The Qur’an clearly expounded the expansion of the universe over 1,440 years ago. Likewise, Muslim Astronomers spent enough time explaining the expansion of the universe, yet, modern Western astronomers or cosmologists are yet to discover it. Regarding the expanding universe, the Qur’an explains in the following ayah:
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَـٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍۢ وَإِنَّا
لَمُوسِعُونَ ٤٧
We
built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it˺
(Qur’an, Adh-Dhariyat, 51:47).
According
to NASA, “the universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the
matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of
course, it includes you. Earth
and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many
dozens of moons.”[i] We
often hear now and then that new inhabitable planets are being discovered. The
expanding of the universe is not one that is only dedicated to heavenwards
cosmos only but also to our own earth whose expansion will one day be known to
all as stated in the Qur’an. Obviously, there is tremendous outgrowth of all
living things on earth that is termed as overpopulation, and there is no
logical or scientific suspicion at all that the number of dying living
creatures will also be widespread in every continent. Thus, for the Creator of
all living things, He has a plan for the container we call earth. The expansion
of the heavens has a natural meaning: to create space for the expanding living
population on earth that include human species, aves species, and insects and
so forth. It also includes all water species plus the Jinns that have been
created from smokeless fire and are unknown to the Western Hemispheric
scientists. The expansion of the earth also accommodates all dead living
things. Therefore, there must also be space for the dead, meaning graveyards
will cover or take a better part of the earth.
The expansion of the universe also pertains to the cosmos for there are living things or creatures that are invisible to the human eye. Planets that have been nine in number in the past but have now been reduced to eight after the removal of Pluto The solar system that includes planets like Earth, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn are also expanding and it will one day come to be known with the discovery of advanced satellites and sophisticated visual image cameras. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded Pluto in August 2006 because it is dwarf like and “has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”[ii]
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