everything else. In other words, the distance between the
        
        
          stars, galaxies, stars and meteors is continually increasing.
        
        
          Imagine that you are watching the expansion of the
        
        
          universe in a cartoon film. How would the universe look
        
        
          if we rewound the film back to the beginning? It would
        
        
          reduce down to a single point, would it not? That is
        
        
          exactly what scientists did. They returned to the beginning
        
        
          of the Big Bang and realised that the ever-expanding
        
        
          universe had initially been a single point.
        
        
          This explosion, called the Big Bang, became the
        
        
          initial point of the existence Allah had predetermined for
        
        
          the "universe." With this explosion, Allah created the
        
        
          particles that made up the universe, and thus matter
        
        
          emerged. It scattered around at tremendous speed. During
        
        
          the initial moments of the explosion, this environment
        
        
          was almost like a soup of matter made up of different
        
        
          particles. But in time this great chaos started to transform
        
        
          into an ordered structure. Allah created atoms from the
        
        
          particles, and eventually stars from the atoms. Allah
        
        
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          If you think of the expansion of the universe as a film, if you
        
        
          rewound the images back to the beginning you would see
        
        
          that initially there was a single point.
        
        
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