“The Earth is Stationary”

For this objective, he wrote several books, the most famous being his Fawz-e-Mobeen Dar Radd-e-Harkat-e-Zameen (A Manifest Success in Repudiating the Idea of the Motion of the Earth). The other books include Nuzool-e-Ayaat e Furqaan bi Sukoon-e-Zameen o Asmaan and Mo’een-e-Mobeen Behr Daur-e-Shams o Sukoon-e-Zameen.

 He writes:

فقیر بارگاہ عالم پناہ مصطفوی عبد المصطفے احمد رضا 
محمدی سنّی حنفی قادری برکاتی بریلوی

کے دل میں ملک الہام نے ڈالا کہ اس بارے میں باذنہ تعالی ایک شافی و کافی رسالہ لکھے کہ اسی کے اقراروں

سے اس کا زعم زائل اور حرکت زمین وسکون شمس بداہتہ باطل ہو، و باللہ التوفیق

Translation: “Ahmad Reza Barelwi [referring to himself in the third person] was inspired in his heart by the Angel of Ilhaam (Inspiration) that, with the permission of Allah Most High, to write a Risalah (Article) falsifying the claim of those who say the Earth is in motion and that the Sun is static (Stationary).”

Reference: Fawz-e-Mobeen; p.245

In fact, for the interested reader, I refer him or her to the following insightful article which gives an alternative interpretation, with quite strong argument I may add, that the Holy Qur’an actually implies that the Earth is in motion:

http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_104.html

From my own research into the following Verse:

لَا الشَّمْسُ يَنبَغِي لَهَا أَن تُدْرِكَ الْقَمَرَ وَلَا اللَّيْلُ سَابِقُ النَّهَارِ وَكُلٌّ فِي فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ

Translation: The sun does not reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each is floating in orbit. (Surah 36:40)

Now it is a scientific fact that all bodies in the universe are in motion and an orbit. Even the sun is not stationary. It is rotating around the heavy cluster of stars at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The Holy Qur’an in this blessed Verse does not claim that simply the sun and moon are floating (or swimming) in an orbit, but even the night and day are included in the indefinite noun كُلٌّ.

The night and day are not objects in themselves but states of being. Day means that state when the surface of the Earth is exposed to the rays of light emanating from the Sun, while Night refers to the state when that part of the surface of the Earth is concealed from the face of the Sun.

By stating that the Night and Day are included in a continuous orbit (Rotation) the Holy Qur’an has implicitly affirmed that the Earth too is in motion, because the rotation of the Night and Day (which are already understood as not being solid objects but modes/states that relate to the Earth). The motion proven here is that the Earth spins on its axis, which is the reason for the continuous rotation of night and day.