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Sheikh Abdulaziz, alsalam alaikum.is believing that day/night succession comes from Earth's rotation against Sharia?Can texts about sun movement mean just the human perspective?Is this interpretation a violation of Islamic law,or is it a scientific matter left to experts,and Allah knows best

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Ustadh AbdulAziz al-Haqqan

​Imam al-Albani (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: ​"In truth, we have no doubt that the rotation of the Earth is an indisputable scientific fact. At the same time, we believe that it is not the function of the Shari'ah in general, and the Quran in particular, to discuss astronomy... There is nothing in the Book [the Quran] or the Sunnah that contradicts this well-established modern scientific fact, which states that the Earth is spherical and that it rotates by the Power of Allah (the Mighty and Majestic) in this vast space. Rather, a Muslim can find what indicates—if not explicitly states—that the Earth is like the sun and the moon."

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