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The West and the Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Holy Quran

INTRODUCTION:

INTRODUCTION:

Within the Holy Quran, there are miraculous scientific indications; they are miraculous because they, 1400 ago when the Quran was being revealed in the 7^th century A.D., predict scientific facts discovered by humanity in the 20^th and 21^st centuries A.D. Of course, our writings which ponder the Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications are not infallible and they may require corrections and revisions. Within the domain of science, experiments in some cases fail, but many times of failure often lead to success eventually; real scientists know that trial and error is a fundamental method of problem solving; they insist on their research and experiments to reach the truth. This BOOK which you are reading now links the Quranic miraculous scientific indications to modern scientific facts and theories; besides, it raises the awareness of the West about the metaphysical realm of the Barsakh; scientists now knock at the gates of these metaphysical universes; because this is an ethereal realm which is not material or physical, some scientists reject researching it; most people forget that metaphysical levels exist even if we cannot see them; e.g., human souls (which control human bodies) pertain to this Barsakh level; the brains are merely the physical control-rooms used by the human souls to drive and control the physical human bodies. The difference between human souls and souls of animals/creatures is that human souls can choose freely and they can learn; they are tested in this life; they will be judged by the Lord God on the Day of Resurrection. Of course, the history of science is filled with unprecedented leaps in thought that have changed the course of scientific progress and advancement; this BOOK aims at raising awareness of specialized scientists within all branches of science and knowledge to the importance of the miraculous scientific indications in some Quranic verses, especially regarding metaphysical, ethereal Barsakh realm which is unacknowledged by most scientists in the West who never wish to study and research this topic. For sure, scientific progress/advancement in the 20^th and 21^st centuries A.D. has reached what was deemed in the 18^th and 19^th centuries as improbable illusions/myths assumed to pertain only to wild imagination. The boundaries are very hazy now between science-fiction and scientific achievements; hence, specialized scientists should pay attention to the Quranic miraculous scientific indications about the Barsakh, earth, and heavens (i.e., the universe). Of course, we are not a writer who specializes in any branch of science; rather, we are a Quranist thinker specializes in the Quran and in history; as we ponder on the miraculous scientific indications in some Quranic verses, we hope to draw the attention of specialized scientists to ponder, reflect, contemplate, and take heed of the Quranic miraculous scientific indications in order to infer some facts and reach their own conclusions. The greatness of the Holy Quran includes the fact that even non-specialized, ordinary persons (like ourselves, as we know little about modern science) can infer and conclude many facts from the Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications, let alone specialized scientists who can delve deeper in reflection and pondering; we hope this BOOK will arouse the scientific curiosity of people in the West; for centuries, scientists in the West never cared about studying the Quranic miraculous scientific indications; some of the scientific facts asserted in the Quran have been discovered by the people in the West centuries after the descent/revelation of the Quran. There are other Quranic miraculous scientific indications about facts which have not been examined and studied yet by scientists in the West; we hope very much that scientists would focus their attention to these Quranic indications. Lastly, we reassert here that what we have written in this BOOK is liable to be corrected and revised by those who are interested; it will be much appreciated if we would receive any corrections, comments, and revisions.

Signature:

Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour

July, 5^th, 2017

Springfield, VA, the USA

CHAPTER I:

CHAPTER I:

Had People in the West Pondered the Quran, World-History within Scientific Progress Would Have Changed

(1) The Quran Precedes the West in Scientific Methodology within Natural Sciences

Introduction:

1- Within the age of reason and science, the people of the West have reached success in this temporal, transient world; many inventions in our life which make it easier seem ordinary now, but they were wild dreams and ambitions in the past. The people of the West have reached this scientific progress/advancement by following the human mind and its natural instincts without knowing about the Quran or believing in the fact that it is God's Word. Of course, the past and present translations of the Quranic text into several tongues reflect how the Muhammadans have distorted, warped, and twisted the meanings of the Quranic verses. Thus, even when some people of the West have decided to get to know about Islam and the Quran, they could not help but notice the corruption of the notions, thought, faith tenets, and behavior of the Muhammadans; the West ascribes the crimes of the terrorist Wahabi Muhammadans to Islam because such criminals call themselves as 'Islamists'; they are not Muslims/monotheists; rather, they are polytheistic Muhammadans who worship and deify an imaginary 'immortal' figure whom they have called 'Muhammad' which has nothing to do with the historical Muhammad who is the mortal prophet mentioned in the Quran. Besides, the Muhammadans have abandoned, rejected, and discarded the Quran; hence, the backward Muhammadans are losers in this world and in the Hereafter; in contrast, the people of the West are winners in this world but they are losers in the Hereafter (because of their rejection of the Quranic Truth and monotheism). Of course, we talk here only about the vast majority. But what if the people of the West would get to know about the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text? What if the West would have known them during the European Renaissance era? This certainly would have changed the world history in terms of scientific progress and advancement.

2- The Muhammadan clergymen/sheikhs shamelessly applaud and hail any scientific discoveries made by the people of the West which echo certain Quranic scientific indications; they scream and shout loudly at the faces of non-Muslims that the Quran precedes modern civilization; yet, they never ask themselves why the Quranic miraculous scientific indications were not studied/examined by Arabs in the past 14 centuries. They forget that Sunnite Hanbali imams/sheikhs and authors of the Middle-Ages who rejected the Quran were behind aborting the scientific trend led by Arab scientists such as Avicenna, Al-Farabi, Al-Biruni, Al-Razi, Ibn Hayyan, Al-Khwarizmi, etc., as we have explained in our book about the negative influence of Hanbalism (which is the root/origin of Wahabism) within the destruction of Iraq during the Second Abbasid Era. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "We have revealed it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand." (12:2); "We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand." (43:3). In contrast, the Sunnite authors/sheikhs never understood or pondered the Arabic Quran and they imposed on it their own books of hadiths, myths, fatwas, fiqh (i.e., religious jurisprudence), exegeses, commentaries, and interpretation. Thus, they distorted, warped, and twisted the meanings of Quranic verses and made their fabricated hadiths and fiqh rules supplant and replace the Lord God's Quranic legislations. The communities of the Muhammadans were busy with the myths of their man-made, earthly/terrestrial religions for centuries; meanwhile, the people of the West had their Renaissance, rejected their earthly/terrestrial religions, increased their scientific knowledge, and roamed the earth to explore, discover, and invent. They have applied, unawares, the Quranic commands of discovering, studying, and examining God's creation. Thus, the people of the West have made all humanity reach the level of inventions and technological advancement which is ever-increasing on a daily basis; human knowledge about the earth and outer space has increased; scientists now are knocking at the gates of the parallel universes or the metaphysical realm known in the Quran under the name of Barsakh.

3- We assert here that if the European Renaissance scientists and pioneers of invention would have examined and studied the Quranic miraculous scientific indications, they would have saved centuries for humanity; i.e., human beings would have enjoyed the scientific progress/advancement of the 20^th century centuries ago. Yet, the chance is still there for the people of the West to save time and invent many things and discover more things in the universe in light of the Quranic miraculous scientific indications if they would study the Quranic text in Arabic and NOT in the bad translations. Yet, sadly, most scientists of the West do not believe in God and they reject the belief in the Hereafter; in short, they are heedless of the Quran. This Quranic verse applies to most of the people of the West: "They know an outer aspect of the worldly life, but they are heedless of the Hereafter." (30:7).

Firstly: how the Quran precedes the West in scientific methodology within natural sciences:

The main reason for the backwardness of humanity during the Middle-Ages is that people followed the Greek research methodology regarding natural sciences; this methodology disregards empirical experiments; few people know the fact that the Quran precedes the West in indicating empiricism within scientific methodology in relation to studying natural sciences. This Quranic empirical methodology is based on the following two features:

(A) The prohibition of examining/researching the domain of the metaphysical realm of the unseen:

1- The physical realm is what we see/experience in this world within our senses and through inventions/machines. The metaphysical realm of the unseen cannot be reached/sensed or probed by human beings. The Omniscient Lord God is the One Who knows all about both the physical and the metaphysical realms and He has informed some of His messengers of some details regarding the metaphysical realm of the unseen: "He is God. There is no God but He, the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the Dominant and Compassionate Lord." (59:22); "The Knower of the Invisible; He does not disclose His Invisible to anyone. Except to a messenger of His choosing..." (72:26-27).

2- Of course, the unseen includes the past and the future events; some of them are mentioned by the Lord God in the Quran; i.e., stories of ancient nations and some future events in this world and the next one (i.e., the Hour and its signs, the Last Day, and the Hereafter). The unseen elements mentioned in the Quran include ethereal creatures such as angels, jinn, and devils. This is part of Quranic facts in which real monotheists believe, as they believe in the entirety of the Quranic text as the Absolute Truth and God's Word. This faith/belief in the unseen or the invisible is part of the descriptions of the pious Quran-believing monotheists who never cast doubts on God's Book; i.e., the Quran: "This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the pious ones. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform prayers, and give from what We have provided for them." (2:2-3). This type of belief/faith means to submit to God's will; i.e., we must believe in the Quranic fact that invisible elements which we cannot see/realize, sense/touch, or examine/probe exist. Hence, to reject the Quranic facts and to stick to conjectures and guesses regarding the metaphysical realm is believing in mere mythology which leads eventually to disbelieving in the Quran and rejecting monotheism. The only pieces of information to believe in within the topic of the metaphysical realm are found exclusively in the Quran; Muhammad himself never knew anything about the metaphysical realm of the future and the unseen: "Say, "I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of God, nor do I know the future...I only follow what is inspired to me."..." (6:50), "They ask you about the Hour, "When will it come?" Say, "Knowledge of it rests with my Lord. None can reveal its coming except He...They ask you as if you are responsible for it. Say, "Knowledge of it rests with God..." (7:187-188); "Say, "I am not different from the other messengers; and I do not know what will be done with me, or with you. I only follow what is inspired in me, and I am only a clear warner."" (46:9).

3- Thus, to talk about the metaphysical realm of the invisible away from the Quranic Knowledge is to fall into the polytheistic trap of believing in myths/lies and falsehoods; indeed, this is the basis of myths pertaining to man-made, earthly/terrestrial religions whose false narratives are assumed to be 'divine' revelation/inspiration; the followers of such religions are forced by clergymen to believe in unquestionable, sanctified myths. Evil clergymen (e.g., Sunnite/Wahabi ones) impose the penalty of putting to death those 'heretics' or 'apostates' who dare question or reject such myths. This is why when such myths of earthly/terrestrial religions control and dominate a given society, by powerful clergymen of Satan who punish those who dare undermine and refute such myths, this society suffers from backwardness, ignorance, stagnation, and obscurantism. This has occurred to the Muhammadans when their societies have been dominated by Sufism and Sunnite Hanbalism; this occurred to European societies when they were dominated by the Catholic Church.

4- We understand now the vital importance of (A) the belief in features of the metaphysical realm, which are mentioned only in the Quran, and (B) never to resort to guesses, conjectures, or surmises regarding this topic so as not to ascribe lies and falsehoods to God's Religion. This means that as per the Quran, empirical science or the scientific research methodology must be confined to the seen/visible physical realm.

(B) The empirical science must be confined to the domain of the seen physical realm:

1- The repeated Quranic commands of roaming the earth imply the command of following empiricism and scientific research methodology; i.e., in the following verses, the Lord God commands human beings to examine/study how the creation began: "Have they not seen how God originates the creation, and then reproduces it? This is easy for God. Say, "Roam the earth, and observe how He originated the creation." Then God will bring about the next existence. God has power over all things."" (29:19-20).

2- The Quranic repeated commands of examining/studying the heavens and the earth are linked to a higher aim; i.e., the belief in the Lord God the Creator of the universe; this is part of the Quranic scientific methodology of research and empiricism: "Say, "Look at what is in the heavens and the earth." But signs and warnings are of no avail for people who do not believe." (10:101); "And it is He who sends down water from the sky. With it We produce vegetation of all kinds, from which We bring greenery, from which We produce grains in clusters. And palm-trees with hanging clusters, and vineyards, and olives, and pomegranates-similar and dissimilar. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen. Surely in this are signs for people who believe." (6:99); "Have they not observed the government of the heavens and the earth, and all the things that God created, and that their time may have drawn near? Which discourse, besides this, will they believe in?" (7:185); "Have they not observed the heaven above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, and it has no cracks? And the earth, how We spread it out, and set on it mountains, and grew in it all kinds of delightful pairs? A lesson and a reminder for every penitent worshiper.And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest. And the soaring palm trees, with clustered dates. As sustenance for the servants. And We revive thereby a dead town. Likewise is the Resurrection." (50:6-11); "Do they not see how We conduct the water to a dry land, and with it We produce vegetation, from which their livestock eat, and themselves? Do they not see?" (32:27); "He who created seven heavens in layers. You see no discrepancy in the creation of the Dominant Lord. Look again. Can you see any cracks? Then look again, and again, and your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted." (67:3-4); "Have they not seen the birds above them, spreading their wings, and folding them? None holds them except the Dominant Lord. He is Perceiver of everything." (67:19); "And on earth are signs for the steadfast ones. And within yourselves. Do you not see?" (51:20-21).

3- In some other Quranic verses, the miraculous scientific indications are linked to the call for pondering, understanding, and reflection; i.e., this means that empirical science and scientific experiments should be linked to the reasoning mind and not to whims and desires. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He committed the sun and the moon to the service of humankind, each running for a specified period. He manages all affairs, and He explains the signs, that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord. And it is He who spread the earth, and placed in it mountains and rivers. And He placed in it two kinds of every fruit. He causes the night to overlap the day. In that are signs for people who reflect. On earth are adjacent terrains, and gardens of vines, and crops, and date-palms, from the same root or from distinct roots, irrigated with the same water. We make some taste better than others. In that are proofs for people who reason." (13:2-4).

4- In some other Quranic verses, the miraculous scientific indications are linked to the call for empiricism and exploration/studying in order to believe in the Lord God the Creator, in His Book, and in the Last Day; see 56:58-80; God says the following in the Quran: "And he produces arguments against Us, and he forgets his own creation. He says, "Who will revive the bones when they have decayed?" Say, "He who initiated them in the first instance will revive them. He has knowledge of every creation." He who produced fuel for you from the green trees, with which you kindle a fire. Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Certainly. He is the Supreme All-Knowing Creator." (36:78-81); "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see. It is the speech of a noble messenger." (69:38-40).

5- Real, sincere belief in the Lord God the Creator means adherence to piety; this piety means to sanctify/deify and worship only the Lord God, Allah, and to deal fairly, peacefully, equitably, charitably, and kindly with all people; thus, this also means to use scientific discoveries and achievements for the welfare and prosperity of humanity and not for launching wars and causing destruction.

6- If human beings would have followed the Quranic scientific methodology centuries ago instead of the Greek methodology, the scientific progress/advancement of the 20^th century would have taken place more than 10 centuries ago. As per history, some scientists during the reign of the Abbasid caliphs Al-Maamoun and Al-Wathiq applied empiricism and experiments; chief among them was Al-Razi – the greatest medical doctor of the Middle Ages. Yet, the obscurantist Sunnite Hanbali clergymen aborted this scientific trend, and when the Hanbali Sunnites lost their power and influence, Sufism dominated the Arab world and science was chased away. Meanwhile, the European Renaissance made use of translations of the books authored by Arab scientists, thinkers, and philosophers. Scientists of the West built on this accumulated knowledge, and centuries later, the people of the world now are enjoying inventions and technology introduced by the West whose scientific progress and developments seem limitless now and more is to come in the foreseeable future.

7- We can perceive in the Quran a scientific methodology and the call for empirical research, with the aim of bringing welfare and prosperity to humanity and adhering to piety and the belief in the Lord God. This means that as per Islam, scientific research and experiments must not be used to disobey God's Quranic commands and/or to commit sins and evil deeds – the West civilization, past and present, is filled with those sinners who have used science to commit evil deeds against other people and to disobey the Lord God. if human civilization would have followed the higher aim of the empirical science mentioned in the Quran, the scientific progress/advancement would have been used for maintaining peace and prosperity for all humankind instead of spreading wars, pollution, and manufacturing of arms and weapons of mass destruction.

(2) Denying the Metaphysical Realm Mentioned in the Quran Is a Big Mistake within the West Research Methodology

Introduction:

1- The secular and atheist culture of the West has been – and remains to be – an extreme reaction against the power and myths of the Catholic Church whose clergymen controlled all aspects of European life for centuries during the Middle-Ages. The Catholic Church imposed on the European people the belief in countless myths, especially the ones regarding the metaphysical realm, and it punished those who criticized such myths by burning them alive in auto-da-fé or putting them to death by other means within the Inquisition. The clergymen of the Muhammadans fell into the same trap of such a grave sin as they imposed on people the belief in their Sunnite, Sufi, and Shiite myths/hadiths, especially the narratives regarding the metaphysical realm (i.e., the unseen, the past, and the future). Such obscurantism, ignorance, and backwardness still dominate the countries of the Muhammadans until now; the West has got rid of such myths; yet, the people of the West have gone into the extreme of denying the metaphysical realm of the invisible altogether; i.e., the rejection of the Hereafter and denying God's existence as well as the existence of angels, devils, etc. This is why European and West empiricism and science are based on denying anything that cannot be examined/studied within experiments and exploration. However, later on, some positive changes within this stance have occurred as scientists have discovered invisible powers and phenomena (e.g., electricity) that can be useful even if we cannot see them and know their exact nature; later on, the relativity theory helped in partial understanding of phenomena and items related to the outer space and the universe, and scientists wonder now if they can put any such items into use for the benefit of humanity.

2- Thus, at first, the Europeans decided to deny the existence of the metaphysical realm altogether within empiricism and scientific research, experiments, and exploration. This has led to their denying any overlapping between time and the metaphysical realm until the relativity theory of Einstein has changed this stance. Time is one of the most important dimensions of the metaphysical realm, despite the fact that the physical realm and the universe is enveloped within the frame of time. Einstein discovered and proved that time (which remains a problematic issue until now) is the fourth dimension of the physical matter. If scientists of the West care to examine and study the Quranic text, this will open up for them gates of new ideas, fields, and notions, related to science, unchecked by them before. We mean the indications of time in some Quranic verses; such indications have never been studied/examined in the West/Occident or in the East/Orient; this negligence must cease; specialized scientists should examine the Quranic indications of time. Our BOOK here which you are reading now is merely an attempt, by a Quranist researcher whose amount of knowledge within natural sciences is very little, to draw the attention of scientists to urge them to examine the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text; the scientific conclusions they would reach will be better than ours as a Quranist thinker who ponders the Quran based on Quranic terminology and his knowledge of the Arabic tongue.

The relative link between the metaphysical realm on the one hand and time and speed on the other hand:

1- The link between (time and speed) and the metaphysical realm is manifested in narrowing the gap/difference between the past time and the present time; as for the past, news and letters spread slowly within long durations (e.g., by snail mail, travellers, pigeons carrying letters, and horses carrying postmen); as for the present, the internet, multimedia, telecommunications, and satellite channels have relatively neutralized time; e.g., a man in the USA can watch live events taking place in Africa. another example is electricity; we cannot see it because it is an invisible energy (and this makes it belong to the metaphysical realm of the unseen), but human beings have managed to harness such energy upon discovering it and to put it into good use; by the way, energy is among the many forms of physical matter.

2- This aspect of relative metaphysical realm of the unseen pertaining to the present time can be examined, measured, and studied within scientific progress/advancement. For instance, half a century ago, it was impossible to think/imagine that video-calls can be made between two people who live simultaneously in two different continents.

Does this last point apply to the invisible metaphysical realm of the past?:

1- The raised question is as follows: Can deeds/voices of ancient nations be retrieved/revived? The Lord God mentions in the Quran that destroyed or dead ancient nations will never be brought back to life in this world: "There is a ban on the town that We had destroyed - that they will not return." (21:95).

2- We know from the Quran that deeds, stances, feelings, and words of each human beings are recorded by the angels: "For every person We have attached his bird to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will bring out for him a Book which he will find spread open. "Read your book; today there will be none but yourself to call you to account." Whoever is guided - is guided for his own good. And whoever goes astray - goes astray to his detriment. No burdened soul carries the burdens of another, nor do We ever torment until We have sent a messenger. " (17:13-15). This means that copies of all our deed, words, etc. 'fly' into a metaphysical realm Barsakh level where angels record them, carrying the special imprint or DNA of the souls which performed the actions and uttered the words, preserved in archives. This means that on the Last Day, each soul will perceive images, sounds, and movements done by it when it was alive on earth within its Record of Deeds (i.e., like a video). One's deeds will weave the eternal body of one's resurrected soul in the Hereafter either in Hell or in Paradise; the mortal human bodies will turn to dust and will never be revived again on the Last Day; the souls will be resurrected from Barsakh of the dead ones to wear their eternal bodies and be judged on the Day of Judgment. Human souls in this world, in all eras of the past, present, and future, are tested and they are allotted a duration of life on earth, plus other fates: birth, provisions, earnings, calamities/adversity, prosperity, and death. The last fulfillment for the human souls is when they are judged on the Last Day and are either condemned in Hell forever or be made to enter into Paradise for eternity.

3- This rephrased query is raised here: Could the words/images/actions of a dead person (whether this person died recently or years ago) be heard/retrieved and recorded now in this physical world as if in a documentary movie? Matter, mass, and energy undergo transformations but they are not lost or destroyed forever. This means that the words/images/actions of a dead person are stored somewhere. As per the Quran, they are stored/archived in the metaphysical realm of Barsakh.

Does this apply to the metaphysical realm of the future events (e.g., true visions that foretell events)?:

1- True visions seen during sleep/slumber can foretell future events; as per the Quran, Muhammad during his sleep saw in a vision that he performed pilgrimage at the Sacred Kaaba Mosque in Mecca; he was ardently wishing for this when he was residing in Yathreb; this vision came true and was fulfilled later on shortly before the death of Muhammad: "God has fulfilled His messenger's vision in truth: "You will enter the Sacred Mosque, God willing, in security, heads shaven, or hair cut short, not fearing. He knew what you did not know, and has granted besides that an imminent victory."" (48:27). Within the Quranic story of Joseph, there are true visions seen by non-believers: the visions of the two imprisoned men in the cell with Joseph and the visions of the Hyksos king of Egypt, and this is not to mention the true vision of Joseph who was a monotheistic believer and a prophet, of course. all these visions mentioned in the Quranic Chapter 12 were fulfilled and they came true. Such visions were relatively vague and symbolic; they entailed a prophet to interpret them. The fact on which we focus here is that true visions that foretell future events can be seen by (dis)believers regardless of their faiths. In contrast, the polytheistic Sunnite, Sufi, and Shiite imams/sheikhs invented and fabricated many elaborate dreams/visions (as if they were seen by their 'saints') and made them a source of 'divine' revelation within their earthly/terrestrial, man-made religions. Of course, there are degrees in time exemplified by the movements of the planets of the solar system and the movements of galaxies and stars. There are also degrees in time within the Barsakh levels of the earth and the heavens. The Holy Spirit Gabriel and angels under him descend with fates preordained on all human beings once a year during every Ramadan within the Night of Decree; yet, the time and speed of angels differ than those of human beings; angels move within unimaginable speeds within the overlapping metaphysical Barsakh levels whose time-frame differs a lot from time on the physical realm of the earth. By God's Will, the Hyksos king of Egypt within the Quranic story of Joseph saw true visions that foretold events of 15 years to come; these events are decrees/fates descended by angels led by Gabriel within the different time-frame of the angels; within time on earth, this descent of the angels with fates occurs annually within the Night of Decree; all this is done by the Dominant Lord God's commands/decrees ordained on all creatures: "He regulates all affairs, from the heavens, to the earth. Then it ascends to Him on a Day the length of which is a thousand years by your count." (32:5) "...God has control over His affairs, but most people do not know." (12:21). This verse about God's command issued about the coming of the Hour (i.e., the destruction of the universe) shows the difference/gap between time in Barsakh and time within the physical realm on earth: "The command of God came, so do not rush it..." (16:1). This means that the time-frame assigned to the physical world has not yet reached or matched with the Barsakh time-frame when the command/decree was issued by the Lord God about the taking place of the Hour; the Hour means the total destruction of the physical universe and its time-frame; a new, eternal universe (of Resurrection, Gathering, Judgment, Hell, and Paradise) and eternity (with no past, present, and future) will be created; the limited capacity of the human mind cannot fully grasp/imagine this eternity of 'static' time which does not move or change.

2- We understand from the Quran the meaning of true visions that foretell future events; within the annual Night of Decree, Gabriel and the angels carry fates (birth, provisions, earnings, calamities/adversity, prosperity, and death) preordained by the Lord God on humanity for a whole year as part of how He regulates all affairs in the universe: "He regulates all affairs, from the heavens, to the earth. Then it ascends to Him on a Day the length of which is a thousand years by your count. That is the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, the Powerful, the Merciful." (32:5-6). The speeds of angels within Barsakh levels, especially within the Upper Realm of angels who are nearer to the Lord God, cannot be imagined by the limited capacity of the human mind; the Quran figuratively expresses these speeds as "wings": "Praise be to God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Maker of the angels messengers with wings - double, triple, and quadruple. He adds to creation as He wills. God is Able to do all things." (35:1). This is why the Lord God says the following about the Night of Decree: "The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. In it descend the angels and the Spirit, by the leave of their Lord, with every command." (97:3-4). Some of these fates are foretold in true visions seen during sleep/slumber of some people. More details about this topic are found in our book, in English, titled "The Night-Journey Is The Night of Decree", found on this link: http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=112

3- One of the main topics of the problematic issue of time is the Superstring theory. This Superstring theory maintains that there is a six-dimensional universe overlapping with our known four-dimensional universe (or our known four-dimensional continuum of three dimensions of space plus the fourth dimension of time, shown in the typical space-time diagrams made by scientists), and speeds more than the speed of light exist there, but they cannot be measured by human beings until now. If these speeds would be measured one day in the future, scientists believe that human beings may travel back in time if shuttles that exceed the speed of light would be invented. Thus, sometimes, one sees true visions that foretell future events because some decrees/fates while being carried by angels in a metaphysical level may come across the wandering souls of the sleeping people which float inside Barsakh (its original place) temporarily during deep slumber: "God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that have not died during their sleep. He retains those for which He has decreed death, and He releases the others until a predetermined time. In that are signs for people who reflect." (39:42).

4-During deep slumber, the human soul temporarily leaves the human body but remain linked to it; it returns to it upon waking up. This is because souls belong to the metaphysical realm of Barsakh, where speeds exceed the speed of light in our physical realm. This is why it is assumed that when souls move/float in Barsakh with unimagined speeds, they might come across future events/fates that are yet to take place in the physical world and such events express themselves in (seemingly unrelated) moving images within dreams/visions which are mysteriously remembered clearly by people when they wake up, in contrast to meaningless jumbles of dreams forgotten by most people upon waking up. Thus, some dreams/visions we see during our sleep come true later on as we know their interpretation or witness their realization.

5- Of course, we cannot imagine, feel, or know the speed of souls moving inside Barsakh when people are asleep; by the way, no souls human beings can resist sleeping from time to time to get some relief from being confined to the human bodies; the Lord God has ordained sleep/slumber and waking up on human beings as part of His controlling and dominating over them (along with the angels recording their deeds, taking their souls upon death, and carrying preordained fates; along with imposed Resurrection and Judgment in the Hereafter), as we infer from these verses: "It is He Who takes you by night, and He knows what you earn by day. Then He raises you up in it, until a fixed term is fulfilled. Then to Him is your return, then He will inform you of what you used to do. He is the Dominant One over His servants, and He sends angels watching you, until, when death overtakes one of you, Our envoys take him away, and they never fail." (6:60-61).

Degrees of the absolute metaphysical realm:

1- We mean by the word ''absolute'' here that such degrees cannot be reached/examined/studied by human beings in this world, in contrast to the relative link between time/speed and the metaphysical realm of the present (in contrast to the future and the past). The relative aspects of the metaphysical realm can be measured, studied, examined, used, and surpassed by scientific progress/advancement and new inventions within means of transportation and telecommunications. As for the absolute aspects of the metaphysical realm, God will never allow human beings to know anything about them in this transient, temporary world.

2- The higher degrees of the absolute metaphysical realm belong to the Omniscient Lord God; for instance, God will never be seen by human beings in this world and in the Hereafter; we infer this fact from the Quran itself; for further details about this topic, we refer readers to our article, in English, titled "Definitive and Similar Quranic Verses in a Practical Study: The Topic of Seeing Almighty God in the Hereafter", found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=16303). Human beings cannot see God because He does not submit to time; rather, He is the Creator of time that envelopes the earth and the universe; He is the First and Last (the Alpha and the Omega) and has no beginning and no end, and He is above time and eternity (for sure, human beings will be eternal in the Hereafter inside Hell and Paradise). The capacity of the human mind is very limited and it cannot imagine or grasp fully this eternity and the fact that the Lord God is Eternal, Everlasting, and Immortal. The Omnipresent and Omniscient Lord God knows everything about and inside both the physical and the metaphysical realms; in contrast, human beings, angels, jinn, and devils cannot have this omniscience, and there are thresholds in the universe which cannot be passed by them. The capitalized pronoun (He) in the Quranic verses refers to the Omnipresent Lord God; it does not represent a third person/party who is 'absent'. The Omnipotent Lord God says the following in the Quran: "He is the First and the Last, and the Outer and the Inner, and He has knowledge of all things. It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then settled over the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth, and what comes out of it, and what descends from the sky, and what ascends to it. And He is with you wherever you may be. God is Seeing of everything you do." (57:3-4); "Allah! There is no God except He, the Living, the Everlasting. Neither slumber overtakes Him, nor sleep. To Him belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His permission? He knows what is before them, and what is behind them; and they cannot grasp any of His knowledge, except as He wills. His Throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation does not burden Him. He is the Most High, the Great." (2:255).

3- There are other degrees of the metaphysical aspects which will never be seen by human beings (or by their machines and inventions) in this physical world but will be seen in the Hereafter on the Last Day; i.e., we mean the ethereal beings such as the angels, the jinn, and the devils. The Lord God says the following about Satan and his devils: "...and he sees you, him and his tribe, from where you cannot see them..." (7:27). The misguided sinners will see on the Last Day and also inside Hell the devils who controlled their souls and made them choose misguidance; those sinners will disown such devils and will regret their loss in vain when it is too late for them: "Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Dominant Lord, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion. They hinder them from the Path, though they think they are guided. Until, when he comes to Us, he will say, "If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts." What an evil companion!" (43:36-38). Satan and his progeny of devils will be inside Hell along with the souls of their human followers; Satan will disown the human beings who will be inside Hell: "And Satan will say, when the issue is settled, "God has promised you the promise of truth, and I promised you, but I failed you. I had no authority over you, except that I called you, and you answered me. So do not blame me, but blame yourselves. I cannot come to your aid, nor can you come to my aid. I reject your polytheism of worshiping me in the past. The unjust ones will have a torment most painful." (14:22).

Lastly:

Because the people of the West have denied the metaphysical realm aspects mentioned in the Holy Quran, their technological and scientific progress/advancement was slow and took centuries to reach the level we witness now in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. We sincerely hope that the people of the West would reconsider their stance regarding the metaphysical realm aspects and examine/study the Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications. This, no doubt, will open new horizons for science.

(3) Things the West Does Not Know about the Heavens and the Earth: The meaning of the Heavens and the Earth

Introduction:

1- The people of the West know only an outer aspect or layer of the worldly life regarding the heaven and the earth (i.e., the universe); the Quranic miraculous scientific indications precede what is discovered by the West in many fields; no doubt that if the scientists of the West would ponder on the Quranic text, this will open new horizons for science.

2- We focus here on defining the Quranic term "heaven(s)", which refers, in the Arabic tongue, to the sky, outer space, or the roof/vault known as the firmament.

3- We examine the term "heaven(s)" in several Quranic contexts that indicate different meanings in the points below.

Firstly: the term (heaven) refers to the sky and its atmosphere that has several degrees/layers/strata with different highness:

1- The Lord God mentions in the Quran that rain, which is a blessing/bounty, comes down from the sky; i.e., the atmosphere between the earth and the heavens: "He who made the earth a habitat for you, and the heaven a structure, and sends water down from the sky, and brings out fruits thereby, as a sustenance for you. Therefore, do not assign rivals to God while you know." (2:22); "...God sends down from the sky, and revives the earth with it after it had died..." (2:164); "God is He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sends down water from the sky, and with it produces fruits for your sustenance..." (14:32); "Or, who created the heavens and the earth, and rains down water from the sky for you? With it We produce gardens full of beauty, whose trees you could not have produced..." (27:60); "...And from the sky We sent down water, and caused to grow therein of every noble pair." (31:10); "And it is He who sends down water from the heaven. With it We produce vegetation of all kinds, from which We bring greenery, from which We produce grains in clusters. And palm-trees with hanging clusters, and vineyards, and olives, and pomegranates-similar and dissimilar. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen. Surely in this are signs for people who believe." (6:99). The rain pouring from heaven/sky is implied in these two verses: "...and We sent the sky pouring down abundance on them..." (6:6); "...We would have opened for them the blessings of the heaven and the earth..." (7:96).

2- The Quran precedes science in informing people about the role of the winds in carrying clouds laden with rainwater and carrying pollen or seeds within the process of the reproduction of plants: "It is He who sends the wind ahead of His mercy. Then, when they have gathered up heavy clouds, We drive them to a dead land, where We make water come down, and with it We bring out all kinds of fruits. Thus We bring out the dead - perhaps you will reflect." (7:57); "We send the fertilizing winds; and send down water from the sky, and give it to you to drink, and you are not the ones who store it." (15:22); "God is He who sends the winds, which agitate clouds, which We drive to a dead land, and thereby revive the ground after it had died. Likewise is the Resurrection." (35:9); "God is He who sends the winds. They stir up clouds. Then He spreads them in the sky as He wills. And He breaks them apart. Then you see rain drops issuing from their midst. Then, when He makes it fall upon whom He wills of His servants, behold, they rejoice." (30:48); "Have you not seen how God propels the clouds, then brings them together, then piles them into a heap, and you see rain drops emerging from its midst? How He brings down loads of hail from the sky, striking with it whomever He wills, and diverting it from whomever He wills? The flash of its lightning almost snatches the sight away." (24:43).

Sending down torment from the heaven/sky and using the terms (sky) and (heaven) in Quranic parables:

1- The Lord God says the following about the destruction of the town to which He sent three messengers: "After him, We sent down no hosts from heaven to this people; nor would We ever send any down. It was just one Cry, and they were stilled." (36:28-29).

2- Here is an indication of the illness/plague which struck the Israelites during the lifetime of Moses; this plague seems to be spots on their skins from germs or bacteria coming from the atmosphere: "But the unjust ones among them substituted words other than those given to them, so We sent down on the unjust ones a plague from the sky, because of their wicked behavior." (2:59).

3- The Lord God says the following about the polytheists of the Qorayish tribe who defiantly demanded from Muhammad a torment descending upon them from the sky to prove to them that he is a real prophet: "And they said, "Our God, if this is the truth from You, then rain down on us stones from the sky, or visit us with a painful torment."" (8:32); they also demanded from Muhammad to ascend into heaven to prove to them that he is a real prophet: "Or make the sky fall on us in pieces, as you claim, or bring God and the angels before us. Or you possess a house of gold. Or you ascend into the sky. Even then, we will not believe in your ascension, unless you bring down for us a book that we can read." Say, "Glory be to my Lord. Am I anything but a human messenger?"" (17:92-93). The Lord God has refused to give them miracles/signs: "Even if We opened for them a gateway into the sky, and they began to ascend through it.They would still say, "Our eyes are hallucinating; in fact, we are people bewitched."" (15:14-15); this means that even if those polytheists were to embark into a space shuttle to ascend into the sky/heaven, they would adamantly refuse to believe in the Quran and would think that this is magic.

4- The following image symbolizes the loss of polytheists: "...Whoever associates anything with God - it is as though he has fallen from the sky, and is snatched by the birds, or is swept away by the wind to a distant abyss." (22:31). In this image, the polytheists/disbelievers are depicted as floating within higher strata of the atmosphere which have less amount of oxygen: "Whomever God desires to guide, He spreads open his heart to Islam; and whomever He desires to misguide, He makes his heart narrow, constricted, as though he were climbing up the sky. God thus lays defilement upon those who do not believe." (6:125).

5- The Lord God says the following about birds: "Have they not seen the birds, flying in the midst of the sky? None sustains them except God. In this are signs for people who believe." (16:79).

6- The Lord God says the following about the good word: "Do you not see how God presents a parable? A good word is like a good tree - its root is firm, and its branches are in the sky." (14:24).

7- From the above points, we conclude that the heaven/sky above human beings has several strata/degrees/levels of the atmosphere with different highness; God has said the following to Muhammad: "We have seen your face turned towards the heaven..." (2:144).

Secondly: the heaven means the physical one in this world/universe:

The physical heaven above us is the one which we can see, and it is the first among the seven ones; human beings (and any of their machines, probes, or inventions) cannot see/reach/examine the other six metaphysical Barsakh levels of heavens located above the physical one in this world/universe. The jinn are located within the Barsakh levels of the earth and they cannot reach the Barsakh levels of the heavens and the ones of the physical heaven/firmament above the earth: "We probed the heaven, and found it filled with stern guards and projectiles. We used to take up positions to listen in; but whoever listens now finds a projectile in wait for him." (72:8-9).

Thirdly: the term (heaven) is used sometimes in the Quran to denote all the levels of the seven heavens:

This meaning comes in the Quranic contexts about the creation of heavens by the Dominant Lord God the Creator Who will destroy them when the Hour comes.

1- Within these verses about the creation of the heavens, the word (heaven) refers to all of the seven heavens: "We did not create the heaven and the earth and everything between them for amusement." (21:16); "It is He who created for you everything on earth, then turned to the heaven, and made them seven heavens. And He is aware of all things." (2:29); "We placed constellations in heaven, and made them beautiful to the beholders. And We guarded them from every outcast devil. Except one who steals a hearing, and is followed by a visible projectile." (15:16-18); "Blessed is He who placed constellations in heaven, and placed in it a lamp, and an illuminating moon." (25:61); "Do they not look at the camels - how they are created? And at the heaven - how it is raised? And at the mountains - how they are installed? And at the earth - how it is spread out?" (88:17-20); "Have they not observed the heaven above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, and it has no cracks? And the earth, how We spread it out, and set on it mountains, and grew in it all kinds of delightful pairs?" (50:6-7). In this verse, the plural form (heavens) is employed: "A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens." (20:4).

2- The Omniscience of the Lord God is linked to heaven (denoting all of the seven heavens) and the earth within this verse: "There is no mystery in the heaven and the earth, but it is in a Clear Book." (27:75).

3- The term (heaven) means all of the seven heavens within these verses about the destruction of the universe when the Hour comes: "When the heaven splits apart, and becomes rose, like paint." (55:37); "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass. And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail. And the angels will be ranged around its borders, while eight will be carrying the Throne of your Lord above them that Day. On that Day you will be exposed, and no secret of yours will remain hidden." (69:13-18).

(4) The Creation and the Destruction of the Heavens and the Earth

Firstly: definitive Quranic verses about the creation of the heavens and the earth:

1- The Big Bang Theory, in our view, is supported within the Quran about the creation of the heavens and the earth; i.e., the universe with its planets, moons, stars, and galaxies. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30). This one mass/point was not porous (i.e., it wasimpermeable) and it exploded by God's command in order to create the heavens and the earth; we tend to think that God has taken a piece of time and has caused it to explode; this resulted in the creations of all the levels of physical and metaphysical realms of the universe (i.e., the earth and the heavens).

2- When the heavens and the earth (i.e., the physical and metaphysical levels of the universe) have been created, all elements and creatures in them are made in pairs: male/female, passive/active, negative/positive, etc. The Lord God the Creator is the Only One Who has no pair at all. In contrast, all His creatures are in pairs: human beings, animals, plants, energy, inanimate matter, etc. These Quranic verses assert this fact: "We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder." (51:49); "He Who created all the pairs..." (43:12); "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own selves, and of what they do not know." (36:36).

3- This means that the heavens and the earth are also created in a pair: positive and negative; each one of this pair moves in the opposite direction of each other; this is indicated here in this Quranic verse about the scientific fact that the universe is being expanded all the time: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it." (51:47). The word (heaven) here refers to the universe, of course.

4- As the negative universe and the positive universe move into opposite directions, they move within an elliptic curve; this means both universes will collide at one point in time when the Hour comes and the universe is destroyed by the command of the Lord God, as we infer from this simile in this Quranic verse: "On the Day when We fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just as We began the first creation, We will repeat it..." (21:104). This means that the creation of the universe began with an explosion and it will be destroyed within another explosion; the universe will return to its zero point.

5- The Quranic expression (the Trumpet is blown) indicates the explosion which will cause the destruction of the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth and their physical levels and metaphysical Barsakh levels and all things created within such levels) as we understand from the following verses: "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass." (69:13-15). Another explosion will follow, and it is the one related to the creation of an alternative, eternal universe; i.e., the eternal heavens and earth of the Last Day of the Resurrection, Gathering, Meeting, Judgment, Hell and Paradise; this is when the Dominant Lord God will manifest Himself to judge all humanity: "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God the Dominant One." (14:48). We quote these verses about the first explosion: "On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:99); "The Trumpet will be blown, then behold, they will rush from the tombs to their Lord." (36:51); "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown, everyone in the heavens and the earth will be horrified, except whomever God wills; and everyone will come before Him in humility." (27:87).We quote these verses about the first and second explosions (i.e., the first one linked to the Hour/destruction and the second one of creating the Eternal Realm of Resurrection and Judgment): "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere. And the Trumpet will be blown, whereupon everyone in the heavens and the earth will be stunned, except whomever God wills. Then it will be blown another time, whereupon they will rise up, looking on. And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged. And every soul will be fully compensated for what it had done. He is well aware of what they do." (39:67-70).

Secondly: definitive Quranic verses about gravity, which is part of the creation of the heavens and the earth:

Before the Hour/destruction of the universe will take place in the first explosion, the current, physical and metaphysical universe has its own systems/patterns mentioned in several Quranic expressions which include the following.

1- The (Balance) here symbolizes the stability of the systems/patterns of the universe as per the Lord God's will, command, and measurement: "And the heaven, He raised; and He set up the Balance." (55:7).

2- The Lord God fully controls the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe): "God holds the heavens and the earth, lest they fall apart. And were they to fall apart, there is none to hold them together except He..." (35:41); "Do you not see that God made everything on earth subservient to you? How the ships sail at sea by His command? That He holds up the sky lest it falls on earth - except by His permission?..." (22:65).

3- The Lord God fully controls the stable, elliptic orbits (i.e., the gravitationally curved trajectories) of celestial bodies; their movements seem like floating in the air: "It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in an orbit." (21:33); "And the sun runs towards its destination. Such is the design of the Almighty, the Omniscient. And the moon: We have disposed it in phases, until it returns like the old twig. The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit." (36:38-40).

4- The Lord God protects and preserves the crust of Planet Earth by the mountains which act as stabilizers so as not to make Planet Earth move/revolve/float in the space too fast: "And We placed on earth stabilizers, lest it sways with them, and We placed therein signposts and passages, that they may be guided." (21:31).The Lord God also protects and preserves Planet Earth by the ozone layer: "And We made the sky a protected ceiling; yet they turn away from its signs." (21:32). Of course, Planet Earth revolves around its axis and this causes the alternation/succession between day and night, as both follow each other all the time, in a process which will go on until the Hour comes and the universe is destroyed: "He created the heavens and the earth with Truth. He wraps the night around the day, and He wraps the day around the night. And He regulates the sun and the moon, each running along a specific course until a predetermined time. He is indeed the Almighty, the Forgiver." (39:5).

5- Science confines gravity only to the physical, visible universe; in contrast, the Lord God tells us in the Quran that the idea of gravity (or balance/regulation) applies to the heavens and the earth and their Barsakh, metaphysical levels as well: "God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He committed the sun and the moon to the service of humankind, each running for a specified period. He manages all affairs, and He explains the signs, that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord." (13:2); "He created the heavens without pillars that you can see, and placed stabilizers on earth lest it shifts with you, and scattered throughout it all kinds of creatures. And from the sky We sent down water, and caused to grow therein of every noble pair." (31:10).

6- The Lord God says the following (which should draw the attention of specialized scientists) about the stability of Planet Earth and the construction of the heavens: "Are you more difficult to create, or the heaven? He constructed it. He raised its masses, and proportioned it. And He dimmed its night, and brought out its daylight. And the earth after that He spread. And from it, He produced its water and its pasture. And the mountains, He anchored." (79:27-32).

Thirdly:

We infer from the Quran that the heavens and the earth will be destroyed simultaneously; this means that their systems/patterns will be destroyed at the same time when the (positive) universe (with its physical levels and the metaphysical/Barsakh/ethereal ones) will collide with its (negative) counter-universe; since everything is created in pairs, there is this universe and its opposite universe which move in separate directions but will converge/meet at some point in time known only to the Lord God; their meeting is the collusion which is the Hour of the destruction of the universe before the advent of Last Day within a New, Eternal Realm. The following Quranic verses cover this topic and specialized scientists should study, examine, and analyze them.

1- "When the sun is rolled up. When the stars are dimmed. When the mountains are set in motion. When the relationships are suspended. When the beasts are gathered. When the oceans are set aflame. When the souls are paired. When the girl, buried alive, is asked. For what crime was she killed? When the Records are made public. When the heaven is peeled away." (81:1-11).

2- "When the heaven breaks apart. When the planets are scattered. When the oceans are exploded." (82:1-3).

3- "When the heaven is ruptured. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must. And when the earth is leveled out. And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty." (84:1-4).

4- "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass. And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail." (69:13-16).

5- "On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:8-9).

6- "On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation. And the mountains go into motion." (52:9-10).

7- "When the earth is shaken with a shock. And the mountains are crushed and crumbled. And they become scattered dust." (56:4-6).

8- "When the stars are obliterated. And the heaven is fractured. And the mountains are blown away." (77:8-10).

9- "The Day when the Trumpet is blown, and you will come in droves. And the heaven is opened up and becomes gateways. And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage." (78:18-20).

Lastly: the Quran precedes modern science:

1- The Big Bang theory: The late Egyptian scientist Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh (1928 - 1986) writes the following in his book (in Arabic) titled "The Universe and the Counter-Universe", about the Big Bang that caused the creation of the universe: (... In the beginning, the universe was a stacked mass within unimagined levels of pressure; this impermeable, non-porous mass exploded and the contents of its matter are being scattered and expanded until now; when I've read these scientific facts for the first time, I remembered this Quranic verse: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30); this means that the universe (i.e., "the heavens and the earth" as per the Quranic expression) was one point/mass which exploded and formed the visible universe (and its invisible levels) with its earth, planets, sun, stars, and galaxies in the outer space, within distances measured in millions of light years ... Some scientists assume that this explosion or the Big Bang took place 18.000 million years ago ... Some scientists, in 1965, discovered by their radio-telescopes the echoes of weak electromagnetic waves; they assume that such echoes are the ongoing reverberations of the Big Bang that formed the universe ...). The Cairo-based Al-Akhbar newspaper mentioned in Nov. 1989 that NASA had a budget of 400 US$ in order to launch a satellite to examine the rays resulted from the Big Bang (which formed the universe), which is estimated to have occurred more than 15 billion years. In April 1990, the same newspaper mentioned that the space shuttle Discovery with its Hubble Space Telescope will examine the movements of galaxies, stars, and comets for 15 years within precision exceeding ten times any other previous telescope; the mission of the Hubble Space Telescope is to determine when the universe has been formed/created within the Big Bang.

2- The expansion of the universe: once the Big Bang occurred, the universe never ceased to expand, and it will continue to expand as per this Quranic verse: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it." (51:47). The Cairo-based Al-Wafd newspaper mentioned in July 1987 within the article titled (The Universe Is Expanding in All Directions) that in astronomy, observing the gravitational redshift is used to measure the distances among different stars and galaxies and to estimate when the Big Bang took place in order to calculate the age of the ever-expanding universe. This newspaper article mentioned that a British astronomer asserted that the expansion of the universe causes the formation of new stars to fill in the void or space; this means that the movements of stars go on and the various distances among these stars do not remain the same. After 20 years of research, the American astronomer Allan Sandage asserted that the speed of the expansion of the universe is 230 million miles per minute and that this expansion in all directions has begun about 18 billion years ago. In 1974, as per the same article, astronomers in Texas University asserted that the universe is expanding limitlessly and endlessly and that the scope of such expansions is beyond being measured – at least at this point in time. The same article mentioned that as per the relativity theory of Einstein in 1916, asserted by the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedman (in his Friedman equations) in 1922, the universe is round within an elliptic shape taken billions of years ago.

3- The pairs and the destruction of the universe when it will collide with the counter-universe: We quote the following passages about the expansion of the universe from the book titled "The Universe and the Counter-Universe" by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh. (... The matter and the anti-matter must be within equal quantity, and this applies to all celestial bodies: this is the concept of pairs or duality that governs the universe and all creatures in heaven and on earth ... In 1977, some scientists managed to form an atom of antiparticles and antineutrons within an anti-nucleus of hydrogen but this anti-atom of hydrogen 'died' and was transformed into electromagnetic waves; it is possible now to form anti-atoms of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, water, gold, etc. and such atoms will not differ from the ordinary atoms in physical/natural and chemical features; yet, there is no place on earth that may withstand the existence of one tiny drop of anti-water, unless when scientists would make it be suspended within a void so as not to let it collide with any atoms of this physical universe; in fact, until now, no scientists can create a space of total void. The anti-atoms cannot go on existing unless for few seconds; they explode once they touch any physical atoms of Planet Earth; such anti-atoms disappear in the form of waves which move in the speed of light ... The anti-atoms have reversed magnetic fields, charges, and direction of movement inside their nuclei ... When matter collides with antimatter at any point in time within any place, as in the case of an electron and its antielectron, both of them die or get annihilated and they turn into waves which move in the speed of light ... The matter on earth, and indeed elsewhere in the universe, contains huge destructive energies or rays; if you mix one liter of milk and one liter of anti-milk, the emitted energy can wipe out and annihilate a big city and kill millions of people living in it; the Einstein famous formula is E=mc². This formula states that the equivalent energy (E) can be calculated as the mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c = about 3×108 m/s) squared. This means that two liters of milk and anti-milk are 2000 grams multiplied by 30 thousand million cm (or the speed of light per second) equal 30 thousand million erg (the erg is the unit of energy) or the number 18 and beside it 23 zeros; this type of explosion is equal to 2200 nuclear bombs like the one thrown at Hiroshima or the explosion of 44 million tons of TNT ... Let alone the emitted destructive energy when a star collides with an anti-star; thus, when the universe will collide with its counter-universe, this is total destruction within Doomsday ...). The Cairo-based Al-Wafd newspaper mentioned in Sept. 1987 within the article titled (Matter and Antimatter in Outer Space) that the antimatter is a very complicated field of scientific research which opens the door for studying the risks of allowing astronauts to remain for longer times within their journeys in outer space, because when matter collides with the antimatter in outer space, both disappear and a huge amount of energy emits as a result.

These passages are enough to make readers able to imagine the enormity of the collusion between the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth and everything between them [Barsakh levels, galaxies, etc.]) and the counter-universe; this will cause the explosion of the Hour or the total destruction of the universe before the emergence of the Eternal Realm of the Last Day.

N.B.: The passages quoted above were written more than 20 years ago; science progress/advancement and accumulated scientific knowledge surpassed such pieces of information mentioned in these passages; yet, there is still a gap between modern science and the Quran (as the Quran precedes modern science), and sadly, scientists of the West do not believe in the Quran and do not acknowledge the existence of seven heavens.

(5) Between the Heavens and the Earth

Firstly:

The expression (everything between them) comes in some Quranic verses about the heavens and the earth; it refers to all celestial bodies located between the earth and the heavens: asteroids, moons, planets, black holes, white holes, stars, and galaxies; of course, the distances of billions of galaxies are measured in billions of light years.

Secondly: the Quranic terms for celestial bodies:

1- The Quran has descended and has been revealed in the Arabic tongue understood by Arabs of the 7^th century A.D. in Arabia; they had their own terms to express the celestial bodies. Apart from the sun and the moon, the heavenly bodies appear by night like connected or unconnected points of light. Astronomers have proved later on that such connected points of light are (1) huge galaxies which are billions of light years away from Planet Earth, (2) nearer stars, and (3) the planets and moons of the solar system. Arabs knew and used certain Arabic terms to indicate star(s) (i.e., najm [sing.] and nojoum [pl.]), planet(s) (i.e.,kawkab [sing.] and kawakib [pl.]), comet(s) (i.e., shihab [sing.] and shuhub [pl.]), and constellations (i.e., buruj). These terms are also found in the Quranic text.

2- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "By the heaven with the constellations/buruj." (85:1); we do believe that the Arabic term (buruj) refers to all celestial bodies in general between the earth and the first level of the seven heavens (i.e., the physical outer space examined by astronomers). The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "We placed constellations/buruj in the heaven, and made them beautiful to the beholders. And We guarded them from every outcast devil. Except one who steals a hearing, and is followed by a visible projectile [comet/shihab]." (15:16-18). We read this verse about the difference between buruj/constellations on the one hand and the light-emitting sun and the moon reflecting its light on the other hand: "Blessed is He who placed constellations in the heaven, and placed in it a lamp [i.e., the sun], and an illuminating moon." (25:61).

3- We read this about planets: "We have adorned the lower heaven with the beauty of the planets/kawakib. And guarded it against every defiant devil. They cannot eavesdrop on the Upper Realm, for they get bombarded from every side. Repelled - they will have a lingering torment. Except for him who snatches a fragment-he gets pursued by a piercing projectile/shihab." (37:6-10); planets are mentioned within the vision of Joseph: "When Joseph said to his father, "O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and the moon; I saw them bowing down to me."" (12:4); Abraham saw a celestial body that emerged and then disappeared: "When the night fell over him, he saw a planet/kawkab. He said, "This is my lord." But when it set, he said, "I do not love those that set."" (6:76). This verse is about the destruction of the universe with its systems and patterns: "When the heaven breaks apart. When the planets are scattered." (82:1-2).

4- The Arabic/Quranic term for (a star) is (najm) and at the same time, this verb/root means literally to appear/to emerge; it applies to the appearance of celestial bodies to the eyes of beholders on earth and to plants burgeoning and emerging on the surface of the earth, as we infer from this Quranic verse: "And the najm/plants and the trees prostrate themselves." (55:6). Stars and constellations are used by astronauts in space ships to know and mark their way and have been also used by Arabs to guide their camel caravans in the desert routes by night and to guide their ships also by night: "And landmarks. And by the stars they guide themselves." (16:16); "And it is He Who created the stars for you, that you may be guided by them in the darkness of land and sea. We thus explain the Verses for people who know." (6:97).

Thirdly: using the Quranic terms for celestial bodies within contexts of calling people to seek guidance through the Quran:

1- The irrational polytheists deify mortals/creatures without realizing the fact that deification, sanctification, and glorification must be dedicated wholly and only to the Lord God the Creator; in addition, these polytheists do not realize that the creation of the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) is greater than the creation of human beings: "Certainly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of humanity, but most people do not know." (40:57). The Muhammadans claim that they believe in the Quran; this is NOT true because they deify Muhammad and make him a supreme, immortal, all-powerful god above Allah the Creator Who has no progeny and has never had any deities besides Him: "And they say, "God has begotten a son." Be He glorified. Rather, His is everything in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him. Originator of the heavens and the earth..." (2:116-117) "Originator of the heavens and the earth - how can He have a son when He never had a companion? He created all things, and He has knowledge of all things." (6:101) "Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? In fact, they are not certain." (52:35-36).

2- The human beings cannot see/reach the seven (layers/levels of) heavens; they can only see everything between the heavens and the earth; i.e., outer space in the lower heaven with its different celestial bodies. The amount of knowledge of human beings about the outer space with its galaxies, etc. increases as technological advancement and scientific progress increase; this increases their amazement/wonder and they should regret and be ashamed of their atheism and polytheism; how come that some people deify creatures as equals/peers to the Lord God the Creator?! Hence, Quranic verses regarding guidance and monotheism often include the Quranic expression (everything between them) when the heavens and the earth are mentioned to show the Greatness, Majesty, and Omnipotence of the Lord God the Creator of the universe. Let us exemplify this in the points below.

3- It is a Quranic fact that the Lord God the Creator is the One Who has created the heavens and the earth and everything between them.

3/1: Hence, deified creatures cannot create the stars: "And landmarks. And by the stars they guide themselves. Is He who creates like him who does not create? Will you not take a lesson?" (16:16-17). The Lord God has never created something in vain, as jest/play, or for no reason, but within the Truth, Right, in earnest, and for a purpose: "We did not create the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, except with Truth. The Hour is coming..." (15:85); "We did not create the heaven and the earth and everything between them for amusement." (21:16); "We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them to play. We created them only for a specific purpose, but most of them do not know." (44:38-39). The Lord God refutes beforehand those who assume that the universe exists by random chance (or assume that it is without design or purpose) and has no Creator: "We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them in vain. That is the assumption of those who disbelieve..." (38:27). The universe as well as everything in it is created by the Lord God and it will be destroyed when the Hour takes place, even if disbelievers deny these facts; the Quran tells us to reflect and ponder on these facts: "We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them except with reason, and for a finite period. But the disbelievers continue to ignore the warnings they receive." (46:3); "Do they not reflect within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, except with reason, and for a specific duration. But most people, regarding meeting their Lord, are disbelievers." (30:8).

3/2: The Lord God refutes those who hold the blasphemous view (found in the Old Testament's Book of Genesis in the Bible) that He got 'tired' after creating the universe: "We created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, and no fatigue touched Us." (50:38).

3/3: The Lord God has not created the universe in vain or for no reason/purpose; He is the Omnipotent, Omnipresent Lord Who controls the universe which He has Created; this is symbolically mentioned in the Quran by the idea of the Throne which indicates His full control and dominance over the heavens and the earth; this Throne itself is the kingdom of heavens and the earth and everything between them: "God is He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, and then established Himself on the Throne. Apart from Him, you have no master and no intercessor. Will you not reflect?" (32:4); "He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, then settled on the Throne. The Dominant Lord..." (25:59).

4- Thus, Allah is the Lord God the Owner and Controller of the heavens and the earth and everything between them (i.e., the universe): "Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything between them. So worship Him, and persevere in worshiping Him. Do you know of anyone equal to Him?" (19:65); "Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them; and Lord of the Easts." (37:5); "The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them..." (38:66).

5- Since the Lord God, Allah, is the Owner, Controller, and Creator of the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth and everything between them) with its galaxies, etc., it is blasphemous and very insulting to God to assume that (1) He has a son, (2) He created Muhammad out of Divine Light, and (2) some human beings are 'children' of God and beloved by Him (the Sufi Muhammadans and some People of the Book still adhere to this lie/falsehood). The Lord God is the Creator of the universe and is the Only One Who knows when the Hour will take place (no human beings know when it will occur), and all human beings will return to Him on the Last Day; this is their inevitable, preordained Fate. We hope our readers would ponder deeply on these verses: "To Him belongs everything in the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the soil." (20:6); "They disbelieve those who say, "God is the Christ, the son of Mary." Say, "Who can prevent God, if He willed, from annihilating the Christ son of Mary, and his mother, and everyone on earth?" To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and everything between them. He creates whatever He wills, and God has power over everything. The Jews and the Christians say, "We are the children of God, and His beloved." Say, "Why then does He punish you for your sins?" In fact, you are humans from among those He created. He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills. To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and everything between them, and to Him is the return." (5:17-18); "And blessed is He Who has sovereignty over the heavens and the earth and everything between them. He alone has knowledge of the Hour, and to Him you will be returned." (43:85).

Fourthly: Quoted information from the Arabic website (https://fussilat.org) about the heavens and the earth and everything between them; i.e., within the visible, physical universe, asserted within Quranic miraculous scientific indications:

(... ponderings on these verses: "I swear by the galaxies. Which are sweeping and running their courses." (81:15-16) ... Within science, we know that the gravitational power of any mass increases when the mass increases; for instance, the gravitational power on the moon is 1/6 of that on Planet Earth; this means if a man's weight is 60 kilograms, it will be 10 kilograms only on the surface of the moon. Hence, the gravitational power of Planet Earth is stronger 6 times more than that of the moon. Astronomers consider Jupiter as the planet that plays the role of the vacuum cleaner of the solar system because Jupiter gravitates to itself many comets and asteroids; this should remind readers of this Quranic verse about the protection of outer space (which is the first, lowest heaven among the seven heavens): "...We decorated the lower heaven with lamps, and for protection..." (41:12). At the beginning of the formation of our solar system, the areas around the smoke condensation center (as per the nebular hypothesis) were full of asteroids, while the farthest areas contained water, hydrogen and helium. The solid planets were formed as a result of the gathering of asteroids in solid bodies such as Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, which in turn clean, sweep, or vacuum their orbits from the asteroids during their movements. The asteroid belt located roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter remained the same because no planets exist in it to clean, sweep, and vacuum any orbits, despite the existence of the bigger asteroids like Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea which are too small to vacuum, sweep, and clean any orbits. Mars has little ability to vacuum or sweep its orbit when compared to the strong ability of Jupiter to vacuum its orbit outside the asteroid belt ... After long, extensive debates, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reached the definition of (planet) within our solar system: it is the celestial body that moves within an orbit around the sun, that has a round shape because of its gravitational force, and that has no minor planets or asteroids within its orbit; these descriptions fit the Quranic verses 81:15-16 which were revealed more than 1400 years ago and that describe planets as they sweep their way within orbits as per the definition of IAU. Since this definition does not apply to Pluto, it is redefined now as a dwarf planet ... We see now that this vacuuming ability (or sweeping) discovered by recently astronomers is miraculously mentioned in the Quranic verses 81:15-16 more than 1400 years ago ... ponderings on these verses: "I swear by the locations of the stars. It is an oath, if you only knew, that is tremendous." (56:75-76) ... What is great or tremendous about the locations of stars? The Stars seem to us at night as if they were stable/unmoving in their locations; it has been assumed that they appear to move because of the movement of Earth around its axis and then within its orbit around the sun; yet, recent astronomical discoveries show that it is not that simple; stars do move and change their locations ... All stars seen by the human naked eye by night are located within our galaxy and the distances between them and earth remain the same; we feel as if they move because of the movement of the earth itself around its axis ... This is why the verses 56:75-76 miraculously tell us about the locations of the stars, as some of them exploded and are no longer there; we see only their lights; and some stars change their locations all the time ... In 1989, the European space Agency (ESA) launched its satellite named Hipparcos and it operated until 1993 within the mission to spot the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial objects and stars on the sky ...The resulting Hipparcos Catalogue, a high-precision catalogue of more than a million stars, was published later on. Our galaxy – the Milky Way – contains between 200 to 300 billion stars ... The atmosphere of the earth makes the measurements of the position of celestial bodies inaccurate when done by devices and machines on earth by scientists. The earth rotates around its axis with a certain tilt and the movements of the solar system (and sun and the planets that rotate around it) make any measurements inaccurate when done by scientists on earth ... The celestial bodies of our galaxy move with the speed of about 800 thousand km per hour around the galactic nucleus ... Hence, locations of stars cannot be accurately measured by devices and machines from earth; high technology was needed to put such changes into consideration ... This is an ancient science, though; the first scientist to try to measure the locations of stars was the Greek astronomer named Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) ... The Hipparcos Catalogue tells us only about a small sample of stars which are near our solar system; but there are no stable positions or locations of stars; all of them change their locations constantly all the time; the available technology of today has not yet reached a way to fully study the pattern of movements of stars ... We quote this from the Arabic page of https://en.wikipedia.org about the number of stars: (... The human naked eye can see about 6000 stars within the ones nearer to us within our galaxy, but recent studies show that there are at least 100 billion galaxies and each of them contain the average number of 200 billion stars (as per the astronomer and author Harald Lesch of Munich University). Accordingly, there are about 10 thousand trillion stars within the known, observable universe; this is beyond the human imagination, of course, as humanity does not know the borders and magnitude of the universe; the most distant point from which some light reaches us since the Big Bang is away from us within about 13.7 billion light years ... When astronomers try to study how the universe looked like before this time, they perceive they cannot go beyond the universal horizon; no one knows what lies behind this horizon ... Yet, scientists know for sure that the universe has an amazing design of precise measures, balance, and calculations with no room at all for error ...)... ponderings on these verses: "By the sky and Al-Tariq. But what will let you know what Al-Tariq is? It is the Piercing, Knocking Star." (86:1-3)... Stars are divided scientifically as per its color spectra, luminosity, temperature, and apparent magnitude, and our sun seems to be a medium-sized star (within the category "G") in comparison to the other stars in our galaxy. Stars have several phases; they are born within the process of condensing and fusing hydrogen into helium in high-temperature and high-pressure reactions near the core of each star, within other gases resulting from the explosions (or death) of previous gigantic stars that existed and whose light still remains for longer time ... Any exploded star is turned into a huge red mass that is dwarfed gradually and turn into a white color, with huge masses like the neutron stars ... among them are the pulsating stars or pulsars which are white dwarf stars that emit electromagnetic waves detected by receiving units/stations by scientists on earth; these successive pulses are like knocking sounds; such pulses/knocks continue for millions of years until the star is suddenly silent and dwarfed ... The neutron stars cannot pierce the sky; they die suddenly, lose density, and emit Gamma rays for seconds as if one great last knock, before they turn into black-holes that suck in light and whatever comes near them with great gravitational power ... These black-holes seem to the human eye as holes pierced into the heaven; these black-holes slowdown movement and time as they pierce the heaven ... We quote this from the English page of https://en.wikipedia.org about black holes: (... A black hole is a region of space-time exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing - not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light - can escape from inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform space-time to form a black hole. The boundary of the region from which no escape is possible is called the event horizon. Although the event horizon has an enormous effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, no locally detectable features appear to be observed. In many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. Moreover, quantum field theory in curved space-time predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum as a black body of a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar mass, making it essentially impossible to observe. Objects whose gravitational fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century ... Black holes were long considered a mathematical curiosity; it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed they were a generic prediction of general relativity. The discovery of neutron stars in the late 1960s sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects as a possible astrophysical reality. Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed, it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies. Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with electromagnetic radiation such as visible light. Matter that falls onto a black hole can form an external accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe. If there are other stars orbiting a black hole, their orbits can be used to determine the black hole's mass and location. Such observations can be used to exclude possible alternatives such as neutron stars. In this way, astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems, and established that the radio source...at the core of the Milky Way galaxy, contains a supermassive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses ...) ... This means that the meaning of this verse: "It is the Piercing, Knocking Star." (86:3), a verse which was revealed more than 1400 years ago, can be known now in our modern age; this proves that the Quranic text contains more scientific miraculous indications which will remain in store for the next generations to be examined and studied so that their meanings will be discovered within more scientific advancement and discoveries made by scientists ...).

