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created. He understands that the truth of the following verse is be-
fore his eyes:
"We made the sky a preserved and protected roof …"
(Surat al-Anbiya': 32)
The sky's function as a "protected roof" comes from its atmos-
phere and this atmosphere surrounds the globe and performs its
vital functions so that human beings survive. The atmosphere filters
out rays that come from space and are dangerous for living things; it
vaporises both large and small meteorites that approach the earth
and prevents them from threatening the world and the creatures on
it, and it protects the earth from the freezing
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