http://www.thefreedictionary.com/expanse" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;MbL wrote:Dahaha specifically refers to the action of a mother ostrich where she spreads out the dirt to form a pit for her egg and then stamps on the remaining to flatten it. And it is only mentioned in 79:30, not elsewhere..... Brackets are not always wrong. Yusuf Ali sought to portray the clearest meaning possible... Spreading something out invariably leads to making it more flat. It certainly doesn't make it more round. There's no mention of hospitality at all or else it would say so.... Yes, habitable and safe because it was thought to originally be round like the moon and sun but Allah flattened it out so we wouldn't fall off. It's pretty obvious.... How come Shakir says expanse?
--A wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky.
--Ambit, orbit, surface, space, breadth, etc.
Again, Yusuf Ali is ALONE in his figurative 'carpet'. He wouldn't be so if it was ''the clearest meaning possible''.
http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/15/19/default.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spread+out" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (i.e. Dahaha)
--Diffuse, fan out, string out, set up, dispread, grow, splay, rotate. Nothing about flatness...
Dahaha is only found in 79.30 and never gives the idea of flatness as snb wrongly ascertained...
Yet the Koran contains many synonymous like faraash (51.48), or wasia (29.56), still nothing 'flat'!
http://www.islamawakened.com/Quran/79/30/default.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/29/56/default.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
51.48 confirms the meaning intended in spread out... a smoothed, hospitable, liveable, homy place.
http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/51/48/default.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 818AAWpYXV" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Now, even 'to flatten' isn't only about flatness...According to some etymologists, the word for the “egg of an ostrich” also has the same root as “dahaha”. They also take
from this that the earth is of the shape of the egg of an ostrich. Latest science findings confirm that the earth is not
exactly spherical but the earth is an ellipsoid, i.e. flattened by its poles,[just like the shape of an egg of an ostrich].
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flatten" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
--Give shape or form to; change form; alter, change, modify; sharpen; smooth off.
I now ask snb or MbL to prove that Dahaha indicates flatness. A lot of skating expected