(6) Water within the Heavens and the Earth in this Physical World and in the Hereafter

Introduction:

Several Quranic verses inform us that water descend on earth from the (sky) and not the (heavens); this indicates that rain comes from the earth's atmosphere, as we have mentioned before in this BOOK. The Quran precedes the scientists of the West in describing how rain descends on the surface of the earth. Of course, within modern science, there are so many scientific facts, filling many tomes/volumes/books, about water; yet, there are new Quranic facts about water which are not known to scientists of today; there are other facts about water mentioned in the Quran which have been discovered centuries later within modern science.

Firstly: Quranic facts about water which are not known to scientists of today:

Water is the origin of creation and of the Lord God's Kingdom:

1- The Throne of the Lord God is His Kingdom; i.e., the universe or the heavens and the earth along with all seen and unseen creatures and inanimate things (galaxies, stars, etc.), and this includes things/beings we do not know of which exist in the metaphysical Barsakh levels. This Divine Throne is all moving creatures we do (and do not) know/see, from the amoebae to angels. The origin of the Throne of the Dominant Lord God is water: "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days - and His Throne was upon water..." (11:7). Of course, the scope of human knowledge is confined to what is perceived through the senses and through machines/apparatuses/devices invented by human beings. Modern science tells us now that water is the most vital element of life; the Lord God in the Quran tells us about a fact which has not been reached yet by astronomers; i.e., water is the origin of the heavens and the earth; hence, there are types of water, unknown to human beings, which exist in the metaphysical realms/worlds or parallel universes created by the Lord God the Creator.

2- This fact is hardly surprising; there are types of water on earth apart from the fresh water we all drink; for instance, heavy water or deuterium oxide (D₂O) which is a form of water that contains a larger than normal amount of the hydrogen isotope deuterium (also known as heavy hydrogen), rather than the common hydrogen-1 isotope that makes up most of the hydrogen in normal water. Another example is the nitric acid (HNO₃) discovered by the Arab chemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan, also known as aqua fortis (Latin for "strong water"), which is a highly corrosive mineral acid and it can dissolve metals like silver. There is also aqua regia (Latin for "royal water"), which is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid and it can dissolve metals like gold and platinum. Since these examples pertains to our physical world, we can easily believe that in other metaphysical realms/worlds or parallel universes, there are types of water about which we do not know anything. The reason for the existence of known and unknown types of water is simple: water is the origin of life.

Water is the origin of life:

1- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe?" (21:30). The Quranic fact that the Lord God has made from water every living thing comes here in 21:30 directly after mentioning the great explosion, or Big Bang, which occurred when the universe was created; this means that water is the origin of life on earth and in the heavens as well; this means that there are different types of water within the Barsakh levels of the earth and of the heavens. This is logical and easy to comprehend even if human beings cannot see the Barsakh ethereal beings like angels, jinn, and devils; this also means that such creatures are created from different types of water which fit the metaphysical realms of their existence and not from ordinary water we know as (H₂O). This is asserted further by the Quranic fact that human beings are created from clay/mud (i.e., dust + water) and the jinn from the energy of fire plus the type of water which fits this fire: "We created the human being from clay, from molded mud. And the jinn We created before, from piercing fire." (15:26-27); "He created man from hard clay, like bricks. And created the jinn from a fusion of fire." (55:14-15). Iblis, who later on became Satan the Devil, arrogantly refused to bow down to Adam, as per the Lord God's command to bow down to Adam once he was created, because Iblis assumed that clay/mud is less important than fire: "He said, "What prevented you from bowing down when I have commanded you?" He said, "I am better than he; You created me from fire, and You created him from mud."" (7:12); "He said, "I am better than he; You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."" (38:76).

2- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "God created every living creature from water. Some of them crawl on their bellies, and some walk on two feet, and others walk on four. God creates whatever He wills. God is Omnipotent" (24:45); the term (living creature) refers to any living organism that can move willingly; this definition applies also to the Barsakh, ethereal creatures/beings; the verse 24:45 describes the movements of animals and insects on earth, but we cannot imagine how the Barsakh creatures move and in which speeds; this is beyond our limited understanding; we are to believe that our Lord God is the Omnipotent Lord.

Water within the Resurrection process of the dead souls on the Last Day:

1- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "It is He who sends the wind ahead of His mercy. Then, when they have gathered up heavy clouds, We drive them to a dead land, where We make water come down, and with it We bring out all kinds of fruits. Thus We bring out the dead - perhaps you will reflect." (7:57); we see here an indication of the role of the wind in moving clouds laden with rainwater; on the Day of Resurrection, a different type of water will fall as rain on souls to revive them and bring them out for Judgment.

2- This is repeated here: "He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out." (43:11); the dead land is the one without plants; again, the growing of plants by rain-water is seen as like the process of raising the dead on the Last Day within Resurrection.

3- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest.And the soaring palm trees, with clustered dates. As sustenance for the servants. And We revive thereby a dead town. Likewise is the Resurrection." (50:9-11); this means that Resurrection of the human souls is getting them out of their Barsakh tombs by special, different type of water-rain.

Water in the Hereafter:

1- Water is what makes life continue on earth; water is involved in the process of Resurrection of souls on the Last Day; likewise, water in the Hereafter will help maintain eternity for the dwellers of both Hell and Paradise, as we infer from the Quran. There is a water cycle which helps maintain life in our physical, transient Planet Earth; likewise, there are eternal water cycles in both Hell and Paradise; this means there is eternal water for maintaining the bliss and pleasures of Paradise forever and the Eternal life of its dwellers and another eternal water which will help continue the torment of Hell forever for Hell-dwellers who will never die.

2- Inside Hell there will be boiling, scalding water: "...These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful torment..." (6:70); "...As for those who disbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and agonizing torment,..." (10:4). Here is the Lord God's description of the mechanism of Hell-torment: "...As for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be tailored for them, and scalding water will be poured over their heads. Melting their insides and their skins." (22:19-20); this means that this water of Hell will be incendiary, combustible, and flammable and it will maintain the non-stop cycle of torment: "When the yokes are around their necks, and they will be dragged by the chains. Into the boiling water, then in the Fire they will be consumed." (40:71-72) "This is Hell that the guilty denied. They circulate between it and between seething water." (55:43-44); this boiling water will be consumed along with the food of Hell-dwellers within endless torment: "Then you, you misguided, who deny the truth. Will be eating from the Tree of Bitterness. Will be filling your bellies with it. Will be drinking on top of it boiling water. Drinking like thirsty camels drink." (56:51-55). This means there are different levels and types of fire inside Hell-torment; Hell dwellers will never die and will never get out of Hell; their bodies will be eternal when maintained by Hell-food and Hell-water within their everlasting torment: "...We have prepared for the unjust ones a Fire, whose curtains will hem them in. And when they cry for relief, they will be relieved with water like molten brass, which scalds the faces. What a miserable drink, and what a terrible place." (18:29); "Those who reject Our Verses - We will scorch them in a Fire. Every time their skins are cooked, We will replace them with other skins, so they will experience the torment. God is Most Powerful, Most Wise." (4:56); "Beyond him lies Hell, and he will be given to drink putrid water. He will guzzle it, but he will not swallow it. Death will come at him from every direction, but he will not die. And beyond this is relentless torment." (14:16-17).

3- The water/drinks of Paradise-dwellers are contrasted here with the boiling water of Hell-dwellers; of course, the Eternal Life and the bodies of Paradise-dwellers will be maintained by the food and water/drinks they will enjoy inside Paradise: "The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk forever fresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord. Like one abiding in the Fire forever, and are given to drink boiling water, that cuts up their bowels?" (47:15); "The dwellers of the Fire will call on the inhabitants of the Garden, "Pour some water over us, or some of what God has provided for you." They will say, "God has forbidden them for the disbelievers."" (7:50).

Secondly: Quranic facts about water which precede modern science as scientists have discovered these facts later on:

About the creation of humankind:

These Quranic facts precede scientific discoveries made by the people of the West: "Then made his reproduction from an extract of insignificant water" (32:8); "Did We not create you from an insignificant water?" (77:20); "And it is He who, from water, created the human being. Then He made relationships through marriage and mating. Your Lord is Omnipotent." (25:54).

Source of water:

This verse is about the role of water in reviving (i.e., providing life to) the earth: "God sends down water from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death. In this is a sign for people who listen." (16:65). Water has two sources as per the following points.

1- The sky or atmosphere of the earth: "And brought down from the clouds pouring water?" (78:14); "Have you seen the water you drink? Is it you who sent it down from the clouds, or are We the Sender? If We will, We can make it salty. Will you not be thankful?" (56:68-70); "He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land..." (43:11).

2- The interior of the earth: "And the earth after that He spread. And from it, He produced its water and its pasture." (79:30-31). Water is derived from rocks as well; e.g., in the form of rivers, and springs, and wells: "Then after that your hearts hardened. They were as rocks, or even harder. For there are some rocks from which rivers gush out, and others that splinter and water comes out from them..." (2:74). Water can go deeper within the interior of the earth and it may not be reached by human beings: "Say, "Have you considered? If your water drains away, who will bring you pure running water?"" (67:30); "Perhaps my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and release upon it thunderbolts from the sky, so it becomes barren waste. Or its water will sink into the ground, and you will be unable to draw it."" (18:40-41).

3- Within the deluge/flood of Noah, the water of the earth met with the water of the sky; later on, as the deluge ended, each type of water returned to its original place: "So We opened the floodgates of heaven with water pouring down. And We made the earth burst with springs, and the waters met for a purpose already destined." (54:11-12); "And it was said, "O earth, swallow your waters," and "O heaven, clear up." And the waters receded, and the event was concluded..." (11:44).

Description of fresh water:

When Arabs saw the megacities of Egypt (before and after the Arab conquest of Egypt) they used the Arabic word for Egypt (i.e., Misr) to indicate any major country or megacity in general. Likewise, when the Arabs saw the Euphrates River in Iraq (this river is named "Forat" in Arabic), they used its name to describe any pure, fresh water in general; the Quran descended in the tongue of the Arabs and it uses the same terms known to them: "...and given you pure/Forat water to drink." (77:27); the Quran describes rain-water as pure and blessed:"...And We send down from the sky pure water." (25:48); "And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest." (50:9).

The water of rivers and that of seas/oceans:

1- Overt locations for the storage of water on Planet Earth are rivers and seas/oceans; human beings sail through them and consume the water-creatures as food; this means that rivers and seas/oceans are committed to the service of humankind as per the Lord God's command: "God is He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sends down water from the sky, and with it produces fruits for your sustenance. And He committed the ships to your service, sailing through the sea by His command, and He committed the rivers to your service." (14:32); "And it is He who made the sea to serve you, that you may eat from it tender meat, and extract from it ornaments that you wear. And you see the ships plowing through it, as you seek His bounties, so that you may give thanks." (16:14).

2- We read this in the Quran about the difference in the types of water in rivers and in seas/oceans: "The two seas are not the same. One is fresh, sweet, good to drink, while the other is salty and bitter. Yet from each you eat tender meat, and extract jewelry which you wear. And you see the ships plowing through them, so that you may seek of His bounty, so that you may give thanks." (35:12).

3- The water of rivers do not mix with that of seas/oceans: "He merged the two seas, converging together. Between them is a barrier/Barsakh, which they do not overrun." (55:19-20); "And it is He who merged the two seas; this one fresh and sweet, and that one salty and bitter; and He placed between them a barrier/Barsakh, and an impassable boundary." (25:53).

The balance and measure:

1- The Lord God the Creator has created everything within balance and measure: "Everything We created is precisely measured." (54:49); "He to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth...Who created everything and determined its measure." (25:2).

2- This applies to everything on Planet Earth: "We spread the earth, and placed stabilizers in it, and in it We grew all things in proper measure. And in it We created livelihoods for you, and for those for whom you are not the providers. There is not a thing but with Us are its stores, and We send it down only in precise measure." (15:19-22).

3- This applies to the water cycle as some water descends on earth and some of it evaporates: "And We sent down water from the sky in proper quantity, and settled it in the ground, and We are Able to take it away." (23:18); "He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out." (43:11).

4- Eventually, human beings consume certain measure of food, drink, and air and they breathe, urinate, and defecate, and when they die, their corpses decompose, and elements of their interred/buried bodies/corpses (including water) return to earth within a certain measure known to the Omniscient Lord God: "We know what the earth consumes of them, and with Us is a comprehensive book." (50:4).

Lastly:

We assert here, as we have done in previous books and articles of ours, that the Quran is NOT to be considered as a book on science or on history (i.e., stories of the ancient nations); rather, it is a Book of Guidance; thus, the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text serve the call for guidance by addressing those who reflect, ponder, and contemplate and show that the Author of the Quran is God Himself the Creator of the universe. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail the oceans for the benefit of humankind; in the water that God sends down from the sky, and revives the earth with it after it had died, and scatters in it all kinds of creatures; in the changing of the winds, and the clouds disposed between the sky and the earth; are signs for people who understand." (2:164). As always, the Lord God says nothing but the Absolute Truth.

(7) The Barsakh Metaphysical Realm and Parallel Universes

Introduction:

The Quran precedes modern science in the topic of the heavens and the earth; if the people of the West would get to know about the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran, this will change to the better the course of history of scientific progress/advancement and improve the human civilization.

Firstly: the meaning of the term (Barsakh) in the Quranic text:

The Arabic/Quranic term (Barsakh) literally means a barrier/boundary between two things; this term is mentioned three times in the Quranic text; two times about the barrier between fresh, drinkable water of rivers and salty water of seas/oceans and one time about the barrier/boundary between this physical world and the next world of the Hereafter on the Resurrection Day: " And it is He who merged the two seas; this one fresh and sweet, and that one salty and bitter; and He placed between them a barrier/Barsakh, and an impassable boundary." (25:53); "He merged the two seas, converging together. Between them is a barrier/Barsakh, which they do not overrun." (55:19-20); "Until, when death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back. That I may do right in what I have neglected." By no means! It is just a word that he utters. And behind them is a barrier/Barsakh, until the Day they are resurrected." (23:99-100).

Barsakh as boundary which cannot be crossed:

The impassable boundary of the dead people is also called Barsakh: a metaphysical, unknown realm into which no living persons can enter; only souls of the dead people are carried to it by the angels of death who store the souls of the dead human beings inside Barsakh tombs which will never be reached/explored by living people. We quote the following passage from our book, in English, titled "The Book of Barsakh", found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=138): (...What we cannot witness, feel, or see while we are alive is the entering of our souls into Barsakh upon our death. Before one was born, one's soul was dead in Barsakh in a state of senselessness as if in a coma; within the time preordained by God, this soul enters (or is breathed) into the fetus/embryo to make it a living human being after it was merely a lifeless piece of flesh and blood; i.e., a project of making a human being. This human being is born to be tested within the predetermined duration of his/her life until the predestined moment of death; when one sees the angels of death, one cannot be returned to this transient, temporary life, as the soul of dying people enter into a metaphysical Barsakh level; souls remain in Barsakh in a state of timelessness and senselessness in the same way when it was there before being breathed into human flesh. Souls will be resurrected or will wake up on the Day of Resurrection, and human beings will assume they have slept for a day or a part of a day. Believers know this and will say it on the Last Day, while sinners/criminals will swear as if their deep slumber of death lasted for merely one hour: "On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded. But those endowed with knowledge and faith will say, "You remained in God's Book until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not know." On that Day, the sinners' excuses will not benefit them, nor will they be excused." (30:55-57). The souls of sinners upon dying will scream for a second chance of life from the angels of death but in vain: "Until, when death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back. That I may do right in what I have neglected." By no means! It is just a word that he utters. And behind them is a barrier/Barsakh, until the Day they are resurrected." (23:99-100). All dying people cannot return to life once they see the angels of death, and they will remain in Barsakh until the Day of Resurrection. Thus, when the disbelievers mockingly demanded from Muhammad to see God or the angels, the response in the Quran is that when they see the angels of death, they will receive no glad tidings and will experience the impassable boundary of their being unable to return to life once more: "Those who do not expect to meet Us say, "If only the angels were sent down to us, or we could see our Lord." They have grown arrogant within themselves, and have become excessively defiant. On the Day when they see the angels - there will be no good news for sinners on that Day; and they will say, "An impassable boundary."" (25:21-22) ...).

Secondly: about the metaphysical Barsakh levels of the heavens and the earth and everything between them:

1- The Quran tells us that the Lord God the Creator has originated the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) within a tremendous explosion; this explosion of a mass torn apart is known now as the Big Bang. "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? ..." (21:30). The universe has a physical realm and a metaphysical one; the physical realm contains the celestial bodies: the earth, planets, stars, and galaxies, whereas the metaphysical realm (as per the Quran) consists of seven Barsakh levels of the earth and the seven Barsakh levels of the heavens.

2- The difference between the level of the physical earth and the physical universe and the metaphysical levels of the earth and the heavens is the speeds of the vibrational levels; these speeds are slow in the physical realm and they vary within unimagined speeds within the overlapping Barsakh levels of the heavens and the earth. Of course, the Barsakh levels of the earth overlap with the physical world we live in. The higher any given Barsakh level of the heavens, the more is the speed of the vibrational level and the speed of movements of ethereal creatures (i.e., angels) in it.

3- We quote the following passage from our book, in English, titled "The Book of Death", found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=120); by the way, this book was printed (in Arabic) in 1990 in Cairo, Egypt. (... Science tells us that atoms rotate within speeds between 400 billion to 750 billion cycles per second, and when they rotate faster, we can no longer see them. This is why we cannot see fan blades if they rotate at fast speeds; we cannot see atoms of volatile materials though we can smell them. The atoms of the six-dimensional realm rotate faster and we cannot see them because they have vibrational levels that differ from those of our physical world. Hence, we cannot see angels, Jinn, and devils nor souls that get out of the dying bodies. The scientific field called quantum mechanics, which is related to waves, indicates that overlapping or lack of overlapping between bodies is directly linked to the similarity or difference of the vibrational levels. Thus, if both bodies belong to the same realm, it is impossible that they overlap or merge; e.g., a man cannot move with his body through a wall as both the man and the wall have the same vibrational levels. The beings that have higher vibrational levels can overlap with or move through beings that have lower vibrational levels. Thus, angels, Jinn, and devils as ethereal beings can exist on earth as the overlapping between them and the physical world is possible and natural. Thus, the souls inside the human bodies are deemed as another example of this overlapping and merging possible as per this scientific field called quantum mechanics. This applies to radio waves that fill the atmosphere on earth and they never overlap, unless when two waves have the same frequency level. Within our physical realm, solid atoms rotate and vibrate within the speed of 400 billion cycles per second, and this speed increases up to 750 billion cycles per second when solid matter turns into gas and we can barely see gases, and it is impossible for the human naked eye to see energy. Thus, within higher levels of our physical realm, invisible energy types can be detected and used like X-rays, which can penetrate our bodies and solid objects that have lower vibrational levels which include the lowest level for human bodies: 400 billion cycles per second. Let us remember that energy is converted matter and that matter and energy are two faces of the same coin. If there is a being with a vibration level above 750 billion cycles per second, then this being is linked to the Barsakh realm and it is natural that it can overlap/merge with our bodies and that beings of higher levels of Barsakh with higher vibrational levels can overlap/merge with beings with lower vibrational levels. This means that the levels of the Barsakh realm (of angels, Jinn, and devils who are ethereal beings) surround human beings. This means that human beings live within two overlapping realms of the physical realm and the metaphysical one, and each has its different vibrational levels, and this is how the physical bodies contain the souls that originally belong to Barsakh, and this is how on earth, there are human beings and angels (who record deeds of people) while the formers cannot see the latters. Human beings can see the ethereal creatures, i.e., angels, only upon dying and on the Last Day. Thus, there are two elements that overlap inside each one of us: our physical, earthly body and our soul that came originally from Barsakh; death occurs when the soul leaves the body, and leaves the physical realm seen and sensed by us, forever. The human naked eye cannot see everything within its field of vision; God says in the Quran: "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see." (69:38-39). Thus, human beings cannot see the two angels assigned to record deeds of each one of the human beings: "We created the human being, and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready. The daze of death has come in truth: "This is what you tried to evade." And the Trumpet is blown: "This is the Promised Day." And every soul will come forward, accompanied by a driver and a witness. You were in heedless of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen." (50:16-22). Those two angels carry the resurrected soul and its record of deeds on the Last Day, this is the only time when the human soul can see these angels: "You were in heedless of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen." (50:22). ...).

4- We quote the following two passages from our book, in English, titled "The Book of Barsakh", found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=138): (... There are seven Barsakh levels overlapping with physical earth and also seven ones overlapping with the heavens, and the Divine Decrees/Commands of the Lord God move through these levels while being carried/conveyed by the angels: "God is He Who created seven heavens, and their like of earth. The command descends through them, so that you may know that God is Capable of everything, and that God Encompasses everything in knowledge." (65:12). Within one Barsakh level of the earth, the jinn exist and live; they cannot move into higher Barsakh levels of the heavens: "We realized that we cannot defeat God on earth, and that we cannot escape Him by fleeing." (72:12). Of course, within another Barsakh level of the earth, there are the angels who record deeds and words of human beings; each human being has two angels to record his/her deeds and words; these two angels overlap with our bodies and the physical earthly existence: "Though over you are watchers. Honest recorders. They know everything you do." (82:10-12); "As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready." (50:17-18). Human souls belong to the ethereal, Barsakh realm and they existed before people are born; thus, our own soul existed thousands of years ago before we were born in 1949; when the preordained time came, our soul was breathed inside the womb of our mother when she carried us as an embryo; we were born within the predetermined time to be tested in life like all humanity. Our soul returns temporarily to Barsakh during sleep to get relieved from the heaviness of the physical world; science tell us that a human being sleeps for one-third of the life duration. Souls return to sleepers upon waking up; souls leave bodies forever in death; souls are resurrected from Barsakh on the Last Day to be judged. Of course, Barsakh contains souls of the dead people among our ancestors and the souls of our yet-to-be-born grandchildren. Within a Barsakh level of the earth, there are devils who whisper evil deeds/thoughts into the souls of human beings; such devils, when they control souls, will make people choose misguidance and feel as if they were guided, but they will see such devils on the Last Day and will realize that they are misguided losers in the Hereafter who will reside in Hell: "Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Dominant Lord, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion. They hinder them from the path, though they think they are guided. Until, when he comes to Us, he will say, "If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts." What an evil companion!" (43:36-38). ...). (... Yet, the Quran mentions that within an ethereal, metaphysic world, souls of Moses' Pharaoh and his people who were drowned in the Red Sea are tormented (and thus, they feel the passage of time) in a way we cannot imagine: "...while a terrible torment besieged Pharaoh's people – Hell; they will be exposed to it morning and evening. And on the Day the Hour takes place: "Admit the people of Pharaoh to the most intense torment."" (40:45-46). This applies to the people of Noah who drowned in the deluge/flood and are tormented until the Day of Resurrection: "Because of their sins, they were drowned, and were hurled into a Fire..." (71:25). Those people who are killed for God's sake and because they served His cause are living in the ethereal Barsakh Paradise, but how this is happening cannot be imagined or sensed by our limited minds; God tells us not to deem such people as 'dead' because they are alive in the Barsakh Paradise: "And do not say of those who are killed in the cause of God, "Dead." Rather, they are alive, but you do not perceive." (2:154). Thus, there are Quranic indications to help us understand the fact that these souls are alive in a unique manner, enjoying bliss and pleasures within the unreachable dimension/location of the Barsakh Paradise: "Do not consider those killed in the cause of God as dead. In fact, they are alive, at their Lord, well provided for. Delighting in what God has given them out of His grace, and happy for those who have not yet joined them; that they have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve. They rejoice in grace from God, and bounty, and that God will not waste the reward of the believers." (3:169-171). ...).

Thirdly: the Quran precedes the Quran precedes human knowledge within modern science:

The following four points are quoted from our book, in English, titled "The Book of Barsakh", found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=138).

(...1- The Planet Earth seems as if it were a speck of sand in the desert when its size is compared with the universe with its galaxies, stars, and planets and the distance between any two celestial bodies are measured with millions of light years; dreams of scientists of today include to reach one day any spot within the universe where there is/was life and civilization.

2- Yet, modern science has not yet reached what the Quran informs us about. Scientists now are knocking at the doors or thresholds of Barsakh levels or parallel universes within the Superstring theory that informs us with things beyond the relativity theory.

3- A femtosecond is one of a million billion part of the second; the Egyptian-American Dr. Ahmed Zuwail has made machines to take photos of chemical interactions or anything else; this opens the field of trying to study the parallel universes or the metaphysical Barsakh realms. The ratio between the second and the femtosecond is like the one between the second and 32 million years; there are smaller time units; e.g., attosecond which is 1×10⁻¹⁸ of a second, or a quintillion of a second, and the ratio between the attosecond and the second is like the ratio between a second and 31.71 billion years, which is about the double of the estimated age of the universe since its creation. The attosecond is 1000 zeptosecond or 1/1000 from the femtosecond. We focus here on the fact that modern science with its advanced machines reached smaller time unites within our physical universe and vibrational levels on earth (which is from 400.000 to 750.000 million cycles per second). Yet, what about the smaller time units which cannot be measured until now. This means that modern science is trying to explore and get nearer to the Barsakh levels now.

4- The major problem facing modern theories about the physical universe and the parallel universes is not only to link between the relativity theory and other theories after it or to reach a comprehensive theory; rather, it is, in our view, combining between two facts: (1) the Big Bang Theory about the creation of the universe and its counter-universe, tackled by us before, and (2) the seven Barsakh levels of the earth and those of the heavens. ...).

Lastly:

1- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "He who created seven heavens in layers. You see no discrepancy in the creation of the Dominant Lord. Look again. Can you see any cracks? Then look again, and again, and your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted." (67:3-4); this means that the eyesight of astronomers is dazzled and exhausted when they examine the outer space with their telescopes and other advanced machines. They can only see the physical realm: galaxies, stars, etc. and not the ethereal, metaphysical Barsakh-realm levels. There are more than 100 billion galaxies discovered until now within the observable universe; yet,this number is likely to increase to about 200 billion as telescope technology in space improves. The distance between the Planet Earth and the 'border' of the observable universe is estimated to be about 46 billion light years. As per the website (https://en.wikipedia.org), there are galaxies in various sizes with varying numbers of stars; dwarf galaxies contain just a few hundred million stars, whereas giant galaxies have about 100 trillion stars. Galaxies are categorized according to their shapes as elliptical, spiral, or irregular. Many galaxies contain black holes. The farthest galaxy (until May, 1915) is thought to be located 1.13 billion light years away from Planet Earth. The diameter of the Milky Way galaxy (the galaxy that contains the solar system which, in turn, includes the earth) is between 150,000 and 200,000 thousand light years and it is estimated to contain 100 - 400 billion stars; the estimated average distance between any two stars in the Milky Way is 5 light years. There are probably at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. The solar system is located within the disk, within 26,490 light years from the galactic center. It takes the solar system about 225 - 250 million years to complete one orbit through the Milky Way.

2- The above pieces of information are confined to the physical realm of the observable universe; what about the realms of the six Barsakh metaphysical levels of earth and the seven ones of the heavens?

3- The Muhammadans who absentmindedly read the Quranic verses about the creation of the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) without pondering upon them should be ashamed of themselves when they insist on deifying a mortal; i.e., Muhammad, by putting his name alongside with the Name of Allah the Creator in the testimony of monotheism (i.e., There is no God but Allah). Indeed, the Muhammadans have not esteemed God as He should to be esteemed. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere." (39:67). As always, the Lord God says nothing but the Truth.

(8) The Lord God Has Committed the Universe to the Service of humankind

Introduction:

1- Many Quranists asked our person about this Quranic verse: "O communities of jinn and humans! If you can pass through the bounds of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and pass. But you will not pass except with authorization." (55:33). Answering this question entails that we tackle the Quranic topic of how the Lord God has committed the universe to the service of humankind.

2- By committing everything in the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) to the service of human beings, the Lord God informs humanity, in the Quran, that everything in the universe can be used for the benefit of all people; this means that the amount of scientific knowledge of humanity can reach levels of using and controlling any types of energy within what is visible/seen and what is invisible/unseen (in the same way human beings use electricity and invisible rays found on earth). This Quranic fact will save time, money, and efforts of the scientists of the West who come up with contradictory theories (e.g., those astronomers who assume there are aliens or any forms of life in outer space should know from the Quran that this is impossible; the universe is created only to test human beings; this means there is no life except on Planet Earth). As for the verse 55:33, it informs us that it is impossible that any living mortals will pass through the metaphysical levels of the heavens and the earth; yet, we maintain here that it will be possible to use the types of energy in the Barsakh levels of the earth for the welfare and prosperity of human beings since we know from the Quran that the Lord God has committed the universe to the service of humankind. We hope that one day, the people of the West would take heed of these Quranic facts.

3- Let us examine the Quranic fact that the Lord God has committed the universe to the service of humankind while linking it to the Quranic verse 55:33.

Firstly: The Lord God has committed the universe to the service of humankind:

This fact about committing the universe to the service of human beings is mentioned in the Quran within contexts which enumerate God's creatures and urge humanity to follow the Quranic Guidance: "Have they not seen the birds committed to the service of humankind, flying in the midst of the sky? None sustains them except God. In this are signs for people who believe." (16:79); "Have you not seen how God merges the night into the day, and merges the day into the night? That He committed the sun and the moon to the service of humankind, each running for a stated term? And that God is Cognizant of everything you do?" (31:29); "God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He committed the sun and the moon to the service of humankind, each running for a specified period. He manages all affairs, and He explains the signs, that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord." (13:2).

1- The Lord God never forces human beings to worship Him; rather, He has created them as free agents who choose to (dis)obey and to (dis)believe during their lifetimes on earth; this is the test for all human souls. In fact, the Lord God has created the universe for one purpose: to test human beings: "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days - and His Throne was upon water - in order to test you - which of you is best in conduct..." (11:7). Thus, after each soul wears a body of human flesh to be tested during its lifetime on earth, the human being dies while the soul returns to Barsakh (its original place); when the predestined number of human beings are tested, the test of all human beings will end and the Hour will take place (i.e., the destruction of the universe), as all the physical and metaphysical levels of heavens and the earth will be destroyed and a New, Eternal Realm will be created and it will witness the manifestation of God Himself to the resurrected souls on the Last Day: "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God, the One, Dominant Lord." (14:48).

2- Hence, the Lord God has created the universe with its visible/ physical realm and its invisible/metaphysical Barsakh-levels realm only to test human beings; hence, all things in both the physical and the metaphysical realms are committed (by the Lord God's Will) to the service of the human beings: "Do you not see how God placed at your service everything in the heavens and the earth?..." (31:20); "And He placed at your service whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth - all is from Him. In that are signs for a people who reflect." (45:13).

3- Domesticated, tamed animals (e.g., cattle) are committed to the service of humankind, unlike savage animals who attack and eat human beings and it is rather difficult to tame them; sacrificial cattle are offerings made by pilgrims in Mecca. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "We have made the animal offerings as part of rituals ordained by God. In them is goodness for you. So pronounce God's name upon them as they line up. Then, when they have fallen on their sides, eat of them and feed the contented and the beggar. Thus We have subjected them to you, that you may be thankful. Neither their flesh, nor their blood, ever reaches God. What reaches Him is the righteousness from you. Thus He subdued them to you, that you may glorify God for guiding you. And give good news to the charitable." (22:36-37); "And there is a lesson for you in cattle: We give you a drink from their bellies, from between waste and blood, pure milk, refreshing to the drinkers. Neither their flesh, nor their blood, ever reaches God. What reaches Him is the righteousness from you. Thus He subdued them to you, that you may glorify God for guiding you. And give good news to the charitable." (16:66); "And God has given you in your homes habitats for you, and has provided for you out of the hides of livestock portable homes for you, so you can use them when you travel, and when you camp; and from their wool, and fur, and hair, furnishings and comfort for a while." (16:80).

4- Seas/oceans, lakes, and rivers on the surface of the earth are also committed to the service of human beings: "God is He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sends down water from the sky, and with it produces fruits for your sustenance. And He committed the ships to your service, sailing through the sea by His command, and He committed the rivers to your service." (14:32); "And it is He who made the sea to serve you, that you may eat from it tender meat, and extract from it ornaments that you wear. And you see the ships plowing through it, as you seek His bounties, so that you may give thanks." (16:14); "It is God who placed the sea at your service, so that ships may run through it by His command, and that you may seek of His bounty, and that you may give thanks." (45:12); this is about ships and other means of transportation: "He Who created all the pairs; and provided you with ships, and animals on which you ride. That you may mount their backs, and remember the favor of your Lord as you sit firmly upon them, and say, "Glory be to Him Who placed these at our service; surely we could not have done it by ourselves." (43:12-13).

5- The Lord God has given certain powers to water; it is described in the Quran as pure and blessed; it can remove stains and impurities; it revives dead soil and makes plants grow; it healed Job who suffered a long period of ailments. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "And it is He who sends the winds, bringing advance news of His mercy; and We send down from the sky pure water. To revive dead lands thereby, and to provide drink for the multitude of animals and humans We created." (25:48); "And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest." (50:9); "And mention Our servant Job, when he called out to his Lord, "Satan has afflicted me with hardship and pain." "Stamp with your foot - here is cool water to wash with, and to drink."" (38:41-42). Sadly, instead of scientifically examining water based on these Quranic indications, the Arabs/Muhammadans of the Middle-Ages discarded and abandoned the Quran and were busy fabricating contradictory, disputable hadiths/narratives with Isnad (i.e., series of narrators) which are falsehoods and lies they have ascribed to the Lord God's Religion; these hadiths were never uttered by (or even known to) Muhammad. We tend to think that the people of the West should use the scientific methodology to examine and study the Quranic text (in its own terminology) in order to explore what is yet to be known about what the Lord God has committed to the service of humankind.

6- In some exceptional cases, some elements of nature are placed at the service of a prophet/messenger. The following is about David: "...And We committed the mountains to the service of David to sing Our praises, and the birds as well..." (21:79); "We committed the mountains to glorify along with him, in the evening and at daybreak." (38:18). The following is about Solomon: "So We placed the wind at his service, blowing gently by his command, wherever he directed. And the demons - every builder and diver. And others fettered in chains. This is Our gift..." (38:36-39).

7- Committing things on earth to the service of humanity does NOT contradict the Lord God's full control of everything in the heavens and the earth; the Lord God has used elements of nature to torment and destroy sinful, disbelieving people; e.g., "...they were annihilated by a furious, roaring wind. He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, in succession. You could see the people tossed around, as though they were stumps of hollow palm-trees." (69:6-7).

Secondly: the possibility of passing through the bounds (or Barsakh levels) of the heavens and the earth:

1- The advanced telescope technology allows human beings to know more about galaxies; there are about 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Yet, until now, human being cannot examine and see such galaxies clearly; we are to wait for more progress/advancement within the field of the telescope technology to be able to fully detect galaxies and celestial bodies by more sensitive machines. We should bear in mind that this pertains only to the first heaven within the physical realm to which Planet Earth belongs; i.e., this is only about what is between the earth and the heavens; what about the unreachable metaphysical, Barsakh levels of the earth and the heavens?

2- Human beings dreamed in the past of ascending into outer space and of colonizing some planets of the solar system; the Quran precedes this wish/dream by talking about another greater one; namely, the possibility of passing through galaxies (which still astonish human beings until now) in the physical realm and also through the metaphysical, invisible Barsakh levels of Planet Earth. This is inferred from the following verses: "O communities of jinn and humans! If you can pass through the bounds of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and pass. But you will not pass except with authorization. So which of your Lord's marvels will you deny? You will be bombarded with flares of fire and brass, and you will not succeed." (55:33-35).

3- Pondering deeply on the verses 55:33-35, we infer the following points.

3/1: There are metaphysical Barsakh levels within the earth and other different metaphysical Barsakh levels within the heavens.

3/2: The verses 55:33-35 address both jinn and human beings; of course, human beings are confined to the physical realm (i.e., the earth, solar system, galaxies and the physical universe in general) and they are still amazed as they study and examine it. In contrast, the jinn are ethereal beings/creatures who live in and can move/pass through the metaphysical, Barsakh levels which are overlapping with the physical Planet Earth. The jinn have said the following about this physical Planet Earth: "We do not know whether ill is intended for those on earth, or if their Lord intends goodness for them." (72:10); in contrast, when the jinn have mentioned the word "earth" in the following verse, they meant their own metaphysical, Barsakh levels of the earth where they live (i.e., the levels which overlap our physical Planet Earth): "We realized that we cannot defeat God on earth, and that we cannot escape Him by fleeing." (72:12). The jinn (and devils) cannot pass through the metaphysical, Barsakh levels of the heavens (they are not even allowed to come near the borders of the vibrational level of the first metaphysical, Barsakh level which overlaps with the physical heaven from above), unless within permission granted only by the Lord God; this is the meaning of the verses 55:33-35. This fact is repeated in other Quranic verses: "We have adorned the lower heaven with the beauty of the planets. And guarded it against every defiant devil. They cannot eavesdrop on the Upper Realm, for they get bombarded from every side. Repelled - they will have a lingering torment." (37:6-9); "We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns, and made them missiles against the devils; and We have prepared for them the torment of the Blaze." (67:5); "We probed the heaven, and found it filled with stern guards and projectiles. We used to take up positions to listen in; but whoever listens now finds a projectile in wait for him." (72:8-9).

3/3: Hence, we conclude that the metaphysical levels of the earth can be passed through by jinn and devils; this is permissible to human beings as well and it will take place one day, because the verses 55:33-35 address human beings along with jinn on equal footing. For sure, this also means that both jinn and human beings can never pass through the metaphysical Barsakh levels of the heavens, unless within permission granted only by the Almighty Lord God.

4- The most important question is raised here: how is that going to happen within the limits of what is made possible and permissible by the Lord God? This will entail more scientific knowledge and progress/advancement in the future; human beings now use unseen/invisible types of energies on earth like electricity and certain rays; this means that one day, the human beings will use the types of energies surrounding them in the metaphysical Barsakh levels of the earth (and with more control of both energy and time) even if human beings will not be able to see these types of energy.

(9) What the West Does Not Know about Time

Firstly: time and the creation of the heavens and the earth:

1- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation..." (18:51). Of course, human beings never witnessed the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything between them (i.e., the universe) and the creation of all human souls; yet, we know from the Quran that the Lord God has originated the universe out of nothing; this is the meaning of this Quranic verse: "Praise be to God, Originator of the heavens and the earth..." (35:1).

2- Of course, the physical universe of the heaven and earth is enveloped by the dimension of time. We tend to think that the Lord God has also created time (and all the universe) out of nothing (i.e., creatio ex nihiloin Latin). The Lord God has created two types of time as follows.

2/1: Along with the Big Bang and the creation/origination of the universe, a moving time has been created that goes ahead and never turns back and it has a beginning (i.e., Big Bang) and an end (i.e., when the Hour takes place and the universe is destroyed within a tremendous explosion). This moving, transient time of the physical world has a certain predetermined duration known to the Lord God: "Do they not reflect within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, except with reason, and for a specific duration..." (30:8); "We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them except with reason, and for a finite period...." (46:3).

2/2: The other type of time is eternity which will begin with the Last Day; of course, eternity has no end; it will be for human beings in Hell and those of them in Paradise an everlasting life which will feel like timelessness; the Eternal Realm of the Hereafter will have its static, unmoving time which will last forever; it is as if an everlasting present, with no sense of the past, present, or future typical of time on earth. This is hard to grasp with the limited capacity of the human mind and harder to express using any of the human languages/tongues.

Secondly: the moving time in this physical world:

1- The moving time on earth makes human beings have a sense of what the past, the present, and the future are like; human beings never cease to wonder how the present turns into past and the future into present within succession of days that seems apparently endless: "And it is He who made the night and the day alternate - for whoever desires to reflect, or desires to show gratitude." (25:62). We have to bear in mind that one's preordained lifetime or one's limited duration on earth is moving like a non-stop train; the second which passes will never return; one's soul comes from Barsakh, wears human flesh momentarily, and when one dies, the soul returns to the timelessness of Barsakh once more. Within our physical world, measuring the femtosecond has led to the hypothesis of the parallel universes; for sure, the metaphysical Barsakh levels are greater and beyond the wildest imagination.

2- Time varies in the planets of the solar system and within different galaxies in the observable universe; this helps us understand the fact that time in the physical universe (and on earth, of course) differs from that of the metaphysical, Barsakh levels; we infer this from this verse about the divine command of the Hour which has been issued already by the Omnipotent Lord God and we are not to rush it: "The command of God came, so do not rush it. Glory be to Him; exalted above what they associate." (16:1). This divine command has been issued within a Barsakh-level time whose nature/essence cannot be imagined by human beings; yet, the time cycles on earth have not yet reached the specified moment of the occurrence of the Hour when the universe (with its physical and metaphysical levels) will be destroyed. Within the Eternal Realm of the Last Day after the Resurrection Day, the eternal time will have no past, present, or future in the sense we know of on earth; the limited capacity of the human mind cannot imagine the nature/essence of eternity or what if feels like to be living forever.

3- The word (days) refers to different time units in various (meta)physical levels in the universe; the word (days) here refers to this time unit on earth in relation to pilgrimage: "And remember God during the designated days. But whoever hurries on in two days commits no wrong, and whoever stays on commits no wrong..." (2:203). In other verses which we will not quote here, there are references to years and months as per calculations on earth. This has nothing to do with the six days/epochs/phases of the origination/creation of the universe: "It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then settled over the Throne..." (57:4); "Say, "Do you reject the One who created the earth in two days? And you attribute equals to Him? That is the Lord of the Universe." He placed stabilizers over it; and blessed it; and planned its provisions in four days, equally to the seekers. Then He turned to the heaven, and it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth, "Come, willingly or unwillingly." They said, "We come willingly." So He completed them as seven heavens in two days, and He assigned to each heaven its laws. And We decorated the lower heaven with lamps, and for protection. That is the design of the Almighty, the Omniscient." (41:9-12)

4- The Lord God says the following in the Quran about how His divine commands manage the affairs of the (meta)physical realms of the universe; the time in the Upper Realm in the metaphysical level differs from the time on our physical earth as we infer from these two Quranic verses: "...A day with your Lord is like a thousand years of your count." (22:47); "...on a Day the length of which is a thousand years by your count." (32:5). We quote the following passage from our book, in English, titled "The Book of Barsakh" (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=138): (... Dr. Mansour Hasabennabi wrote an article in the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper on the 11^th of May, 1995, in which he tackles a scientific understanding or pondering of these two verses [i.e., 22:47 and 32:5]...Dr. Hasabennabi maintains that the phrase (by your count) means by the human calculation and counting of time on earth; hence, the distance covered by the divine command to reach and descend on earth within the Night of Decree is to be calculated using the speed of light of Einstein and the time-frame of 1000 lunar years of the Quranic equation in 22:47 and 32:5. Dr. Hasabennabi maintains also that the equations of Einstein have predicted (before Superstring theory) that speeds faster than the speed of light may exist within the tachyon or the tachyonic particle (i.e. hypothetical particle that always moves faster than light). Superstring theory maintains that there is a six-dimensional universe overlapping with our known four-dimensional universe (or our known four-dimensional continuum of three dimensions of space plus the fourth dimension of time, shown in the typical space-time diagrams made by scientists), and speeds more than the speed of light exist there, but they cannot be measured by human beings – yet. ...). This Quranic equation shows that the speed of the divine command within the time on earth is exactly like the speed of light in vacuum; i.e., 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second).

5- The Superstring theory has paved the way to talk about parallel universes which are the metaphysical Barsakh levels. The human soul leaves the body for good by death to return to Barsakh, its original location; this occurs temporarily during sleep, when the soul goes to Barsakh and returns to the body upon waking up. When one dies, the soul remains in Barsakh in a state of deep slumber until the Day of Resurrection. In the Quran, the Lord God indicates the difference between the time in Barsakh and the time on earth; e.g., the people of the cave slept for 309 years and when they woke up, they assumed they have slept for a day or part of a day: "And they stayed in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine." (18:25); "Even so, We awakened them, so that they may ask one another. A speaker among them said, "How long have you stayed?" They said, "We have stayed a day, or part of a day." They said, "Your Lord knows best how long you have stayed."..." (18:19). Another example is the man whom God caused to die/sleep for 100 year and upon waking up, the man felt he slept for a day or part of a day: "Or like him who passed by a town collapsed on its foundations. He said, "How can God revive this after its demise?" Thereupon God caused him to die for a hundred years, and then resurrected him. He said, "For how long have you tarried?" He said, "I have tarried for a day, or part of a day." He said, "No. You have tarried for a hundred years..." (2:259). Upon Resurrection, human beings will feel as if the the duration of their life on earth and their sleep/death were a day or part of a day: "On the Day when they witness it - as though they only stayed an evening, or its morning." (79:46)

6- The Last Day has its eternal time within the Eternal Realm; it differs from the day of this temporary physical realm (with its earth, heavens, and metaphysical Barsakh levels) which is a transient day off life whose duration is 50000 years as per the divine calculations (not years as per calculations on earth) and it is contrasted with the Last Day of eternity in these verses: "Unto Him the angels and the Spirit ascend on a Day the duration of which is fifty thousand years...They see it distant. But We see it near. On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:4-9). Thus, since the Big Bang, the moving, temporary duration of the universe is marching towards its predetermined end; i.e., total destruction when the Hour comes; each creature (from human beings and angels to stars and galaxies) has its limited, preordained duration or lifetime within this 50000 years allotted to the (meta)physical universe; when the Hour occurs after the end of this duration, it will be faster than the speed of light: "And Our command is but once, faster than the twinkling of an eye." (54:50); "To God belongs the unseen of the heavens and the earth. The coming of the Hour is only as the twinkling of the eye, or even nearer..." (16:77).

Thirdly: The Last Day and eternity or the everlasting time:

1- The Eternal Realm will include a new earth and new heavens within the eternal time; after Resurrection and Judgment, human beings, those in Hell and those in Paradise, will never die: "On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God the Dominant One." (14:48).; "Remaining in it eternally, without their torment being eased from them..." (3:88); "But as for those whose faces are whitened: they are in God's mercy, remaining in it forever." (3:107).

2- It is noteworthy that most words used in the Quran about the topic of the Last Day are linked to the idea of time: the Last Day, Resurrection Day, Judgment Day, the Hour, etc. Let us quote one example about two usages of the word (hour) within one Quranic verse: "On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded." (30:55). Of course, (the Hour) is the destruction of the universe followed by Resurrection in the Eternal Realm, whereas (an hour) is part of a day as per time as we know it on earth now.

3- Hence, we tend to think that the Lord God has originated/created the eternal time out of nothing and that He took a piece of this eternal time to explode it (i.e., within the Big Bang) to create the physical world with its moving, temporary time which will last for 50 thousand years as per the Divine measure and estimation (not years in the sense of time as we know it on earth now). When this preordained duration comes to an end, the Hour will take place faster than the speed of light; the physical universe will be destroyed and the Eternal Realm will emerge along with eternity or the everlasting time for those who will be tormented in Hell forever and those who will enjoy the bliss and pleasures of Paradise forever.

4- It is a veritable loss to waste one's lifetime (or one's limited duration on earth) by getting busy sinning and disobeying the Lord God; on the Last Day, the unrepentant ones will suffer for eternity (within the eternal time) inside Hell-torment; they will never get out of Hell and its torment will never cease or be lessened: "Remaining in it eternally, without their torment being eased from them..." (3:88).

(10) Nuclear Science between the Quran and Modern Science

Introduction:

Until the 19^th century A.D., the people of the West believed in the views of Greek philosophers of the 5^th century B.C. about atoms which cannot be divided. In contrast, the Quran, which was revealed more than 1400 years ago, tells us about the fact that atoms can be divided and that they contain smaller particles; the Quran includes other scientific indications unstudied yet by the West and by Arabs. When scientists of the West have managed to divide the atoms (i.e., nuclear fission), the field has been open to study the realms of smaller particles inside atoms; this has led later on to knocking at the gates of the metaphysical levels of the universe especially in the field of energy. The energy emitting from nuclear fission is very powerful; the nuclear energy exceeds the energies of our weak, heavy, physical world. We provide some details in the points below.

Firstly: an overview of the development of the nuclear science in the West:

(N.B.: within the following points, we include some pieces of information (briefly and partially) from the website https://en.wikipedia.org).

1- The English word (atom) is derived from the Greek language; it is derived from a word which refers to the idea of indivisibility; i.e., the word "atom" is derived from the Greek word (atomos), meaning "uncuttable". This means that the dominant wrong view at the time was that there is nothing smaller than the atom, as per the views held by the two ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus and his pupil Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.).

2- The physicist J. J. Thomson measured the mass of cathode rays in 1896 - 1897 A.D., showing they were made of lighter particles which were not atoms, but new particle: the first subatomic particles to be discovered; this led to the discovery of electrons; this showed that the ancient view of atoms is wrong and that the atoms are divisible and contain smaller particles within complicated formations.

3- In 1909, the studies of Ernest Rutherford and others led to the discovery of the nucleus and its subatomic particles and positive charges, electrons which have negative charges, protons which have positive charges, and neutrons as uncharged particles.

4- The nuclei are 100,000 smaller than atoms themselves; this means that the formation of the atom consists mostly of vacuum; quarks were later on discovered as the smallest unit of matter; the discovery of nuclear energy, fission, and fusion led to the making of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons in the West.

5- Many theories have emerged after the scientists of the West focused their studies on nuclei; the Superstring theory, which is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory, has led to the hypotheses that there are realms smaller than the smallest unit within the nuclei and that there are types of energy within particles without mass that can move in speeds faster than the speed of light; these particles entail the existence of 11 dimensions and not the four typical ones of matter (time and the 3 other spatial dimensions: length, width, and height) as per the relativity theory. Other studies and theories within the Superstring theory have led to the discovery of new powers apart from gravity based on vibrational levels; these new powers are linked to electromagnetism radiation and the formation of nuclei. Our physical space is observed to have three large spatial dimensions and, along with time, is a boundless 4-dimensional continuum known as space-time. However, nothing prevents a theory from including more than 4 dimensions. In the case of string theory, consistency requires space-time to have 10 dimensions (3D regular space + 1 time + 6D hyperspace).

6- There are five consistent superstring theories within the umbrella term (Superstring theory) linked to tachyons, bosons, fermions, open and closed strings, and 11 space-time dimensions. Theoretical physicists were troubled by the existence of five separate superstring theories. A possible solution for this dilemma was suggested at the beginning of what is called the second superstring revolution in the 1990s, which suggests that the five string theories might be different limits of a single underlying theory, called M-theory.

7- Thus, the Superstring theory has led to the discovery of new dimensions in the universe. The 3 main dimensions in the universe are length, width, and height, and the fourth dimension enveloping all the others is time. The Superstring theory assumes that there are 11 dimensions in this universe: the four ones we have mentioned plus 7 others; this is a mathematical hypothesis, of course.

8- As far as we know, this is what has been reached by the scientists of the West; the Quran precedes the West in mentioning scientific indications about atoms. Had the people of the West paid attention to these Quranic scientific indications centuries ago, they would have saved much time, money, and effort.

Secondly: Quranic facts about nuclear science:

1- The universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth) consists of atoms that can be divided and contain smaller particles: "You do not get into any situation, nor do you recite any Quran, nor do you do anything, but We are watching over you as you undertake it. Not even the weight of an atom, on earth or in the heaven, escapes your Lord, nor is there anything smaller or larger, but is in a Clear Record." (10:61); the Quran mentions that there are particles smaller than atoms; this is part of the Omniscience of the Lord God: "Those who disbelieve say, "The Hour will not come upon us." Say, "Yes indeed, by my Lord, it will come upon you. He is the Knower of the unseen." Not anatom's weight in the heavens and the earth, or anything smaller or larger, escapes His knowledge. All are in a Clear Record." (34:3); the word ''smaller'' here indicates particles which are smaller than atoms. There are overlapping Barsakh levels of the earth (overlapping the physical earth) and other overlapping Barsakh levels of the heavens; those of the heavens overlap the physical outer space. The Superstring theory focuses on (1) particles of atoms and nuclei, (2) quarks, and (3) strings and their vibrations in the universe. The Quran precedes modern science in indicating the fact that atoms can be divided and contain smaller particles within both the physical realm and the metaphysical one.

2- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "For every person We have attached his bird to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will bring out for him a book which he will find spread open. "Read your book; today there will be none but yourself to call you to account."" (17:13-14). Human beings are physical bodies controlled by the human souls (souls are ethereal beings that pertain originally to Barsakh); the word (bird) here indicates one's feelings, deeds, thoughts, movements, (dis)belief, etc. which emitted/flew from one's soul and are recorded by the Lord God's angels in the Book of Deeds of each soul which will be read by resurrected souls on the Last Day; this is why one's fate in the Hereafter is determined by this Book of Deeds and one's being (mis)guided; this is a personal, individual responsibility: "Whoever is guided - is guided for his own good. And whoever goes astray - goes astray to his detriment. No burdened soul carries the burdens of another, nor do We ever punish until We have sent a messenger." (17:15). Hence, it is NOT the mission of any State or government to 'guide' people to make them enter into Paradise; in Islam (i.e., the Quran) there is no penalty for apostasy or rejecting Islam (i.e., by converting to other religions or to embrace atheism) and there is no compulsion in religion.

3- Our focus here is the Quranic fact that the Book of Deeds written by angels for each of the human beings is being written within atomic measure or weight; our deeds, thoughts, feelings etc. are weighed in that way; all resurrected human beings will see this on the Last Day: "On that Day, the people will emerge in droves, to be shown their works. Whoever has done an atom's weight of good will see it. And whoever has done an atom's weight of evil will see it." (99:6-8). There is no room for injustice or being wronged on the Day of Judgment within weighing one's good/evil deeds: "God does not commit an atom's weight of injustice; and if there is a good deed, He doubles it, and gives from His Presence a sublime compensation." (4:40); "We will set up the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so that no soul will suffer the least injustice. And even if it be the weight of a mustard-seed, We will bring it up. Sufficient are We as Judge." (21:47).

4- There are rocks whose weight is very light in the Barsakh levels of the heavens; we infer this from the words of Luqman who advised his son by reminding him of the fact that God will weigh all deeds of all people on the Day of Judgment: ""O my son, even if it were the weight of a mustard-seed, in a rock, or in the heavens, or on earth, God will bring it. God is Kind and Expert." (31:16). The Lord God is the Sole Owner of the (meta)physical universe with all its atoms and particles: "Say, "Call upon those whom you claim besides God. They possess not an atom's weight in the heavens or the earth, and they possess no share of either, and He has no backers from among them."" (34:22).

Lastly:

By the way, we pose these two questions to the so-called Umma/nation of Muhammad: What did Muhammad own/control in the realm of the Dominant Lord God? Was he a group of atoms among the creatures of the Lord God the Creator or not?!

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER II: The Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Quran

(1) The Quranic Methodology of Islamic Thought: (Night and Day) within the Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Quran

Introduction:

One of our fellow Quranists who regularly contributes many articles within our Quranism website (www.ahl-alquran.com), Mr. Ibrahim Dadi, has discussed in one of his articles this Quranic phrase: "...Then complete the fast until nightfall..." (2:187) and he has urged readers to reflect on it regarding the the beginning of breaking the fast during Ramadan; he has assumed wrongly that it is at the night prayers and not at the sunset prayers; we have proved in an article of ours that in the Quranic phrase "...Then complete the fast until nightfall..." (2:187), the word (nightfall) refers to the time of sunset prayers and nothing else. This article of ours has been discussed for a long time within so many comments written underneath it by ourselves and by our dear fellow Quranists; the topic of the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text has been touched upon in some comments and we have mentioned that the backwardness of Arabs of the Middle-Ages is partially due to their neglecting these indications; this has inspired our person to write on the topic of (day and night) within the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran.

The Quranic methodology of Islamic thought:

The starting point of any human thought is the intellectual methodology on which it is based. This means that the methodology is the basis by which we can, from the very start, decide the validity and the scope of continuity of any human thought. In most cases, the methodology of any civilization is based on religion. We should bear in mind that all human beings are religious within their innate nature or inherent instincts regardless of their religious affiliations (monotheism/polytheism) or even their skepticism/agnosticism and atheism. The methodology of Islamic thought and civilization is found exclusively in the Quran, which is the Book containing the Lord God's Word which explains and clarify everything; thus, the Quranic methodology of Islamic Thought is derived from monotheism as the main tenet of Islam; it means to confine deification and sanctification to the Lord God; monotheists are never to deify/sanctify things or mortals; the Watchful, Dominant Lord God controls all His creatures (e.g., human beings, animals, angels, and inanimate things) in the universe, but no one can see Him or imagine what He looks like: "...There is nothing like Him. He is the Hearing, the Seeing." (42:11); "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision..." (6:103). Hence, there is nothing similar between creatures and their Dominant Lord the Creator; all things/creatures in the universe submit to the Lord and glorify/worship Him willingly or unwillingly: "Do they desire other than the religion of God, when to Him has submitted everything in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him they will be returned?" (3:83). There is no mediators between the Lord God and His creatures; this is part of the meaning of monotheism from which the Quranic methodology is derived within the fields of thought, knowledge, and education; the Omniscient Lord God knows best about His creatures: "Would He not know, He Who created? He is the Refined, the Expert." (67:14). This Quranic methodology of Islamic thought is based on the wisdom behind the creation of the universe and the human beings; i.e., the Lord God has created human beings to be successors on earth who apply God's Way or Method which is based on Truth, goodness, right, charity, and elimination of corruption. Because human beings are made as successors on earth, we are to remember all the time that the Lord God has created things in the heavens and the earth (e.g., animals, plants, inanimate things, rays, and types of energy) while committing them to the service of humankind: "And He placed at your service whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth - all is from Him. In that are signs for a people who reflect." (45:13); "It is He who made the earth manageable for you, so travel its regions, and eat of His provisions. To Him is the Resurgence." (67:15). Hence, scientific studying, exploring, and discovering of all things reached by human senses in this universe are based on the human beings' endeavors to draw benefits and make use of things in the universe made in the service of humankind; this is why it is an Islamic duty/obligation to roam the earth to examine God's creatures in order see the grandeur and majesty of the Lord God the Creator: "Have they not seen how God originates the creation, and then reproduces it? This is easy for God. Say, "Roam the earth, and observe how He originated the creation." Then God will bring about the next existence. God has power over all things."" (29:19-20). This Islamic duty/obligation has its means (i.e., human senses, powers, and mental faculties) and objectives (i.e., to glorify, obey, and worship the Lord God the Creator and to make use of everything in the universe): "Say, "Look at what is in the heavens and the earth." But signs and warnings are of no avail for people who do not believe." (10:101); "We will show to them Our signs on the horizons, and inside themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the Truth..." (41:53); "Have they not observed the sky above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, and it has no cracks? And the earth, how We spread it out, and set on it mountains, and grew in it all kinds of delightful pairs? A lesson and a reminder for every penitent worshiper." (50:6-8); "And on earth are signs for the convinced. And within yourselves. Do you not see?" (51:20-21). In fact, these verses which urge human beings to scientifically explore and study the earth and the universe contain a miraculous prediction; namely, human beings in the modern age have followed the scientific methodology to explore, study, and discover within Planet Earth and then the observable universe. The Lord God makes it among the features/descriptions of the pious ones with reasoning faculty that they remember their Lord God and they reflect on His creatures/creations: "In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, are signs for people of understanding. Those who remember God while standing, and sitting, and on their sides; and they reflect upon the creation of the heavens and the earth: "Our Lord, You did not create this in vain, glory to You..."" (3:190-191). In contrast, the Lord God makes it among the features/descriptions of the polytheists/disbelievers to be heedless of miracles/signs within the universe: "How many a sign in the heavens and the earth do they pass by, paying no attention to them?" (12:105). In sum, Islam (i.e., the Quran) urges Muslims to engage into empirical, scientific research within the physical universe made in the service of humankind, with the purpose of worshiping and glorifying the Lord God the Creator and submitting to Him within monotheism; i.e., polytheism should be impossible when one perceives the wonders of the universe; the Lord God the Omnipotent Creator has no deities or 'holy' partners/allies besides Him. This is why several Quranic verses mention that we are to reflect, contemplate, see, and understand; in the following verse, knowledge is linked to piety and the fear of the Lord God: "Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky? With it We produce fruits of various colors. And in the mountains are streaks of white and red-varying in their hue - and pitch-black. Likewise, human beings, animals, and livestock come in various colors. From among His servants, the knowledgeable ones fear God. God is Almighty, Oft-Forgiving." (35:27-28). Thus, reflection and scientific exploration/examination/discovery of God's creatures is part of descriptions/qualities of real, knowledgeable believers in Islam: "Is he who worships devoutly during the watches of the night, prostrating himself and standing up, mindful of the Hereafter, and placing his hope in the mercy of his Lord? Say, "Are those who know and those who do not know equal?" Only those possessed of reason will remember." (39:9). Thus, the people of the West, who mostly do not know anything about the Quran, have applied empiricism and explored the world and the universe; in contrast, 'Muslims' rarely do that and they are heedless of the Quranic commands about roaming the earth and exploring God's creatures; they are mostly Muhammadans who have abandoned the Quran and got busy inventing and fabricating hadiths/lies/falsehoods/narratives/myths while ascribing them forcibly to Muhammad after his death and disputing over their veracity, authenticity, and Isnad (i.e., series of narrators). This is why mythology and ignorance are the chief components of the earthly/terrestrial, man-made religions of the Muhammadans; the fanatics and hardliners among them persecute deniers and critics of hadiths and accuse them of hating Muhammad! They assume that one must never question or cast doubt on any hadiths because they are attributed to Muhammad after his death! Thus, the Muhammadans have abandoned the Quran got busy with their fabrications, myths, and silly narratives for centuries while the people of the West had their Renaissance and have explored the earth and later on the universe within empiricism, thus applying the Quranic commands in this respect unawares. The Muhammadan clergymen/sheikhs shamelessly applaud and hail any scientific discoveries made by the people of the West which echo certain Quranic scientific indications; they scream and shout loudly at the faces of non-Muslims that the Quran precedes modern civilization; yet, they never ask themselves why the Quranic miraculous scientific indications were not studied/examined by Arabs in the past 14 centuries; they never discern the fact that Arabs/Muhammadans have abandoned the Quran despite the fact that the Quran is in Arabic and that it urges all people to ponder its verses warns against discarding/abandoning it. Sadly, this is still the case of the Muhammadans until now as they have discarded the Quran while defending and sticking to myths/hadiths fabricated during the Middle-Age which have nothing to do with Muhammad; he never uttered even a single one of them. The people of the West have mostly ignored the purpose/objective of worshiping the Lord God the Creator within monotheism and piety leading to good deeds, charity, etc.; in some cases, scientific progress/advancement within the civilization of the West has been used to serve Satan by inventing weapons of mass destruction and other types of weapons which make human beings murder and annihilate one another within wars which spread destruction, terror, anxiety, losses, poverty, bloodshed, and physical and psychological pains. Thus, the human mind must put into good use (and not into the ways of evil and harm) all things in the universe committed to the service of humankind. This highlights the importance of purpose/objective; if it is to obey the Lord God, this means that inventions and discoveries will serve the wellbeing, comfort, happiness, prosperity, and welfare of human beings; evil people who disobey the Lord God typically do not hesitate to use inventions and discoveries to spread poverty, misery, and destruction. Another issue here related to examining/discovering the universe which is committed to the service of humankind is that the Lord God is NOT the object of study by mortals; no human beings or creatures can know/reach the nature of the Lord God the Creator; the human mind is qualified only to examine/study things committed to the service of humankind in this universe. The Lord God resembles nothing and no one among His creatures. No one is allowed to imagine/think how God looks like. We are only to reflect on how the Lord God describes Himself in the Quran; human senses cannot reach/perceive God. Besides, as per God's Will, there are certain creatures and inanimate things which cannot be seen by human beings. Of course, in the modern age, people know quite well that there are things he cannot see but they can use in many inventions and machines; e.g., electricity, radio-waves, and certain rays. The Lord God says the following in the Quran to all humanity: "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see." (69:38-39); the Lord God says that jinn and devils can see human beings and the opposite will not happen in this physical world: "...O children of Adam! Do not let Satan seduce you...He sees you, him and his tribe, from where you cannot see them..." (7:27). Thus, if some creatures are unseen by human beings, it is understandable that they cannot see the Lord God the Creator in this world and in the Hereafter; this is a Quranic fact (see our article, in English, found on this link: http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=16303). Besides, this means that the human beings cannot see/examine/study the metaphysical realm of the universe; this is beyond the scope of human knowledge; the human beings can see/examine/study things, creatures, and phenomena within the Planet earth and the physical, observable universe. Monotheists are to believe in the metaphysical, invisible aspects mentioned in the Quranic text; this is part of the belief in the Quran as the Lord God's Word: "This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. Those who believe in the unseen..." (2:2-3). The metaphysical, invisible aspects mentioned in the Quran are things related to the Lord God, the Upper Realm, angels, jinn, devils, the Hereafter, Judgment, Resurrection, Hell, and Paradise. We cannot see/perceive or examine/study the metaphysical realm but we must believe in what is mentioned about it in the Quran. Monotheists cannot combine between (1) the belief in the entirety of the Quranic text (including the details about the metaphysical realm), and (2) myths/lies of Sunnite, Sufi, and Shiite hadiths-fabricators and authors. Thus, the belief in God and in His Quranic Verses entails to disbelieve in books and anything else perceived by polytheists as 'holy'. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "There shall be no compulsion in religion; the right way has become distinct from the wrong way. Whoever renounces evil and believes in God has grasped the most trustworthy handle; which does not break. God is Hearing and Knowing." (2:256). To talk about the metaphysical realm of the unseen and the future outside the Quran means to adhere to mythology; as per the Quran, Muhammad himself never knew or talked about the future and the invisible. The human mind has limited scope to ponder only on the metaphysical aspects mentioned by the Lord God in the Quran; yet, the human beings have boundless scope to invent, study, explore, etc. within the physical realm of the earth and the universe. We are talking here about what should be; this is what Muslims should do; yet, there is a huge gap, or rather an abyss, between what should be and what exists in real life of today's Muhammadans. Within history of 'Muslims', or rather the Muhammadans, we perceive that their civilization is not based on the Quranic methodology; rather, it is based on something which goes against the Quran; namely, the intellectual methodology of the Greek civilization whose thought has been translated into Arabic. The Arab conquests helped form a vast Arab empire which included many nations of Copts/Egyptians, Persians, Nabateans, Berbers/Amazigh, etc. When many people of these conquered nations converted to 'Islam', Arab conquerors considered and treated these 'Muslims' of non-Arab origin as second-class citizens/subjects. The scribes, translators, thinkers, and intellectuals among non-Arab 'Muslims' have their own contributions to the Arab civilization within this Arab empire; at one point, they dominated the Arab culture and civilization; it is naturally expected that they went on following the intellectual methodology they knew and applied before they learned Arabic and converted to the new religion; i.e., the intellectual methodology of the Greek civilization.

