Page 61 - Miracles of The Qur'an Vol. 3

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The illustration shows a quasar appearing to be
in four separate places due to the gravitational
lens effect. The images, obtained by the Hubble
Space Telescope (Chandra), represent a distance
of 11 billion light years.

through either side of an intervening cluster of galaxies. The
warped space surrounding the cluster can act as a lens, with a re-
sult that we see two images of what is (or was) actually one
quasar. 39
The reference in the verse to "light upon light" may be a descrip-
tion of reflected light forming more than one image. In addition, the
term "neither of the east nor of the west" in the verse is in all likeli-
hood a reference to the uncertainty of the light's source. (Allah knows
the truth.)

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