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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 23 ] S u rah ar-Ra‘d , 13:3: 11 S u rah F at ir , 35:42: 12 S u rah al-Anbiy a ’ , 21:32: 13 Based on these verses, he argues that the earth does not rotate. He writes: And the rotation of the earth is impossible, otherwise the human habitats would constantly be changing directions. If my house is facing West in the morning, it would be facing East in the evening and to a different direction in the afternoon. But this does not happen. . . ( al-‘A taya al-Ahmadiyya F i Fat a w a Na‘ i miyyah , vol. 2, p. 277 by Iqtidar Ahmad Khan Naimi, Ku t ub Kh a nah al- H amd Market, Ghazn i Street 40, Urdu B a z a r Lahore, Pakistan, 1976) In other words, he offers this absurd reasoning and attributes it to the Holy Quran, and he goes on to claim 11. Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see…. ( S u rah ar-Ra‘d , 13:3) 12. Surely, Allah holds the heavens and the earth lest they deviate from their places. … ( S u rah F at ir , 35:42) 13. And We have made in the earth firm mountains lest it should quake with them… ( S u rah al- A nbi y a ’ , 21:32). . . . . . . . .