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![]() In the Quran, which was revealed 14 centuries ago at
a time when the science of astronomy was still primitive, the expansion of
the universe was described like this:
( And it is We who have
constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We who are steadily
expanding it.) (Surat adh-Dhariyat:
47)
The word heaven, as stated in this verse, is used in various places
in the Quran with the meaning of space and universe. Here again, the word
is used with this meaning. In other words, in the Quran, it is
communicated that the universe expands.
And this is the very conclusion
that science has reached today.
Until the dawn of the 20th
century, the only view prevailing in the world of science was that the
universe has a constant nature and it has existed since infinite time.
The research, observations, and calculations carried out by means of
modern technology, however, revealed that the universe in fact had a
beginning and that it constantly expands.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann and the Belgian
cosmologist Georges Lemaitre theoretically calculated that the universe is
in constant motion and that it is expanding.
This fact was proved also by
observational data in 1929. While observing the sky with a telescope,
Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer, discovered that the stars and
galaxies were constantly moving away from each other. A universe where
everything constantly moves away from each other implied a constantly
expanding universe. The observations carried out in the following
years verified that the universe constantly expands. This fact was
explained in the Quran when it was yet unknown by anyone. This is because
the Quran is the word of God, the Creator, and the Ruler of the entire
universe.
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From the moment of the big bang, the universe has been
constantly expanding at a great speed. Scientists compare the
expanding universe to the surface of a balloon that is
inflated.
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