MIRACLES OF THE HOLY QURAN ------------------------------------------ THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE In the Quran, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago at a time when the science of astronomy was still primitive, the expansion of the universe was described in the following verse: And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Quran,51:47) The word heaven, as stated in the verse above, is used in various places in the Quran. It is referring to space and the wider universe. Here again, the word is used with this meaning, stating that the universe expands. The Arabic word moosiaaoona in the term inna lamoosiaaoona, translated into English as it is We Who are steadily expanding it, comes from the verb evsea, meaning to expand. The prefix la emphasises the following name or title and adds a sense of to a great extent. This expression therefore means We expand the sky or the universe to a great extent. This is the very conclusion that science has reached today. Until the dawn of the 20th century, the only view prevailing in the world of science was that the universe has a constant nature and it has existed since infinite time. However, modern research, observations, and calculations carried out by means of modern technology have revealed that the universe in fact had abeginning and that it constantly expands. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann and the Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaitre theoretically calculated that the universe is in constant motion and that it is expanding. This notion was confirmed by the use of observational data in 1929. While observing the sky with a telescope, Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer, discovered that the stars and galaxies were constantly moving away from each other. This discovery is regarded as their one of the greatest in the history of astronomy, whilst Almighty Allah Has already said that 1435 years ago in the Holy Quran!
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:23:27 +0000
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