Surah 31:29
"Do you not see that God causes the night to pass into the day, and causes the day to pass into the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon, each one running (its course) for an appointed time, and that God is aware of what you do?"
Geocentricism
The Qur'an mentions numerous times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit, but does not mention once that the earth does too. This is consistent with a earth-centered (geocentric) view of the cosmos that places a motionless earth at the center of the universe and all "heavenly bodies" travel around the earth. This was the prevailing understanding of the universe prior to the 1...