Islam The Voice of Human Nature
2. THE CONCEPT OF MONOTHEISM
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that the heavens and the earth were one piece
joined together, then we cleaved them
asunder?’ (21:30).
It has been estimated that the present radius of
the universe is at least ten thousand million
light years. Cosmology has revealed that the
universe is not static, but is expanding at an
even speed on all sides in an ever-continuing
process. It has been deduced from this that the
universe must at some stage in the past have
been in an embryonic stage. According to
certain cosmologists, the entire universe was
initially in the form of a ‘super atom’, all of
whose elements were pulled inwards by
irresistible forces. About fifteen billion years
ago, this primary matter underwent an
explosion, or ‘energy release,’ as a result of
which the particles of the ‘super atom’ broke
away from their centre and started expanding
on all sides in such a way that the present
universe was brought into being. The forces
operating inside the super atom before the
‘energy release were consistently those of
pulling and shrinking inwards. The outward
