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The Quran & The Big-Bang Concept

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The Quran On The Growing Universe And The Big-Bang Concept



Hubble’s Law
For centuries, astronomers wrestled with basic questions in regards to the universe.  Until the very first 1920’s, it was considered that the universe had always been around; also, that the size of the universe was fixed rather than changing.  However, in 1912, the United states astronomer, Vesto Slipher, made a discovery that would soon change astronomers’ thinking about the universe.  Slipher, observed that the galaxies were moving from the earth at huge velocities.  These findings provided the first evidence giving support to the expanding-universe theory.

Until the invention of the telescope in 1608, man could do-little more than wonder in regards to the origin of the universe. (Courtesy: NASA)

In 1916, Albert Einstein formulated his complete Theory of Relativity that suggested that the universe must be whether expanding or contracting.  Verification of the expanding-universe theory finally was available in 1929 in the hands of the well-known American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

By observing redshifts within the light wavelengths emitted by galaxies, Hubble discovered that galaxies were not fixed in their position; on the other hand, they were actually leaving us with speeds proportional for their distance from earth (Hubble's Law).  The only real explanation for this observation was that the universe needed to be expanding.  Hubble’s discovery is undoubtedly one of the greatest in the history of astronomy.  In 1929, he published the velocity-time connection which is the basis of modern metaphysics.  In the many years to come, with further observations, the expanding-universe concept was accepted by scientists and astronomers similar.

Surprisingly well before telescopes had been even invented and well before Hubble published his Law, Prophet Muhammad used to recite a verse of the Holy Quran to his companions that ultimately stated that the universe is growing.

“And the heaven We created with might, and indeed We are (its) expander.” (Quran 51:47)
During the time of the revelation of the Quran, the word “space” was not known, and people used the word “heaven” to refer to what lies over the Earth.  In the above verse, the term “heaven” is referring to space and the known universe.  The verse explains that space, and thus the universe, is literally expanding, just as Hubble’s Law states.

That the Quran mentioned such a fact hundreds of years before the invention of the first telescope, at a time when there was ancient knowledge in science, is considered remarkable.  This is much more so considering that, like many people in his time, Prophet Muhammad happened to be illiterate and simply could not have been aware of such facts by himself.  Could it be that he had truly received divine disclosure from the Creator and Originator of the universe?

The Big-bang Theory
The big-bang theory states that around 12-15 billion years ago the universe was introduced from one single extremely hot and dense point, and that something caused the explosion of this point that contributed to the beginning of the universe.  The universe, since then, has-been expanding with this single point.  
Later, in 1965, radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made a Noble prize-winning discovery that confirmed the Bing Bang concept.  Prior to their discovery, the idea implied that if the single point from where the universe came into life was initially incredibly hot, then remnants of this heat should-be found.  This remnant heat is really what Penzias and Wilson found.  In 1965, Penzias and Wilson discovered a 2.725 degree Kelvin Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) that develops through the universe.  Thus, it was recognized that the radiation found was a remnant of the early stages of the Big Bang.  Presently, the Big Bang theory is acknowledged by the vast majority of scientists as well as astronomers.

Cosmic History Explorer Data
A microwave map of the remaining from the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe. (Courtesy: NASA)

It is mentioned in the Quran:
“He (God) is the Originator of the heavens and the earth…” (Quran 6:101)
“Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them?  Yes; and He is the Knowing Creator. His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” (Quran 36:81-82)
The above verses prove about the universe had a beginning, that God was behind its creation, and all that God needs to do inorder to create is to say “Be,” and it is.  Could this be a description as to what triggered off the explosion that brought about the start of the universe?

The Quran also mentions:
“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing?  Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)

Muslim scholars who possess explained the previous verse mention that the heavens and earth were once one, and then God caused them to separate and form inside seven heavens and Earth.  Yet, due to the restrictions of science and technology during the time of the revelation of the Quran (and for centuries to follow), no scholar was capable of giving much detail about how exactly the heavens and earth were made.  What the scholars could explain was the precise concept of each word in Arabic in the verse, as well as the overall concept of the verse.

In the prior verse, the Arabic words ratq and fataq are used.  The word ratq are translated into “entity” “sewn to” “joined together” or “closed up”.  The specification of these translations all circulate around something which is mixed and that has a separate as well as distinct existence.  The verb fataq is translated into “We unstitched” “We clove them asunder” “We separated” or “We have opened them”.  These definitions imply that something comes into being by an action of splitting or tearing separate.  The sprouting of a seed through the soil is a good example of a similar example of the meaning of the verb fataq.

With the development of the Big Bang theory, it soon became clear to Muslim scholars your details mentioned with regards to the idea go identically hand in hand with the definition of the creation of the universe in verse 30 of chapter 21 of the Quran.  The idea states that all the matter in the universe was introduced from one single extremely hot and dense point; that exploded and caused the beginning of the universe, matches what is mentioned in the verse that the heaven and Earth (thus the universe) where once joined collectively, and  then split apart.  Once again, the only possible description is that Prophet Muhammad had truly received divine revelation from God, The Creator and Originator of the universe.


The Rewards And Benefits of Reciting Surah Yaseen

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The Rewards And Benefits of Reciting Surah Yaseen



It is generally known that Surah Yaseen is the “heart” of the Holy Quran. How come it referred to as heart of the Quran? In the body, the heart is considered to be the most crucial organ. It supplies the whole body with blood to keep us operating. Without the heart, your body cannot live. It is to emphasise the great importance of Surah Yaseen that it's called the “heart” of the Holy Quran.
Subsequently, reading Surah Yaseen comes with lots of benefits which true believers should never miss out on.

There are numerous ahadith which talk about the benefits associated with reading surah yaseen. In this hub, we shall talk about several hadith which mention the key benefits of reading surah yaseen.
A short list of some of the benefits of reading Surah Yaseen.

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1. Reciting Surah Yaseen at the start of the day causes Allah to fulfil all your needs for the day

Hadhrat ‘Ataa’ bin Abi Ribaah (Radhiyallahu Anhu) says that Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is reported to have said, “ Whoever reads Surah Yaseen in the beginning of the day, all his needs for that day are fulfilled.”

2. Reciting Surah Yaseen is equal to reading the whole Quran ten times


“Everything has a heart and the heart of the Glorious Quran is Surah Yaseen. Whoever reads Surah Yaseen, Allah records for them a reward equal to that of reading the whole Quran 10 times.” [Maqal, Tirmidhi 2812/A & Dhahabi]

3. Reciting Surah Yaseen as well as memorizing Surah Yaseen invokes the blessings of Allah


It is stated that Allah recited Surah Yaseen and Surah Taha 1000 years before the creation of Heaven and Earth, and upon hearing this, the angels said, “Blessing is for the ummah unto whom the Quran will be sent down; blessing is for the hearts that will memorize it, and blessing is for the tongues that will recite it.”

4. Reciting Surah Yaseen evoke the mercy of Allah to forgive your sins


“Whoever reads Surah Yaseen for the pleasure of Allah only, all his earlier sins are forgiven. Therefore make a practice of reading this Surah over your dead.”

5. Reciting Surah Yaseen benefits the reader in this life along with the Hereafter


As stated by one hadith, Surah Yaseen is named in the Torah as “Mun’imah” i.e. Giver of Good Things. Simply because it contains advantages of the reader both in this world and the next. It eliminates from them the afflictions of this worlds and the next. Surah Yaseen also takes away the dread of the next life. [Hashiya of Tafsir Jalalalayn , pg 368].

6. Reciting Surah Yaseen exalts the status of the believers in both this world and the next


Surah Yaseen is referred to as “Raafi’ah Khaafidhah” i.e. that which exalts the status of the believers and degrades the unbelievers. Regarding to a riwayat, Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, “My heart desires that Surah Yaseen should be present in the heart of everyone of my ummah.” So memorize Surah Yaseen to reap its benefits.

7. Reciting Surah Yaseen makes you die as a shaheed


Considering to one hadith, if anyone recites Surah Yaseen every night and then dies, they die as a shaheed (martyr).


8. Reciting Surah Yaseen wipes out your sins, relieves hunger and guides the lost


“Whoever reads Surah Yaseen is forgiven; whoever reads it in hunger is satisfied; whoever reads it having lost their way, finds their way; whoever reads it on losing an animal, finds it. When one reads it apprehending that their food will run short, that food becomes suffient. If one reads it beside a person who is in the throes of death, these are made easy for them. If anyone reads it on a woman experiencing difficulty in child-birth, her delivery becomes easy. ”

9. Reciting Surah Yaseen abolishes fear from the heart


Maqri (Rahmatullah Alaihi) said, “If Surah Yaseen is read by one who fears the ruler or an enemy, one gets rid of this fear.”


