(January 5, 2018 at 4:48 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: The verse says:
Quote:Sura 51, The Quran:
( 47 ) And the heaven We constructed with hands, and indeed, We are expanding.
Quote:Sura 42, The Quran:
( 1 ) Ha, Meem.
( 2 ) 'Ayn, Seen, Qaf.
( 3 ) Thus has He revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and to those before you - Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
( 4 ) To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.
( 5 ) The heavens almost break from above them, and the angels exalt [Allah] with praise of their Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth. Unquestionably, it is Allah who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
( 6 ) And those who take as allies other than Him - Allah is [yet] Guardian over them; and you, [O Muhammad], are not over them a manager.
Things "break" when they are "expanded"?
How did Mohammed know that heaven was expanding?
If we assumed ignorance and lying of the author of the Quran; why would they refer explicitly to such a fact?
Even a nomad Muslim in the desert 1400 years ago, would know that the skies (universe) is expanding. Not just that; actually saying otherwise defies the verse above.
The universe is expanding, by the direct statement of verse 47 of Sura 51 in the Quran, and the implicit referring by verse 5 of Sura 42
Long before Hubble's discovery. 1400 years approximately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
Quote:Hubble's law is considered the first observational basis for the expansion of the universe
The verse in Arabic:
والسماء بنيناها بأيد وإنا لموسعون
It's important to remember human nature when reading ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish and Arabian religious fairy tales.
On a historical front there's zero evidence that an actual Mohammed character as described in the literature existed. We do know that Uthman formed a committee to write the Koran fairy tale. At that time Islam was on the move and starting to expand. So the natural thing to do when writing the doctrine would be to add a bunch of special effects and grand sounding phrases to show how powerful the imaginry deity is. It would inspire the mob and scare the crap out of the outsiders.
I suggest that the line about the heaven expanding was actually about the growth of Islam conquering the riffraff in the area and that it didn't have squat to do with outer space. The heaven was actually the area that Islam (Uthman) controlled.
Now here we are hundreds of centuries later and nitwits believe in imaginary celestial deities. Most humans might as well be turnips because they sure as hell don't use their brains.
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