Are we being fooled all this while? Is the sun orbiting the earth instead?
Alhamdulillah, yesterday I've got chance to meet one Indonesian born sheikh, spoke with him for 2-3 hours.
We spoke on various topics, I took the opportunity to clarify a lot of things from him, he is very knowledgeable sheikh in Islamic falak.
The last part, he explained to me about tafsir of the Yassin, 36:40. According to him, the sun is actually going around the earth, moving in S formation around earth.
He said, there are two theories,
1) "geocentrism" i.e earth at the centre, the sun goes around the earth in it's orbit.
2) "heliocentrism" in which earth and other planets go around the sun which the sun believes to be in stationary.
He said, if we believe the 2nd theory, we will contradicts many hadiths and also the above Quranic verses which says the sun and the moon are revolving around in their respective orbit. Which also means the earth is static.
Is there any other source to verify the above?