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THE MIRACLE IN THE ATOM

prior to the Big Bang. In other words, all the heavens and earth were inclu-
ded in this egg in a condition of ratq. This cosmic egg exploded violently ca-
using its matter to fataqa and in the process created the structure of the who-
le universe.
Another matter in the Qur'an that could be interpreted as the expansion
of the universe, which was discovered in the late 1920s. Hubble's discovery
of the red shift in the spectrum of starlight is revealed in the Qur'an as :

It is We Who have built the universe with (Our creative) power, and,
verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Surat adh-Dhariyat:
47)

In short, the findings of modern science increasingly point towards the
truth that is revealed in the Qur'an and do not support materialist dogma.
Materialists may claim this all as "coincidence" but the plain fact is that the
universe came into being as a result of an act of creation on the part of Allah.
The only true knowledge about the origin of universe is to be found in the
word of Allah as revealed to us.

Creation of Matter Moment by Moment
As the Big Bang theory showed once more, Allah created the universe
from nothing. This great explosion involves many fine gradations and deta-
ils, prodding one to reflection, and these matters unaccountable for by coin-
cidence.
The temperature at each moment of the explosion, the number of ato-
mic particles, the forces involved, and their intensity must be of very precise
values. Even if only one of these values was not specified, the universe we li-
ve in today would not be formed. This end would be inevitable if any one of
the abovementioned values deviated by any value mathematically close to
"0".
In short, the universe and its building blocks, the atoms, have come to
exist in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang after having not existed,
thanks to these balances created by Allah. Scientists conducted numerous re-
searches to understand the chronology of the events that took place during
this process and the order of the rules of physics in effect at each phase. The

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