a. There is no sharp tone from syara ', whether the earth is flat or round. But today science has been able to prove that the earth is round. As the Word of God reads:
الذي جعل لكم الأرض فراشا والسماء بنا
Meaning: God who has made for you the globe and the heavens (Q.S. al-Baqarah: 22)
But the scholars of interpretation understand it may be as a pyramid and roofed in the eyes only and this does not deny the opinion that the earth is round.
b. There is a saheeh hadeeth of Muslim history reads:
عن أبي ذر أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال يوما: «أتدرون أين تذهب هذه الشمس?» قالوا: الله ورسوله أعلم قال: "إن هذه تجري حتى تنتهي إلى مستقرها تحت العرش, فتخر ساجدة,
Meaning: From Abu Dhar that one day the Prophet (s) once said, "Do you know where the sun is going?" They say, "Allah and His Messenger know better?" He said, "This sun is going to reach it under Arsy, then he prostrated. (H.R. Muslim) [1]
Science is developing today that the earth moves around the sun, not vice versa. If this is true and justifiable truth, then this hadith should be understood lost the sun is only in the eyes only, does not mean the sun moves disappear. As for the disappearing of the sun and prostration to God under the throne, it is understood by the way of prostration that only Allah and His Messenger know. As for the prostration of the sun under the throne, because wherever the existence of the sun exists, then its existence must be under the throne, because the throne exceeds the magnitude of this nature with all its contents. Wallhu a'lam bisshawab ..
