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5- He created the heavens and the earth truthfully. He rolls the night over the day, and rolls
the day over the night...
39-The Throngs, 5
The Arabic word for “roll” is “yukevviru.” The word is used to depict the act of wrapping a
turban around someone’s head. This word was also used in the sense of overlapping of the
night and day and vice versa. The reason for the day’s turning into night and the night’s
turning into day is due to the spheroid form of the earth. In this verse also we observe
implied the sphericity of the world.
When the astronomers went to space, they bore witness to this statement of the Quran and
took photographs. The face of the world facing the sun was day, while the other side was
night. The rotation of the world around its own axis made the night and day alternate, and in
some parts the transition from day to night took place simultaneously.
The phenomena related to the roundness of the world and the succession of days and nights
are the sine qua non conditions of our life on earth. Had our world not been of a spherical
shape, had night and day not succeeded each other thanks to its rotation, life on the face of
the earth exposed to heat would be extinct and in the portion left in the shade vegetation
would not thrive. God’s omniscience, omnipotence and art, His perfect design of everything,
and the miraculous character of the Book are better understood as we contemplate them.