The intellectual methodology of the Greek civilization:

The philosophies of India and Greece mixed when Alexander the Great conquered the East; many notions and tenets are found to resemble one another in the West and in the East; the Hellenistic culture, and its paganism/polytheism, includes the idea of making no distinction at all between God the Creator and the universe which He created. The Greek philosophy notions make the reasoning mind the basis of pondering on nature (i.e., the physical realm) and on the metaphysical realm (e.g., topics about divinity, fate, death, and the creation of the world). Of course, since it is impossible to study the metaphysical realm using one's mind, the Greeks, and other nations which had their own civilizations, developed so many mythical notions about God's nature and qualities; many philosophers assumed that nature, or the universe, is God (i.e., pantheism); the metaphysical ideas of the Greek-speaking philosopher Plotinus of Alexandria (grouped later on under the term Neo-Platonism) are influenced by those of Plato; these ideas include the notion that the human mind can be united with God to receive illuminations of knowledge or gnosis; i.e., pious men would be inspired by God the Creator of the universe; such ideas have influenced Christian theology and the masses began to deify clergymen and monks and to never disagree with or protest against them; the reasoning mind was set aside, and knowledge derived from it was despised in favor of 'divine' knowledge bestowed on those who are worthy of it (!). Hence, ignorance of worldly matters was welcomed and encouraged as if this would pave the way for the mind to receive the purported 'divine' knowledge. By the time when the Arab conquerors annexed many regions such as Iraq, the Levant, and Asia Minor, the Greek schools of thought and philosophy suffered from the dominance of Christian clergymen who propagated their own mythology. The intellectual methodology of the Greek philosophers led to nothing useful regarding contemplating the metaphysical realm; the same applies to those in the Arab empire and civilization who applied the same intellectual methodology of the Greek philosophers.

The intellectual methodology of the Muslims/Muhammadans/Arabs:

They never relied on the Quranic methodology discussed above; they focused their attention only on the intellectual methodology of the Greek civilization which dominated for centuries before and after the Arab conquest of several countries which formed an Arab empire.

The influence of non-Arab 'Muslims':

Those who converted to 'Islam' from among non-Arabs within the countries conquered by Arabs dominated the intellectual life of the Arab empire for centuries, whereas Arab conquerors and settlers focused their attention mainly on money, politics, rule affairs, wars, and civil strife. Arabs of Arabia had no civilization of their own and hardly any intellectual methodology. In contrast, non-Arab 'Muslims' or converts who were thinkers/philosophers had their own centuries-old civilization and intellectual methodology; they dominated the cultural life before and after the Arab conquest of their countries, and for a long while, they had no chance to join the ruling circles and the political life. Besides, they aimed at mixing their own cultural (religious and philosophical) heritage notions to the 'Islamic' ideas; they felt they were superior to Arab conquerors who had no civilization or intellectual methodology of their own. For sure, many of them hated the Quran (and hated the Arab conquerors) very much and decided to fight against it by distorting the Islamic faith tenets by introducing their own polytheistic tenets/notions through fabricated Sunnite, Shiite, and Sufi hadiths and formulated rules of fiqh. It is hardly surprising to know that the pioneers of hadiths, fiqh, and Sufism are authors of non-Arab origin and they were among the lower, poorer classes, especially craftsmen.

The negative stance of non-Arab 'Muslims' regarding the Quran:

Of course, after mastering the Arab tongue, they led the Arab empire's civilization and dominated the culture life for centuries; within their good intentions and bad ones, their negative stance regarding the Quran led them to assume that its only miraculous feature is its eloquence; Quranic verses were quoted by grammarians and men of literature. Sadly, this wrong view of the Quran still persists until now. This resulted in ten centuries of disregarding the miraculous scientific indications of the Quran and its legislations, commands, and methodology. The grammarians and other authors were busy studying the unique, eloquent style and syntax of Arabic of the Quranic text and parsed its words; they never thought about pondering on the meanings of Quranic verses, let alone applying them. Another grave sin is to impose their own ideas/visions/notions on the Quran in order to distort the meanings of its verses and to twist/warp/change its sharia laws/legislations; this grave sin has been committed within their books of hadiths, fiqh, commentaries, interpretation, and exegeses. The Quran is a Clear Book which never needs to be explained or interpreted: "We made the Quran easy to remember. Is there anyone who would remember?" (54:17); "We made it easy in your tongue..." (19:97); "We made it easy in your tongue, so that they may remember." (44:58). One of the miraculous features of the Quran is that despite its unique, eloquent style, it is easy to understand by any ordinary persons. If one would read a love poem (in classical Arabic) which dates back to the pre-Islamic era, one would not be able to fully comprehend its difficult diction. The languages/tongues are like living organisms; they evolve and change in every eras as per the changes and conditions of communities which use them. The Arabic tongue of the Quran has been understood by Arab contemporaries of Muhammad and also by people of all eras until now. Besides, the Quran does not require any explanations, exegeses, or interpretations; the Quranic verses explain one another; the Lord God says in the Quran: "Whatever argument they come to you with, We provide you with the Truth, and a better explanation." (25:33). The Quranic verses contain some repetitions and detailed, similar verses which explain the concise, definitive ones (for more details about this Quranist methodology of understanding the Quran, see our article in English found on this link: http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=16993). To know more about how Quranist researchers ponder on the Quranic verses, we refer readers to our book, in English, titled "How to Understand the Holy Quran" , found on this link: (http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/book_main.php?main_id=121). Of course, pondering the Quran is a religious duty/obligation within Islam; yet, it is a grave sin to impose one's own prejudices, whims, desires, and preferences on the Quranic text which is God's Word; this is a form of distortion perpetrated by fabricators of hadiths who included in their narratives Talmudic notions, and other ideas of the ancient authors who belonged to the Jews/Israelites, as well as Judeo-Christian traditions. The fabrication of hadiths and filling books with lies under the name of 'interpreting' the Quran is a grave injustice committed against the Lord God and His Word. The introduction of such myths has spoiled and corrupted the ideas and the faith tenets of Muhammadans; until now, most of them never believe in any Quranic verses unless alongside with sheets and sheets of interoperations of it written by numerous authors; this is indeed a grave injustice committed against the Lord God and His Book. Most of the authors sanctified and revered by the Muhammadans were of non-Arab origin among the conquered nations; such men integrated their own cultural (religious and philosophical) heritage notions into their theological books and they discarded the Quran and never heeded its methodology, despite their being leaders of the cultural life within the Arab empire. Thus, they were mainly the imams/authors of books of fiqh, hadiths, and exegeses/interpretation, plus other books of philosophy and theology (e.g., the Kalam philosophy, mysticism, and eschatological writings by medieval philosophers). Those Muhammadan authors of non-Arab origin led the scientific movement during the Abbasid Era; their books were revered and made 'holy' in the later eras of imitation, obscurantism, stagnation, and backwardness. Of course, the Wahabism of the 18^th century A.D. and of today is the most extremist, fanatic, backward, and violent religion which has revived the Hanbali Sunnite religion of terrorism; using oil revenues, Saudi Arabia has imposed the Wahabi religion worldwide among the Sunnite Muhammadans and made it pose as if it were Islam; the Wahabis claim that their Wahabism contains the 'authenticated', 'verified', 'holy' Sunna hadiths attributed to Muhammad. The Wahabis impose their vision regarding all matters on today's Sunnite Muhammadans; e.g., they insist on applying a silly hadith about seeing the crescent with the naked eye, to mark the beginning of Ramadan which is the lunar/Hijri month of fasting, instead of trusting astronomical calculations and telescopes.

(2) The Debate about the Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Quran

Firstly:

1- In the 1960s, when the Arab nationalism or Pan-Arabism ideology was popular, some Egyptian scientists who have different backgrounds and fields of specializations began to write about numerical miracles in the Quranic text and the miraculous scientific indications found in the Quranic verses. Their endeavors have been very good because they have no background at all related to the Azharite Sunnite heritage (Sunna-hadiths, fiqh, etc.); they studied and examined the Quranic verses themselves as objectively and neutrally as possible while linking them to facts of modern science; they were pioneers in the field of examining the Quranic miraculous scientific indications.

2- When the Arab nationalism ideology collapsed in June 1967 (i.e., after the Six-Day War when Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Syrian Golan Heights) and was buried when Saddam's Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the void created by its collapse was filled with Salafist Sunnite Wahabism sponsored by US$ billions of Saudi oil revenues; indeed, the epidemic of Wahabism has controlled Egyptian media, education, cultural life, and religious life. This led to adding the Wahabi colors/features (under the name of 'Islamization', which is a silly, meaningless term) forcibly to sciences, banks, clothes (e.g., hijab, niqab, and djellaba). This new, corrupt atmosphere has negatively influenced the field of study known as the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic verses; many money-seeking obsequious ignoramuses who wished to please Saudi Arabia and get its money began to write many silly, illogical, unscientific articles/books about examining the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran and also in the so-called Sunna-hadiths and 'prophetic' medicine; i.e., hadiths attributed falsely to Muhammad after his death about healing human bodies with food, plants, and herbs. Of course, such writings aim at showing Saudi Wahabism as if it were the 'true' or 'authentic' Islam and that Arab Salafists/Wahabis have monopolized talking about 'Islam' as though they were its representatives deputized by the Lord God!

3- The change in the quality and quantity of articles/books (about miraculous scientific indications in the Quran and Sunna-hadiths) authored by Sunnite Wahabis/Salafists has marked a separation between such Saudi-funded authors and both the scientific methodology and the Quranic methodology; they approached the Quran within the perspective of the sets of terminology of heritage books of Sunnite hadiths, fiqh, and traditions of Satan which have been heavily quoted by them when they offered their 'interpretations' of Quranic verses while mentioning scientific facts from West sources to lend fake credibility to their writings to validate and authenticate their so-called hadiths; meanwhile, they have distorted the meanings of the Quranic verses; their fatal mistake is never to realize the fact that trying to understand the Quran through the perspective of the sets of terminology of heritage books of traditions inevitably entails picking and choosing from among countless contradictory views and discrepancies. This repeats and revives the Middle-Ages accusation leveled against the Quran; i.e., its verses can convey different, unrelated, contradictory meanings/interpretations' from different angles examined by 'interpreters'; of course, this accusation goes against the Quranic fact that the Quran is a Clear Book with precise verses. The scientific methodology of research entails examining, studying, and researching the Quranic text through its own terminology and NOT through cultures and sets of terminology circulated centuries after the revelation/descent of the Quran. Besides, using Middle-Ages heritage books of Sunnite traditions and their sets of terminology destroys the idea of finding miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text; imams/authors of Middle-Ages never pondered on the verses that contain scientific indications; rather, they imposed their hadiths, doctrines, prejudices, whims, preferences, and erroneous notions on the Quranic verses they 'interpreted' in their books of commentaries and exegeses; the hadiths they invented/fabricated have been ascribed by force to Muhammad two centuries after his death. Had such Abbasid authors understood, examined, and pondered on the clear Quranic verses which contain miraculous scientific indications, human history and history of science would have been changed by discoveries and explorations which would have been made by Arabs (which have been made by the people of the West in later eras) and this would have saved humanity about 1000 years of backwardness and obscurantism:

* had they focused their attention on understanding and applying the Quranic methodology and its call for empiricism, exploration, and discovery,

* had they examined and studied scientific indications in the Quranic verses,

* had they confined their belief in the metaphysical realm to Quranic facts about it, and

* had they obeyed the Quranic commands of reflecting and pondering on its insights within open-mindedness, deep faith, and reasoning while avoiding lies, falsehoods, and mythology.

Of course, they never did anything of the above; on the contrary, they fabricated and invented many false narratives/hadiths and ascribed them forcibly to Islam; such imams/authors/fabricators became demigods for their followers in later eras until now. Proof: many accusations are leveled against Islam now because of crimes, terrorism, and atrocities committed by Salafists/Wahabis worldwide in the name of 'Islam'. In fact, when Salafists/Wahabis meddle and interfere in anything, they corrupt it and thus they always do; this is exemplified by imposing their faulty vision of finding miraculous scientific indications inside the so-called hadiths and leaving no room now for Arab scientists who focus their attention on the Quran only without Sunnite/Azharite heritage books of traditions of Satan.

4- This rejection of the Quranic methodology, the scientific methodology, reason, and logic never stopped in the way of Saudi-funded Wahabis/Salafists who have published countless books/articles in print and online within many websites about the so-called scientific indications inside the so-called Sunna-hadiths; the Saudi influence have made this field of mythology popular among the masses and Saudi oil-money made such myths much spoken of within conferences, media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, and TV channels), and the cyberspace. Their illogical writings have imposed forcibly the existence of a link between hadiths and medicine as well as several other branches/fields of science.

5- When the myths of 'prophetic' medicine grew popular among the naïve masses, tens of 'clinics' in Egypt opened to 'heal' sick people by charlatans who use the Quranic verses and hadiths (i.e., hadiths about herbs, plants, seeds, etc.); this phenomenon revived the backward, obscurantist ways of the Mameluke and Ottoman eras when the gullible masses sought benediction from mausoleums, bones, and remnants of 'saints' and from touching living sheikhs/saints or madmen! In contrast, the people of the West use healing herbs and alternative medicine and removing chemicals from food and pharmaceutical products as much as possible within a strict scientific research methodology. Each of the ancient nations from China and Chinese acupuncture to India, Europe, Arabia, and Africa has their traditions of healing with food items, herbs, plants, etc., but they never ascribe such traditions to God, His Religion, and His prophets/messengers; within modern science, the people of the West have examined such medicinal traditions to draw beneficial tips from them and to discard and expose hoaxes and faulty notions found in them as well. Sadly, in the Arab world, backwardness in the social and scientific aspects is covered with the cloak of the Sunnite religion of Satan which causes misery and death in this world (not only within terrorism and violence, but also by submissively drinking/consuming items/cures mentioned in hadiths) and make polytheistic Muhammadans who believe in such myths enter into Hell for eternity in the Hereafter. Any of the ancient medicinal traditions anywhere in the world has its good tips and wrong ideas; those of Arabia or any other locations must never be ascribed to Muhammad or to Islam.

Secondly:

1- The dominance of the backward, conservative, traditional Wahabi/Salafist/Sunnite trend in Egypt has been opposed by a 'progressive', anti-religion, secular trend of those who admire too much the achievements of the modern West civilization; both polarized trends expressed opposite views within all issues related to politics, arts, etc., and people within both extremes typically ridicule one another's views; thus, as Wahabis insist on spreading writings about miraculous scientific indications in the Quran and in the so-called Sunna hadiths, secularists scoffed at them and denied the existence of any scientific indications in the Quran and attacked the Quran, seeking to undermine it because they do not believe in the Hereafter and the metaphysical realm. This means that the faulty views of Salafists/Wahabis have been opposed by another fault on the part of Quran-hating secular thinkers. Both trends reject the Quranic methodology and the scientific one simultaneously; the Wahabis have distorted meanings of the Quranic verses, whereas Quran-hating secularists have denied the fact that the Quran contains miraculous scientific indications.

2- Some people who deny the fact that the Quran contains miraculous scientific indications hate the Quran and this verse applies to them: "That is because they hated what God revealed..." (47:9); some of the deniers do not hate the Quran; rather, they are heedless of it and of the Hereafter; they do not care to ponder on it within its terminology and methodology; they attribute themselves to science but they are too reluctant to apply scientific research methodology to the Quranic text in the way adopted by Quranist researchers. Indeed, those heedless persons are too arrogant with their measure of knowledge of the physical world and never pay attention to the metaphysical realm and the Hereafter.

3- The Lord God says the following in the Quran about the superficiality of such people and their likes (who are, in fact, the vast majority of human beings in all eras): "...but most people do not know. They know an outer aspect of the worldly life, but they are heedless of the Hereafter." (30:6-7). Those superficial people admire too much the achievements of the modern West civilization while forgetting that human begins use energies (committed by the Lord God to their service) whose nature/essence is not fully comprehended by them or known to them. For instance, one cannot know the nature/essence of fire and where its energy would go after it is extinguished. Similarly, we cannot know the nature/essence of gravity, the magnetic fields, and electricity and we cannot see them though we use them in our lives now.

4- Moreover, we cannot study, see, and examine souls which control human bodies and we never feel the temporary departure of souls while we are asleep. We cannot analyze living cells; we wait until they die so that we examine them in laboratories. Thus, we cannot reach the nature/essence of life in the human body and in all living organisms, from viruses, bacteria, germs, and fungi, to insects and other animals/creatures. Human beings cannot breathe life into inanimate things. The Omniscient Lord God knows all about His creatures: "Would He not know, He Who created? He is the Refined, the Expert." (67:14). When the Lord God the Creator has mentioned in the Quran some facts about life, death, and creatures, those who focus on the outer aspects of life (who deny the metaphysical realm and the Hereafter) have ridiculed the Quran; this is because most people are haters/enemies of the things they do not know.

5- Those people whose knowledge is confined to the physical realm are ignoramuses who are very arrogant and they readily mock and ridicule anything related to the Hereafter and the metaphysical realm. The ancient nations who disbelieved in messages of the Lord God conveyed by His prophets/messengers had their own knowledge and civilization (as per studying their ruins and as per archeological discoveries), and their arrogance drove them to ridicule God's messages and messengers/prophets until they have been destroyed by the Lord God: "When their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they rejoiced in the knowledge they had, and the very things they used to ridicule besieged them." (40:83). Likewise, haters of the Quran today (atheists or not) ridicule, for instance, the Quranic stories of Solomon with the ant, the hoopoe, and the throne of the Queen of Sheba and the Quranic prediction about the emergence of Gog and Magog. We discuss these Quranic topics in the coming sections of this BOOK; in the next section, we tackle the Quranic feature of the gradual revelation of scientific facts in relation to the miraculous scientific indications.

(3) Deniers of the Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Quran and the Gradual Revelation of Scientific Facts

Firstly: the outer aspect of knowledge/science:

1- The following two verses apply to the deniers of the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran: "They know an outer aspect of the worldly life, but they are heedless of the Hereafter." (30:7); "When their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they rejoiced in the knowledge they had, and the very things they used to ridicule besieged them." (40:83). This means that their own measure of knowledge/science which is related only to outer aspect of life (i.e., the physical realm) made them too arrogant to accept the Quran; they reject, undermine, and ridicule the Quran and deny the existence of any miraculous scientific indications in it.

2- Some believers today deny the existence of the Quranic miraculous scientific indications after they felt alarmed by Salafist/Wahabi articles/books about the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text and in the so-called Sunna hadiths; they fear lest a scientific fact might be refuted or proven wrong and this would make Quran-hating persons assume that there are faults in the Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications. They forget the fact that the Quran, the Lord God's Word, contains no faults; faults might exist in Quranist researchers' findings (when they ponder any topics in the Quran in the wrong manner) and never in the Quranic text itself. Of course, to err is human; we ourselves are not immune against making some mistakes and faults in our Quranist writings; any faults/mistakes in them have nothing to do with the Quran itself. Likewise, the Quran is innocent of the myths/fabrications invented by authors of books of exegeses, commentaries, interpretations, hadiths, fiqh, etc.

3- We have mentioned previously that human beings use fire, electricity, magnetic fields, gravity, etc. without fully knowing their nature/essence; human knowledge cannot reach the nature/essence of souls; human senses are limited and people cannot see everything around them; e.g., infrared and ultraviolet rays, electricity, and radio-waves. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see." (69:38-39). This means that we cannot see things which are located outside the visual field of the human eye. In the verses 69:38-39, the Lord God divides creatures/things into two types as per the human field of vision: visible and invisible. Of course, within empiricism and scientific methodology (advocated in the Quran more than 1400 years ago), human beings make use of things committed by the Lord God to the service of humankind to make up for the limitations of the human senses. This is exemplified by the Quranic story of Solomon (in the verse 27:40) by the scientific miracle of transporting the throne of the Queen of Sheba from Yemen to Palestine faster than the speed of light; this miracle was worked by a man who had knowledge from a Divine Book. More on this topic in the next section of this BOOK.

Secondly: the gradual revelation of scientific facts within history of humanity:

1- The Quranic methodology of mentioning scientific facts will be tackled later within this BOOK. Yet, we tackle briefly here one of its features; i.e., the gradual revelation of scientific facts within Quranic contexts; this is the basis of the Quranic miraculous scientific indications. The gradual revelation of scientific facts in history of human civilization and history of science is not linear; besides, some nations/civilizations were advanced (before they went extinct or got ruined/destroyed) and some were not as they remained backward and primitive. Some other nations/civilization have survived for centuries until now within progress/advancement or backwardness, but the difference is that the revolution in telecommunications made the whole planet a global village and most human beings now get to know about all progress/advancement in science and knowledge; this has made most human being move forward and no longer live in isolation and primitiveness as they draw benefits from science.

2- Some ancient civilizations which no longer exist are mentioned in the Quranic text; e.g., the Pharaonic civilization whose ruins, remains, monuments, etc. still defy time and fill people with deep awe and admiration. Of course, the destruction of such ancient civilizations led to the fact that human beings have not drawn any benefits from the scientific and technological achievements of the ancient nations (even if human beings have some knowledge about these ancient nations). Some of the destroyed ancient civilizations existed in Arabia; namely, the nations/tribes of Aad and Thamood whose ruins are buried beneath the sand of the Arabian desert. Of course, today's modern scientific progress/advancement can help discover more about the civilizations of Aad and Thamood. The Lord God says the following about the arrogance and tyranny of Aad: "As for Aad, they turned arrogant on earth, and opposed justice, and said, "Who is more powerful than us?" Have they not considered that God, who created them, is more powerful than they? And they went on denying Our Verses." (41:15); the prophet Hud said the following to Aad: "Do you build a monument on every height for vanity's sake? And you set up fortresses, hoping to live forever? And when you strike, you strike mercilessly?" (26:128-130). These Quranic verses, and the ones following them, indicate the fact that the Aad people had their own civilization and level of progress/advancement in the agricultural, military, and manufacturing fields. Similarly, the prophet Saleh said the following to the Thamood people: "Will you be left secure in what is here? In gardens and springs? And fields, and palm-trees whose fruits are delicious? And you skillfully carve houses in the mountains? So, fear God within piety and follow me." (26:146-150). The Lord God says the following about Aad, Thamood, and other destroyed and ruined ancient nations: "Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with Aad? Erum of the pillars. The like of which was never created on earth. And Thamood - those who carved the rocks in the valley. And Pharaoh of the Stakes. Those who were tyrants on earth. And spread much corruption therein." (89:6-12). Long centuries after their destruction by the Lord God, He commands people in the Quran (which was revealed in the 7^th century A.D.) to roam the earth to examine their monuments and ruins and see their powerful civilizations to draw moral lessons of them; they were mightier than the tribe of Qorayish (to which Muhammad belonged) though they lived centuries before the emergence of Qorayish: "Have they not travelled through the earth, and seen the consequences for those before them? They were stronger than them, and they left more impact on earth. But God seized them for their sins, and they had no defender against God." (40:21); "Have they not roamed the earth and seen how those before them ended up? They were more powerful than them, and they cultivated the land and developed it more than they developed it, and their messengers came to them with clear signs. God would never wrong them, but they used to wrong themselves." (30:9). Ancient civilizations which were contemporary to one another rarely had any form of contact leading to passing down of scientific knowledge; in contrast, our modern era of the global village and the revolution in telecommunications has allowed most human beings to partake of the benefits of progress/advancement in scientific explorations and inventions made anywhere on earth.

3- The revelation of the Quran is a Sign/Miracle for all humanity in all eras; the Quran has announced or ushered the commencement of this universal stage of civilization and scientific progress/advancement for all humanity before the Hour (i.e., the end of days when the universe will be destroyed); this is because (1) the Quran is the Last Message from the Lord God to all humanity from the era of Muhammad till the end of days, and (2) the Quran contains miraculous scientific indications which will continue to be examined and studied until the end of days. Consequently, some Quranic miraculous scientific indications are not fully understood now; they will be understood in the future. Hence, the heedless ignoramuses who deny the Hereafter should not ridicule the Quranic miraculous scientific indications which have not been fully comprehended yet; the gradual stages of the revelation of scientific facts in history (and future) of humanity will allow in every decade (until the end of days) a greater measure of knowledge and understanding the Quranic miraculous scientific indications as per the different progress/advancement stages of human civilization.

4- Because the Quran is the Last Message/Word of the Lord God to all humanity until the end of days, it mentions the stories of ancient nations; these Quranic histories/stories are part of the metaphysical realm of the past; i.e., human beings would never have known about them if it had not been mentioned in the Quranic text. Of course, the Quran narrates some future events as well; e.g., the Hour and the destruction of the universe and the signs of the advent of the Hour. The Quran tells us that shortly before the advent of the Hour, human beings will reach the summit of scientific progress/advancement and they will be very vain/arrogant as they will wrongly assume that they control Planet Earth: "The likeness of the present life is this: water that We send down from the sky is absorbed by the plants of the earth, from which the people and the animals eat. Until, when the Earth puts on its fine appearance, and is beautified, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it, Our command descends upon it by night or by day, and We turn it into stubble, as if it had not flourished the day before. We thus clarify the Verses for people who reflect." (10:24). This stage has not been reached yet; i.e., human beings still suffer from (1) the pollution of the environment and disturbing of its balance, (2) climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer, (3) famines, epidemics, poverty, tyranny, and corruption, and (4) natural disasters: tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions. This means that the unreached-yet stage of mastering and controlling Planet Earth as per the Quranic verse 10:24 requires controlling nature fully; this will occur shortly before the Hour takes place; this false impression or feeling that all human beings control the earth/nature means that when they will assume they can predict earthquakes and avoid their aftermaths, they will suddenly feel the tremendous earthquake of the Hour of destruction of the universe: "When the earth is shaken with its quake. And the earth brings out its loads. And man says, "What is the matter with it?" On that Day, it will tell its tales." (99:1-4). We infer from the Quranic verse 10:24 that the stage of the summit of scientific progress/advancement means that all human beings on earth, on equal footing in all areas within all continents, will share such summit of knowledge and control without differences in civilizational level, modernity, advancement, and lifestyle. By the way, this means that when the Arab nations become modernized and acquire advancement in all fields like the rest of all human beings at that stage, the Hour will take place! How horrible! Quelle horreur!

5- Of course, ancient civilizations which were contemporary to one another rarely had any form of contact leading to passing down of scientific knowledge, and many of them went extinct or were destroyed and the secret of their measure of scientific knowledge was buried with them. In contrast, the global village of today allows all human beings to enjoy and benefit from scientific progress/advancement and this will go on within the future; shortly before the Hour, human beings will feel they control the Planet Earth: with its deserts, winds, oceans, atmosphere, etc. Since this stage or summit of scientific progress/advancement has not been reached yet, we conclude that more explorations, discoveries, and inventions will be made in the future; this also means that there are miraculous scientific indications in the Quran which are not understood fully now but will be comprehended by the future generations in later eras; thus, those who disbelieve in the Hereafter should not mock and ridicule Quranic verses (which contain miraculous scientific indications) for merely not being able to understand them.

6- The Lord God says the following about Himself: "...He knows what is before them, and what is behind them; and they cannot grasp any of His knowledge, except as He wills..." (2:255). This means that the Omniscient Lord knows everything about the past, present, and future of humanity (including their deeds and levels of scientific knowledge); in contrast, human beings acquire permissible measure of knowledge allowed only within God's Will within certain times preordained by Him. Accordingly, the Divine Will includes the fact that humanity experiences the gradual revelation of scientific facts within its history; this is because history of humanity is not linear; rather, it is filled with alternating and intermittent drawbacks, backwardness, stops, progress, forward moving, etc. The Lord God has preordained gradual revelation of scientific facts within predestined measure/amount of knowledge within each era. The Quranic miraculous scientific indications assert this idea of gradualism, i.e.,knowledge accumulated incrementally over time within the course of the existence of human beings on earth. This also applies to the future eras of humanity as per the Quran, which is the Divine Word of the Omniscient Lord God: the Witness Who knows everything about the past, present, and future. The Quranic scientific indications are granted to humanity to stimulate and motivate them to (1) ponder the Quranic verses in general and (2) draw benefits from the Quran in terms of science, knowledge, and technology so that human beings would deserve to acquire and gain a measure of knowledge (regarding the universe) as per what is preordained by the Lord God the Omnipotent Creator of the universe Who allows humanity at several stages/eras to know a measure of His Knowledge which is the basis on which the universe has been created by Him.

