The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
~ 102 ~
The electrons within an atom are too tiny to be
seen through a microscope, but they too are a vital
source of colossal, mountain-shattering power.
These are all matters of fact. Scientific events do
take place as described. But this
description
is the
outer limit
of our scientific ‘knowledge.’ When we
ask why things are as they are, and why things
happen as they do, human science gives us no
guidance whatsoever.
Studies in astronomy show that the number of stars
in the sky is as numerous as all of the sand grains
on all the sea-shores of our planet, many of the stars
being vastly greater in size than our earth, some
even being of such enormous girth that they could
accommodate hundreds of thousands of earths
inside them and still have room to spare. A few of
them are even big enough to contain millions and
millions of earths. The universe is so vast that an
aeroplane flying at the greatest speed imaginable,
i.e., at the speed of light, (186,282 miles per second)
would take about ten billion years to complete just a
single trip around the whole universe. Even with
such a huge circumference, this universe is not
static, but is expanding every moment in all
