MOUNTAINS AS STABILIZERS FOR EARTH FROM THE QURANIC AND MODERN SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES

The main thought and foundation in Islamic civilization is based from the teaching and learning of Quran. There are many secrets and mysteries in Quran and the only way to uncover it is by reading, understanding and researching its content. Among the miracles stated in the Quran, there are 49 times mentioned about mountain in different form of words and sentence structure hence its meaning. Therefore, this study will discuss and uncover the scientific evidence related to the mountain that is mentioned in the Quran. The method of this study is qualitative approach which most of the data are collected from library and literary materials that related to the word ‘mountain’. In Quran, it has mentioned mountain as the pillar of earth which strengthen its ground and enable other being to inhabit it. Meanwhile, from the perspectives of scientific evidences claimed that when two continents collide, stronger plates will slip beneath the other plate and creating a platform that restrict the movement of the continent to avoid shaking. Then, the upper one folds and will form the mountain plate. This depicts that without mountains, the lithospheric plate movements will be eroded drastically. All this information has been mentioned in Quran as the word ‘rawasiya’ and will be discussed along in this paper accordingly Keywords: Mountain, Quran, stabilizer.