Before We answer this question, it should be understood that Qur'an is NOT A BOOK OF SCIENCE.
It is The Book of Guidance for Humanity.
As the verse clearly states:
This is the Scripture in which there is no doubt, containing guidance for those who are mindful of God. -Quran 2:2
It is The Book of Guidance for Humanity.
As the verse clearly states:
This is the Scripture in which there is no doubt, containing guidance for those who are mindful of God. -Quran 2:2
Now Let's Look at the 2 Ayaat of Quran which talks about the "shape" of earth:
1. “He created the heavens and the earth for a purpose. He wraps (yukawwiru) the night around the day, and wraps the day around the night. And He has subjected the sun and the moon, each orbiting for an appointed term. He is truly the Almighty, Most Forgiving.”
Thie verse, in Surah 39, has a meaning that can make sense of the roundness of the earth. The Arabic word yukawwiru (rolling/wrap) makes sense of something being rolled over a spherical surface; in this case, rolling the night into the day.
This choice of word is interesting as the word "yukawwiru" is linguistically related to the Arabic word for ball. This is the view of the 11th century scholar Ibn Hazm.
Ibn Hazm argues that "yukawwiru" linguistically relates to the word used for wrapping a turban on one’s head; which indicates the earth is spherical as the night and day wrap themselves “around” the earth.
Dr. Raghib Al-Sarjani points out that Muslim scholars were motivated to reject the Roman flat-Earth view, and instead championed the spherical Earth view because the Qur’ān describes the Earth as spherical.
Interestingly, 14th century scholar, Ibn Taymiyya cites an earlier authority, Abu’l-Husayn Ibn Munāda, as referring to the Earth as a ball:“There is consensus among the scholars, that the earth, with all its movements on land and sea, is like a ball.”
Ibn Munāda’s view is supported by Ibn Hazm who also stated there is a consensus that the Earth is spherical.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, who lived in the same century, went so far as to say that anyone who denies that the Earth is spherical has made a mockery of Islam.
12th century (6th century A.H.) scholar Abu Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi stated that there is a consensus (ijma’) among Muslim scholars that the Earth is spherical.
it is Evident that Prominent Scholars of Islam never held the view of Flat Earth instead they believed in Spherical Earth.
Now the second Verse Which People Use to claim that Qur'an says Earth is Flat:
“[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.” Qur'an 20:53
“[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.” Qur'an 20:53
One of the most Respected Scholar Abu Bakr al-Razi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"If it is said: Do the words “And the earth We spread out” indicate that it is flat?
"If it is said: Do the words “And the earth We spread out” indicate that it is flat?
We would respond: Yes, because the earth, even though it is round, is an enormous sphere, and each little part of this enormous sphere, when it is looked at, appears to be flat. As that is the case, this will dispel what they mentioned of confusion.
The evidence for that is the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning): “And the mountains as pegs” [an-Naba’ 78:7]. He called them awtaad (pegs) even though these mountains may have large flat surfaces. And the same is true in this case."
Hope this Helps.
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