Thirdly: the metaphysical realm of the unknown/invisible and the gradual revelation of scientific facts within history of humanity:

1- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Indeed, I swear by what you see. And by what you do not see." (69:38-39). In these verses, the Omniscient, Omnipresent Lord God divides creatures/things into two types as per the human field of vision: visible and invisible. This division does NOT apply to the Omniscient Lord God the Creator Who describes Himself here: "The Knower of the Invisible and the Visible; the Grand, the Supreme." (13:9). As we have mentioned before, the invisible sphere of unseen items includes the things we do not see but we use (e.g., electricity, waves, and magnetic fields), because everything in the universe is committed, by the Lord God's permission, to the service of humankind.

2- As per the Quran, there are two types of the metaphysical realm of the invisible and the unknown: the totally invisible and the partially invisible.

* The totally invisible items are things related or linked to the Lord God Himself; human beings will never see God, neither in this world nor in the Hereafter: "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision..." (6:103).

* The partially invisible items include ethereal beings/creatures (i.e., angels, jinn, and devils) who are never seen by human beings in this world but they will be seen on the Last Day in the Hereafter; of course, the souls of dying people see the angels of death coming to take their souls. "O Children of Adam! Do not let Satan seduce you...he sees you, him and his tribe, from where you cannot see them..." (7:27); "As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready." (50:17-18); "And every soul will come forward, accompanied by a driver and a witness. "You were in neglect of this, so We lifted your screen from you, and your vision today is keen."" (50:21-22); "Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Dominant Lord, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion. They hinder them from the path, though they think they are guided. Until, when he comes to Us, he will say, "If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts." What an evil companion!" (43:36-38); "On the Day when He gathers them all together: "O assembly of jinn, you have exploited multitudes of humans." Their adherents among the humankind will say, "Our Lord, we have profited from one another, but we have reached the term that you have assigned for us."..." (6:128).

* The partially invisible items include things humanity could not know/see in the past but which they can experience now because of scientific progress/advancement; e.g., because of today's telecommunications, a man living in Cairo, Egypt, can know/see and hear of events happening at the same time in Japan, Russia, the USA, etc. In the past, news of Mecca would reach Morocco after months of travel; the barrier of time is surmounted and surpassed now in our modern era. Of course, we talk here about news of events and not events themselves; moving/transmitting events/things in the literal, physical sense entails to neutralize gravity; however, this will be possible within the future technology, but our present technology has not yet reached that stage. The Quran indicates this possibility within the story of Solomon and how the throne of the Queen of Sheba (in Yemen) was transported into his palace (in Palestine) faster than the speed of light. Such partially invisible items within the metaphysical realm of the unknown/unseen is the field of the gradual revelation of scientific facts to human beings; of course, many scientific inventions/discoveries and technological applications have turned impossible actions linked to the metaphysical realm of the unseen/ unknown into possible actions. The Omniscient Lord God knows all about the visible and the invisible; He knows beforehand the stages of the procession of the human civilization in each generation/era. The Lord God has told us in the verse 10:24 that the end of days will occur once the scientific progress/advancement reaches its summit within the human civilization. All humanity marches towards this inevitable end and will pass through several stages until this summit of knowledge is reached; as for our modern era of today, we have already reached the level of the global village, the international community, the worldwide concern for the future of Planet Earth, and the United Nations, and let us not forget the persistent dream of globalists who aspire to form one-world government ruling the entire earth within one law and one money unit. This means that within an unreached-yet stage, Planet Earth will put on its fine appearance and will be beautified; this means there are other powers, energies, and discoveries will be reached and used one day within scientific progress/advancement beyond the nuclear energy and the renewable environment-friendly types of energy. At one future time-point, predestined by the Lord God, the dwellers/inhabitants of the Planet Earth (i.e., all living human beings) will feel the illusion that they have fully mastered and controlled the earth before the Hour; this means that we infer from 10:24 that (1) many dreams of scientists will come true one day, and (2) there are still undiscovered scientific facts which will be revealed, by the Lord God's permission first, to the next generations; once this stage is reached as per 10:24, the Hour of destruction of the universe will take place. The Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications were not understood by the Middle-Ages generations; they are largely understood now in our modern age after the accumulation of certain scientific knowledge; other Quranic verses that contain miraculous scientific indications that are not fully understood will be comprehended in the future as scientific progress/advancement increases.

Fourthly: the gradual revelation of scientific facts within history of humanity and signs/miracles granted to prophets/messengers:

1- Some miraculous scientific indications are mentioned within the contexts of the Quranic stories of prophets/messengers and the miracles (or "signs", to use the Quranic term) granted to them by the Lord God. These signs/miracles are divided into two types: (2) the signs employed to challenge deniers and disbelievers; i.e., the Quran itself granted to Muhammad and the signs granted to Moses and shown inside the palace of Pharaoh, and (2) the signs granted to save prophets; e.g., when Abraham was saved from being burned in the pyre prepared for him by the polytheists: "We said, "O fire, be coolness and safety upon Abraham."" (21:69), or the signs granted to honor the prophets; e.g., (A) the Night Journey of Muhammad from the Sacred Kaaba Mosque in Mecca to Mount Al-Tur in Sinai, Egypt, which is the Farthest Mosque, and (B) some of the signs granted to David and Solomon.

2- Some of the signs/miracles granted to some prophets are within the metaphysical sphere of possible things which preceded their eras; if one would journey back in time while having one's bicycle, car, or computer, this will seem miraculous to the people of ancient times. We mean to say that Muhammad's Night Journey from Mecca to Sinai and his return in one night is a sign/miracle in 7^th century A.D., but it is possible now in our era by any human beings who travel by plane; yet, some other signs/miracles such as the one mentioned in the verse 21:69 has not been made possible yet; no man would throw himself into a fire and get out of it unharmed, but we maintain that more scientific progress/advancement in the future may make this possible one day. The sign/miracle of healing lepers by Jesus Christ is possible in our era; Jesus told his contemporaries of things unknown; i.e., their food and stored items (i.e., he was granted a measure of knowledge about the metaphysical aspect of the unknown/unseen), but this is possible in our era within methods and tools of espionage typical of the CIA and other similar apparatuses worldwide. That Jesus healed those born blind and made them have eyesight may be possible in the very near future; it is possible now in many cases. The Lord God says the following about Jesus: "A messenger to the Israelites: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you out of clay the figure of a bird; then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the born-blind and the leprous, and I revive the dead, by God's leave. And I inform you concerning what you eat, and what you store in your homes. In that is a sign for you, if you are believers." (3:49).

3- The signs/miracles in the verse 3:49 which are impossible for human beings to achieve through scientific progress/advancement in our era (and, in fact, in all eras) are to revive/resuscitate the dead people and to create living birds out of mud; these signs granted by the Lord God to Jesus cannot be done by human beings at all; the same applies to the sign granted to Moses when the Lord God turned his staff into a real serpent; this was no magic trick.

4- Away from signs/miracles which are impossible for human beings to achieve through any stage of scientific progress/advancement before the advent of Hour, we focus on the possible ones; some of them have been achieved in our era (e.g., healing lepers, long-distance traveling in the least possible amount of time, and neutralizing fire within certain limits), and some have not been achieved yet, but they will be achieved within the future generations as per the Quranic predictions within certain miraculous scientific indications; namely, some of the signs/miracles granted by the Lord God to David and Solomon, which are discussed in the next section.

(4) The Miraculous Scientific Indications in the Quran: the Signs/Miracles of David and Solomon

The nature of the message:

David was the king who ruled the Israelites and his successor was his son, Solomon. Both David and Solomon are among the Lord God's messengers/prophets, and their test in life was not within ordeals/hardships but within having many bounties and signs/miracles granted to them by the Lord God. The monotheistic call of (There is no God but Allah) within the Israelites centered on sending several prophets/messengers and Scriptures from the era of Moses and Aaron to the eras before the kingdom of the Israelites in the Levant ruled by David and Solomon. Within the era of David, the Scripture or Divine Book granted to him is known as Zabur, and it does not focus much on calling others to adhere to the monotheism of (There is no God but Allah), as its main focus is on scientific aspects manifesting themselves within signs/miracles granted to David and then to his son and successor Solomon who inherited Zabur and the throne and kingdom of his father.

Zabur granted to David:

The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "We have inspired you, as We had inspired Noah and the prophets after him. And We inspired Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and Jesus, and Job, and Jonah, and Aaron, and Solomon. And We gave David Zabur." (4:163);this verse distinguishes David and the Book granted to him as something exceptional and outstanding when compared to other Books/Scriptures granted to other messengers/prophets. The same meaning is repeated here: "Your Lord knows well everyone in the heavens and the earth. We have given some prophets advantage over others; and to David We gave Zabur." (17:55); this means that the Lord God has distinguished David by granting him a very special Celestial Book known as Zabur.

The Quranic terms (Zabur) and (Zubur):

This term (Zabur) in the Quranic tongue (and the Arabic one) is a singular-form word which literally means (the book) and its plural form (i.e., books) in the Arabic and Quranic tongues is the term (Zubur). Within the Quranic terminology, the term (Zubur) is used within the following contexts.

1- The term (Zubur) describes Celestial Books or Divine Scriptures in general granted by the Lord God to His messengers/prophets: "If they accuse you of lying, messengers before you were accused of lying. They came with the proofs, and the Books/Zubur, and the Illuminating Scripture." (3:184); "We did not send before you except men whom We inspired. So ask the people of knowledge, if you do not know. With the clarifications and the Scriptures/Zubur. And We revealed to you the Reminder, that you may clarify to the people what was revealed to them, and that they may reflect." (16:43-44). The "Reminder" is the Quran itself; the following verse is about the Quran containing the teachings mentioned in the previous Scriptures revealed by the Lord God: "And it is in the Scriptures/Zubur of the ancients." (26:196); this Quranic fact is explained further here: "Nothing is said to you but was said to the messengers before you..." (41:43).

2- The term (Zubur) refers also to books of falsehoods and lies which are the bases of earthly/terrestrial religions whose followers are divided into sects and doctrines, and each of these sects has its own set of 'holy' books. The Lord God says the following about the fact that all monotheists in all eras (as the nation of the Lord God) have one religion and the same Scripture/Book: "O messengers, eat of the good things, and act with integrity. I am aware of what you do. This nation of yours is one nation, and I am your Lord, so fear Me." (23:51-52); this is about the essence of the content of all celestial messages granted by the Lord God to all prophets/messengers; polytheists differ regarding the Divine Book and splinter into sects and factions while each of them has 'holy' books: "But they tore themselves into sects with books/Zubur; each party happy with what they have." (23:53); this is mentioning briefly the repeated history of religion in all eras; namely, the True Religion comes in the Celestial Book from the Lord God, once messengers/prophets died, polytheists readily reject the Divine Scripture and form their devilish, earthly doctrines within several 'holy' books authored by men. The same meaning is repeated in the following context: "This nation of yours is one nation, and I am your Lord, so worship Me. But they splintered themselves into factions. They will all return to Us." (21:92-93). The Muhammadans within their earthly/terrestrial man-made religions have many 'holy' books replacing the Quran which is discarded and rejected by them; e.g., Al-Bokhary book of hadiths.

3- The term (Zubur) refers here to the Books of Deeds of human beings recorded by the Lord God's angels: "Everything they have done is in the Books/Zubur." (54:52).

4- The term (Zubur) is mentioned in the context of the Quranic story of Gog and Magog who are entrapped beneath the crust of the earth by Zu Al-Qarnayn who used all powers and potentials bestowed on him by the Lord God: ""Bring me Zubur of iron" So that, when he had leveled up between the two mounds, he said, "Blow." And having turned it into a fire, he said, "Bring me copper to pour over it."" (18:96); this means that Zu Al-Qarnayn had book(s) that made him control and shape/mold the atoms of iron and copper (and may be other metals as well); this miracle is a level of technology unreached yet within our era. The topic of Gog and Magog is tackled in detail in a coming section of this BOOK.

5- The term (Zabur) is employed here to name the Book granted to David and Solomon; it is a book containing scientific knowledge and also verses about monotheism/piety and some predictions: "We have written in Zabur, after the Remembrance, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous servants. Indeed, in this is a message for people who worship." (21:105-106).

Zabur and the signs/miracles of David and Solomon:

The Lord God mentions in the Quran the signs/miracles that He granted to David and Solomon within four contexts as follows: (A) "And so We made Solomon understand it, and to each We gave wisdom and knowledge. And We subjected the mountains along with David to sing Our praises, and the birds as well - surely We did. And We taught him the making of shields for you, to protect you from your violence. Are you, then, thankful? And to Solomon the stormy wind, blowing at His command towards the land that We have blessed. We are aware of everything. And of the devils were some that dived for him, and performed other, lesser tasks. But We kept them restrained." (21:79-82); (B) "And We gave David and Solomon knowledge. They said, "Praise God, who has favored us over many of His believing servants."" (27:15); (C) "We bestowed upon David favor from Us: "O mountains, and birds: echo with him." And We softened iron for him. "Make coats of armor, and measure the succession well; and work righteousness. I am Observant of everything you do." And for Solomon the wind - its outward journey was one month, and its return journey was one month. And We made a spring of copper flow for him. And there were sprites that worked under him, by the leave of his Lord. But whoever of them swerved from Our command, We make him taste of the torment of Hell. They made for him whatever he wished: sanctuaries, statues, bowls like pools, and heavy cauldrons. "O House of David, work with thankfulness," but a few of My servants are thankful." (34:10-13); and (D) "...and mention Our servant David, the resourceful. He was obedient. We committed the mountains to glorify with him, in the evening and at daybreak. And the birds, gathered together. All obedient to him. And We strengthened his kingdom, and gave him wisdom and decisive speech." (38:17-20). This means that the Book/Scripture named as Zabur allowed such miracles/signs to occur as David and Solomon controlled iron, copper, the wind, the jinn, etc. and knew the tongues of birds, mountains, etc. Some miracles/signs will never occur again (regarding knowing the tongues of birds and mountains and controlling jinn), but some other miracles/signs can take place later on within a higher level of scientific knowledge; i.e., controlling the atoms of metals such as iron and copper. Within the context of the story of Solomon, we know that Solomon extended the use of Zabur and that some others around him had knowledge of Zabur and used it; e.g., the man who had knowledge from Zabur managed to transport the throne of the Queen of Sheba faster than the speed of light; this means that this man neutralized gravity; this miracle/sign is the hope of scientists now; they desire to reach this stage of scientific progress/advancement in the near future.

The throne of the Queen of Sheba was miraculously transported from Yemen to the Levant:

We read the following verses within the context of the Quranic story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: "He said, "O notables, which one of you will bring me her throne before they come to me in submission?" An imp of the sprites said, "I will bring it to you before you rise from your seat. I am strong and reliable enough to do it."He who had knowledge from the Book said, "I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you." And when he saw it settled before him, he said, "This is from the grace of my Lord, to test me, whether I am grateful or ungrateful. He who is grateful, his gratitude is to his own credit; but he who is ungrateful - my Lord is Independent and Generous."" (27:38-40); this means that this man among the courtiers of king Solomon who had knowledge from the Book known as Zabur neutralized gravity and brought before Solomon the throne of the Queen of Sheba faster than the speed of light. This miracle/sign of transporting items in such a speed is possible within a later stage of scientific progress and technological advancement. We do not specialize in natural sciences; we specialize in analyzing the Quranic text; we hope very much that scientists would comment on the Quranic verses (discussed in this BOOK) that contain miraculous scientific indications, especially in relation to gravity and centrifugal force and how human beings (and matter in general) can be transported one day faster than the speed of light without being destroyed.

Zabur and the Lord God's authorization:

We infer that the Book of David and Solomon, Zabur, was the Lord God's authorization through which they neutralize gravity and time; this type of authorization (in our view) is the one intended here: "O communities of jinn and humans! If you can pass through the bounds of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and pass. But you will not pass except with authorization." (55:33); thus, without this authorization from the Lord God, this attempt will destroy them: "You will be bombarded with flares of fire and brass, and you will not succeed." (55:35); this exception of (authorization) means that this is not impossible as per the Lord God's Will when He allows a certain measure of knowledge to be bestowed on human beings before the end of days: "...He knows what is before them, and what is behind them; and they cannot grasp any of His knowledge, except as He wills..." (2:255); this authorization by the Lord God mentioned in 55:33 will come shortly before the end of days, when the human beings feel they mastered/controlled the entire earth: "The likeness of the present life is this: water that We send down from the sky is absorbed by the plants of the earth, from which the people and the animals eat. Until, when the Earth puts on its fine appearance, and is beautified, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it, Our command descends upon it by night or by day, and We turn it into stubble, as if it had not flourished the day before. We thus clarify the Verses for people who reflect." (10:24). Anyway, this is part of miraculous scientific indications that will be realized in the future, proving that the Quran is God's Word to all humanity; these scientific indications in the Quran indicate what will be possible in the future and they should encourage scientists to try and achieve in later eras what seems to be impossible today.

"...and measure the succession well..." (34:11):

Transporting the throne of the Queen of Sheba faster than the speed of light cannot be achieved now by human beings within the current modern scientific knowledge at this stage; this means that it was a marvelous sign/miracle that occurred during the era of Solomon more than 25 centuries ago. Apart from signs/miracles of Zabur which can never be repeated, there are possible signs/miracles which will occur in the future with more advances in science and technology; e.g., the one mentioned here: "...We made the eye of copper flow for him..." (34:12); this means Solomon controlled atoms of copper, and they flowed and were molded without heating the copper with fire; the same applies to David in relation to iron molded by him (when it is cold) to make light clothes/armor to protect people without hindering their movement: "...And We softened iron for him." (34:10); "We bestowed upon David favor from Us: "O mountains, and birds: echo with him." And We softened iron for him. "Make coats of armor, and measure the succession well..." (34:10-11). This will be possible in the future as per what we infer from the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran and as per the Lord God's Will when He bestows such knowledge to humanity later on after giving it to David and Moses as a miracle/sign within the Lord God's Book known as Zabur. So as to understand the gradual revelation of scientific facts within the history of humanity, let us ponder on this phrase uttered by the Lord God to David: "...and measure the succession well..." (34:11). The idea of measure here is about planning to execute or apply a certain process based on a scientific fact; this is like today's feasibility studies of any projects within the complications and circumstances of reality. The idea of succession here is about sequence of events taking place on earth; we infer from this Quranic phrase "...and measure the succession well..." (34:11) that the Lord God has commanded David that when he applied verses from Zabur, he was to measure the time and culture/circumstances of people of his era as they never understood this huge leap in scientific or technological advancement; it is destined (a per what we infer from the Quranic predictions) that humanity one day (not in our era, but later on) will achieve this control of metals as the case was with David and Solomon. We should heed this lesson very carefully; sadly, Arabs (we mean specifically the Muhammadans) misuse modern technology; e.g., through the cyberspace, anonymous ignoramuses write comments and emails to insult our person as they hate us for being a Quranist thinker who offers unprecedented ponderings on the Quran.

The laughter-inducing discourses/narratives of 'interpreters':

The Middle-Ages Sunnite authors of 'exegeses', 'commentaries', and 'interpretations' of the Quran authored laughter-inducing, silly, and nonsensical discourses and narratives which have nothing to do with the Quran, of course. In order to undermine, refute, and ridicule the polytheistic ignoramuses who sanctify and venerate Sunnite heritage books of traditions (hadiths, fiqh, exegeses, etc.), with or without reading them, and insult our person via cyberspace within YouTube, the social media networks, and Wahabi/Salafist websites, we quote below three passages from the book of exegeses by Al-Qurtubi concerning the Quranic stories of David and Solomon.

Al-Qurtubi writes the following 'interpretive' comment about this Quranic verse: "And Solomon succeeded David. He said, "O people, we were taught the language of birds, and we were given from everything. This is indeed a real blessing."" (27:16).

(... The narrator Muqatil said that king Solomon was sitting outdoors one day, and he saw a bird flying near him; Solomon said to his entourage men to guess what this bird said to him; they told him they could never know; he told them that the bird greeted him with the greetings of peace as the Prophet of God and the mighty king of the Israelites; the bird told him further that God granted him many miracles besides the eminent victory all the time over his enemies whenever he fought them. Solomon told them that the bird excused itself to tend its small ones for a short while and that it shall return to him. Soon enough, the bird returned to Solomon, greeted him with the greetings of peace, and it offered Solomon to be with him all the time to inform him of many secrets, but only after its small ones would grow up and depend on themselves; Solomon gave the bird permission to go and to later on live in his palace for the rest of its life; Solomon told his entourage men about this conversation ... Another narrator, Farqad Al-Sabikhy, said that Solomon was walking in his vast orchard along with his entourage men and courtiers; he came across a nightingale shaking its head and tail on a tree branch; Solomon said to his entourage men to try to guess what this nightingale said; they told him they could never know; they told Solomon that he should know because he was the Prophet of God endowed with miracles; he told them that the nightingale said that it ate half of a grape; it does not want anything else in this life to feel happy and chirp ... When Solomon passed by a hoopoe sitting on a tree branch, he realized that a boy had set a trap to catch the hoopoe; when Solomon told the hoopoe to beware of such a trap, the hoopoe laughed and told the Prophet of God to calm down; the hoopoe just ridiculed the brainless boy. Hours later, Solomon passed by the same tree and found that the hoopoe was entrapped by the boy who caught it in his hands; Solomon asked the hoopoe how come that he fell into the trap so easily despite being cautious and despite its sharp eyesight that makes it see water miles away; the hoopoe told Solomon that everything is ordained by Fate and everyone is blindly marching to one's death ... The hadiths-narrator Al-Kaab said that the king Solomon, son of David, was once sitting in a lush, verdant garden with his courtiers and entourage men; he listened attentively to the conversation between a hoopoe and a peacock; Solomon asked his men if they can guess the conversation, and when they answered him in the negative, he told them that the hoopoe and the peacock told each other that it is silly that human beings, who are destined to die anyway, establish grand edifices that will turn into ruins eventually; it is very sad that human beings never know why they are created; they should have wished they were never created; human beings fall into the traps they set for one another and are judged by the scales they use to judge and weigh words of others; the miserable human beings who are merciless shall never have mercy unless they sincerely repent ... A hadith of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, is narrated by Abou Hurayrah about not to kill any hoopoes because they are wise birds who perform the act of worship of fasting; a hoopoe told Adam about the location of the Sacred Kaaba ... Solomon continued telling his men about the conversation between the hoopoe and the peacock; he told them that they said that repentant sinners who sincerely implore God for forgiveness shall be forgiven; all living mortals are bound to die eventually and all novelty wears off; pious human beings should perform good deeds to find mercy ... We are not to kill hoopoes; Adam, after being expelled from Paradise, felt lonely and a hoopoe was the only company he had after he complained to God about his feeling lonely and miserable ... The conversation went on between the hoopoe and the peacock, and Solomon told his men that both birds glorified God's Name and cursed sinners and greedy, stingy men; this transient world will come to an end eventually; it's silly to hoard money/gold or anything else; talking is made of silver and silence is made of gold; only the wise men are mostly silent; cursed in Hell are those who care only about this transient world and forget about the Eternal Abode in the Hereafter ... Another narrator, Maqhool, said that Solomon, king of the Israelites, heard the voice of a rooster at dawn; he asked his men to guess what the rooster said; when they told him they never know the tongues of God's creatures, Solomon told him that the rooster praises the Dominant Lord and His Throne ... This reminds me of the hadith of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, narrated by Al-Hassan Ibn Ali Ibn Abou Talib, about that when the voice of roosters, cock-a-doodle-do, is heard, believers must glorify the Holy Name of God as roosters can see angels descending on earth ... This reminds me also of the hadith of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, narrated by Al-Hassan Ibn Ali Ibn Abou Talib, about falcons which curse the haters of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his holy descendants and family members, whereas eagles remind human beings that they are mortals who will inevitably die and be resurrected and judged by God, but hawks advise others to be recluses and hermits, as getting away from people is a blessing and a source of comfort, while the swallows recite the Quranic Chapter One every dawn like imams of mosques ...).

Al-Qurtubi writes the following 'interpretive' comment about these Quranic verses: "Until, when they came upon the Valley of Ants, an ant said, "O ants! Go into your nests, lest Solomon and his troops crush you without noticing." He smiled and laughed at her words, and said, "My Lord, direct me to be thankful for the blessings you have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do good works that please You. And admit me, by Your grace, into the company of Your righteous servants."" (27:18-19).

(... The narrator named as Al-Sha'aby said that in ancient times, ants had wings and were among the flying beasts, as ants are the wisest among God's creatures, but later on, ants lost their wings and they have to walk on their legs now like insects; when Solomon was in Arabia during his conquests, he passed the valley of Sadeer which is filled with thousands of ants in a huge colony; Solomon heard the words of a lame ant when it was three miles away from the location of the camp of his troops, as per the hadith narrated by Al-Zamakhshary who also asserted that the name of this female ant was Takhya; yet, Al-Sahly, another hadiths-narrator, said that the name of the ant was Hermia, as per several hadiths narrated by a series of narrators....... The narrator named as Wahb said that the wind was at the command of king Solomon and consequently it carried the words of the ant to him; this ant was inside a valley in Yemen, where Solomon's troops settled in a camp, and the ants in Yemen at these times of antiquity were as big as wolves or sheep; if the horses of the huge troops of Solomon would have passed by them, these ants would have been crushed and torn to pieces, but only God knows how this might have been possible. Narrators of hadiths asserted that the ant talked in the human tongue familiar to Solomon and his Israelite people at the time and that Solomon reproached the ant for fearing him and his military troops since the wise ant must have known that he was God's prophet who adhered to justice all his life; the ant told Solomon that it desired to make other ants keep praising and glorifying God's Name and never be distracted by the troops and the procession of king Solomon, the greatest monarch on earth. Solomon commanded the wise ant to teach him some pearls of wisdom; she asked him why his father was named David and he as Solomon....... ... The ant advised Solomon to adhere to Zabur, the Book he inherited from David; it told him that God made the wind obey his commands so as to remind him that in this transient world, all was vanity and a chasing after wind. Solomon smiled at the ant and admired its wisdom; the ant excused itself for a moment and returned to the colony to ask other ants if they can bring a gift for king Solomon; the ants said that they had nothing but one small grape; the ant carried it and the wind carried the ant while she carried the grape; the wind was faster than the speeds of human beings, prophets, birds, and jinn; thus, the ant reached Solomon and let the grape from its mouth to make it fall into his hands; Solomon thanked the Lord God and thanked the ant, telling her it was a precious gift since the ants had nothing else to eat and to give; the happy ant recited these lines of poetry to Solomon: The Lord God accepts the offerings given by the pious needy ones, though He does not need anything / No offerings can be deemed as equal to God's Majesty and Greatness /This is why thankful people who love one another love giving and receiving gifts /Otherwise, The Generous Lord God will not bestow His mercy upon them ... This reminds me of the hadith narrated by Abou Hurayrah who said that Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, said that within an ancient era, an ant had bitten a prophet of God; he was so furious that he commanded his followers to burn the entire colony of ants; God came to this prophet, in a vision/dream, to reproach him for burning thousands of ants which glorified His Holy Name, telling him that he should have punished one ant which had bitten him ...).

These blasphemous last lines in the false hadith within the above passage are very insulting to the Lord God. Here is another laughter-inducing passage from the mythology authored by Al-Qurtubi within his 'interpretive' comment about these Quranic verses: "An imp of the sprites said, "I will bring it to you before you rise from your seat...He who had knowledge from the Book said, "I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you."..."Disguise her throne for her, and we shall see whether she will be guided, or remains one of the misguided." When she arrived, it was said, "Is your throne like this?" She said, "As if this is it."...It was said to her, "Go inside the palace." And when she saw it, she thought it was a deep pond, and she bared her legs. He said, "It is a palace paved with glass." She said, "My Lord, I have done wrong to myself, and I have submitted with Solomon, to God, Lord of the Worlds."" (27:39-44).

(... The hadiths-narrator, Wahb, said that this imp or sprite was named Coden, but Al-Sahly, another narrator, mentions that it was named Zequan; other narrators asserted in their hadiths that its name was Daawan; yet, the narrator Abdullah Ibn Abbas mentions that its name was Sakhr ... This reminds me of the hadith of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, narrated by Abou Hurayrah, in the book by Al-Bokhary, as he said that the Holy Prophet Muhammad said that an imp of sprites tried to distract him during prayers, but God allowed the Holy Prophet to chase this sprite away forever ... Another hadith in the book titled (Al-Mowata') by the Holy Imam, Malik, mentions that a series of narrators said that Yahya Ibn Saeed said that the Holy Prophet Muhammad said that during the Night-Journey, he saw an evil sprite of the jinn chasing him everywhere while carrying a torch of fire, but eventually, Gabriel taught him words to use in his supplications to God to make evil sprites of jinn avoid him forever; when he uttered these words, this evil sprite flew away ... This imp of the sprites promised Solomon to bring the throne of the Queen of Sheba in a very short time; this imp could have carried it and fly through the sky; Ibn Abbas mentions that bringing her throne to Jerusalem symbolizes the dominance of Solomon over the Queen of Sheba as he married her later on; but Solomon commanded those around him to get her throne in the least amount of time possible; the knowledgeable man who memorized Zabur, the Book/Scripture given by God to David, managed to summon more power to bring her throne in a blink of the eye. Hadiths-narrators said that this Israelite man's name was Asef Ibn Berkhiyya, and he also knew the Holiest Name of the Lord God, which when used by anyone during any supplications, one's wishes/prayers will be granted/answered by God immediately ... Aisha, wife of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, said that her husband said that God's Holy Name used by Asef Ibn Berkhiyya, the son of the maternal aunt of Solomon, was The Living, the Watchful Lord, mentioned in the Quranic verse 2:255, which is pronounced in Hebrew like this:....... Muslims are advised to use it in their supplications...... As for disguising the throne of the Queen of Sheba, this means that Solomon commanded his men to change it by turning it upside down or to put its decorations, which were in the higher part it, within the lower part of the throne, while putting the decorations which were in the lower part in its higher part. Some other hadiths-narrators asserted that changing her throne means to remove the precious stones encrusted on it. This is because Solomon followed the advice of sprites, devils, and jinn serving him when they told him to test the Queen of Sheba to see if she was a woman of reason or not; some of the devils told Solomon that she was lame and her mind was not very sharp. This is why Solomon had to make the Queen of Sheba feel as if she had to pass through a pond, paved with transparent glass above its surface inside the palace, to force her to bare her legs to see if she one of them is deformed or not before he would ask her hand in marriage ... Many hadiths-narrators mentioned that this palace of Solomon in Jerusalem was the most magnificent edifice on earth at the time. Wahb, the narrator, said that Solomon tested her intelligence and desired also to refute the claims of devils/jinn that the Queen of Sheba had a hairy leg of a she-ass. When the Queen of Sheba saw the pond at first, she felt frightened as she thought that Solomon desired to drown her to rule Sheba, in Yemen, instead of her; Solomon heard his jinn/devils claim that her mother was a jinn and not a human being; he had to refute their claim by testing the Queen of Sheba ... Before proposing to her, Solomon made sure that her legs are human ones; yet, he noticed that her legs are hairy; Solomon sought the advice of his faithful jinn regarding how to remove hair from her legs without hurting her; they told him to build a huge bath of very hot water so that she would bathe alone; this is the origin of the public baths of today in the Levant and elsewhere ... When she became the wife of Solomon, she had not settled in the Levant as she ruled over Sheba, in Yemen, as its Queen; Solomon visited her once a month, for three days, and he came to her while being carried with fast winds under his command; she bore him a son, named David, which died during his infancy ... Some hadiths-narrators, as per the narrator named Al-Qosheiry, asserted that our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, said that the name of the Queen of Sheba was Bilqis, a woman with a reputed rare beauty and a pair of very beautiful, white legs, and that in the Hereafter, she will be Solomon's wife in Paradise as she was during his lifetime. When Aisha heard this, she felt jealous and asked her husband if the legs of Bilqis will be prettier than hers in Paradise; her husband assured her that inside Paradise, she and her legs will be more beautiful than Bilqis ... Al-Thaalaby said that Abou Moussa said that our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, said that king Solomon was the first man on earth to build public baths, in the Levant, while advising his people to remember the Inferno of the Hereafter whenever they felt the hotness of the water of such baths, as he felt extreme hotness when he entered into this bath once the builders finished it and heated the furnace; this reminded Solomon of Hell ... Solomon loved the Queen of Sheba very much; after they were married, she told him that she must rule Sheba, in Yemen, once more as a Queen; he could never refuse her anything; Solomon traveled faster than the wind, from the Levant to Yemen, to visit her once a month to spend three nights with her. Besides, he made his jinn under his command build her three massive citadels to deter the enemies against conquering Sheba .... Other hadiths-narrators mentioned that Solomon did not marry the Queen of Sheba; he merely asked her to choose a husband if she insisted on retrieving her throne and her rule in Sheba, and she chose, as a husband, the king of Hamadan, and Solomon promised her to make the king and queen of the jinn inside Yemen to obey her only if she would convert to Islam, and she agreed. The jinn served her and built many factories and edifices for her; yet, the jinn left her and vanished from her sight once Solomon died. Many hadiths-narrators asserted that Solomon never proposed to the Queen of Sheba who was the descendants of 40 leaders and kings within the lineage of Qahtan in Arabia, whose ancestry reached Sam the son of Noah; many of her ancestors ruled Yemen for centuries; the father of Bilqis was one of the kings of Yemen and he married Rihanna, a she-jinn who was the daughter of the king of jinn tribes inside Yemen, as per the hadith of our Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God descend upon him, narrated by Abou Hurayrah; since Bilqis had no brothers or sisters, she was the only heir who should have ascended to the throne of Yemen easily once her father died; yet, at first, the affluent notables among the people of Yemen chose a man as their king instead of Bilqis, but this king was very corrupt and bad; he even raped many married and unmarried women inside his kingdom; when people sought the help of the rightful heir, Bilqis, to get rid of this sinful king, she schemed to kill him and retrieve her usurped crown and throne; she proposed to him and promised to be his faithful wife; he readily agreed because he was infatuated with her beauty; within the bridal night of consummation of the marriage, she refused to share his bed unless he would drink from her wine prepared specially for him; when he became very drunk, she drew her sword, which was hidden beneath the bed, and cut his head off; she put his severed head, with a string, on the gate of the palace; people felt overjoyed as the tyrant was dead and they pledged loyalty and swore fealty to Bilqis as their Queen ...).

