The universe (6)

As’Salamu Alaikum,
SuhbanAllah, Allah has made us with eyes, ears, hands and
feet and intelligence that lets us accomplish great things in
life. Man has built great buildings, aircrafts, space crafts
and all sorts of amazing things. We look below us, we see
tiny specs of dust, small organisms and insects that look
tiny compared to us. Plants, animals that we see around us
make us think of the things we created as “big” and
“amazing”. We begin to imagine ourselves as “big”,
“intelligent” and “mighty”.

Then we look around us and we see the vast lands, huge
mountains and oceans. We get the feeling of how big the
earth is. When we stand at the foot of a giant mountain, or
at the beach of an open sea, we are humbled by its
greatness.

Somehow we are still able to relate to the huge oceans and
mountains and earth in comparison to ourselves. Then we
look up to the skies. We see planets and stars. So numerous
and shining

And we ask
Is Earth the biggest thing in existence?

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Certainly not …..

Allah Almighty created the planet Jupiter, the larger than
earth by 1300 times!!!

Pic 1: A real scale image illustrates the magnitude of the giant
planet Jupiter with the Earth.... 1300 times bigger!

Is there something bigger than Jupiter?

Certainly there is………

The sun is much bigger than Jupiter. Sun has a diameter of
about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi). Look at the
picture below and you will realize how much bigger the sun
is as compared to the earth.

Pic 2: A real scale composite picture of the earth and the sun.

But is there something even bigger than the sun?

Certainly there is….!

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The star Antares dwarfs our sun

Pic 3: A real scale image illustrates the magnitude of our sun (a
point hardly seen on the picture) compared to star Antares
(Heart of the Scorpion).

Pic 4: Antares compared to Arctus and the Sun
Image above compares, on a real scale, our sun and the star
Arcturus with the giant Antares. The dotted line represents
the entire orbit of Mars (227 Million Km) while the Antares
is 300 Million Km! The smaller star to the side is Arcturus.
It is a mere 20 Million Kilometers. And our bright sun is
the small dot on the top. If Antares were placed in the
center of our solar system, its outer surface would lie
between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
So are there more stars like Antares, or is it the only one?

There certainly are many…….

Pic 5: A true picture is a small part of the sky shows stars are
innumerable - even giant stars like the Antares.

(٦ ) ‫اآ‬ ّ ‫ّ ء‬ ّّ‫إّ ز‬
[‫ت‬ ‫] ُ رة ا‬
َُ
Verily! We have adorned the near heaven with the stars (for
beauty). (6)
‫نا‬ Praise be to Allah, A sky filled with stars like
Antares. But is there something bigger than Antares?

There certainly is….!

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Pic 6: The VY Canis Majoris

Comparison on a real scale of our Sun and the small sliver
on the side of largest star discovered in the universe! It
would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion)
Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris!!!

‫نا‬ Praise be to Allah, My mind is truly humbled
and numbed by this comparison. I cannot even imagine its
vastness. Is there something bigger than VY Canis
Majoris?

Certainly there is….!

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‫رق‬ ‫ا‬

Pic 7: Pulsar

In recent times scientists have discovered the existence of
pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron
stars that emit beams of radiation. Their radiation can only
be observed when the beam of emission is pointing straight
towards the Earth. This lighthouse effect causes an
observed pulsed nature that gives pulsars their name. The
first pulsar was observed on November 28, 1967.

Pulsars make sounds like a hammer or knock, and the
radiations they emit can penetrate and puncture anything
including the earth. The link below is to sounds of pulsars
from Cornell University’s database. From this database

please listen to: “B1933+16 One of the brightest known
pulsars--every pulse is audible”; And also listen to the
third file in the set: “B2020+28 A bright pulsar, most
individual pulses are audible”. Notice how the sounds
seem like a knocking in the stillness of the night – here is
the link:
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~deneva/psr_sounds/pulsars_s
ounds.htm

This is what summed up for us in the verse of the Koran
wonderfully, Allah gives a description of these stars
through two words:
َ‫ا‬
ّ َ ‫وا َ ء وا ّ رق * وﻡ أدراك ﻡ ا َ رق * ا‬
ّ ّ ّ
[3-1 :‫]ا رق‬
By the heavens, and At-Târiq (one who knocks at night); And what
will make you to know what At-Târiq is? (It is) the star of piercing
(brightness);
The word “Tariq” accurately reflect the action or audio
waves of these stars – knocking sounds, and the word
“Thaqib” accurately reflect the outputs of these stars –
penetrating waves,
Is Pulsar the only thing that hugely endangers us with
radiation or is there something that endangers us also?

