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Does the Shaykh retract his opinion regarding the issue of the earth's stability?

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The questioner:
May Allah preserve him. I have a copy of your book, *The Sun Moves and the Earth is Stationary*, supported by evidence from the Book and the Sunnah regarding this. However, I recently heard from some people that you have deviated from the statement that the earth is stationary and that it is possible for it to rotate on its axis, as the astronomers say. We ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to clarify this.

The Shaykh:
This is not correct. We have held this view for decades. The earth is stationary and at rest, and the sun is what revolves around the earth, and so is the moon, and so are the wandering stars; they all revolve around the earth, and the earth is stationary and stable. Allah made it a cause for destruction. As for the statements of the mathematicians and the astronomers, their errors are numerous, and a person of intellect should not approve of them. Yes, and we have not retracted this statement of ours. This is our statement, in what we have written since decades ago: the earth is stationary and at rest, and the rotation belongs to the sun, the moon, and the wandering stars, and not to the age. The earth is stationary and stable. Allah made it a firm ground, and He cast upon it the mountains, and made them pegs for it. Yes, meaning that...

The questioner:
...stating this undermines the religion. Not being satisfied with this undermines the religion of the Muslim if he does not acknowledge this?

The Shaykh:
If he believes that it rotates, he has erred and strayed. If he claims that the earth rotates and the sun is stationary, that is disbelief, because he is lying to Allah, and Allah the Exalted says:
And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping pointوَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا
[Ya-Sin 36:38]


The questioner:
The brother says to me about all the educational curricula.

The Shaykh:
And He the Exalted says, "And He subjected the sun and the moon," and He said, "All of them are running," because they did not submit to them, even if it were in the books. And if they prevail and err, it will not be a display for the people who know the truth. Rather, it is obligatory upon them, those who should return from their error. If it were merely a statement about the rotation of the earth and the sun in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, that would be easier. But the calamity is that these people use this to say that this is about the land of Islam. They use this to say that the sun is in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and the grave, so that they may lie about the Qur'an and lie about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is their intention. The intention of the electricity from this is that they use their statement that the earth rotates to say that the statement of the Qur'an, "it runs," is an error, that the Qur'an is an error from Allah. Yes.

The questioner:
Allah has decreed upon my uncle a car accident.

The Shaykh:
It will be dams as the mathematicians say, and the truth is that it did not rotate. They said this so that it would not be obligatory upon him to have a chance, but the truth is that it did not rotate.

The questioner:
Allah has decreed upon my uncle a car accident regarding this incident. This incident led to the death of the person he collided with.

The Shaykh:
Then he said, the calculations of Ibn Ahmad differ from old times, they are in error, the people of modesty are in error in old and new times. Some of them say this, and some of them say this, even the philosophers. But the later scholars were dominated by the statement of rotation, and the earlier scholars say that they rejected the rotation as it came in the Qur'an, but the later scholars were dominated by this statement, and this statement became widespread among them, and this statement was affirmed by these people, and a group affirmed these people,
If it had been from [any] other than Allah, they would have found within it much contradiction.وَلَوْ كَانَ مِنْ عِندِ غَيْرِ اللَّهِ لَوَجَدُوا فِيهِ اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا
[An-Nisa 4:82]
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Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 192 هل تراجع الشيخ عن رأيه حول قضية ثبوت الأرض؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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