Are there any legal proofs that contradict what experimental science has reached regarding the sphericity of the earth and its movement?
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The Shaykh : What has been established scientifically today, that the earth is moving and that it revolves around the sun, is sufficient to know that there is no explicit text that contradicts this idea or this astronomical opinion. Many of the Muslim scholars, whose knowledge and virtue all Muslims acknowledge, and especially we, the Salafis, who believe in the imamate of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah in the knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah, and Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, as well as others, held a view different from what is being spread now based on some apparent meanings of the Qur'anic verses, such as the verse for example, and similar verses, from which they understood this rigid opinion that contradicts, first, the apparent meanings of other texts, and second, the scientific astronomical truth.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And like the verse describing the mountains as being like pegs for the earth, or like anchors for ships, does not linguistically necessitate that the earth is absolutely not moving; rather, it negates a state of turbulent, agitated movement.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And like this verse is the verse.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : Because we know by observation that the peg for the animal is not a barrier to its movement; rather, the peg prevents it from chaotic movement, which is wandering and running off however it pleases. No. Our Lord organized the rotation of the earth like the rotation of a horse around a peg, so He made the mountains pegs, contrary to what they claim. They stabilize the movement of the earth, but they stabilize a scientific movement that is known today to be organized and very precise throughout the year, not differing by a second.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : You are not yet due; it is your turn. Keep your questions to yourself, keep your talk to yourself until it is your turn.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And likewise, the anchors do not prevent the ship from moving.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And if we move to the other verses, they are explicit, or nearly explicit, contrary to what they understand from the first verses, such as the verses mentioned in Surat Ya-Sin:[Ya-Sin 36:33] until He said: [Ya-Sin 36:38-40] from the three verses: the earth, the moon, and the sun [Al-Anbya 21:33].
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And this verse is, in reality, one of the cosmic verses proving the truth of the prophethood and the message without forcing an interpretation, because there are verses that you know they force very much in their interpretation and application to some scientific theories, as some small birds do.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : Is there nothing else?
And the mountains as anchors
والجبال رواسيAnd the earth, after that, He spread it out
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاهاThe questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And like the verse describing the mountains as being like pegs for the earth, or like anchors for ships, does not linguistically necessitate that the earth is absolutely not moving; rather, it negates a state of turbulent, agitated movement.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And like this verse is the verse
And the mountains as pegs
والجبال أوتاداThe questioner : In English
The Shaykh : Because we know by observation that the peg for the animal is not a barrier to its movement; rather, the peg prevents it from chaotic movement, which is wandering and running off however it pleases. No. Our Lord organized the rotation of the earth like the rotation of a horse around a peg, so He made the mountains pegs, contrary to what they claim. They stabilize the movement of the earth, but they stabilize a scientific movement that is known today to be organized and very precise throughout the year, not differing by a second.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : You are not yet due; it is your turn. Keep your questions to yourself, keep your talk to yourself until it is your turn.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And likewise, the anchors do not prevent the ship from moving.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And if we move to the other verses, they are explicit, or nearly explicit, contrary to what they understand from the first verses, such as the verses mentioned in Surat Ya-Sin:
And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.
وآية لهم الأرض الميتة أحييناها فأخرجنا منها حبا فمنه يأكلون(38) And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing. (39) And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk. (40) It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.
والشمس تجري لمستقر لها ذلك تقدير العزيز العليم والقمر قدرناه منازل حتى عاد كالعرجون القديم لا الشمس ينبغي لها أن تدرك القمر ولا الليل سابق النهار وكلin an orbit are swimming.
في فلك يسبحونThe questioner : In English
The Shaykh : And this verse is, in reality, one of the cosmic verses proving the truth of the prophethood and the message without forcing an interpretation, because there are verses that you know they force very much in their interpretation and application to some scientific theories, as some small birds do.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : Is there nothing else?
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