Zakir Naik – Rotation of the Sun and the Moon in the Quran

Brother asked a question. He said that he

has read the Bible.

He quoted a few verses of the Bible

and of the Quran. Didn't give the reference.

He said that the Bible says that Almighty

God created day and the night in the

first day. What he's quoting is the first

book of the Bible, the book of Genesis,

chapter number 1, verse number 3.

It says that almighty God created the day

and the night

and on the 1st day.

And further, if you read in Genesis, chapter

number 1,

verse number 13 to 19, it says, Almighty

God created the sun on the 4th day.

I'm giving you the references also.

So doesn't this go against science? I do

agree with you. It goes against science.

And I had a debate with doctor William

Campbell in USA. Doctor William Campbell,

he's a missionary and a medical doctor

and got a PhD in writing a book

against the Quran. And in that

debate

on the Quran and the Bible and the

letter of science, even I posed this question,

even he couldn't answer. So I do agree

there's a problem in the Bible.

Now coming to your question, that the Quran

says that

almighty God controls the universe.

Regarding the bible, yes, I do agree with

you. Bible is against established science. Regarding your

question that Quran says almighty God controls the

universe,

you didn't say that sun rotates.

That. That's what I heard. If I'm asking

you to repeat, why aren't you repeating?

I heard that.

And it gave reference

chapter 21 verse 22. The reference is wrong.

The real reference is I'll tell you what.

The real reference is chapter 21 verse 33,

not 22. Verse 33. Here's the Quran.

I'm speaking from memory. I'm not a computer.

I'll give the reply, brother. After I reply,

whatever query you have, no problem, brother. You

ask, brother, you ask the question, let me

reply. After I finish my reply, you can

ask another 20 questions.

But you asked the question I was listening

to carefully. Now you listen to my answer

and after I finish my answer, if you

have any query you can ask, I will

give you enough time. You chairman doesn't agree.

I'll request him to give you time because

you are delighted to come here. We are

more delighted that you are here.

The brother said that the Quran says in

chapter

21, verse 22, it's actually verse 33, that

the sun rotates. What is quoting in the

verse of the Quran of Surah Ambiya chapter

21 verse 33? He says

It is Allah who has created night and

the day

sun and the moon

Each one driving in orbit with its own

motion. And this mistake was even taken out

by Tasima Nasreen.

You know Tasima Nasreen?

All of her?

From Bangladesh.

She said that if a book

believe that the sun rotates around the earth

then how can we advance? So the Quran

has to be changed.

The problem is that a view should be

changed and she should read the Quran correctly.

The Quran says

It is Allah who has created the night

and the day.

The sun and the moon.

Each one traveling in orbit with its own

motion. Nowhere does the Quran say that the

sun rotates or revolves around the earth. Nowhere.

What does the Quran say?

The sun and the moon rotate and revolve.

Nowhere does it stay around the earth. The

word arid is not there in this verse.

It says It

is Allah who has created night and

day. The sun and the moon.

Each one traveling in orbit with own motion.

When I was in school, I had learned

that the sun was stationary.

It did not rotate about its own axis.

It revolved in the universe. Those solar systems

are revolving. But I, when I passed my

school in 1982, I had learned the sun

was stationary, did not rotate. But this verse

of the Quran says, the Arabic word yazbuhun

is derived from the word sabaha, which describes

the motion of a moving body.

If I use this Arabic word sabaha for

a person on the floor, it will not

mean he's rolling, it will mean he's walking

or running. If I use this Arabic word

for a person in the water, it will

not mean he's floating, it will mean he's

swimming. When Allah uses this word for a

celestial body, it doesn't mean flying, it means

it is rotating about its own axis. So

Quran says the sun and the moon, besides

revolving,

they're also rotating about their own axis. When

I read the verse of the Quran, I

said, but I read it in my school

book, the sun does not rotate.

