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In the Name of Allah,
The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

and distance from the Sun are different from theirs,

for everything is created in a special balance to sustain
life. This flawless creation of the Earth is a great generosity
from Allah to humanity.

The Earth’s temperature allows living things, especial-
ly such complex living things as human beings, to live and an
atmosphere they can breathe. And these two factors have come

about through determining the ideal values in all of its widely
differing components. One of these is its distance from the Sun.
When we consider the universe, we see that the average tem-
perature needed to support life is very difficult to obtain. But
Earth has the exact temperature mean. Indeed, this temperature
has to do as much with the Sun’s energy generated as the dis-
tance between Earth and the Sun.
According to calculations, if a 10 percent drop in the
amount of the Sun’s energy that reaches the Earth occurred, our

planet would be covered by a layer of ice of meters thick. If that
energy increased slightly, every living thing would be burned
to a crisp. However, these things do not occur and Earth’s at-

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