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everything else. In other words, the distance between the
stars, galaxies, stars and meteors is continually increasing.

Imagine that you are watching the expansion of the
universe in a cartoon film. How would the universe look

if we rewound the film back to the beginning? It would
reduce down to a single point, would it not? That is

exactly what scientists did. They returned to the beginning
of the Big Bang and realised that the ever-expanding

universe had initially been a single point.
This explosion, called the Big Bang, became the

initial point of the existence Allah had predetermined for
the "universe." With this explosion, Allah created the

particles that made up the universe, and thus matter
emerged. It scattered around at tremendous speed. During

the initial moments of the explosion, this environment
was almost like a soup of matter made up of different

particles. But in time this great chaos started to transform
into an ordered structure. Allah created atoms from the

particles, and eventually stars from the atoms. Allah

If you think of the expansion of the universe as a film, if you
rewound the images back to the beginning you would see
that initially there was a single point.

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