Saudi cleric claims ‘Earth is stationary, does not revolve around sun’

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A Saudi cleric by the name of Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari rejected the theory of ‘Earth revolves around the Sun’ in a recent video, and claimed that the opposite is true, according to a foreign news agency.

His statements sparked a wave of social media remarks from all over the world.

When a student questioned him about the Earth being ‘stationary or moving’, Sheikh Bandar
al-Khaibari responded with ‘stationary and does not move’.

Khaibari quoted some clerics and chose to present some religious statements. He also used some visuals to strengthen his argument.

He argued that if a plane stops still in the air, “China would be coming towards it in case the Earth rotates in one direction. If the Earth rotates in the opposite direction, the plane would never reach China, because China is also rotating,” he explained.

A wave of controversial remarks flooded social media, following the clerics video, so much so that a new hashtag began trending on Twitter: #cleric_rejects_rotation_of_Earth

 

 

 

13 COMMENTS

  1. This is called as orignal and creative thinkng No wonder with such religious scholars science has left Islam long back.amazing that such people can exist in this century.

  2. wtF big F am Muslim but that person ruin Islam name.. r u mad astronauts go with cameras on space and watch years and years to all the universe and he sit and said bullish

  3. I have a question to the publisher of this news… Will they also publish a news of some Doctor/Engineer who will give some similar kind of false or funny statement related to our religion??? … I mean… what's the point here???

  4. This Theory is Correct, Earth is Still and the sun is moving around the world.with all its star's, No body can 100% prove that earth is moving and Sun is still

    • You must be a complete idiot, the orbits of the planets and the sun were proven CENTURIES ago. Idiots like you need to either study real science or just shut the hell up.

  5. The cleric has the right to express his ignorance. Freedom of speech gives this. May i remind this "cleric" a saudi has been a guest in a spaceship and confirmed that the Earth Does Rotate around the Sun.

  6. If he had read "Surah Yasin" , it is very clearly mentioned about revolving of moon, earth and sun!!! all three revolve but "only in their own orbits".
    relating to science the all three have been proved to revolve!!!

  7. This cleric needs to go to school back. The plane also moves with the earth's speed in addition to its own speed. If a plane goes against the earth's direction, it reaches China or whatever destination it needs.

  8. Allah Almighty says in holly Quran in Surah Ambya Ayat 33, "And he is who has created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon each in an orbit floating". These clerics first of all have to read the Holly Quran by understanding it. It is mentioned in the holly Quran that earth rotates.

    Now the main point is that how plane reaches from one country to another while the moving of the Earth, so the answer is that we plane reaches from one country to another because atmosphere above the Earth is also moving on the same speed with earth. Mostly planes travel in Jet stream which is about 7600 meters above the earth surface and jeat stream movement is most similar to earth's rotation.

    If we travel in a train and while pouring tea from kettle to a tea cup, what is the reason that tea does not split on ourself? Then the answer is that it is so because the tea cup, kettle, we ownself and atmosphere around us all are moving in the same way with train. Same situation occurs when we are traveling in an airplane and hostess comes to attend us and pours coffess in a cup in a plane of moving with the speed of 500 Miles per hour (About half the speed of rotation of the earth which is 1000 miles per hour) then also coffee does not split because everything in that plane is moving with same speed.

    So the Earth and its atmosphere all are moving with same speed thats why its effect on airplane is like stationary body, but when satellites go outside from the atmosphere then the movement of the Earth and atmosphere does not effect on it and a stationary satellite looks like it is moving due to rotation of the Earth while satellite remains on its own point. In spite of that Geostationary satellites which are 35,900 KM above the space of the Earth and moves with the speed of 7,000 miles per hour opposite the direction of the Earth rotation and it remains on single point above the earth and does not have moving effect.
    Jamal Abdul Nasir from Lahore
    facebook ID: jamalnasir72

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