Did Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz really say that the Earth is Flat ?

[truthseeker63]

As Salamu Alaykum my question is did Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz really say that the Earth is Flat ?

Muslim Edicts Take on New Force

By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM
Published: February 12, 1995


The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment.

That is a well-known religious edict, or fatwa, issued two years ago by Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, the supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia. The blind theologian's status gives his fatwas great weight, though his opinions have often raised eyebrows or embarrassed worldly Saudis.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/wo...new-force.html

[Jerbi]

Apparently he said that he didn't believe the earth was rotating around the sun.
Also he said whoever claimed that the sun does not move was a disbeliever , for such claims are totally opposite to the scripture.
Scientifically speaking , the sun does in fact rotate around the center of the galaxy (everything in the universe appears to be moving around something).

[Insaanah]

Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh

Did Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz really say that the Earth is Flat ?

No, not in that sense. He was misquoted. He actually said the earth was round, but described it as being flat in the sense that we live on it, and it being spread out for us. But the shape of the earth, itself, as a planet, is round.

By Shahid Bin Waheed

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.”

http://www.islamicboard.com/clarific...-ibn-baaz.html

See here also: http://en.islamtoday.net/node/927

[جوري]

It's unfortunate folks perpetuate rumors without checking the source
sis btw just noticed your siggy I it