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A Rabbi Sees The Qur’an’s Understanding Of Creation – OpEd

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“Indeed, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six Divine Days (of 13.7 billion Planet Earth years).” And Allah sees well all that you (humans) do” (57:4)

Astrophysicists have discovered light from the very first stars, or perhaps from hot gas falling into the first black holes:”We think we are seeing the collective light from millions of the first objects to form in the universe,” said Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky, lead author on the Nature article.

“The objects disappeared eons ago, yet their light is still traveling across the universe.” 
Scientists theorize that space, time and matter originated 13.7 billion years ago in a Big Bang.

The Quran says: “The heavens (energy) and the earth (matter) were joined together as one unit, before We (God -Allah) clove them asunder” (21:30). Following this “joined beginning”, Allah; “turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and to the earth: ‘Come together, willingly or unwillingly.’ They said: ‘We come (together) in willing obedience” (41:11).

Theorists say the first stars were likely over a hundred times more massive than Earth’s sun and extremely hot, bright, and short-lived, each one burning for only a few million years. The ultraviolet light that Population III stars emitted would be redshifted, or stretched to lower energies, by the universe’s expansion. That light should now be detectable in the infrared. 

“This deep observation was filled with familiar-looking stars and galaxies,” said Dr. John Mather, senior project scientist for James Webb Space Telescope and a co-author on the Nature article. “We removed everything we knew—all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this infrared glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars.” 

“Verily in the heavens and the earth are signs for those who believe. The creation of yourselves (humans), and the fact that animals are scattered (throughout our planet), are signs for those of assured faith. In the alternation of night and day, and the fact that Allah sends down (rain) sustenance from the sky, and revives the earth after its death (drought), and in the change of the winds, are signs for those who are wise” (45:3-5).

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