The claim of ascending to the moon and planets and its relationship to the heavens

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, given the vast distances between each heaven and the next, and the thickness of each heaven, and despite all of this, there are those who claim that they have ascended to the surface of the moon, or connected with such-and-such a planet. Is such a claim to be believed?

The Shaykh:
The planets, the planets are not the heavens; the planets are not the heavens. The planets are creations that move in their orbits, distinct from the heavens. Those who claim that they ascend to the planets must provide evidence for this. They are still all just a disc, all fabrication, all claims that they have not proven. As long as they have not proven it, the default is that it did not happen. And even if, hypothetically, they reached the planets, they did not reach the heavens, because the heavens are not the planets. Yes.

The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, we praise Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, for completing this book, and we ask you: what will the next lesson be?

The Shaykh:
The next lesson, if Allah wills, will be at the beginning of the coming year. This is the last lesson on tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and next year, if Allah wills, we will see the alternative. Yes.