There certainly is …… and it is much nearer to us than the
pulsars

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‫اﺝ وه ﺝ‬ ‫وﺝ‬

Pic 8: The burning sun

At the time of the descent of the Koran, no one on earth
knows the true reality of the sun. But Allah, who created
the sun, described it precisely saying:
[13 : ‫اﺝ و َ ﺝ ( ]ا‬
‫ه‬
ّ ‫)وﺝ‬
And We have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun).

This verse emphasizes that the sun is a lamp and lamp is a
machine for burning fuel and the generation of light and
heat. This is what the sun does; it burns fuel and generates
light, heat and radiation. We benefit a lot from the light and
heat of the sun. But just as one must be shielded safely
from a lamp’s power to burn, we must be safely shielded
from the Sun as well. Thus it is scientifically very accurate
to label the sun as a lamp.

‫نا‬ Praise be to Allah, what good information. My
mind keeps going back to the huge pulsars. Is there
something more in the universe of even more significance?

Certainly there is!......

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‫ا‬

Pic 9: The Black hole

Scientists have recently discovered the existence of black
holes they called Stars, and is characterized by three
properties: 1 – it cannot be seen, 2 - are at high speeds, 3 -
to attract everything as if the sweep everything from the
sky. It works like a broom ( ‫ )ﻡ‬of the Universe,
gathering all the celestial debris.

These are the three qualities that are told to us in the Quran
in three words:
.[16-15 : ‫ار ا َ ( ]ا‬
ّ ‫*ا‬ َ ‫ﺏ‬
ّ ‫أ‬ )
So verily, I swear by the (planets) receded. And by the planets that
move swiftly and hide

First word “AlKhunnas” (ِ َُّ ْ ‫ ) ا‬means any that cannot be
seen; Second “AlJawar”( ‫ ) ا ْ َ َار‬i.e that which moves
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swiftly and Third “AlKunnas” ( ِ َُّ ْ ‫ ) ا‬i.e that which
sweeps and gathers everything to itself.
This verse of the Koran are a frontrunner in talking about
black holes before they were even discovered by the
scientists.

‫نا‬ Praise be to Allah, This is amazing. Tell me, If
the sun can burn us and pulsars emit such harmful
radiations and the blackholes sweep everything up, how
safe are we?

Allah took care of that for us

‫ظ‬ ‫ا‬ ‫ا‬(The Protected Celing)

Pic 10: Magnetic shield around the earth

See in this picture the planet on the right is Earth. It is
surrounded by a magnetic field is very strong and this area
as we see it repels particles emitted from the Sun called the
solar wind, deadly, and without the presence of this field
vanished life on Earth.
So the Almighty said:

(‫ن‬ ‫ﺕ ﻡ‬ ‫وه‬ ‫ﻡ‬ ‫ا َ ء‬
ّ ‫)وﺝ‬
32 :‫]ا ﻥ ء‬

And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet
they turn away from its signs.

This magnetic field also manifests it self in other ways.
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‫ﺏ‬ ‫ا‬

Pic 11: The Aurora.

This is a picture of the polar aurora, which appears in the

Arctic region. Generally speaking, this phenomenon is the
most amazing natural phenomena. It took scientists many
years to learn their secrets, and finally turned out to be
formed because of the Earth's magnetic field.

This aurora is the Earth’s defense mechanism. The deadly
solar wind, instead of “burning us”, is itself dissipated,
deflected and “burned” away from us by this magnetic
field.

