I was a flat earther…

but you’ll hear me out, right?

This is a judgement-free zone.

Actually —

feel free to judge.

Because by the end of this post, you might just consider being a flat earther too.

Even if only for 10 hours.

That’s how long mine lasted.

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It started with a Jubilee video: Flat Earthers vs Scientists.

Obviously, I clicked in as a proud member of the science team. I mean I’ve studied science my whole life (mostly to avoid math, but still).

The earth is round. Duh.

Or oblate spheroid if we’re being technical.

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But there was something about hearing a perspective I’d never considered.

It wasn’t the arguments themselves, it was the fact that I had never needed to defend the earth’s roundness — not in my head, not aloud, not ever.

Every belief I had about the earth's shape was taught to me. I never sought it out.

This time, I did.

I owed the flat-earthers a chance (or the thought in the back of my head).

Down the rabbit hole I went:

• flat earth theory

• moon landing conspiracies

• the whole pandemic-era YouTube spiral.

(Yes, it was 2020. So that explains…it.)

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And I won’t lie. For a moment, I was confused.

Conflicting sources, suspicious edits, YouTubers with graphs in dim lighting.

You know the vibe.

I wasn’t sure who to talk to. I didn’t want the judgment.

But I had one last source to consult.

So I called my mom.

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“Mummy…”

(yes, I still call her Mummy, Mother when I’m feeling fancy MYB),

“What does the Qur’an say about the shape of the earth?”

She answered casually, almost like it was common sense (maybe it is?):

“Oh, it says it’s egg-shaped.”

And just like that, I was grounded again.

It sounds dramatic, but I let out a sigh of relief.

It made me realize, I always turned to the Qur’an for purely reading, and in prayers…

but not really as a source. Not when I was confused. Not when I had questions like this.

But that night changed that.

Now? No question is too dumb or silly to see what the Islamic view on it is. As unique as we all are, no question is original (sorry).

I started including the Qur’an in the search bar of my life.

And I haven’t stopped since.

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So yes —

I was a flat earther. Kinda.

And it led me right back to where I needed to be.

So maybe you should be too. Question something you’ve always known.

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“He made the earth egg-shaped”

— Surah An-Nazi'at (79:30)

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