The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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directions. So rapid is this expansion that, according
to an estimate by Eddington, every 1300 million
years, all the distances in this universe are doubled.
This means that even our imaginary aeroplane
travelling at the speed of light would not ever be
able to fly all the way around the universe, because
it would never be able, to catch up with this
unending expansion. This estimation of the vastness
of the universe is based on Einstein’s theory of
relativity. But this is just a mathematician’s guess.
To tell the truth, man has yet to comprehend the
vastness of the universe.
Human studies bring us face to face with this
astonishing universe. And there they leave us. They
do not tell us the true meaning of the universe.
They do not tell us who causes events to take place.
Neither do they tell us whose hand it is that
controls the great spheres revolving in the vastness
of space. If we wish to have the answers to these
questions, it is to the Qur’an that we must turn. If
we want to know how things came into existence,
how they are sustained and what their future will
be, it is the Qur’an alone which will tell us. In so
doing, it will acquaint us with the Lord and Master
