The Qur’an teaches that the sun sets into a Muddy Spring on earth. According to Sura 18:86, the sun literally sets into a muddy spring or a black sea here on Earth, and Sura 18:90 mentions a specific place on Earth where the sun rises. Many Muslims try and say about this absurdity “oh this is poetic”. Nice try, it cannot be dismissed as figurative language or poetic, because it is given as part of an historical narrative.
The Qur’an says that one of the righteous men of God’s servants saw the sun set in a certain place of the earth—in particular a well full of water and mud. There, this man found some people. Let us read what is recorded in the Qur’an (chapter “the Cave”, Sura 18 verse 86).
“Until when he reached the place where the sun set, he found it going down into a black sea, and found by it a people. We said: O Zulqarnain! either give them a chastisement or do them a benefit.”
Zamakhshari remarks in his book, “the Kash-shaf”,
“Abu Dharr (one of Muhammad’s close companions) was with Muhammad during the sunset. Muhammad asked him: ‘Do you know, O Abu Dharr where this sets?’ He answered: ‘God and His apostle know better.’ Muhammad said: ‘It sets in a spring of slimy water”’ (3rd Edition, Volume 2 p. 743,1987).
In his book, “The Lights of Revelation” (p. 399), the Baydawi indicates, *“The sun sets in a slimy spring; that is, a well which contains mud.” *
Why were stars created? In Sura 67:5 we read that the stars were created to be thrown at devils (Shaitans).
There was rain before the flood. Genesis 2:5-7 is only referring to before Adam was created, for it says:
"And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth. But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth. "
Also, rain is not the only thing that caused the flood the Bible says that the “fountains of the great deep” contributed the most of the water:
"In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened: And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
Some definite conclusions can be drawn from the Biblical text:
- The fountains of the great deep were subterranean in origin.
- The fountains of the great deep were the primary source of the water of the Genesis flood.
The latter conclusion is based largely on the duration of time that rain vs. the springs continued to flow. The Bible clearly states that it rained upon the Earth for only 40 days, while the waters flowing from below continued for 150 day.
The exact depth of this water within the Earth’s crust varies with different models.
Hydroplate theory places the water below a 10 mile thick crust, the remnants of which are now the continental crust. Hydroplate theory is the first flood model to deal with the springs of the great deep.
Modeling the fountains of the deep is an important aspect of any Flood model and one where hydroplate theory excels. It is an important aspect of flood geology but one that still requires much work.
