And all the caliphs. Unfortunately, you also find strange fatwas from people.

from the Wahhabis, for example, you find Sheikh Bin Baz in Saudi Arabia declaring people disbelievers, and takfir is very easy for them, he declares disbelievers those who say the earth is round.

They declare them complete disbelievers. Why? Because they rely on the old, the old, and the old, and their minds are not developed, and they pull the umma backwards.

Excellent, dear counselor, did you.

read in any of the books of Sheikh Bin Baz, may Allah have mercy on him, that he declares disbelievers those who say the earth is round? Well, the sheikh's books are available.

Excellent, let's open the sheikh's books and see what Sheikh Bin Baz's opinion is on this issue. This, brothers, is in front of you on the screen.

Collection of Fatwas and Various Articles, authored by the one in need of his Lord's pardon, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman bin Baz.

May Allah have vast mercy on him. So, this book is by Sheikh Ibn Baz, published by Dar Al-Qasim, this is volume nine.

This is page number one hundred and fifty-six. It says: News from Saudi Arabia says that the vice president of the Islamic University there published an article two months ago in all the newspapers.

In it, he declared the blood of anyone who says that the earth is round and that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around to be lawful.

And so on. This is someone claiming that Sheikh Ibn Baz said this. Okay, the next page.

What does the person say? My answer to that is: Glory be to You, this is a great slander.

The article that the writer referred to was published in all the local newspapers in Ramadan of the year 1385 of the Hijra.

Readers inside and outside the country read it, and there is no mention in it of the earth being spherical, neither denying nor affirming it.

Actually, in this article, the issue of the earth being spherical was not addressed at all.

And there is no mention of the earth being spherical, neither denying nor affirming it, let alone spilling the blood of those who say so. Look at what he says: and in what I quoted in the article,

from the words of the scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him.

there is evidence affirming the earth's sphericity. So, the great scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, affirms that the earth is spherical.

So how could Ahmad Bahauddin, or whoever conveyed this news to him, dare to commit such a blatant falsehood?

And attribute it to an article that was published in the world and read by people.

Glory be to Allah, how bold this fabricator is. But it is not strange that such slander comes from the supporters of atheism and destructive ideologies.

Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has said: Only those who do not believe in the signs of Allah fabricate lies.

And those are the liars. It is authentically reported from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that he said: The signs of a hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is entrusted, he betrays the trust.

And Sheikh Ibn Baz continues: In the article, the blood of anyone who says the sun is stationary and not moving was only declared lawful after he was asked to repent.

Why, brothers? Our Lord, the Exalted, says: The sun runs on its fixed course. That is the decree of the Mighty, the All-Knowing. So the sun moves, it is not stationary.

The shaykh said that whoever says the sun is stationary, this is the one whose blood is to be shed after being called to repent.

Not just because he said it, that's it, go kill him—no, there is something called repentance in our tradition.

The shaykh continues and says: And that is only because denying the movement of the sun is denying Allah, the Exalted, denying His great Book, and denying His noble Messenger.

ﷺ, and this is known by necessity from the religion of Islam.

And by definitive evidence and by the consensus of the scholars, whoever denies Allah, His Messenger, or His Book is a disbeliever whose blood and wealth are lawful, and he is called to repent. If he repents.

And if they are not killed, and in this, praise be to Allah, there is no disagreement among the scholars. So does this mean that Shaykh Ibn Baz declares as disbelievers those who say the earth is round? No, Shaykh Ibn Baz did not say this.

And in volume nine, also page 228, he says: As for what was published about me in the magazine Al-Siyasa, quoting the statement written by the writers and intellectuals of the Progressive Gathering in Egypt.

That I deny the landing of man on the surface of the moon and declare as disbelievers those who say this or say that the earth is round or rotates, this is pure fabrication with no basis in truth.

Again, Shaykh Ibn Baz is saying that what was attributed to him.

That I declare as disbelievers those who say the earth is round or rotates, this is pure fabrication with no basis in truth, and perhaps the one who transmitted it did not intend to lie.

But he did not verify what he transmitted. Now, Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, whom you mentioned that.

Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab takes his ideas from him. What does he say about this issue, about the earth being round? Here is the collection of fatwas in front of you on the screen, volume five, page 150, section.

Know that they have agreed that the earth is spherical in shape. People, O reasonable ones, Imam Ibn Taymiyya.

It may be the consensus of the Muslims and the consensus of the scholars of the umma that the earth is spherical in shape. The earth, for us, is round.

We believe the earth is round, then you, respected counselor, come out and say that Sheikh Ibn Baz, may Allah have mercy on him, declares anyone who says the earth is round to be a disbeliever.

The following message reached the program from Kenya.

It was sent by our brother, the student Ibrahim Muhammad Awl.

Our brother says, I listened to the program Noor 'ala al-Darb.

I benefited from it a lot, and I wanted to send you these questions because their topics confused me a lot.

The first question: Is the earth spherical or flat?

The earth is spherical according to the people of knowledge. This was said by a group of scholars.

There is consensus among the scholars that it is spherical.

That means it is connected together, interlinked.

But Allah made its highest part firm for us, and placed within it the stabilizing mountains.

And He placed animals and seas within it as a mercy for us.

And for this He said: When it is said to him, "Fear Allah," pride takes hold of him.

The outward appearances that we live upon, and that people feel secure about.

The apparent things do not prevent correction.

Because you. the great one does not.

It became his.