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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "He raised the heavens without pillars"

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted, "He raised the heavens without pillars," does the verse indicate that the heavens are not raised? And can one cite the verse in Surat al-Anbiya, where Allah the Exalted says:
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth wereأَوَلَمْ يَرَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا
[Al-Anbya 21:30]
, to argue that the earth and the heavens were joined together?

Answer:
Allah, Mighty and Majestic, detailed this in the chapter [Surat al-Furqan], stating that He created the earth in two days
Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come [into being], willingly or by compulsion."ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ وَهِيَ دُخَانٌ فَقَالَ لَهَا وَلِلْأَرْضِ ائْتِيَا طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا
[Fussilat 41:11]
. Allah detailed the creation of the heavens and the creation of the earth in a manner that leaves no room for doubt. One must believe what the Qur'an indicates.
As for His saying, the Exalted: "Have they not seen that the heavens and the earth were joined together?"
those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entityكَفَرُوا أَنَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا
[Al-Anbya 21:30]
, the intended meaning is explained by His saying, the Exalted:
and We separated them and made from water every living thingفَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَيٍّ
[Al-Anbya 21:30]
. Thus, Allah opened the sky with rain and opened the earth with vegetation. Allah opened the sky by sending down rain from it, and He opened the earth by causing vegetation to grow in it.
As He said, the Exalted:
(24) Then let mankind look at his food - (25) How We poured down water in torrents, (26) Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts], (27) And caused to grow within it grain (28) And grapes and herbageفَلْيَنظُرِ الْإِنسَانُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِ أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا الْمَاءَ صَبًّا ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقًّا فَأَنبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّا وَعِنَبًا وَقَضْبًا
['Abasa 80:24-28]
"and olives and date palms, and gardens thick with produce, and fruit and grass, a provision for you and your livestock." So He opened these with rain, and He opened these with vegetation. As for the claim that the earth was joined with the sky, and then it was required by the sun afterwards—the sun's rays, that they were attached to the sun, and due to the speed of the sun's rotation, they broke and fell to the earth, and this became the earth—this is false speech. This is saying about Allah without knowledge. Exalted is Allah above what they say. These matters are among the unseen matters that no one knows except Allah. We follow what has come in the texts in which Allah informed us about the creation of the heavens and the earth, detailing that. And we do not say about Allah without knowledge.
He said, the Exalted:
I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants.مَّا أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ خَلْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمَا كُنتُ مُتَّخِذَ الْمُضِلِّينَ عَضُدًا
[Al-Kahf 18:51]
So we do not enter into these matters except by the Book and the Sunnah only. Yes.
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