the Quran. The Islamic Big Bang Contrary to what the Islamists want us to believe, the seventh century Arabia was not in complete isolation from the outside world. History tells us that the Arabs communicated and traded widely, and were influenced by the neighbouring cultures. The Arabs believed in the then widely accepted ancient mythologies about creation. The most common of those collective myths was that the sky and earth, each resembling a god, were joined together before their separation by gods. The Sumerians and the Egyptians, each had their own version of the story with their own gods as the players. In the last few decades, the so-called miracle Islamic scientists started to claim that the Quran referred to the big bang theory in this verse, Let us read: Q.21: 30 Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together, before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? The above verse merely talks about the earth and the heavens. Therefore, this verse cannot possibly be referring to the big bang, which explains what happened before the earth and before the heavens. The verse is actually a reference to those ancient myths described above, with the Arab god Allah, rather than a foreign god, being the central hero. The above verse in itself is a proof that Allah shares the seventh century Arabs their beliefs! In Arabic, when you say: ‘don’t you see me working?’ you do not really want to ask a question, although it is in a question format. The only answer you expect is ‘yes’ because you know with certainty that he/she can see you working. When Allah asks the unbelievers: (don’t you see that the heavens and earth… ) He actually reminds them with something they already know. This is why there is no evidence in the Islamic history, which suggests the unbelievers had rejected the verse or challenged the information. The Structure of the Universe The Quran views the universe as a massive room, the sky being the ceiling (Q.21:32) and the earth being the floor. All of Allah’s creations are housed between these two major components (Q.21: 16). Let us go through the universe’s major components starting from the top and proceeding downwards: The Skies: this is the blue dome we see during the day. It is a solid structure (Q.2: 22) perfectly designed and hand built by Allah with no cracks in it (Q.50: 6). The sky stands stable above the earth, probably supported by invisible pillars (Q.13: 2). If it were not to Allah’s mercy, the sky would certainly fall down on earth killing every one of us (Q.22: 65). During the night, the sky is decorated with the stars, which are also useful in navigation. Initially, Allah had only one sky, but after He finished the earth’s creation, including everything in it, He turned His attention to the sky and made it seven skies. He did that in two days (Q.2: 29). Out of the seven skies, only the bottom one has stars as decorations. The Sun: It is our source of light during the day. As per the Quran, everyone can see, the sun rises from the eastern side of the earth and sets in its western side, somewhere in muddy water. The movement of the sun is not in an orbit (madar, which the Quran has never used) but in a path (falak) that starts in the east and ends in the west. The Quran asserts that the only person to discover this movement of the sun was Zulquarnain(Q.18:86). Mohammed adds to our knowledge that the sun actually prostrates to Allah during the night to get permission to
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