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30 TIMELESSNESS AND THE REALITY OF FATE

We are so peaceful on the Earth where we live that we never realize we exist on a tiny planet
moving at thousands of kilometers an hour in a boundless, airless cavity. The fact to be kept in
mind, however, is that Earth is a special shelter created for man so that he may live thereon.

was no such thing as time. Matter, energy, and time came into existence out
of a state of nothingness where neither matter, nor energy, and nor time was
existent this event can be defined as entirely metaphysical. However, this
great reality discovered by modern physics only at the end of the 20 th cen-
tury was announced to us in the Qur'an 14 centuries ago.
To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth... (Surat al-
Anaam, 101)
The Big Bang theory showed that, in the beginning, all the objects in
the universe were of one piece and then were parted. This fact, which was
postulated by the Big Bang theory was stated in the Qur'an 14 centuries ago,
when people had a very limited knowledge about the universe:
Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined togeth-
er (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from
water every living thing. Will they not then believe? (Surat al-Anbiya, 30)