Today, science has advanced, and we come to

know we can have the image of the

sun on a tabletop. And we see that

the sun has got black spots. And these

black spots take about 25 days to complete

one notation, indicating the sun takes approximately 25

days to complete one rotation.

So what I learned in school

in 1982,

today's hand says it is wrong. Quran has

mentioned this not 20 years back, 400 years

back. What I learned in school 20 years

back.

The Quran says what I learned is wrong.

First, I got a shock. But then when

I did more research, I realized that the

Quran is right. Quran is not wrong. My

science book was wrong.

And

the where did she put the word earth

inside? I don't know. Does she know Arabic?

Can she read English? English translation doesn't say

that. She assumed that when the Quran says

the sun revolves, it revolves around the earth.

That's her assumption.

So her assumption is wrong. Alhamdulillah, Quran is

not wrong.

And I do agree with you that Allah,

Subhanahu wa ta'ala, he controls this universe. That's

the reason, according to Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon is a great philosopher. He said,

little knowledge of science makes you an atheist

but in-depth knowledge of science makes you a

believer in one God. Hope that answers the

question.

Sir, I'm not sure the

chapter number. No problem. I I never criticized

you. I just tell I

I have to just tell the right thing

if you have given something wrong reference. But

someone who put it corrected you. I didn't

say that you have to know by heart.

Neither are you a computer. Neither am I

a computer. But I think

it is in the surah number 8.

I think

the sun is rotating earth. It's nowhere in

the Quran. I'm telling you the verse you're

quoting is surah Anbiya chapter 21 verse 33.

Even quoted by Tassim Al Nasrin and hundreds

of critics of Islam.

Nowhere in surah Anfal chapter does it say

that the sun, nowhere in the Quran it

says the sun rotates. The closest misunderstanding you

can have, if you don't know Arabic or

don't read the tazze correctly,

is So your first reference was very close.

Only 11 verses

difference. So your reference was right. Chapter number

was right, 21.

But the verse was not 22. It was

verse 33. Here's the Quran. Now

chapter number 21, verse 22.

God controls the universe.

God controls the universe. That's what I'm telling

you. Science hasn't advanced so far to come

to know about the reality of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala. I've given the talk, is the

Quran God's word? And I've proved scientifically

the existence of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

I would request one of the volunteers to

present my video cassette to him. I request

that you can have one of the volunteers.

I'll give you a gift, a video cassette.

Is the Quran God's word? Which has mentioned

several scientific facts and has even proved scientifically

the existence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Therefore,

today scientist,

top scientists are not

eliminating God. They are not they're eliminating models

of God. They're

not eliminating God, but eliminating models of God.

You understand? So today's scientists, top scientists in

the world,

they all believe in God. Most some may

have deviated, but most of them agree there

has to be creator

about the creation of the universe. Today, science

tells us, how did the universe come into

creation?

How?

By the big bang, correct? Yes. Yes, very

good. Big bang. That today scientists tell us

that first there was a primary nebula, the

whole universe, then there was

secondary separation, a big bang which gave rise

to galaxies, which gave rise to stars, the

planets, the sun, the moon and the earth

we live in. This is called the big

bang. When did you come to know about

this big bang?

20 years back, 30 years back, 40 years

back. Correct?

Allah says in the Quran in Suri Anbiya,

chapter number 21, verse number 30. Allah says

1400 years ago. Allah says that, do not

the unbelievers see

that the heaven and the earth will join

together?

Do not the unbelievers see

that the heaven and the earth will join

together and we clothe them asunder.

So Allah says that the heaven and the

earth were joined together and we closed them.

This big bang was today the scientists talk

about is mentioned in the Quran 1400 years

back in a nutshell. Who could have mentioned

this? That time Science wasn't advanced. Who?

The creator.

So like that I've given the full talk.

You can refer to my video cassette of

Quran modern science And it's the Quran God's

word. Insha Allah Insha Allah. If you watch

it with an open mind, you have to

be convinced that there's one God and he

is the creator of the universe.

Thank you.