The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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More than a thousand years before our time, at a
period when whimsical doctrines still prevailed,
those who were privileged to have a knowledge of
the Qur’an were fortunate, for the statements it
contains express in simple terms truths of
primordial importance which man has taken
centuries to discover.
ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
The Qur’an says:
“Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens
and the earth were one solid mass
(ratq)
which we tore asunder
(fatq)…”
(21:30)
Ratq
means wholesomeness, compactness, while
fatq
is the opposite, that is, disintegration.
Modern studies in astronomy have confirmed the
truth of this concept, various observations having
led scientists to postulate that the universe was
formed by an explosion from a state of high density
and temperature (the
‘big-bang’ theory
)
and that the
cosmos evolved from the original, highly
compressed, extremely hot gas, taking the form of
