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This is no less than a reminder to (all) the worlds. And you shall certainly know the truth of it (all) after a while. (Qur’aan 38:87-88). Thus, the Qur’aan is a reminder for all of mankind until the Last Hour. It contains information that man discovers in due time. Because this Qur’aan was revealed from Allah’s knowledge and every single verse in it was revealed with Allah’s knowledge, as He Himself said: Professor Armstrong
works at NASA, otherwise known as the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he is a well-known scientist
there. We met with him and asked a number of questions about Qur’aanic
verses dealing with the expertise in Astronomy. We asked him about Iron
and how it was formed. He explained how all the elements in the earth were
formed. He stated that the scientists have come only recently to discover
the relevant facts about that formation process. He
said that the energy of the early solar system was not sufficient to produce
elemental Iron.
We
read to him the Qur’aanic verse saying:
Then we asked him about the sky and whether it had any gaps or rifts in it. He disproved this and replied that what we are talking about is a branch of Astronomy called the "Integrated Cosmos" which we scientists have only come to know recently. For example, if you have a body in outer space which travels a certain distance in any direction and then travel the same distance in a different direction, you will find that the mass weight is the same in all directions. Because this body has its own equilibrium, the pressures from all directions are the same. Without this equilibrium, the whole universe would collapse. I recalled Allah’s verse in the Qur’aan: " Do they not look at the sky above them? How we have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it?" (Qur’aan 50:6). Then we talked to Professor Armstrong about the attempts of scientists
to reach the edge of the universe, and we asked him whether they
were successful in this. He replied that they are fighting an uphill
battle to the edge of the universe, we construct more powerful equipment
to observe the universe only to discover that the new stars we see are
still within our galaxy and that we have not yet reached the edge of the
universe. He is aware of the Qur’aanic verse which says: And
we adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and we made such (lamps)
missiles to drive away satans. (Qur’aan 67:5).
Each time Professor Armstrong told us some scientific fact,
we mentioned to him the relevant verse which he agreed with. Then
said to him: ‘You have seen and discovered for yourself the true nature
of modern Astronomy by means of modern equipment, rockets, and space ships,
developed by man. You have also seen how the same facts were mentioned
by the Qur’aan 14 centuries ago, so what is your opinion about these?
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