Lastly:

There is a huge gap (or rather an abyss) between the greatness of the Quran and the myths of the so-called Quran 'interpreters' who wrote exegeses and commentaries during the Middle-Ages; their myths harken back to the oral traditions dominant during the Umayyad era; the Umayyad caliphs hired them to fabricate hadiths ascribed by force to Muhammad so that they serve certain political ends by shaping religious ideas of the masses; within such a historical context, orators/narrators in mosques fabricated many stories about prophets/messengers to captivate hearts of their audiences and catch their attention all the time; those liars narrated hadiths as if they were present (as contemporaries!) with Adam, Solomon, David, Noah, Moses, etc. The gullible people believed in such myths/hadiths for their merely being attributed to Muhammad after his death. During the Abbasid Era, such myths were written down within many books; the hadiths increased exponentially as many fabricators/narrators aimed to please the Abbasids who paid them handsomely to serve political ends and establish their theocracy. This is how hadiths and fiqh emerged in order to form the full-fledged terrestrial/earthly Sunnite religion later on. Despite our endeavors to raise the awareness of people about the Only True Islam (i.e., Qurnaism) within our website, most of them adhere to Sunnite and non-Sunnite myths; if they die within such heedlessness and naivety, they will be inconsolable inside Hell in the Hereafter.

(5) "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22)

Firstly:

In the mid-1970s, at one day, we were running in one of the streets in Cairo, Egypt, and we sprained one of our ankles and felt a searing pain in our foot; we kept limping for days; we reflected on our previous state of excellent health and how we moved swiftly; we remembered that many people suffer blindness, deafness, paralysis, etc., and we pondered deeply on these two Quranic verses: "And He has given you something of all what you asked. And if you were to count God's bounties, you would not be able to enumerate them. The human being is unjust and disbelieving." (14:34); "And if you tried to enumerate the bounties of God, you will not be able to count them. God is Forgiving and Merciful." (16:18); hence, most people are not thankful for blessings/bounties (including good health and the ability to move about) bestowed on them by the Lord God; He can withdraw these bounties anytime from anyone, temporarily or forever. Thus, we have understood one of the meanings of this Quranic verse: "It is He who transports you across land and sea. Until, when you are on ships, sailing in a favorable wind, and rejoicing in it, a raging wind arrives. The waves surge over them from every side, and they realize that they are besieged. Thereupon they pray to God, professing sincere devotion to Him: "If You save us from this, we will be among the thankful ones."" (10:22). This Quranic phrase "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22) has set our mind a-thinking; why do we find here equality between moving across the land and across the sea? One can walk in the land or take any means of transportation; yet, this is not linked only to the ability of the human body to move at certain speeds; this is also linked to calculations of gravity and the relation between time, place, and motion. For instance, let us imagine that there is a flea on a man's head who is inside a train; the flea moves inside his head while not feeling the movement of the train; the man himself cannot feel the movement of the earth around its axis and around the sun; he (inside the train and otherwise) cannot feel the movement of the solar system around the center of the Milky Way galaxy and that this galaxy (with it planets, moons, stars, black holes, etc.) moves within an unimagined speed around the center of the universe. Science tells us about the counter-universe, moving in the opposite direction of ours, which will collide with our universe and will destroy it. Within such movements within unimagined speeds, the overlapping metaphysical realm moves along, and of course, science tells us only about the observable universe; we know nothing about the peripheries or 'borders' of the universe and we know little, for instance, about the dark matter. We conclude that the Quranic phrase "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22) refers to the Lord God's laws which allow movement on earth within limits of air, gravity, space, time, and speed.

Secondly:

We are not a specialist in astronomy; we hope astronomers would analyze and reflect on Quranic verses about the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) in relation to their knowledge within their field of specialization. From our general knowledge, we know that if the sun moves away from its distance from the Planet Earth (or if it gets closer!), life on earth will cease and human beings would not be able to move across the land or across the sea. Sadly, it is typical that most human beings seldom ponder on the bounties bestowed on them by the Lord God (especially good health) and they take them for granted. As we have mentioned in a previous section of this BOOK, the Quranic miraculous scientific indications come within the context of urging people to guide themselves within monotheism by the Quranic Truth; thus, the Quranic phrase "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22) comes within the context of warning and preaching the readers of the Quran. Sadly, most human beings are ungrateful to the Lord God for the bounties He has bestowed on them, including the ability to move (within different means of transportation) by land, by sea, and by air. Most heedless people never remember the Lord God unless when they face life-threatening situations which drive them to implore Him for deliverance. Think of The Titanic when it sank within its maiden voyage; screams of joy, drinking, romp, dancing, and promiscuity turned into screams of fright; the arrogant men on board thought it was unsinkable and did not bring enough lifeboats; most passengers drowned. No doubt that most of those who survived this tragedy forgot that they beseeched and supplicated to the Lord God fervently for deliverance (as per the monotheism instinct inculcated into the human souls and even into our DNA), and yet, they continued their heedlessness and disregard vis-à-vis the Hereafter when they attained safety: "When adversity touches the human being, he calls on Us. But then, when We favor him with a blessing from Us, he says, "I have attained this by virtue of my knowledge." However, it is a test, but most of them do not know." (39:49); "Whenever adversity touches the human being, he prays to Us - reclining on his side, or sitting, or standing. But when We have relieved his adversity from him, he goes away, as though he had never called on Us for trouble that had afflicted him. Thus the deeds of the transgressors appear good to them." (10:12); "It is He who transports you across land and sea. Until, when you are on ships, sailing in a favorable wind, and rejoicing in it, a raging wind arrives. The waves surge over them from every side, and they realize that they are besieged. Thereupon they pray to God, professing sincere devotion to Him: "If You save us from this, we will be among the thankful ones." But then, when He has saved them, they commit violations on earth, and oppose justice. O people! Your violations are against your own souls. It is the enjoyment of the present life. Then to Us is your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do." (10:22-23). Being thankful/grateful to the Lord God means to adhere to piety and monotheism for the rest of one's lifetime and to correct one's faith by excluding polytheistic notions. The Quran is the Book of Guidance and not of history or science; scientific indications aim to make believers ponder and be guided. This is the aim of all Celestial Books or Scriptures granted to all prophets/messengers in all eras. But have we fully grasped the meanings of the phrase "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22)? What is the aim of the human body's freedom of movement? Simply put, this is the test of being free to (dis)obey the commands of the Lord God; one may use one's time and body in good deeds, acts of worship, etc. or in promiscuity, sinning, etc. Freedom is the basis of the Lord God's testing human beings on earth. Hence, being forced by others to do something bad/sinful will not be punished by the Lord God: "...There is no blame on you if you err therein, barring what your hearts premeditates. God is Forgiving and Merciful." (33:5). The scientific facts summarized in a single phrase "It is He who transports you across land and sea..." (10:22), followed by the graphic scenes in 10:22-23, aim at making people guide themselves within monotheism by the Quran and to avoid being among the heedless ones; the test of life is based on responsibility through freedom of action; as per 33:5, one is judged by the Lord God if one commit sins willingly and intentionally. Of course, believers who seek Paradise in the Hereafer and wish to avoid Hell choose on their own accord to obey (body and soul) the Quranic commands of the Lord God; souls control human bodies, of course. Having read this section, one is free to choose to reject/accept and to (dis)believe in the fact that the Quran contains miraculous scientific indications.

ANNEXES of the BOOK:

ANNEXES of the BOOK:

ANNEX I: The Signs of the Advent of the Hour and the Biggest Fear

Introduction:

In one of our articles within our archive before 2010, we have covered the words "fear"/''fright'' as part of our pondering on the Quranic terminology; within this context, we have talked also about how our relative, the Quranist writer Mr. Reda Abdel-Rahman, was arrested by the policemen of Mubarak who stormed his house to catch him and how he felt frightened and so were his family members. We remind readers that any fear/fright in this world is nothing when compared to the biggest fear during the Hour when it takes place and the fear of sinners, polytheists, and the unjust ones during the Resurrection and what follows it on the Last Day; their fear/fright will go on forever inside Hell. The good, pious human beings will never experience fright or fear during the Hour, the Resurrection, and the Last-Day events. Of course, the topic of the signs of the advent of the Hour and the Last-Day events entails a lengthy book, but here, we tackle briefly the topic of the biggest fear or fright linked to the Hour when the universe will be destroyed. We urge our fellow Quranists to write their ponderings (within articles and comments) on this topic and the Quranic verses linked to it.

Firstly: the Hour has drawn near:

1- When the Lord God talked to Moses at Mount Al-Tur, in Sinai, Egypt, He told him the following: "The Hour is coming - but I keep it almost hidden - so that each soul will be paid for what it endeavors." (20:15); about one thousand years later, the Quran was revealed to Muhammad and we read in it the following verse about the signs of the advent of the Hour: "Are they just waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? Its signs have already come..." (47:18); thus, this means that the signs of the advent of the Hour have come along with the revelation/descent of the Quran 14 centuries ago.

2- Arabs were worried about the Hour and asked Muhammad several times about when it will occur; the Quran has answered them by repeating the fact that no human beings – including Muhammad – know when it will take place; no mortals dare to claim having knowledge about this topic or an answer to such a question: "They ask you about the Hour, "When will it come?" Say, "Knowledge of it rests with my Lord. None can reveal its coming except He. It weighs heavily on the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except suddenly." They ask you as if you are responsible for it. Say, "Knowledge of it rests with God," but most people do not know." (7:187); "They ask you about the Hour, "When will it take place?" You have no knowledge of it. To your Lord is its finality. You are just a warner for whoever dreads it." (79:42-45). The Omniscient Lord God is the Only One Who knows all about the Hour: "With God rests the knowledge of the Hour..." (31:34); He has told us within the Quran some facts about the Hour in a way that make our minds grasp it; for instance, the Lord God says the following about the coming of the Hour: "...It will not come upon you except suddenly..." (7:187); the word (suddenly) is not used here in the typical sense; it refers to the smallest unit of time which is faster than the speed of light (i.e., there are higher speeds we cannot measure or experience) and it is explained here: "And Our command is but once, like the twinkling of an eye." (54:50); "To God belongs the unseen of the heavens and the earth. The coming of the Hour is only as the twinkling of the eye, or even nearer. God has power over everything." (16:77).

3- The Quranic facts about the Hour revolve around two main issues: (A) the signs of the advent of the Hour, and (B) events which will occur once the Hour take place and the universe is destroyed. We write briefly below about the signs of the advent of the Hour and the fear and fright which will accompany some of them.

4- The following Quranic verse employs the past tense (in Arabic) or the present perfect in English to assert the inevitability of the taking place (in the future) of the Hour of the destruction of the universe: "The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has split. Yet whenever they see a sign, they turn away, and say, "Continuous magic."" (54:1-2). This will occur to the moon during the Hour; this has not happened yet; this will occur as patterns, systems, and designs of the universe will collapse; the heavens will be ruptured and the balance between gravity and the centrifugal force will vanish. Disbelievers and deniers reject the warning regarding the Hour; the Lord God says in the Quran: "The command of God came, so do not rush it..." (16:1); this means that this Divine Command is yet to be executed when the time comes as per Planet-Earth time-cycle predetermined by the Lord God, of course. Time on earth differs from the sense of time in the Upper Realm within the metaphysical level. The content of the very next verse; i.e., 16:2, and its coming directly after 16:1 indicates clearly that the descent of the Quran is definitely one of the signs of the advent of the Hour: "He sends down the angels with the Spirit by His command, upon whom He wills of His servants: "Give warning that there is no God but Me, and fear Me within piety."" (16:2). The same meaning is repeated here: "The Judgment of human beings has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly." (21:1). Most human beings are heedless within the past 14 centuries after the revelation of the Quran; this is because they have disregarded the Quran. The next verse shows the stance of the vast majority of people, in all eras, regarding the Quran: "No new Reminder comes to them from their Lord, but they listen to it playfully." (21:2). We infer two things here: (A) the advent/descent of the Quran (1400 years ago) is the very first sign of the advent of the Hour, and (B) the Quran mentions the signs of the advent of the Hour to warn human beings in all eras before the Resurrection Day, a.k.a. the Last Day, as the Quran is the Last Message from the Dominant Lord God to all humanity until the end of days.

Secondly: the signs of the advent of the Hour:

1- The descent/revelation of the Quran 14 centuries ago is the very first sign of the advent of the Hour; what about the other signs mentioned in the Quran as part of the countdown until the Hour comes and the universe is destroyed before the Judgment Day? By the way, the Quranic verses about this topic have nothing to do with Salafist/Sunnite/Wahabi eschatological mythology.

2- The first one of the signs of the advent of the Hour is the global village, telecommunications revolution, and scientific progress and technological advancement which give a false impression that human beings are about to control the Planet Earth and colonize other planets; the countdown for the advent of the Hour has already begun: "The likeness of the present life is this: water that We send down from the sky is absorbed by the plants of the earth, from which the people and the animals eat. Until, when the Earth puts on its fine appearance, and is beautified, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it, Our command descends upon it by night or by day, and We turn it into stubble, as if it had not flourished the day before. We thus clarify the Verses for people who reflect." (10:24). Of course, no one can predict precisely when the Hour of the destruction of the universe will occur; this is known only to the Omniscient Lord God. It is a laughter-inducing phenomenon that in the USA, some TV shows asserted (seriously and in earnest!) that the end of the world is in 2012 as per some calculations done with computers (!). We, of course, reject and refuse such a type of silly practical jokes which is akin to fear-mongering; yet, such rumors reflect true anxiety regarding the end of the world; this anxiety comes NOT from any clergymen of any type; rather, it is derived from scientists who examine and study the physical realm through natural sciences.

3- The second one of the signs of the advent of the Hour is yet to come and it is ridiculed by Quran haters and deniers; one day, it will be witnessed by people and it will be a sign indicating the miraculous Quranic feature of prediction; this sign is the creature that will come out of the earth to speak and preach to people: "And when the Word has fallen on them, We will bring out for them from the earth a creature which will tell them that people are uncertain of Our Verses." (27:82). We infer that this is among the signs of the advent of the Hour (which will occur very shortly before the Hour) because of the next verse about the Last Day: "On the Day when We gather from every community a group of those who rejected Our Verses; and they will be restrained." (27:83). This creature in the verse 27:82 will be a moving one and it will have its own free will; the Quranic word "creature" covers all living organisms, from amoeba and human beings to ethereal beings we cannot see and creatures on earth unexamined and undiscovered yet by human beings. This creature in 27:82 will speak to all human beings despite their having different tongues/languages; this means it will speak to them using one language understood by all; namely, the universal language of numbers undisputed by all people; this guess of ours is based on the fact that the digital revolution is manifested in all inventions now. Some scientific and documentary TV shows cover the topic of the discovery of (remains or footsteps of) strange semi-human beings/creatures which appear suddenly and then vanish out of sight after being photographed or videoed. Modern science has not allowed human beings to catch one of such creatures – yet. Traditions of some tribes and some travelers in the Middle-Ages record the existence of strange creatures that emerged suddenly and vanished. Their sudden (dis)appearance indicates they live beneath the crust of the earth. This asserts the existence of the creature mentioned in 27:82, and yet, the Quran-hating people who deny the Hereafter still ridicule 27:82.

4- The last sign of the advent of the Hour of destruction of the universe, which will appear very shortly before the (zero hour), is the emergence of Gog and Magog from the crust of the earth. From the 1980s, we have gathered material (from books and articles in Arabic and from books in English; we have quoted paragraphs from them and translated these paragraphs on our own) and we have written a book on this topic of Gog and Magog. After finishing this book in 2007, titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science", the only manuscript of it was given by us, in VA, the USA, also in 2007, to our relative, the young man Mr. Amr Tharwat, who came to visit us so that it will be written in an Office-Word file by our half-brother, Mr. Abdel-Latif Saeed, and sent to us via email to be published on our Quranism website (www.ahl-alquran.com); yet, after his arrival back home to Egypt, Amr Tharwat got arrested by the Mubarak-regime men and the manuscript of the book got lost forever as all things and books with him and the things/books inside our apartment in Cairo (where Amr Tharwat lived for a while) were confiscated by the policemen! Abdel-Latif Saeed was also arrested at the same time. Thus, our work of many years was lost! Gog and Magog are mentioned directly here in these verses: "Until, when he reached the point separating the two barriers, he found beside them a people who could barely understand what is said. They said, "O Zu Al-Qarnayn, Gog and Magog are spreading corruption on earth. Can we pay you, to build between us and them a wall?" He said, "What my Lord has empowered me with is better. But assist me with strength, and I will build between you and them a dam." "Bring me Zubur of iron" So that, when he had leveled up between the two mounds, he said, "Blow." And having turned it into a fire, he said, "Bring me copper to pour over it." So they were unable to climb it, and they could not penetrate it. He said, "This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes true, He will turn it into rubble, and the promise of my Lord is always true." On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:93-99); "There is a ban on the town that We had destroyed - that they will not return. Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they swarm down from every mound. The promise of truth has drawn near..." (21:95-97). Gog and Magog are mentioned implicitly or indirectly within the context of making Adam their successor on earth: "When your Lord said to the angels, "I am placing a successor on earth." They said, "Will You place in it someone who will cause corruption in it and shed blood, while we declare Your praises and sanctify You?" He said, "I know what you do not know."" (2:30). We conclude that Gog and Magog spread corruption and bloodshed on earth (they controlled Planet Earth, of course) before Adam was created; so as to prevent Gog and Magog from destroying the progeny of Adam and to give the human beings the chance, as successors on the surface of Planet Earth, to live, build their civilization, and accumulate knowledge (as part of the test of living on earth), the Lord God has enabled a man named as Zu Al-Qarnayn to imprison Gog and Magog beneath the crust of the earth. Shortly before the Quake of the Hour (mentioned in the Quranic Chapter 99), Gog and Magog will manage to get out of the crust of the earth and mingle with human beings and will experience with them the biggest fear/fright of the Hour. Thus, before the creation of Adam, Gog and Magog lived on the surface of the earth; they remained as such for a while after the progeny of Adam filled the earth and the two races could not live together; Gog and Magog were corrupters on earth; they have been imprisoned for centuries until now beneath the crust of the earth and will be allowed, as per the Lord God's Will, to re-emerge on the surface of the earth shortly before the Hour. The Quran-hating people who deny the Hereafter ridicule the Quranic verses about Gog and Magog. Yet, these verses explain three mysteries (or solve three riddles) that have baffled human beings for a long time despite scientific progress/advancement of our modern age; these mysteries/riddles are as follows: (A) lost pre-human civilizations (e.g., Atlantis), (B) the UFOs or flying saucers, and (C) the Bermuda Triangle. We deeply regret the loss of the manuscript of our book titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science"; we remember that we have written in it the fact that some Western scientists attribute such three mysteries/riddles and the phenomena linked to them to civilizations in other planets in the outer space (strangely, they also assume that so-called aliens built the Pyramids of Giza!); we beg to differ; we attribute the three mysteries to Gog and Magog who live now under the crust of the earth. The Swiss author Erich Von Daniken (whose book titled "Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past" has been quoted by the Egyptian writer Anis Mansour in his book [in Arabic] titled "Those who Came Down from Heaven") has written books (and provided many photographs in them) titled "Miracles of the Gods: A Hard Look at the Supernatural" and "The Gold of The Gods"; he tackles pre-human civilizations which had unsurpassed-yet scientific progress/advancement. Other writers/authors of the West have followed his footsteps and have written on the same topic. As for UFOs or flying saucers and the Bermuda Triangle, these topic are tackled in countless websites, many serious, specialized American TV channels of science (e.g., Discovery and National Geographic), and several books; e.g., "The Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz. Some societies are formed to study and follow the phenomenon known as the flying saucers. We, ourselves, never believe in the existence of aliens or extraterrestrial beings who supposedly live on other planets or galaxies. Many theories are there; the least known one is the following: we do believe that Gog and Magog are behind any remains related to pre-human civilizations discovered now by scientists; Gog and Magog have advanced technology that surpasses the one of human beings now, and they worry about the future of the Planet Earth; thus, Gog and Magog send some of them to follow what human beings are doing to earth. Thus, Gog and Magog, we believe, are behind the phenomena linked to the Bermuda Triangle and the UFOs. We feel we will not live long enough to be able to re-write our lost book titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science". We need the help of our fellow Quranists who will write on that topic (and contribute to a book about it) by using data available within the internet so that Quranists would offer a service to all human beings by reminding them of the Hour and its signs within a Quranist perspective.

Lastly: about Planet Earth:

As per specialized American TV channels of science (e.g., Discovery and National Geographic), modern science and its people (i.e., scientists of different specializations) admit their inability to reach all secrets of Planet Earth; for instance, many regions within the beds of oceans are yet to be explored; not all species of animals/creatures are discovered; exploring the earth is a process more complicated than studying distant planets and galaxies. In addition, many scientists assert the existence of different dimensions and levels overlapping with Planet Earth; this helps us to understand the Quranic fact about the seven Barsakh levels of the earth and the seven ones of the heavens: "God is He Who created seven heavens, and their like of earth. The command descends through them, so that you may know that God is Capable of everything, and that God encompasses everything in His knowledge." (65:12). Human beings are seized with fear within natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and erupting volcanoes. It is known that underneath the crust of the earth, there are molten rocks, metals, lava/magma, etc. within very high degrees of pressure and temperature inside the core of the earth; mountains are stabilizers of the earth's crust: "And We placed on earth stabilizers, lest it sways with them..." (21:31); "And the mountains as stabilizers?" (78:7). Any change or movement within the crust causes natural disasters like earthquakes and the eruption of volcanoes, and people entrapped in such disasters feel very frightened; yet, this is nothing compared to fear/fright within the Quake of the Hour and the oceans set on fire as the crust of the earth will be totally destroyed: "When the earth is shaken with its quake. And the earth brings out its loads." (99:1-2); "And the elevated roof. And the seething sea. The torment of your Lord is coming. There is nothing to avert it. On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation. And the mountains are set into motion. Woe on that Day to the deniers." (52:5-11); this elevated roof, in our view, is the ozone layer whose function is mentioned in this verse: "And We made the sky a protected ceiling; yet they turn away from its signs." (21:32). Climate change is a cause of serious concern now all over the globe; pollution made nature lose its balance. We do believe that black holes (formed by dead stars) in the outer space is a small-scale scenario of the Hour of the destruction of the universe. This is frequently mentioned in TV shows about the visions concerning the end of the world; this is not to mention scenarios of dangers that threaten the very existence of life on Planet Earth; e.g., nuclear war, huge asteroids colliding with earth, and epidemics. This reflects the real concern about the end of days and the destruction of the earth and the whole universe. In the Quran, we perceive the fact that the creation of the earth is mentioned on equal footing with the creation of the seven heavens; this is in contrast to the fact that the earth is like a speck of sand when its size is compared with the sizes of planets, stars, and galaxies in the observable universe; this means that the Planet Earth is very important because it is the only planet that has forms of life (i.e., there are no aliens and there is no life in the outer space); Gog and Magog lived on earth and so are human beings now; this is not to mention other living organisms: animals, plants, germs, bacteria, viruses, etc. The physical observable universe and the overlapping metaphysical realm will be destroyed and turned into zero/nothingness on the Last Day; a New, Eternal Realm will be created by the Lord God, complete with its own eternal heavens and eternal earth. The tremendous fear/fright will seize those unjust ones and criminals who never esteemed the Lord God as He should be esteemed: "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere. And the Trumpet will be blown, whereupon everyone in the heavens and the earth will be stunned, except whomever God wills. Then it will be blown another time, whereupon they will rise up, looking on. And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged. And every soul will be fully compensated for what it had done. He is well aware of what they do. Those who disbelieved will be driven to Hell in throngs. Until, when they have reached it, and its gates are opened, its keepers will say to them, "Did not messengers from among you come to you, reciting to you the verses of your Lord, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" They will say, "Yes, but the verdict of torment is justified against the disbelievers." It will be said, "Enter the gates of Hell, to abide therein eternally." How wretched is the destination of the arrogant. And those who feared their Lord will be led to Paradise in throngs. Until, when they have reached it, and its gates are opened, its keepers will say to them, "Peace be upon you, you have been good, so enter it, to abide therein eternally."" (39:67-73).

ANNEX II: The Biggest Fear when the Hour Takes Place

Introduction:

The last section brought so many comments that contained questions from our dear fellow Quranists; many of them have been answered before by our person; we recapitulate these answers briefly in the points below.

1- There is a difference between the signs of the advent of the Hour and the events which will occur when it will take place; i.e., when the universe is being destroyed. It is wrong to use the expression (the signs of the Hour); in the previous section, we have intentionally employed the more correct expression (the signs of the advent of the Hour) inferred by our person from God's Word, the Quran, about the fact that the Hour has drawn near: "The Hour has drawn near..." (54:1), and the fact that the Day of Judgment has drawn near: "The Judgment of human beings has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly." (21:1). In this section, we write briefly about the events which will occur to the universe while it is being destroyed during the Hour.

2- The Quran brings news of the Hour; God's Book, the Quran, should be doubted: "It is a portent of the Hour, so have no doubt about it, and follow Me. This is the Straight Way." (43:61); this verse comes within the context of refuting the arguments of Quran-hating polytheists who demanded from Muhammad tangible miracles like the ones granted to Jesus: "And when the son of Mary was cited as an example, your people opposed. They said, "Are our gods better, or he?" They cited him only for argument. In fact, they are a quarrelsome people. He was just a servant whom We blessed, and We made him an example for the Israelites. Had We willed, We would have made of you angels to be successors on earth. It is a portent of the Hour, so have no doubt about it, and follow Me. This is the Straight Way. And let not Satan divert you. He is an open enemy to you." (43:57-62).

3- This verse has nothing to do with the signs of the advent of the Hour: "So watch out for the day when the sky produces a visible smoke." (44:10); this verse has addressed Muhammad and his people in Arabia as deniers of the Quran were punished by thick smoke descending upon them at one time; this is asserted in the entire context we quote here: "Yet they play around in doubt. So watch out for the day when the sky produces a visible smoke. Enveloping people; this is a painful torment. "Our Lord, lift the torment from us, we are believers." But how can they be reminded? An enlightening messenger has already come to them. But they turned away from him, and said, "A crazy teacher!" We will ease the torment a little, but you will revert. The Day when We launch the Great Assault - We will avenge. Before them We tested the people of Pharaoh; a noble messenger came to them." (44:9-17); this is explained further within another Quranic context as God has imposed an infliction (i.e., smoke) on them inside Arabia: "Or are you asking them for a payment? The reward from your Lord is better, and He is the Best of providers. You are inviting them to the Straight Path. But those who do not believe in the Hereafter are swerving from the path. Even if We had mercy on them, and relieved their infliction, they would still blindly persist in their defiance. We have already gripped them with infliction, but they did not surrender to their Lord, nor did they humble themselves. Until, when We have opened before them a gate of intense torment, at once they will despair." (23:72-77).

4- The Omniscient Lord God is the Only One Who knows the metaphysical realm of (A) the past, (B) the future, and (C) the invisible; those human beings who talk about this realm outside the Quran spread and propagate mere mythology; we have mentioned many times in our writings the fact that Muhammad himself never knew about the future, as per the Quran, and hadiths containing predictions are false, fabricated ones, indeed as the case with all hadiths in general without exception. Of course, the Quran contains some verses that tackle news items about the metaphysical realm of the future, and chief among them are the ones about the Hour which will take place in a predestined point in time known only to the Lord God; we are to ponder and reflect on these verses (and be warned by them) but from within the Quran itself and as per Quranic terminology; one's ponderings might be right/true or wrong/false, whether one understands Quranic verses through modern science or not. We are against the view of those who claim that it is useless to reflect on the verses which contain miraculous scientific indications; in fact, pondering these verses is the core of preaching and warning the Muhammadans and urging them to reform themselves and adhere to monotheism if they really believe in the Hereafter. Death is the inevitable fate of all mortals and the Hour has drawn near; the Quran which descended 1400 years ago asserts that the Day of Judgment has drawn near. Thus, powerful tyrants, criminals, and sinners, who terrorize those weak, patient, helpless believers on earth and die without repentance, will experience the biggest fear, fright, and terror on the Last Day and then forever inside Hell.

5- The biggest fear, fright, and terror within the Hour and the Resurrection Day is the topic of one unfinished book of ours titled "Facts of the Resurrection Day between the Quran and Modern Science", which we began to write in the late 1980s as we have been influenced by the book titled "The Universe and the counter-Universe" by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh who tackles in it the topic of the creation of the universe and the counter-universe as both emerged once the Big Bang occurred and both of them move within elliptic trajectory in opposite directions; when they collide against each other, this is when the Hour of destruction of the universe will occur. When we read this book by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh , we saw clearly that many facts found in it correspond with many Quranic facts; hence, we spent many months collecting material for our book titled "Facts of the Resurrection Day between the Quran and Modern Science". No words in any tongues/languages can describe the biggest fear when the Hour takes place and the universe is destroyed. Details about the Hour will not be tackled in this BOOK; they will be mentioned in our book titled "Facts of the Resurrection Day between the Quran and Modern Science" when we finish and publish it on our Quranism website (www.ahl-alquran.com). We assert briefly here that as per the Quran, when the universe is destroyed and reaches the zero point, this is directly linked to the point in time when the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth and everything between them) was created.

Firstly: A summary of some Quran-supported scientific facts mentioned by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh and others:

These passages are enough to make readers able to imagine the enormity of the collusion between the universe (of heavens and the earth and everything between them [Barsakh levels, galaxies, etc.]) and the counter-universe; this will cause the explosion of the Hour or the total destruction of the universe before the emergence of the Eternal Realm of the Last Day.

