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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the validity of the claim that the earth revolves and the sun is stationary?

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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is it correct to say that the earth revolves and the sun is stationary, or the reverse? Knowing that this is studied in schools?

Answer:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, andمَّا أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ خَلْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمَا
[Al-Kahf 18:51]
These are cosmic matters that we do not encompass, we do not encompass them, neither the dimensions of the heavens and the earth, nor the depths of the seas, nor the things in them that have not yet been discovered; there are things in them that they have not reached yet.
These are hidden matters that no one knows except Allah, and they are not discovered except at the time Allah has determined for them.
For every happening is a finality; and you are going to know.لِّكُلِّ نَبَإٍ مُّسْتَقَرٌّ وَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
[Al-An'am 6:67]
So we do not rush matters, nor do we judge about the unseen and what we do not know. The apparent meaning of the Qur'an is that the sun revolves and the earth is stable and stationary, and the sun is the one that revolves around it, and all the celestial bodies—the sun, the moon, and the stars—revolve around the earth. This is what the apparent meaning of the Qur'an indicates. As for the theories of the astronomers, they are not relied upon, they are not relied upon. It is obligatory for the person to refrain from these matters and not enter into them, not enter into them. And the fact that they are studied in schools is for information only, not for you to believe in them or be certain of their truth. You study them for information only, and that this is something that was said, but you do not believe in it and you do not hold it as true. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [474- 4717] ما صحة القول بدوران الأرض وثبات الشمس؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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