10. Reciting Surah Yaseen causes your dua’s to be answered


Reported by one hadith, if somebody reads Surah Yaseen and Surah Was-Saaffaat on Friday and begs Allah something, their prayer is granted.

11. Reciting Surah Yaseen in the night for all your sins to be forgiven


The Prophet said, ‘Whoever recited Surah Yasin in the night seeking Allah’s pleasure, Allah would forgive him’[Ibn Hibban, Darimi 3283/A, Abu Yala, Tabarani, Baihaqi & Ibn Mardawaih]

Information about Surah Yaseen


Surah Yaseen is the 36th Surah of the Holy Quran.
It has 83 verses.
It was revealed in Mecca.
It emphasizes the Quran as coming from a divine source.
It warns those who refuse to believe in God and mock God.
The meaning of the word “Yaseen,” is unknown. Although many meanings have been suggested, it is Allah who knows best.
The last verse of Surah Yaseen translates as, “So Glorified is He and Exalted above all that they associate with Him, and in Whose Hands is the dominion of all things, and to Him you shall be returned.”


The Holy Quran on Human Embryonic Formation

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The Holy Quran on Human Embryonic Formation

In the Holy Quran, God speaks in regards to the stages of man’s embryonic development:
“We created man from an extract of clay.  Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed.  Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the alaqah into a mudghah (chewed substance)…” (Quran 23:12-14)

Practically, the Arabic word alaqah has three definitions: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot.

In contrasting a leech to an embryo within the alaqah stage, we find likeness between the two as we can see in figure 1.  Also, the embryo during this period obtains nourishment from the blood of the mother, much like the leech, which feeds on the blood of others.


Figure 1: images illustrating the similarities in features between a leech and a human embryo during the alaqah stage. (Leech drawing from human being Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah, Moore as well as others, p. 37, altered from Integrated Principles of Zoology, Hickman yet others.  Embryo drawing through the Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 73.)

The 2nd meaning of the term alaqah is “suspended thing.”  This is that which we can see in figures 2 and 3, the suspension system of the embryo, during the alaqah stage, in the womb of the mother.


Figure 2: you will notice in this diagram the suspension of an embryo throughout the alaqah stage in the womb (uterus) of the mother. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 66.)


Figure 3: In this photomicrograph, you will see the suspension of an embryo (marked B) while in the alaqah stage (about 15 days old) in the womb of mother.  The actual sized the embryo is about 0.6 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore, 3rd ed., p. 66, from Histology, Leeson and Leeson.)

The 3rd concept of the word alaqah is “blood clot.”  we discover that the external visual appeal of the embryo and its sacs during the alaqah stage is comparable to that of a blood clot.  This is because of the presence of fairly large amounts of blood contained in the embryo during this stage[3]  (see figure 4).  Also with this stage, the blood in the embryo doesn't circulate until the termination of the third week. Thus, the embryo at this stage is just like a clot of blood.


Figure 4: Diagram for the primitive cardiovascular system in an embryo throughout the alaqah stage.  The outside appearance of the embryo and its sacs is comparable to that of a blood clot, due to the existence of relatively large levels of blood present in the embryo. (The Developing Human, Moore, 5th ed., p. 65.)

So three of the meanings of the word alaqah correspond precisely to the explanations of the embryo during the alaqah stage.
The next phase mentioned in the verse is a mudghah stage.  The Arabic term mudghah means “chewed substance.”  If a person were to take some gum and chew it in his or her mouth then compare it with an embryo at the mudghah stage, we might conclude that the embryo in the mudghah stage acquires the perception of a chewed substance.  Simply because of the somites at the rear of the embryo that “somewhat resemble teethmarks in a chewed substance.”(see figures 5 and 6).


Figure 5: image of an embryo at the mudghah level (28 days old).  The embryo at this point acquires the look of a chewed substance, considering that the somites at the rear of the embryo somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed material.  The specific size of the embryo is 4 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 82, from Professor Hideo Nishimura, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.)


Figure 6: when you compare the appearance of an embryo at the mudghah stage with some gum that has-been chewed, we find similarity amongst the two.
A)        Drawing of an embryo during the mudghah stage.  We become aware of here the somites at the rear of the embryo that seem like teeth mark. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 79.)
B)        image of a piece of gum that's been chewed.

