The Stability of the Earth and What Has Been Revealed Regarding Its Quaking and the Movement of the Mountains

Question:
The visitor says: May their reward be complete, but I praise Him, and that is the last one, and he repeats saying in it likewise, and that is faith, if Allah wills, complete, and he mentions Allah the Exalted.

Answer:
The earth is stable, as Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) has informed us. As for the one who made the earth a stable resting place and a bed, if the earth were not stable, no building would stand upon it, and no one would live upon it. You know what happens in earthquakes, and may Allah protect us, when something of the earth moves, what happens to the collapse of buildings. So the earth is stationary; it is only quaked on the Day of Resurrection: So say: This is when the Hour stands up, it moves and trembles. Before that, it is stationary and calm, praise be to Allah. As for His saying: This is on the Day of Resurrection. When the mountains are moved, the mountains are moved when the Hour stands up; they become like smoke, passing like clouds. They move, they creep, they become scattered dust, as He the Exalted said. This is on the Day of Resurrection; it is not decreed on the Day of Resurrection. The context of the verses indicates this. The context of the verses indicates this. As for those who try to correct the ideas of the atheists and oppose the Qur'an or interpret the Qur'an other than its interpretation, this is misguidance and leading astray.