See this magnificent view, Is it not worthy of this great
phenomenon that is sworn by Allah? Allah says:

* ّ ‫إذا ا‬
‫ﺕ‬ ‫ﺏ َ * وا وﻡ و * وا‬
ّ ‫) أ‬
‫ﻡ ن * وإذا ئ‬ * َ ‫آ‬
ّ
21 -16 :‫ون( ]ا ﻥ ق‬ ‫ا ن‬
So I swear by the afterglow of sunset; (16) And by the night and
whatever it gathers in its darkness; (17) And by the moon when it
is at the full, (18) You shall certainly travel from stage to stage (in
this life and in the Hereafter). (19) What is the matter with them,
that they believe not? (20) And when the Qur'ân is recited to them,
they fall not prostrate, (21) {Note: Please do prostrate when you read this verse}

‫ اﺡ‬Praise be to Allah , He has made for us a
protection.

My mind keeps going back to the great celestial bodies,
Antares which is 300 Million Kilometers in size, and VY
Canis Majoris which is as big as 7 quadrillion Earths And
pulsars like AtTariq and AlKunnas.
Tell me something more, Is there something bigger than it?

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There certainly is something bigger, it is called a Galaxy.
The Galaxies are a system of stars and planets. They are
huge, planets and stars Antares, VY Canis Majoris and
Pulsars are just like small specs of dust in it!

‫ة‬ ‫ا‬

Pic 12: A Galaxy
Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten
million stars up to giant galaxies with one trillion stars, all
orbiting the galaxy's center of mass. Galaxies can also

contain many multiple star systems, star clusters, and
various interstellar clouds. Most galaxies are 1,000 to
100,000 parsecs in diameter. The parsec measurement unit
is used in astronomy. The parsec is a unit of length, equal
to just under 31 trillion kilometers (about 19 trillion miles),
or about 3.26 light-years. Although it is not yet well
understood, “dark matter” appears to account for around
90% of the mass of most galaxies. Observational data
suggests that super-massive black holes ( ‫ ) ا‬may exist
at the center of many, if not all, galaxies.

‫نا‬ Praise be to Allah, what a huge size. Is there
something bigger than it?

There certainly is!

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The Galactic Filaments and Sheets

‫ات‬ ‫ﻡ ا‬ ‫ﻥ‬

Pic 13: Filaments of Galaxies.

The Universe has countless numbers of Galaxies. Each of
the dots in the above picture is a galaxy. There are
probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable

universe. Perhaps many Trillions more exist in the universe
we have not yet observed! Galaxies are usually separated
by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or
megaparsecs). Intergalactic space (the space between
galaxies) is filled with a tenuous gas of an average density
less than one atom per cubic meter.

The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of
associations called clusters, which, in turn, can form larger
groups called superclusters. These larger structures are
generally arranged into sheets and filaments, which
surround immense voids in the universe.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says:

‫و ّ ء ذات‬
( ‫) ُ رة ا ّار َ ت‬
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By the heaven full of Hubuk ( paths, fibers, weave) (7)

The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), is one of largest
known super-structures in the Universe. It is a filament or a
filament wall of galaxies which measure over 500 million
light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 15
million light-years thick. It was discovered in 1989. It is not
known how much farther the wall extends due to the plane
of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth is located. The gas
and dust from the Milky Way obscures the view of

astronomers and have so far made it impossible to
determine if the wall ends or continues on further than they
can currently observe! These sheets and filaments weave
together like a textile cloth. In this big weave the giant
galaxies are just like small glittering specs!

And there is some thing bigger than it!

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The Building of the Universe……….

At first, scientists thought that the universe is mostly
vacuum, and they gave it the name “space”. In the late
twentieth century, scientists have discovered something
new. They found that the universe is certainly like a
building made of small blocks. The conventional model for
galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early
Universe formed into the massive galaxies of today by
coalescing into clusters, superclusters, filaments and sheets.
These are the “small” lego-like building blocks that make
the structure or building of the universe.

Pic 13: The structure of the Universe. The small line on the top
shows a scale of 100 Million Light Years!

Lego-like “building blocks” initially detected by Hubble
likely contributed to the visual construction of the Universe
as we know it. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
observations confirmed that these galaxies are some of the
smallest blocks of the Universe which is made like a
building. Look closely at the picture above and you may
see some patterns and architecture to it.

