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up to one billion would take a few decades, a decade

being a period of ten years.

Now we have almost reached the number of stars

in galaxies. If you put two more zeros next to the num-
ber 1,000,000,000, it becomes 100,000,000,000 (one

hundred billion). This is the number of stars in the

smallest galaxies.

Now do you have some idea of the size of the uni-

verse? If you spent all your life doing nothing but

counting numbers, you would still fail to count all the

stars in space. Allah, the Creator of the universe, has
created this vast space that you are unable to imag-
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ine from nothing, and He encompasses every point of

this immense universe every moment. Allah knows and

sees every being in our giant universe, and everything

that happens. The infinite power of our Lord is relat-

ed in the Qur'an as follows: