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“The heaven I created by might, and, verily, I am expanding it.

The Arabic word moos‘ioon is an active participle. It indicates an ongoing action
that is occurring at the present time and will continue into the future. It was not
until the invention of the spectrograph and the development of a huge (100 in.
diameter) reflecting telescope that Edward Hubble was able to discover other
galaxies in 1926 and to document in 1927 the red shift of their spectra that
indicates they are moving away from ours. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says
about this: “The implications of this discovery were immense. The universe, long
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considered static, was expanding.”
Allaah says in Soorah an-Noor:

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( âä!$t±o„ `¨B `tã ¼çmèùΎóÇtƒur âä!$t±o„ `tB ¾ÏmÎ/ Ü=ŠÅÁãŠsù 7Štt/

“Have you not seen how Allaah makes the clouds move gently, then
joins them together, then makes them a heap? And you see raindrops
issuing from their midst. He sends down hail from the sky from
mountains of hail therein, causing it to fall on whom he wills and
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averting it from whom he wills.”

Gulf News of Friday, May 30th, 1997 carried the following item:

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Soorah ath-Thaariyaat (51):47.
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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 114.
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Soorah an-Noor (24):43.

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