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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the statement that mountains move and are not stationary

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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: Who is it that says that mountains move in our time?

The Shaykh:
It is not prescribed to read it. Yes.

The questioner:
He asks: Who is it that says that mountains move in our time, and cites as evidence the saying of Allah the Exalted
And you see the mountains, thinking them rigid, while they will pass as the passing of cloudsوَتَرَى الْجِبَالَ تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدَةً وَهِيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابِ
[An-Naml 27:88]
Is this statement considered to be from those who interpret the Qur'an by their own opinion?

The Shaykh:
Yes, this is a liar who speaks about Allah without knowledge. The verses
And you see the mountains, thinking them rigidوَتَرَى الْجِبَالَ تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدَةً
[An-Naml 27:88]
This is on the Day of Resurrection, not now. The mountains are now stationary. The mountains are now stationary, and they are the pegs of the earth. They are mountains, and We made them towering mountains. Mountains, mountains, the mountains move? No, they are mountains. So this is speaking about Allah without knowledge, interpreting the Qur'an by theories.
The Qur'an is not interpreted except by the Qur'an, or by the Sunnah, or by the statements of the Companions, or by the statements of the Tabi'un. These are the ways of interpretation. It is not interpreted by opinion and theories, because it is the speech of Allah. So the one who interprets it by other than its meaning speaks about Allah without knowledge. He says that Allah intended such and such, and he is lying in this.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [384- 4717] حكم القول بأن الجبال تسير وليست ثابتة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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