Refuting the Lie Against Shaikh Ibn Baaz
Is the Earth Round or
Flat?
By:
Shahid Bin Waheed شاهد
بن وحيد
بسم الله الرحمن
الرحيم
الحمدلله
رب العالمين والصلوة
والسلام على اشرف
الانبياء وسيدالمرسلين
نبينا محمد صل
ا لله عليه وعلى
آله واصحابه وازواجه
اجمعين - امابعد
Thanks to be Allaah,
Sustainer of the Universe, and blessing and salutation to be the most
distinguish of the Messengers and foremost among the Prophets, our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allaah
be on him and on his wives, children and Companions.
Forces for falsehood always spread the disinformation
about Islaam and Glorious Qur’aan. One of their examples is the absurd lie
about the flat earth and an alleged Fatawaa.
Anti-Islaam forces selects parts of the Islaamic history and/or
Qur’aanic teachings treating them as the whole, omitting the entire context
from the subject. And then expect people to believe that their claim is true,
while the leading parts of and controlling features of the Islaamic and/or
Qur’aanic teachings are carefully suppressed. Following is a synopsis of what
is being taught by the respected Shaikh Ibn Baaz رحمة
الله عليه about the issue in
question, which clearly impeaches the lies and slanders against the respected scholar
of Islaam.
The Shaikh Ibn Baaz: According to the
people knowledge (scholars of Islaam) the earth is round; for indeed Ibn
Hazim and a group of other scholars mentioned that there is a
consensus (unanimous agreement, Ijmaa') among the people of knowledge
that it is round. This means that all of it is
connected together thus making the form of the entire planet like a ball.
However, Allaah has spread out surface for us and He has placed firm
mountains upon it and placed the animals and the seas upon it as a mercy
for us. For this reason, Allaah said: "And (do they not look) at the Earth, how it was made
FLAT (Sutihat)." [Al-Ghaashiyyah (88): 20]
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ
كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
WA- 'ILAA AL- 'ARD. KAYFA SUT.IH.AT
And at the earth, how it is spread out?
Therefore, it (the Earth) has been made flat for
us in regards to its surface, so that people can live on it and so that people
can be comfortable upon it.
The fact that it is round does
not prevent that its surface has been made flat. This is because
something that is round and very large, if it is made flat (its surface),
then its surface will become very vast or broad (i.e. having a flat
appearance). Yes."
This is the Fatawaa of the Shaikh
Ibn Baaz about the earth's flatness and its roundness. So do not listen to
those who lie against Islaam, Glorious Qur’aan and Scholars of Islaam. Shaikh
Ibn Baaz (may Allaah be always please with him) was not some fool. In fact,
such people are liars and slanderers at most, and their sole objective is to
obscure and obfuscate the truth. As the Prophet's (صلى
الله عليه وسلم) said in a Hadeeth recorded by Imaam
Muslim, "It is sufficient to consider a
man lying when he narrates everything that he hears.”
Tuesday, January 11, 2005