Combining the Verse of the Sun with Astronomical Theories
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Excellency the Shaykh, this questioner says: Among the issues in which there is disagreement and much discussion in modern theories is their claim that the earth revolves around the sun and that the sun is stationary. The texts have come with the opposite of this theory, in the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Ya-Sin 36:38] We hope from Your Excellency that you clarify this issue, and is it possible to reconcile the verse with reality in this matter?
Answer:
So what did he follow? If the theories contradict the Qur'an, then we prioritize the revelation from our Qur'an and the Sunnah, because it is infallible, whereas the theories are the opinion of the jurists, and also those who stated these theories—did they encompass everything?
They are not the most knowledgeable about Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Did they encompass everything and know His management? They have nothing of knowledge except a little. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:85] So we prioritize what the Qur'an and Sunnah indicate over what the proponents of astronomical theories say, no matter how much information they have reached and no matter how much technology they have reached. They are prone to error, and often they differ, and often they bring a theory today and bring something else tomorrow, and so on.
As for the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, it is not possible for anything to be added to it. Then what is our benefit from these matters? Or what is our benefit? I tell you, our benefit regarding the movement of the earth and the movement of the sun. What does it benefit us? Are we going to intervene in the cleaning? I do not think so.
So what is beneficial in these matters is only the loss of weight, truly, and the emphasis in the Qur'an and what the Qur'an indicates.
May Allah reward you. Your Excellency the Shaykh, this questioner says: Among the issues in which there is disagreement and much discussion in modern theories is their claim that the earth revolves around the sun and that the sun is stationary. The texts have come with the opposite of this theory, in the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِAnswer:
So what did he follow? If the theories contradict the Qur'an, then we prioritize the revelation from our Qur'an and the Sunnah, because it is infallible, whereas the theories are the opinion of the jurists, and also those who stated these theories—did they encompass everything?
They are not the most knowledgeable about Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Did they encompass everything and know His management? They have nothing of knowledge except a little. Allah the Exalted said:
And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little."
وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًاAs for the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, it is not possible for anything to be added to it. Then what is our benefit from these matters? Or what is our benefit? I tell you, our benefit regarding the movement of the earth and the movement of the sun. What does it benefit us? Are we going to intervene in the cleaning? I do not think so.
So what is beneficial in these matters is only the loss of weight, truly, and the emphasis in the Qur'an and what the Qur'an indicates.
Source
مخالفة النظريات للنصوص — alfawzan.live
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