We Live In An Expanding Universe - Quran Miracles

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WE LIVE IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE

 

47- With power did We construct heaven. Verily, We are expanding it.

 

51-The Dispersing, 47

 

 

Is the universe infinite? Or is it finite in a steady state? From the

very beginning this has been a subject of debate between great minds.

Hot debates and ratiocination of all kinds failed to clarify this

dilemma. This had once been the subject of philosophical speculations

before it yielded its place to the science of physics. Some of the

great minds argued that the universe was not a confined space, while

others contended that its boundaries were drawn. The Quran describes

it as a continuously expanding and dynamic universe. According to this

description, the universe has a new aspect every instant that deviates

from the concept of an infinite space; its perpetual expansion defies

the concept of a confined and steady state universe. Thus, the Quran

propounds a third alternative, leaving the heated controversy of

thinkers in abeyance.

 

This may contribute to the formulation of a judgment for the inquiring

minds, probing whether the Quran is God & #8217;s revelation or not. We have,

on the one hand, Muhammad in the desert, neither a philosopher nor a

physicist, and, on the other hand, the assumptions of great thinkers

and philosophers such as Aristotle, Ptolemy,Giordano Bruno, Galileo

Galilei and Isaac Newton, to name but a few. The greatest minds in

history, basing their arguments on observations and formulas they had

ingeniously devised, claimed either that the universe had its confines

or that it was an endless space, but it occurred to none of them to

think of a dynamic expanding universe, until the 20th century when

Edwin Hubble, by means of a telescope, demonstrated that the universe

was expanding. The theory of expansion of the universe was first

advanced in the 1920s. Until the descent of the Quran no other source

had made such an assertion!

 

MUHAMMAD & #8217;S TELESCOPE

 

Unbelievers contended that the Quran was Muhammad & #8217;s own fabrication

and not the revelation of God. How then would these dissenters explain

the fact that Muhammad had been the only person who was aware of the

expanding universe long before the 1920s.

 

Could it be that in the 600s he had invented a telescope similar to

the one contrived in the 1900s? Could it be that he had been familiar

with the handling of such a telescope and acquainted with the motion

of stars and that he had concealed it from his fellow men? If those

who accused the Prophet of lunacy and alleged that in his delusional

states he imagined himself the messenger of God were justified in

their claims, how would they account for the fact that he knew facts

not known to his contemporaries, facts that were to be discovered 1300

years after his revelation of them? If those people assert that the

Prophet had devised a religion to serve his own ends, how can they

explain that his so-called delusions materialized after a lapse of

1300 years? His pronouncements at the time did not promote his

interests in any way; quite the reverse was the case, since he

unwittingly gave his enemies a hint they might take advantage of. Can

a person whose own interests prevail over the interests of others

declare something not to his own advantage that was sure to be

bitterly censured and much derided by those whose naked eyes failed to

observe the expansion of the universe? If, despite this, a person came

up with the contention that Muhammad was an intelligent man who might

have perceived this truth, what sort of an intelligence might this

have been?

 

And, instead of boasting of having been the depository of such

knowledge, why would he have preferred to tell an untruth and claim

that this was not his own discovery but the revelation by God? While

the inventor or discoverer of a pin is inclined to brag about his

breakthrough, why on earth would Muhammad choose to be modest and

categorically declare that the Quran was not his own production, but

the revelation of God? Was this due to humility? Would these people -

who had denied his prophethood and accused him of having been an

impostor - have dared qualify him with the laudable attribute of

& #8220;humility? & #8221;

 

DISCOVERY OF THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE

 

There was a gap in Newton & #8217;s physics. Newton believed in an endlessly

vast and static universe. His law of gravity encountered a problem.

How was it that the physical bodies, in the course of eons, defied

their mutual attractions and did not collapse into a unity? The

formula that Einstein devised abandoned the absolute notions of space

and time as reference points for all objects in the universe. Basing

his studies on Einstein & #8217;s formulas, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian

physicist, discovered that the universe must be expanding. Georges

Lemaître, a Belgian cleric, astronomer and cosmologist, formulated

that the universe had begun in a cataclysmic explosion of a small,

primeval superatom, like the growing of an oak tree from an acorn.

This theory explained the recession of galaxies within the framework

of Albert Einstein & #8217;s theory of general relativity. This idea was so

incredible that even Einstein had problems accepting it, despite the

fact that this all had originated from his own formulas. Einstein,

rather, countered that physics was not the forte of Lemaître, and the

universe was an infinite expanse and in a steady state.

