'' Our Lord ! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter and save us from the torment of the Fire '' [Ameen]
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Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wafil aakhirati hasanatan waqinaa 'athaaban-naar/-
(Surah Al-Baqarah ,verse 201)
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that the universe was infinite, had existed forever and that it will
continue to do so for all time. According to this view, known as the
"static universe model," the universe had no end or beginning.
In maintaining that the universe is a collection of fixed, static and
unchanging substances, this view has constituted the basis of
materialist philosophy and has consequently rejected the existence of
a Creator. However, as science and technology progressed during the 20
th century, the static universe model has been completely uprooted.
We have now entered the 21 st century and a new dawn is upon us.
Through numerous experiments, observations and calculation conducted
by some of the world's most prominent thinkers, modern physics has
proven that the universe did indeed have a beginning, that it came
into being from nothing ina single moment in a hugeexplosion.
Furthermore, it has been established that the universe is not fixed
and static, as materialists still stubbornly maintain. On the
contrary, it is undergoing a constant process of movement, change and
expansion. These recently-establishedfacts all act as nails in the
coffin of the static universe theory. Today, all these facts are
universally accepted by the scientific community.
The origin of the universe is described in the Qur'an in the following verse:
He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. (Qur'an, 6:101)
This information is in full agreement with the findings of
contemporary scientists. As we stated earlier, the conclusion
thatastrophysics has reached today is that the entire universe,
together with the dimensions of matter and time, came into existence
as a result of a great explosion that occurred a long time ago. This
event, known as "The Big Bang," is the catalyst for the creation of
the universe from nothingness. This explosion, all parties in
thescientific community agree, emanated from a single point some 15
billion years ago. (See Harun Yahya, The Creation of the Universe ,
Al-AttiquePublishers Inc. Canada, 2000)
Before the Big Bang, there was no such thing as matter. From a
condition of non-existence in which neither matter, nor energy, nor
even time existed-and which can only be described
metaphysically-matter, energy, and time were all created in an
instant. This fact, only recently discovered by modern physics, was
announced tous in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago.
The sensitive sensors on board the COBE space satellite, launched by
NASAin 1992, captured evidentiary remnants of the Big Bang. This
discovery served as evidence for the Big Bang, which is the scientific
explanation of the fact that the universe was created from nothing.
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