Friday, October 10, 2008

How did it reveal 1400 years before?

Did you ever recite the Holy Quran? There are numerous instances where the creation of universe has been explained so nicely that will definitely draw your attention; like here at verse no 04 of Surat As-Sajdah:

"Allah it is He who has created the heavens and the earth , and all that is between them in six days. Then he rose over (Istawa) the throne (in a manner that suits His Majesty)..."
Meaning we are not alone in this universe!

Friday, August 22, 2008

From zero...

The Prophet (pbuh) said "There was Allah and nothing else before Him and His Throne was over the water, and He then created the Heavens and the Earth and wrote everything in the Book." as narrated by Imran bin Hussain while he was with the Prophet (pbuh) during a session where the Apostle of Allah was answering to some Yemenites' query about the beginning of this universe. [Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 93, Number 514]

On the other hand in "The Gospel of Barnabas" in Chapter 167, para 2 the same is echoed, "If, then, you know not this no, all men, as men, cannot know it how shall they understand that God created the universe out of nothing with a single word? How shall they understand the eternity of God? Assuredly they shall by no means be able to understand this, because, man being finite and composite with the body, which, as says the prophet Solomon, being corruptible, presses down the soul, and the works of God being proportionate to God, how shall they be able to comprehend them?"


The creation of the universe is explained by astrophysicists as a widely accepted phenomenon, popularly known as ‘The Big Bang’. It is supported by observational and experimental data gathered by astronomers and astrophysicists for decades. According to ‘The Big Bang’, the whole universe was initially one big mass (Primary Nebula). Then there was a ‘Big Bang’ (Secondary Separation) which resulted in the formation of Galaxies. These then divided to form stars, planets, the sun, the moon, etc. The origin of the universe was unique and the probability of it happening by ‘chance’ is nil.


The Qur’an contains the following verse regarding the origin of the universe: “Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of Creation), before We clove them asunder?” [Al-Qu’ran 21:30]


"Seeing is believing" is a kind of presumption we often make. Because science tries to make things visible to our naked eyes or generates a time based logical sequence for an event; we start believing without any doubt. So it means that science and belief are moving parallel. Where science fails to justify, belief provokes a different set of logic to accept that. However if belief is adulterated by personal whim then it loses its acceptability to others. As a matter of fact we are always driven by our personal way of understanding i.e. personal logic and that's why at one point, we differ so greatly in our opinions. Obviously differing in ideology is a mercy from the point of understanding thing accurately and precisely. Religion plays a vital role to shape up our belief and imagination. And that was why the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein said, “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”


Believing in Allah makes a easy gateway for us to find out answers of many unresovled queries like creation our universe.... And for that the answer is, Allah created the universe out of nothing meaning the universe was created from zero!


"To Him (Allah) is due the primal origin (Arabic: bada’a) of the heavens and the earth: When He decrees a matter, He says to it, "Be", and it is. " [Al-Qu’ran 02:117]