 

Lemaître & #8217;s theory posited that the universe was expanding. This was a

statement that no philosopher and no scientist had ever before set

forth. Kant had said in his Critique of Pure Reason that this was an

enigma unsolvable by human intelligence. This theory fit everything

and explained the reason why the universe did not collapse in spite of

gravity. The key had fit into the lock. It was the correct explanation

of the enigma. However, this statement met with the usual adverse

reaction: & #8220;No, it is not the truth... & #8221;

 

Remaining outside the sphere of theoretical controversy, American

astronomer Hubble was, about the same time, making observations with

his sophisticated telescope in the Mount Wilson observatory. He

observed that galaxies were receding from each other, which proved

that the universe was expanding. In answer to those who said they

could not believe in things their eyes had not witnessed, Hubble & #8217;s

discovery led to the following declaration: & #8220;Now that you see it, you

have got to believe it. & #8221; Hubble showed this by the Doppler Effect.

Thus the wavelengths of receding bodies prolonged in the spectrum of

light waves would shift to red, while, if the bodies approached each

other, the wavelengths would shorten, shifting to blue. The light that

came from galaxies that shifted to red showed that the galaxies were

receding. In line with this observation, Hubble discovered a striking

law: the speed of galaxies that receded was directly proportional to

the distance between galaxies. The farther away a galaxy stood, the

more its speed of recession accelerated. The result was tested again

and again. In 1950, a high-magnification telescope was installed on

Mount Palomar in the USA, the largest instrument of its kind. The new

tests and controls justified this observation. The measurements made

pointed to the fact that the creation of the universe occurred about

10-15 billion years ago.

 

Both Einstein and Lemaître took an interest in Hubble & #8217;s work;

Einstein, who did not agree with Lemaître at first, eventually

acknowledged during a conference that Lemaître was right after all. He

confessed that his failure to endorse these findings had been the

gravest error in his life. Thus it was that the fact that the universe

was of a dynamic nature and expanding, confirmed by observations, was

also validated by the great physicist Einstein.

 

In the examples presented by Hubble and Lemaître, we see illustrated

how a physicist arrives at a conclusion both in theory and through

observation. While Lemaître demonstrated how he had made inferences

from Einstein & #8217;s formulas to substantiate his theoretical discoveries,

Hubble presented the data of his observations and his conclusions.

 

As we see, the result obtained by physicists is the consequence of

cumulative and collective bits of knowledge and research. The Creator

of physical laws provides the answer in the Quran to the issues of

towering importance throughout human history. The Quran & #8217;s presentation

of scientific facts is clear, direct, and concise; it is different

than the presentation of scientists, which tends to be complicated by

scientific methods and procedures. The provider of this answer does

not have to go through all the labyrinths a scientist has to. The

Quran & #8217;s method is perfectly straightforward, unswerving and explicit.

 

If we had the possibility of looking at the universe from above and

somebody asked us to describe what we saw, our answer would be that it

was expanding. To achieve the Quran & #8217;s revelation of this fact 1400

years ago, man would have needed access to the assistance of

accumulated scientific data acquired throughout long years and to

sophisticated telescopes. When people claim that science and religion

oppose each other, the Quran furnishes answers to the most complicated

scientific problems. Observations made by sophisticated telescopes

today confirm the statements of the Quran.

 

The Quran, perfectly aware of the human psyche with its prescience,

states that nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardless

how many miracles are presented to them. Some ask: & #8220;Why did the people

also not believe in Jesus, who had performed miracles and healed the

sick and the blind? & #8221; This example demonstrates why the majority of

people did not believe in Christ and the other prophets, despite their

miracles. Miracles change in fact as time goes by, but the negative

attitude of most humans remains unchanged.

REASON FOR THE USE OF THE ROYAL PLURAL

I think it advisable to explain the reason for the use of & #8220;We & #8221; in

the

verse analyzed in this chapter. God uses both the royal plural & #8220;We & #8221;

and the first person singular & #8220;I. & #8221; Some languages use the first

person

plural & #8220;we & #8221; to express grandeur and exalted rank.

 

In the hundreds of references addressing God in the second person, the

pronoun used is & #8220;Thou & #8221; and never the plural & #8220;You & #8221; or

& #8220;Ye. & #8221; The

thousands of references made to Him as a third person always use the

pronoun & #8220;He & #8221; and never & #8220;They. & #8221; References in the Quran

to God always

use either the second or the third person, and none of them as a

second or third person plural. Thousands of times in the Quran, God is

referred to as & #8220;Allah, & #8221; & #8220;Gracious (Rahman), & #8221; Merciful

(Raheem), & #8221; and

& #8220;Lord (Rab) & #8221; and all of these words are in the singular, never the

plural.

 

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