How could Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, have possibly identified all of this 1400 years ago, when experts have only recently discovered this using sophisticated equipment and powerful microscopes that did not exist at that moment?  Hamm and Leeuwenhoek had been the first scientists to look at human sperm cells (spermatozoa) utilizing an improved microscope in 1677 (more than 1000 years after Muhammad).  They wrongly thought that the sperm cell included a miniature preformed human being that grew with regards to got deposited in the female genital tract.

Prof Emeritus Keith L. Moore  is among the world’s most noticeable scientists in the fields of physiology and embryology and is the writer of the book entitled The Developing Human, that has been translated into eight languages.  This book is really a scientific reference work and was selected by a special committee in the usa as the best book authored by an individual.  Dr. Keith Moore is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.  There, he was Associate academic administrator of Basic Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine as well as 8 years was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy.  In 1984, he was given the most distinguished award introduced in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award through the Canadian Association of Anatomists.  He's got directed many international associations, for instance the Canadian and American Association of Anatomists and also the Council of the Union of Biological Sciences.

Back in the early 1980s, during the Seventh Medical meeting in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Moore said: “It's been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development.  It is obvious to me that these statements must-have come to Muhammad from God, simply because almost all of this knowledge wasn't discovered until many centuries later.  This proves to me that Muhammad must-have been a messenger of God.”

Therefore, Professor Moore was asked the following question: “Does this mean which you believe that the Quran is the word of God?”  He answered: “I find no trouble in accepting this.”


During one seminar, Professor Moore stated: “....Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is suggested that a new system of category could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah (what Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said, did, or approved of).  The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge.  The intensive studies of the Quran and hadeeth (reliably transmitted reports by the Prophet Muhammad’s companions of what he said, did, or approved of) in the last four years have revealed a system for classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D.  Although Aristotle, the founder of the science of embryology, realized that chick embryos developed in stages from his studies of hen’s eggs in the fourth century B.C., he did not give any details about these stages.  As far as it is known from the history of embryology, little was known about the staging and classification of human embryos until the twentieth century.  For this reason, the descriptions of the human embryo in the Quran cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century.  The only reasonable conclusion is: these descriptions were revealed to Muhammad from God.  He could not have known such details because he was an illiterate man with absolutely no scientific training."

WRITING ‘SALL ALLĀHU ʿALAY-HI WA-SALLAM’ IN MS-WORD AND MS-OFFICE-SUIT DOCUMENTS

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All Muslims are bound to say ‘Sall Allāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam’, whenever they hear or write the name of Holy Prophet Mohammed  () as you may have observed, in the previous sentence I said ‘Sall Allāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam’ in Arabic after the name of the Holy Prophet. In Holy Quran, Allah says “Indeed Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet; O People who believe! Send blessings and abundant salutations upon him” – (Chapter 33, Verse 56).


The saying ‘Sall Allāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam’ means ‘May Allah honour him and grant him peace’. While Muslims do say ‘Sall Allāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam’ when they hear the name of Holy Prophet Mohammed (), however when the name will be written in MSWord or Outlook, they face with difficult task of writing the phrase in Arabic language font. Perhaps you have realized, it’s not simple to type the phrase in Arabic language, especially when you are operating on an English keyboard. To get over this challenge, it became a commonly acknowledged practice among Muslims to write the English interpretation of ‘, that is ‘May Allah honor him and grant him peace’.

Now It is become very  handy to write in ms word or any ms office documents . Without going into a bit much of technical details, here’s an well-designed solution to typing in a MS word or any MS Office files.

To open MS Word , press "Windows-key + R" to open run box and tyem "winword" without qoute.

To type in MS Word or any MS office Document:

(1) Enter FDFA.

(2) Type ‘Alt+x’. (Hold on to ‘Alt’ key and press ‘x’ key.) As soon as you type ‘Alt+x”, ‘FDFA’ is transformed into

Unicode for ‘ is ‘FDFA’.

Below codes allow Unicode Values of common Arabic language Words/Phrases:


Arabic Phrase/Word

English Transliteration

Unicode

Allah

FDF2

Sall Allāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam

FDFA

Mohammed

FDF4

Akbar

FDF3

Rasool

FDF6

Jallajalaalahu

FDFB

Salla

FDF9

Wa-salam

FDF8

Alayhe

FDF7

Salam

FDF5

Qala

FDF1

Salla

FDF0



Like, if you would like type ﷲ, then

(1) Write ‘FDF2’.

(2) Type ‘Alt + x’ (Hold on to ‘Alt’ key and press ‘x’ key). MS Word or any other Office document will next convert FDF2 to ﷲ.


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