An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
This was confirmed by the use of observational data in 1929. While
observing the sky with a telescope, Edwin Hubble, the American
astronomer, discovered that the stars and galaxies were constantly
moving away from each other. This discovery is regarded as one of the
greatest in the history of astronomy. Now listen to the Qur’an:
“And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and
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verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it.”
The science of modern cosmology clearly indicates that, at one point
in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of an opaque,
highly dense and hot gaseous composition, i.e. smoke. This is one of
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the undisputed principles of standard modern cosmology. Scientists
now can observe new stars forming out of the remnants of that
‘smoke’. Once again, the Qur’an said it first:
“Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke and said to it
and to the earth, ‘Come willingly or unwillingly.’ They both said, ‘We
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come in obedience.’
Dr. Alfred Kroner is one of the world’s renowned geologists. He said:
“Thinking where Muhammad came from... I think it is almost
impossible that he could have known about things like the common
origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within
the last few years, with very complicated and advanced technological
methods, that this is the case… Somebody who did not know
something about nuclear physics fourteen hundred years ago could
not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind, for instance,
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that the earth and the heavens had the same origin.”
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Qur’an 51:47
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Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, a Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, pp. 94-105
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Qur’an 41:11
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Available to view on video entitled This is the Truth, from www.islam-guide.com/truth.htm
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