE EGG OF OSTRICH can be simply regarded as a pathetic ignorance. But if you are an Arabic Muslim, then you must be one of those lying to save the ‘face ‘of the glaringly erroneous Qur’an.

    Who lied to you, or who do you want to lie to, that the word ’Dahahaa’ means shaped-like-an-ostrich’s-egg? What connects the word ’Dahahaa’ with egg (of ostrich or any thing), which in Arabic means ’baida’? And shaped-like-an-ostrich’s-egg means ’baidaiwiy’ or ‘baidi‘l shakl‘. No Arabic Dictionary in this World or an Arabic linguist could toy with its or his reputation by claiming that the verb ’daha’ means ’made-spherical’ or ’made-like-ostrich-egg’s-shape.’ because it is obviously not.

    The True Reason Why The Word “DAHAHA” Was Used in Qur’an 79:30.
    It is obviously the Qur’an’s STANDARD position that the earth is FLATTEN or SPREAD OUT or STRETCH OUT or SPREAD OUT LIKE A CARPET or AN EXPANCE. Thus the Qur’an has consistently used various alternative words that each means FLATTEN, or SPREAD OUT or AN EXPANCE etc to describe the shape of the earth. Incidentally, the ostrich uses its legs and wings to ‘DAHA’ or FLATTEN the desert sands where it lays its egg. So, for once the word “DAHAHA,” which has the same meaning with the other descriptive, alternative words of that family was used in Qur’an 79:30.
    Qur‘an 13:3 And He it is who hath outstretched the earth, and placed on it the firm mountains
    ( The key word in Arabic being Madda )..

    Qur‘an 15:19 And the earth have WE spread out
    ( The key word in Arabic being Madadnaha ).

    Qur‘an 20:53 [since he is the One] Who has laid out the earth as a carpet for you
    ( The key word in Arabic being Mahdan ).`

    Qur’an 2:22 Who made the earth a bed for you, and the heaven a roof
    ( The key word in Arabic being Firasha ).

    Qur’an. 43:10 (Yea, the same that) has made for you the earth (like a carpet) spread out
    ( The key word in Arabic being Mahdan )`

    Qur’an 50:6-7 What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how we have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks? And the earth — We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and we caused to grow therein of every joyous kind
    ( The key word in Arabic being Madadnaha ).

    Qur’an 51:48 And the earth we have spread out, and how excellently do we spread it out!
    ( The key word in Arabic being Farashnaha ).

    Qur’an 71:19 And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet
    ( The key word in Arabic being Bisata ).

    Qur’an 78:6 Have WE not made the earth as a bed, And the mountains as pegs
    ( The key word in Arabic being Mihada ).

    Qur’an 79:27-30 What, are you stronger in constitution or the heaven He built? He lifted up its vault, and levelled it, and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon; and the earth – after that He spread it out…
    ( The key word in Arabic being Dahaha ).

    Qur’an 88:20 Nor even how the earth has been flattened out?
    ( The key word in Arabic being Sutehat )

    Qur’an 91:5-6 By the heaven and that which built it and by the earth and That which extended it!
    ( The key word in Arabic being Tahaha ).

    Thus it is very instructive that of all the key Qur’anic words that implies a FLATTEN earth:
    (Madda, Madadnaha, Firasha, Mahdan, Farashnaha, Bisata, Mihada, Dahaha, Tahaha and Sutehat) it is only one (Dahaha) that clever, ‘Westernly’ educated Muslims manipulate to say that it has two meanings–SPREAD OUT and EGGED-SHAPE.
    But since grammatically, the word ‘Dahaha’ has nothing to do with an egg in Arabic, the desperate clever Westernized Muslims fraudulently claim that the word ’Dahaha’, ( which they necessarily admit that it means SPREAD OUT ) also means shaped-like-the-egg-of-ostrich. And what is their ‘reason?’: That the word ’Dahaha’ is a derivative of the word ’Duhiyya’, which, they reasoned, means the egg of ostrich. What a laughable desperation!
    You may be surprised to know that there are two levels of falsehood in this claim. First of all ‘Dahaha’ is NOT a derivative of ‘Duhiyya’, which is in fact a noun. On the contrary, both ‘Duhiyya’ and ‘Dahaha’ are derivatives of a root word ‘Dahawa’. In other word, the only relationship between ’Dahaha’ and ‘Duhiyya’ is that they are both derivatives of their common root word ’Dahawa’ or d-h-w.
    Secondly, ’Duhiya’ does not mean the egg of an ostrich. It means the FLATTEN place in the desert sand where the ostrich lays it eggs. All the Arabic dictionaries known to the world describe ’Duhiya’ as such!
    And the word ’Dahaha’ ( which is a ‘brother’ of the word ’Duhiya’ ) means to FLATTEN or to SPREAD OUT ( like the place leveled by the ostrich for laying its eggs ). In fact, every Arabic dictionary describes the verb ’Dahaha’ as such.

    Every Islamic Ritual and Practice is Based on an Erroneous Concept of a Fl

  • system airey
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:09 am

    To make it look as though it was real

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