Page 109 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya

Praise belongs to Allah Who created the heavens and the Earth and
appointed darkness and light... (Qur'an, 6:1)
We all know that without light a person cannot see his surround-
ings with the naked eye. However, the light that we can see is only a

very small part of all light-emitting energy. There are other kinds of
light-emitting energy that human beings cannot perceive, such as infra-
red, ultra-violet, x-rays and radio waves. Human beings are effectively
blind to such light waves.
It is interesting, therefore, that the word for "darkness" in the
Qur'an is always in the plural. The Arabic word, "thulumaat," is used in
the plural in 23 verses of the Qur'an, and never used in the singular.

The use of the word "darkness" in the Qur'an indicates that in addition
to those light waves we can see, there may also be other kinds.
Only recently did scientists discover why the plural may have
been used here. Wave lengths vary in a form of energy known as elec-
tromagnetic radiation. All the different forms of electromagnetic radia-
tion behave as energy waves in space. This can be compared to the
waves which form when a stone is thrown into a pond. As the waves
on a pond can be of different sizes, so electromagnetic radiation has dif-
ferent-sized waves.

Stars and other sources of light do not all give off the same kind of
emissions. These different rays are classified according to their wave-
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lengths. The spectrum of wavelengths is quite wide. There is a 10 dif-
ference between gamma rays, with the smallest size wavelength, and
radio waves, which are the largest. Nearly all the rays emitted by the
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Sun are squeezed into just one part of this 10 spectrum.
In order to better understand the colossal dimensions of this fig-

ure, it will be useful to make a comparison. If we wanted to count to

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