This structure has a geometry and architecture of its own.
There are “voids”, “walls”, cluster areas or “rooms”, vast
hallways and “passages”.
Current interpretations of astronomical observations
indicate that the age of the Universe is 13.73 billion years,
and that the diameter of the observable universe is at least
93 billion light years. This is just the part of the universe
that we can observe. Only Allah knows what else there is in
the universe and how big it really is. There is much work
that still need to be done in cosmology to even start to
appreciate the large-scale structure of the universe.

This is truly mind boggling….Something that that the mind
finds difficult to imagine. Is than some thing bigger than
this? Something that will make it all look like a spec of
dust?

Certainly there is!!! !!
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There is something bigger so big that
it will make all of the above like a
spec of dust.

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‫ا ر‬
AnNaar - The Hellfire

The stones of the universe and human beings and jinn will
be but only the fuel that burns in it.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says:
‫را و ده‬ ‫وأه‬ ‫ءاﻡ اْ اْ أ‬ ّ‫ـ‬
‫ن‬ ‫ظ اد‬ ‫ﻡـ‬ ‫رة‬ ‫ّسو‬
(٦) ‫ن ﻡ ﻡ ون‬ ‫ﻡ أﻡ ه و‬
O you who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families against a
Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels
stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the Commands they
receive from Allâh, but do that which they are commanded.

And there is something bigger so big that it will make it
like a spec of dust.

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AlJannah - The Heaven
The Jannah is more gracious and spacious, for indeed
The Mercy and Forgiveness of our Rabb
has overcome His Anger. He has prepared for the believers

ّ ‫وﺝ‬ ّ ‫وﺱ ر اْ إ ﻡ ة ّ ر‬
‫ﻡ‬
(١٣٣) ّ ‫ّ ـ ت و رض أ ّت‬
(‫) ل ِ َان‬
And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lord,
and for a paradise as wide as are the heavens and the
earth, prepared for Al-Muttaqûn (the pious);

And yes there is some thing bigger
than AlJannah and AnNaar. Some
thing so big that it that will make
them look small !

‫شا ﺡ ن‬ ‫ا‬
AlArsh ArRahman
The Throne of ArRahman

It is greater, for indeed it encompasses over all creations.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says about it:

‫ّ ـ ت و رض‬ ّ ‫وﺱ آ ﺱ‬
His Kursî (foot-stool) extends over the heavens and the earth

Its beauty and magnificence cannot be described. We can
only say that it is befitting to be called His Throne.
Below it is nothing but the entirety of His creations and
above it is none other than

‫وﺕ‬ ‫ا ﺱ‬
‫ذو ا ل و ا آ ام‬ ‫ا‬ ‫ا‬

Yes, You guessed it

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there
is
more
majestic
than
it
too

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‫وﺕ‬ ‫ﺱ‬
Allah
SubhanahuWaTaala
Himself

And the Glorious Throne is nothing more than a spec of
dust in front of
THE MAJESTY OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY ALONE.

‫و ّـة ه‬ ‫ى إـ إ هَ ـ‬ ‫ه‬
‫ى إـ إ ه‬ ‫ّﺡ )٢٢( ه‬ ‫ّﺡ ـ‬
‫ّر‬ َ ‫ﻡ‬ ‫ّوس ّ ـ‬
‫ن )٣٢( ه ُ ـ‬ ّ ‫ّ ﺱ ـ‬
‫ﻡ‬ ّ ‫ﺱ ء‬ ‫ّر‬ ‫رئ‬
(٢٤) ‫ّ ـ ت و رض وه‬
He is Allâh, beside Whom Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right
to be worshipped but He) the All-Knower of the unseen and the
seen. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. (22) He is Allâh
beside Whom is Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be
worshipped but He) the King, the Holy, the One Free from all
defects, the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the
All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory be to Allâh! (High
is He) above all that they associate as partners with Him. (23) He
is Allâh, the Creator, the Inventor of all things, the Bestower of
forms. To Him belong the Best Names[] . All that is in the heavens
and the earth glorify Him. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
(24)

This where everything ends because He Subhanahu Wa Taala is
The First and The Last.

Was’SalamuAlaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu.

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