The ruling on one who contradicts the Qur'an and the Sunnah with the words of astronomers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh Abu Faraj al-Watan, is the issue of the existence of the earth and its non-intentionality among the matters in which the one who contradicts is declared misguided, innovated, or a disbeliever, and in which the words of contemporary astronomers are cited as evidence and relied upon?
Answer:
Yes, one who contradicts the Qur'an and the Sunnah is declared misguided in that. If he deliberately says that what is mentioned in the Book or the Sunnah is not correct and contradicts reason, and says this, he is a disbeliever; because he is denying Allah and His Messenger. As for if he interprets it, if he does not deny the verses but interprets them, we say this is a mistake and injustice. But if he says it is not correct, that what is in the verse is not correct, that it contradicts it thus and thus, that modern science contradicts it, we say this is disbelief because he has lied about Allah and His Messenger.
Honorable Shaykh Abu Faraj al-Watan, is the issue of the existence of the earth and its non-intentionality among the matters in which the one who contradicts is declared misguided, innovated, or a disbeliever, and in which the words of contemporary astronomers are cited as evidence and relied upon?
Answer:
Yes, one who contradicts the Qur'an and the Sunnah is declared misguided in that. If he deliberately says that what is mentioned in the Book or the Sunnah is not correct and contradicts reason, and says this, he is a disbeliever; because he is denying Allah and His Messenger. As for if he interprets it, if he does not deny the verses but interprets them, we say this is a mistake and injustice. But if he says it is not correct, that what is in the verse is not correct, that it contradicts it thus and thus, that modern science contradicts it, we say this is disbelief because he has lied about Allah and His Messenger.
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، الإيمان قول وعمل — islamhouse.com (1:03:41)
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