4- We know from the Quran, and later on from science, that the concept of duality or pairs dominates everything on earth and in the universe (male/female, negative/positive, and passive/active) in human beings, animals, and plants, and even in matter and antimatter, electrons and antielectrons, and finally, the universe and the counter-universe. The Quran, God's Word, is the first text to mention that this concept of duality or pairs dominates all God's creatures in the universe, including animals, jinn, angels, devils, inanimate matters, stars, galaxies, atoms, etc. The Lord God is the Only One Who has no pair at all of any kind: "Say, "He is Allah, the One. Allah the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him."" (112:1-4). These verses show the concept of pairs regarding all creatures in the universe: "We constructed the heaven with power, and We are expanding it. And the earth - We spread it out - How well We prepared it! We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder." (51:47-49); "He Who created all the pairs..." (43:12). However great the amount of accumulated scientific knowledge will be, human beings will never know about all creatures in the physical universe and the ethereal ones in the metaphysical Barsakh levels and the seven heavens, let alone knowing about the counter-universe; the Omnipotent, Omniscient Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own selves, and of what they do not know." (36:36). We should always remember the calculations mentioned by Dr. Abdel-Mohsen Saleh about the collusion of matter and antimatter (within the example of the collusion between one liter of milk and one liter of anti-milk) to be able to imagine the enormity of the explosion of the Hour (and the amount of fright of human beings who will witness the Hour when it takes place) when the heavens and the earth (i.e., the physical matter of the universe with its planets, stars, galaxies, etc.) will collide with the counter-universe of antimatter.

Secondly: the total destruction of the universe will not be caused by internal factors; rather, it will be caused by the collusion of the universe and the counter-universe:

1- Some scientists of our modern era predict that the destruction of the universe may occur (billions of years later!) when (A) a huge meteoroid collides against Planet Earth, (B) a star collides against the sun, (C) the sun gets sucked into a larger black hole, or (D) the sun grows very old and explodes from the inside to turn itself into a black hole. In our view, such predictions will never take place; the Quran asserts that the destruction of the universe will not occur because of anything inside the solar system; rather, it will occur when the universe collides with the counter-universe.

2- The Lord God employs figurative, metaphorical style in the Quranic text to help the limited human mind understand and grasp a measure of knowledge about the metaphysical realm of the past, the future, and the invisible; the human mind is mainly qualified and made to understand items of the physical, visible realm. It is known that the equality between the force of gravity and the centrifugal force maintains the orbits and movements of planets and stars; the Quranic expression of this fact is that the Lord God holds the heavens and the earth (i.e., the universe) together. This means that the laws of gravity andcentrifugal force apply to the seven levels of heavens unreached by human beings: "God holds the heavens and the earth, lest they fall apart. And were they to fall apart, there is none to hold them together except He..." (35:41); hence, controlling the universe (i.e., the heavens and the earth) by maintaining or destroying it is up to the Lord God only; when the predetermined time comes by His command and permission, the universe will be destroyed and its design, systems, and patterns will collapse; the Lord God says the following in the Quran: "...He holds up the heaven lest it falls on earth - except by His permission..." (22:65).

3- The mathematical calculations within the relativity theory of Einstein have allowed other scientist to reach the solutions of some problems concerning astronomy without having to visit the outer space; their astronomical calculations have made them reach far more than they expected. The calculations of the movements of the sun and the moon made human beings have the solar and lunar calendars; the Lord God says the following in the Quran: "The sun and the moon move according to certain measures...And the heaven, He raised; and He set up the balance." (55:5-7). This means that the design, systems, and patterns of the universe are controlled by precise measures, calculations, and balance. This idea of balance applies to nature on earth, of course. With the Lord God's permission within a predestine time known only to Him, this balance will collapse when the universe is destroyed when the Hour takes place.

4- Some Quranic verses which contain miraculous scientific indications show the precise design, systems, and patterns of the universe: "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own selves, and of what they do not know. Another sign for them is the night: We strip the day out of it - and they are in darkness. And the sun runs towards its destination. Such is the design of the Almighty, the Omniscient. And the moon: We have disposed it in phases, until it returns like the old twig. The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit." (36:36-40). Everything in the universe is created in pairs: "Glory be to Him who created all the pairs..." (36:36); "We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder." (51:49); "He Who created all the pairs..." (43:12). The verses 36:36-40 indicate clearly the fact that the precisely measured/calculated movements of all celestial bodies created by the Lord God will go on until the Hour comes and the universe is destroyed.

5- We read the following in the Quran about the force of gravity and centrifugal force which keep all celestial bodies in their orbits: "God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, and then settled on the Throne. And He regulated the sun and the moon, each running for a predestined period..." (13:2). Thus, the Lord God is the Controller of the universe; He controls it completely. Human beings cannot see gravity and counter-gravity, even if they live enveloped by such forces.

6- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe? And We placed on earth stabilizers, lest it sways with them, and We placed therein signposts and passages, that they may be guided. And We made the sky a protected ceiling; yet they turn away from its signs. It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in an orbit." (21:30-33). These verses indicate the Big Bang which resulted in the emergence of the universe and the counter-universe; it is a well-known scientific fact that water is the basis of life within all living organisms; mountains are stabilizers which protect the crust of the earth, oceans, etc. so as to prevent their fall into the molten core of the Planet Earth. The protected ceiling is the Ozone layer, in our view. Of course, no one can change the design, patterns, and system of the universe except the Lord God Who will destroy the universe by an unimagined explosion resulting from the collusion of the universe with the counter-universe when the Hour comes.

7- Some people assume that thunderbolts and lightning occur randomly; this is not true; the Quran asserts that nothing occurs randomly within the realm of the Lord God the Creator Who measures everything: "...And He sends the thunderbolts, striking with them whomever He wills..." (13:13); "He to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth...Who created everything and determined its measure." (25:2). Everything in the universe has its speed and measure from less than the femtosecond to faster than the speed of light (i.e., the speed of the destruction of the universe when the Hour comes): "Everything We created is precisely measured. And Our command is but once, like the twinkling of an eye." (54:49-50)

Thirdly: the figurative style in the Quran in describing the tremendous explosion of the Hour when the universe will be destroyed:

The Arabic tongue – as well as other tongues – is not enough to express the Hour (and its tremendous explosion) which has drawn near; this is why the Lord God employs figurative, metaphorical style of language in the Quran to help human mind grasp/imagine this tremendous explosion and sounds/scenes which will accompany it. The human ears and eyes are NOT qualified to hear/see everything in the physical realm; let alone imagining how the tremendous explosion of the Hour will sound/look like; no human tongues/languages can express this tremendous explosion of the universe when the Hour takes place; hence, the Quranic text employs figurative, metaphorical style regarding this topic. We tackle in the brief points below some Quranic indications about this topic.

1- The Lord God is the Controller and Master of the Last Day; He uses the expression (the Trumpet is blown) to indicate the tremendous explosion of the Hour: "...and His is the sovereignty on the Day when the Trumpet is blown..." (6:73). This expression using the (Trumpet) indicates the sovereignty of the Eternal King: God Himself; by the way, heralds of mortal kings/queens use trumpets to announce things; this is why the figurative image or metaphor of (the Trumpet is blown) is understood by everyone in all eras. It is noteworthy that the passive voiced is used in all verses about the Hour and the Last Day; this means that human beings lose the freedom they enjoyed when they were alive on earth, when they moved and chose things freely; they have chosen to (dis)obey and to (dis)believe; this freedom of choice is granted to them by the Lord God as long as they are alive on earth. Once the Trumpet is blown (i.e., then the Hour takes place), this freedom ends and all humanity will be gathered and judged; each human soul will face its fate; no one will avoid attending the Last-Day events; the second explosion or scream (or blowing of the Trumpet) will be of the Resurrection. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "All of them, every single one of them, will be arraigned before Us." (36:32); "And the Trumpet is blown: "This is the Promised Day." And every soul will come forward, accompanied by a driver and a witness." (50:20-21);"It will be but a single scream; and behold, they will all be brought before Us." (36:53). Thus, employing the passive voice means that the freedom of humanity is lost; it is lost forever for Hell-dwellers; in contrast, it is restored to Paradise-dwellers for eternity after losing it temporarily on the Judgment Day.

2- The term (scream) is used in other verses instead of the (Trumpet). Human experience on earth makes most people refuse to believe that a scream will cause the destruction of the universe and another one will cause the Resurrection of souls of human beings; yet, the enormity of such screams cannot be imagined by the limited human mind; the figurative metaphorical style of the Quran helps us understand what will inevitably occur: "All they can expect is a single scream, which will seize them..." (36:48); "It will be but a single scream; and behold, they will all be brought before Us." (36:53);"When the Trumpet is blown. That Day will be a difficult day. For the disbelievers - not easy." (74:8-10); "But when the Deafening Noise comes to pass. The Day when a person will flee from his brother. And his mother and his father. And his consort and his children. Every one of them, on that Day, will have enough to preoccupy him." (80:33-37); "The Shocker. What is the Shocker? What will explain to you what the Shocker is?" (101:3); "And the Trumpet will be blown, whereupon everyone in the heavens and the earth will be stunned, except whomever God wills..." (39:68); "So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck." (52:45). The good deeds and monotheistic faith of those who will enter into Paradise will prevent their being struck upon Resurrection, despite the fact that they will be gathered with the rest of humanity (i.e., the frightened, struck sinners who will enter into Hell) in the same location on the Last Day. This Quranic fact must be believed by pious monotheists, even if this seems overtly impossible as per laws of physics in this physical realm of the observable universe.

3- The tremendous explosions of the Hour (the Trumpet or scream) and the Resurrection will be accompanied by movements, as per what we infer from the following verses: "On the Day when the Quake quakes. And is followed by the Successor." (79:6-7).

Fourthly: two, and not one, tremendous explosions:

1- We conclude from the Quran that there are two tremendous explosions; the one of the Hour and the one of the Resurrection, as a New, Eternal Realm will be created with eternal earth and heavens, and all humanity will be gathered and judged so that every soul will face its fate forever (either in Hell or in Paradise).

2- Those sinners who never esteemed the Lord God as He ought to be esteemed will be surprised upon Resurrection and will realize that they are losers whose loss will result in eternal perdition and damnation: "They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right. Superior He is beyond the polytheism to which they adhere. And the Trumpet will be blown, whereupon everyone in the heavens and the earth will be stunned, except whomever God wills. Then it will be blown another time, whereupon they will rise up, looking on. And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged." (39:67-69). We see here the figurative style within the word (grip), asserting the fact that the Lord God is the Master of the Last Day Who fully controls it; all humanity will lose freedom and will be judged – including prophets/messengers. Yet, the polytheistic Muhammadans insist on putting Muhammad's name (and also Ali's name) after the testimony of monotheism of (There is no God but Allah); this means that they have not esteemed the Lord God as He ought to be esteemed. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "No - when the earth is leveled, pounded, and crushed. And your Lord comes, with the angels, row after row." (89:21-22);"On the Day when the earth is changed into another earth, and the heavens, and they will emerge before God the Dominant One." (14:48). This means that a New, Eternal Realm will emerge upon the Resurrection within the second tremendous explosion which will follow the first one of the Hour of destroying the universe. This New, Eternal Realm will have beginning and will never have an end; it will witness the presence of the Dominant Lord God and His angels; it will include Hell and Paradise and both will house their dwellers for eternity; i.e., the dwellers of Hell and the dwellers of Paradise will never die. This is in contrast to the transience of the physical universe of the heavens and the earth and to the fact that human beings on earth are mortals.

3- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "And they say, "When will this promise be, if you are truthful?" All they can expect is a single scream, which will seize them while they feud. They will not be able to make a will, nor will they return to their families. The Trumpet will be blown, then behold, they will rush from the tombs to their Lord. They will say, "Woe to us! Who resurrected us from our resting-place?" This is what the Dominant Lord had promised, and the messengers have spoken the truth." It will be but a single scream; and behold, they will all be brought before Us. On that Day, no soul will be wronged in the least, and you will be recompensed only for what you used to do." (36:48-54). The (scream) is synonymous with the blowing of (the Trumpet); one scream is of the Hour and the second one is of the Resurrection within a New, Eternal Realm, as humanity will be judged and Hell and Paradise will be created.

4- The first tremendous explosion of the Hour is mentioned here after the context of the prediction about the emergence of Gog and Magog shortly before the Hour takes place: "On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:99); the following verses are about the end of the world (or the end of days) within the Hour of the destruction of the universe: "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass. And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail." (69:13-16).

5- These Quranic contexts are about the second tremendous explosion (or scream or blowing of the Trumpet) of the Resurrection: "The Trumpet will be blown, then behold, they will rush from the tombs to their Lord." (36:51); "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown-We will gather the sinners on that Day, blue." (20:102); "The Day when they will hear the Shout in all truth. That is the Day of Emergence. It is We who control life and death, and to Us is the destination. The Day when the earth will crack for them at once. That is an easy gathering for Us." (50:42-44). In addition, the Lord God says the following about the Resurrection and the Day of Judgment: "The Day of Sorting has been appointed. The Day when the Trumpet is blown, and you will come in droves." (78:17-18).

6- The New, Eternal Realm will have no sense of time; one will not feel the notions of past, present, and future in it; this is hard to imagine with the limited human mind as we live on earth enveloped with the sense of time and we feel the passage of time. In some Quranic contexts within the special Quranic style of brevity, both tremendous explosions of the Hereafter are mentioned as if they were one; this asserts the fact that the New, Eternal Realm will have no sense of time felt by human beings on earth: "Until, when death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back. That I may do right in what I have neglected." By no means! It is just a word that he utters. And behind them is a barrier/Barsakh, until the Day they are resurrected. When the Trumpet is blown, no relations between them will exist on that Day, and they will not ask after one another." (23:99-101); "We created the human being, and We know what his soul whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. As the two receivers receive, seated to the right and to the left. Not a word does he utter, but there is a watcher by him, ready. The daze of death has come in truth: "This is what you tried to evade." And the Trumpet is blown: "This is the Promised Day."" (50:16-20).

Fifthly: the advent of the Hour and the first tremendous explosion which will destroy the universe with its patterns and systems:

1- This first tremendous explosion will take place in a speed which exceeds the speed of light; the (meta)physical universe with its patterns and systems its earth and seven heavens, and its celestial bodies will be destroyed at once. Features of this first tremendous explosion which will destroy the universe are mentioned several times in the Holy Quran: "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush. On that Day, the Event will come to pass. And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail." (69:13-16); "On the Day when the earth and the mountains tremble, and the mountains become heaps of sand." (73:14); " When the sun is rolled up. When the stars are dimmed. When the mountains are set in motion. When the relationships are suspended. When the beasts are gathered. When the oceans are set aflame. When the souls are paired." (81:1-7); "And they ask you about the mountains. Say, "My Lord will crumble them utterly." And leave them desolate waste. You will see in them neither crookedness, nor deviation."" (20:105-107); "When the heaven breaks apart. When the planets are scattered. When the oceans are exploded. When the tombs are strewn around." (82:1-4); "When the earth is shaken with its quake. And the earth brings out its loads." (99:1-2); "The Shocker. What is the Shocker? What will explain to you what the Shocker is? The Day when the people will be like scattered moths. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (101:1-5); "When the heaven is ruptured. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must. And when the earth is leveled out. And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must." (84:1-5); "On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:8-9); "When the inevitable occurs. Of its occurrence, there is no denial. Bringing low, raising high. When the earth is shaken with a shock. And the mountains are crushed and crumbled. And they become scattered dust." (56:1-6); "Surely what you are promised will happen. When the stars are obliterated. And the heaven is fractured. And the mountains are blown away." (77:7-10); "The torment of your Lord is coming. There is nothing to avert it. On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation. And the mountains are set into motion. Woe on that Day to the deniers." (52:7-11); "On the Day when the Quake quakes. And is followed by the Successor. Hearts on that Day will be pounding." (79:6-7); "And the heaven is opened up and becomes gateways. And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage." (78:19-20).

2- Let us quote below Quranic verses about how things in the universe and on earth will be destroyed.

The earth and mountains: "Then, when the Trumpet is blown a single time. And the earth and the mountains are lifted up, and crushed, with a single crush." (69:13); "On the Day when the earth and the mountains tremble..." (73:14).

The earth: "When the earth is shaken with a shock." (56:4); "When the earth is shaken with its quake. And the earth brings out its loads." (99:1-2); "And when the earth is leveled out. And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must." (84:3-5).

The mountains: "...and the mountains become heaps of sand." (73:14); "When the mountains are set in motion." (81:3); "And they ask you about the mountains. Say, "My Lord will crumble them utterly." And leave them desolate waste. You will see in them neither crookedness, nor deviation."" (20:105-107); "And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (101:5); "And the mountains will be like tufted wool." (70:9); "And the mountains are crushed and crumbled. And they become scattered dust." (56:5-6); "And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage." (78:20); "And the mountains are blown away." (77:10); "And the mountains are set in motion." (52:10).

The seas: "When the oceans are set aflame." (81:6); "When the oceans are exploded." (82:3).

The heaven: "When the heaven is ruptured. And hearkens to its Lord, as it must." (84:1-2); "And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail." (69:16); "When the heaven breaks apart." (82:1); "On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass." (70:8); "And the heaven is fractured." (77:9); "And the heaven is opened up, and becomes gateways." (78:19); "On the Day when the heaven sways in agitation." (52:9).

The moon: "The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has split." (54:1).

The sun: "When the sun is rolled up." (81:1).

The stars: "When the stars are dimmed." (81:2); "When the stars are obliterated." (77:8).

The planets: "When the planets are scattered." (82:2).

The living creatures: "When the relationships are suspended." (81:4).

We will not analyze these verses in this BOOK as our focus here is on the biggest fear resulting from the Hour when it takes place.

Sixthly: features of the biggest fear within the first tremendous explosion:

The Lord God warns humanity beforehand of the Hour: "O people, be conscious of your Lord. The quaking of the Hour is a tremendous thing. On the Day when you will see it: every nursing mother will discard her infant, and every pregnant woman will abort her load, and you will see the people drunk, even though they are not drunk - but the torment of God is severe." (22:1-2). We see here scenes and features of the biggest fear/fright without using the term (fear) itself. This unique experience will be unprecedented; the Hour will occur faster than the speed of light; yet, the scenes mentioned in 22:1-2 will take place and be felt within the New, Eternal Realm after the destruction of the universe when the Hour comes.

Seventhly: features of the biggest fear within the second tremendous explosion:

1- The Lord God says in the Quran: "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown, everyone in the heavens and the earth will be horrified, except whomever God wills; and everyone will come before Him in humility." (27:87). This means that the biggest fear will seize some human beings and will be avoided by some other human beings despite the fact that all humanity will be forced to stand before the Lord God on the Last Day.

2- The good, monotheistic, pious believers will not experience this biggest fear during the Resurrection: "The Supreme Fear will not worry them, and the angels will receive them: "This is your Day which you were promised."" (21:103); "Whoever brings a virtue will receive better than it - and they will be safe from the horrors of that Day. But whoever brings evil-their faces will be tumbled into the Fire. Will you be rewarded except for what you used to do?" (27:89-90).

3- The sinners will experience this biggest fear and will try in vain to escape: "If you could only see when they are terrified, and there is no escape, and they are seized from a nearby place." (34:51).

4- Thus, the biggest fear of sinners, criminals, and polytheists is contrasted with lack of fear within the good, monotheistic, pious believers on the Last Day. This Quranic rule applies to all those among Adam's progeny in all eras who have followed the Guidance coming from the Lord God: "We said, "Go down from it, all of you. Yet whenever guidance comes to you from Me, then whoever follows My guidance - they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve." (2:38). This Quranic rule is repeated several time to assert the fact that it includes all good, monotheistic, pious believers in all eras and locations, regardless of the sects and doctrines: see 2:68, 2:112, 2:282, 2:274, 2:277, 3:170, 5:69, 6:48, 7:35, 7:49, 10:62, 43:68, and 46:13.

Lastly:

1- Within the above points, we have tackled how the Lord God in the Quran tells us about the future in the Hereafter. Those Quran-believing monotheists perform good deeds to be prepared and to be among winners on the Last Day; in contrast, Quran-hating deniers of the Hereafter ridicule and mock the Quranic verses about the Last Day; in fact, the vast majority of human beings in all eras are heedless and rarely ponder on the Hereafter. Everyone is free to choose to (dis)obey the Lord God and to (dis)believe in the Quran; this freedom ends upon one's death; the angels of death reassure the dying souls of the good people and rebuke the dying souls of the sinners, disbelievers, and deniers: "Surely, those who say: "Our Lord is God," and then go straight, the angels will descend upon them: "Do not fear, and do not grieve, but rejoice in the news of the Garden which you were promised. We are your allies in this life and in the Hereafter, wherein you will have whatever your souls desire, and you will have therein whatever you call for." (41:30-31); "How about when the angels take them at death, beating their faces and their bottoms?" (47:27); "If only you could see, as the angels take away those who disbelieve, striking their faces and their bottoms: "Taste the torment of the Burning." "That is because of what your hands have committed, and because God is not unjust to the servants."" (8:50-51).

2- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "The Judgment of human beings has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly. No new Remembrance comes to them from their Lord, but they listen to it playfully. Their hearts are distracted..." (21:1-3); this means that more than 1400 years ago, the Lord God has mentioned that the Day of Judgment has drawn near; yet, most human beings are heedless; most of the Muhammadans (who assume that they are to Muslims!) have prepared themselves for the Last Day by (A) rejecting and disbelieving in the Lord God's Quranic Verses, (B), sticking to falsehoods/lies known as hadiths, (C) tarnishing the name of Islam by committing heinous terrorist crimes and other atrocities ascribed to it, and (D) terrorizing peaceful preachers of the Quranic Truth who strive for the sake of the Lord God.

3- As for those monotheists who strive for the sake of Allah and who are being oppressed on earth as they are among the weak human beings, we advise and urge them to adhere to patience and to ponder deeply on these Quranic verses: "So be patient, with sweet patience. They see it distant. But We see it near. On the Day when the heaven will be like molten brass. And the mountains will be like tufted wool. No friend will care about his friend. They will be shown each other. The criminal wishes he would be redeemed from the torment of that Day by his children. And his spouse, and his brother.And his family that sheltered him. And everyone on earth, in order to save him. By no means! It is a Raging Fire.It strips away the scalps. It invites him who once turned his back and fled. And accumulated and hoarded." (70:5-18). As always, the Lord God says nothing but the Absolute Truth.

ANNEX III: Gog and Magog

Introduction:

1- As a student in an Azharite secondary school, we refused to believe in the mythical interpretations of the Quran (in the Middle-Ages books of Sunnite traditions) about Gog and Magog; the surface of the earth is explored fully and no one has seen Gog and Magog; during our adolescence, we kept wondering about their location, since the Quran asserts that they are underneath the crust of the earth and will remain so until they emerge on the surface of the earth and mingle with human beings shortly before the Hour takes place.

2- This topic preoccupied our mind for years; we believe in the Quranic facts about Gog and Magog, of course, but the persistent question within our mind (during our adolescence and youth) was as follows: what evidence have we to prove their existence?

3- In the 1980s, a Cairo-based independent newspaper, as well as a Cairo-based Leftist magazine, has published a translated book review about the theory of the existence of an advanced civilization many layers beneath the crust of the earth. Such reviews caught our attention of course; we felt that they may refer, unwittingly, to Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran.

4- We visited the USA in 1988, and we bought some books which are connected with that topic; the following is a list of the titles of these books (which are written in English, of course).

"Hidden Worlds Fresh Clues to the Past" by M. H. J. Van der Veer and P. Moerman

"The Stairway to Heaven" by Zecharia Sitchin

"The Cave Of The Ancients" by Lobsang Rampa

"The Cosmic Connection" by Carl Sagan

"The Outer Space Connection" by Alan and Sally Landsburg

"Chariots of The Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past" by Erich Von Daniken

"Colony : Earth" by Richard E. Mooney

"Understanding MU" by James Churchward

"The Sacred Symbols of MU" by James Churchward

"The Dragons Of Eden" by Carl Sagan

"Miracles of the Gods: A Hard Look at the Supernatural" by Erich Von Daniken

"Forgotten Worlds" by Robert Charroux

"The Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz

"Limbo Of the Lost" by John Wallace Spencer

"The Devil’s Triangle" by Richard Winer

"In Search of Ancient Gods" by Erich Von Daniken

"The Gold of The Gods" by Erich Von Daniken

5- When we returned to Egypt ten months later (and after spending the worst two days of our life in the prison cell of the Egyptian State Security Apparatus as the officers examined carefully our books and papers brought from the USA), we kept busy reading the books whose titles are mentioned above, and we looked for similarities between what is written in these books and what is mentioned in the Quran about Gog and Magog. We kept all articles, about scientific discoveries and explorations, which appeared in Egyptian newspapers in the 1990s; we knew that such material will help us write our book titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science".

6- In 2007, we finished our book titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science", and the only manuscript of it was given by us, in VA, the USA, to our relative, Mr. Amr Tharwat, who came to visit us so that it will be written in an Office-Word file by our half-brother, Mr. Abdel-Latif Saeed, and sent to us via email to be published on our Quranism website (www.ahl-alquran.com); yet, after his arrival back home to Egypt, Amr Tharwat got arrested by the Mubarak-regime men and the manuscript of the book got lost forever as all things and books with him and the things/books inside our apartment in Cairo (where Amr Tharwat lived for a while) were confiscated by the policemen! Abdel-Latif Saeed was also arrested at the same time. We have not the luxury of time to rewrite this lost book now.

7- More details in countless websites on the topics covered in the list of books (mentioned in point no. 4 above) show the general interest in such topics; this means that the Quranic miraculous prediction about Gog and Magog, as the last sign of the advent of the Hour, is a topic of vital important. We hope that someday, we will have time and effort to rewrite the lost book of ours titled "Gog and Magog between the Quran and Modern Science", based on more detailed information from the internet, plus the information found in the abovementioned list of books.

Firstly: an overview about Gog and Magog:

1- Adam, the father of human beings, was NOT the successor of the Lord God on earth; this is a blasphemous Sunnite myth, and the truth is that Adam and his progeny are the successors, on earth, of Gog and Magog who controlled the earth but they were corrupt and committed bloodshed; the Lord God's Will has dictated that Gog and Magog are forced to be hidden beneath the crust of the earth to make room for human beings on the surface of the earth; shortly before the occurrence of the Hour, Gog and Magog will resurface and mingle with human beings; this is the last sign of the advent of the Hour.

2- The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "When your Lord said to the angels, "I am placing a successor on earth." They said, "Will You place in it someone who will cause corruption in it and shed blood, while we declare Your praises and sanctify You?" He said, "I know what you do not know."" (2:30). We infer that before the creation of Adam and his wife, Gog and Magog controlled the earth and committed the sins of corruption and bloodshed; the angels who witnessed such crimes/sins feared that Adam and his progeny may commit the same sins/crimes perpetrated by Gog and Magog. This means that Adam and his progeny are the successors of Gog and Magog on earth.

3- The spread of the progeny of human beings on earth was limited, impeded, and hindered for an unknown period of time because of the existence of the corrupt, tyrannical, powerful Gog and Magog who controlled and dominated earth. To allow the progeny of Adam the chance to live on the surface of the earth as successors tested by the Lord God, the Lord God intervened to imprison Gog and Magog beneath the crust of the earth, as per what we infer from the story of Zu Al-Qarnayn in the Quranic Chapter 18.

Secondly: Within the Quranic Chapter 18, we read about the power granted by the Lord God to Zu Al-Qarnayn to separate between human beings and Gog and Magog:

1- Arabs knew about Zu Al-Qarnayn and asked Muhammad about it, and typically, Muhammad waited for the answer to descend in the Quran; he never answered any questions posed to him on his own; he waited for the Divine Revelation to provide answers: "And they ask you about Zu Al-Qarnayn. Say, "I will tell you something about him."" (18:83). Of course, there are gaps in the story of Zu Al-Qarnayn; we know little about him; the Quran does not mention everything about him; for sure, we are NEVER to guess or surmise about the metaphysical realm of the past so as not to embrace mythology and so as not to make conjectures as part of religion. The only thing we can do is the ponder deeply on the Quranic details about this topic (in the points below) without relying on Sunnite mythology which is, of course, rejected by all Quranists.

2- The Lord God has granted Zu Al-Qarnayn power and dominance on earth which surpassed those of Gog and Magog: "We established him on earth, and gave him all kinds of means. He pursued a certain course." (18:84-85). As per the Lord God's Will, Zu Al-Qarnayn used this power and dominance to imprison Gog and Magog beneath the crust of the earth to protect the progeny of Adam.

3- We note briefly certain features in the following verses about the dialogue between the children of Adam and Zu Al-Qarnayn: "They said, "O Zu Al-Qarnayn, Gog and Magog are spreading corruption on earth. Can we pay you, to build between us and them a wall?" He said, "What my Lord has empowered me with is better. But assist me with strength, and I will build between you and them a dam."" (18:94-95). The term (corruption) here reminds us with this verse containing the apprehension of the angels regarding Adam and his progeny: "When your Lord said to the angels, "I am placing a successor on earth." They said, "Will You place in it someone who will cause corruption in it and shed blood, while we declare Your praises and sanctify You?" He said, "I know what you do not know."" (2:30). In the phrase uttered by Zu Al-Qarnayn (What my Lord has empowered me with is better), we notice the word (better); this mans he was more powerful than Gog and Magog and he managed to imprison them: "So they were unable to climb it, and they could not penetrate it. He said, "This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes true, He will turn it into rubble, and the promise of my Lord is always true." On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:97-99).

Thirdly: Gog and Magog within the Quranic Chapter 21:

1- Gog and Magog are mentioned in the Quranic Chapter 21; we provide below an overview about this Quranic Chapter 21.

Section I of the Quranic Chapter 21: The verses 21:1-50 are about warning and preaching people, especially those heedless of the Last Day and the Hereafter; it offers a reminder of the destruction of ancient nations and urging people to adhere to monotheism: "The Judgment of human beings has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly. No new Remembrance comes to them from their Lord, but they listen to it playfully. Their hearts are distracted, the unjust ones confer secretly, "Is this anything but a mortal like you? Will you take to sorcery, with open eyes?" He said, "My Lord knows what is said in the heaven and the earth; and He is the Hearer, the Knower." And they said, "A jumble of dreams," and, "He made it up," and, "He is a poet," "let him bring us a sign, like those sent to the ancients." None of the towns We destroyed before them had believed. Will they, then, believe? We did not send before you except men, whom We inspired. Ask the people of knowledge, if you do not know. We did not make them mere bodies that ate no food, nor were they immortal. Then We fulfilled Our promise to them, and We saved them together with whomever We willed, and We destroyed the extravagant. We have sent down to you a Book, containing your message. Do you not understand? How many a guilty town have We crushed, and established thereafter another people? Then, when they sensed Our might, they started running away from it. Do not run, but come back to your luxuries, and to your homes, that you may be questioned. They said, "Woe to us; we were among the unjust ones." This continued to be their cry, until We made them silent ashes. We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them for amusement. If We wanted amusement, We could have found it within Us, were We to do so. In fact, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it crushes it, so it vanishes. Woe unto you, for what you describe. To Him belongs everyone in the heavens and the earth. Those near Him are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they waver. They praise night and day, without ever tiring. Or have they taken to themselves gods from the earth who resurrect? If there were in them gods other than God, they would have gone to ruin. So glory be to God, Lord of the Throne, beyond what they allege. He will not be questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned. Or have they taken, besides Him, other gods? Say, "Bring your proof. This is a message for those with me, and a message of those before me." But most of them do not know the truth, so they turn away. We never sent a messenger before you without inspiring him that: "There is no God but I, so worship Me." And they say, "The Dominant Lord has taken to Himself a son." Be He glorified; they are but honored servants. They never speak before He has spoken, and they only act on His command. He knows what is before them, and what is behind them; and they do not intercede except for him whom He approves; and they tremble in awe of Him. And whoever of them says, "I am a god besides Him," We will reward him with Hell. Thus We reward the unjust ones. Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe? And We placed on earth stabilizers, lest it sways with them, and We placed therein signposts and passages, that they may be guided. And We made the sky a protected ceiling; yet they turn away from its signs. It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in an orbit. We did not grant immortality to any human being before you. Should you die, are they then the immortal? Every soul will taste death. We burden you with adversity and prosperity - a test. And to Us you will be returned. When those who disbelieve see you, they treat you only with ridicule: "Is this the one who mentions your gods?" And they reject the mention of the Dominant Lord. The human being was created of haste. I will show you My signs, so do not seek to rush Me. And they say, "When will this promise come true, if you are truthful?" If those who disbelieve only knew, when they cannot keep the fire off their faces and off their backs, and they will not be helped. In fact, it will come upon them suddenly, and bewilder them. They will not be able to repel it, and they will not be reprieved. Messengers before you were also ridiculed, but those who jeered were surrounded by what they had ridiculed. Say, "Who guards you against the Dominant Lord by night and by day?" But they turn away from the mention of their Lord. Or do they have gods who can defend them against Us? They cannot help themselves, nor will they be protected from Us. We have given these enjoyments, and their ancestors, until time grew long upon them. Do they not see how We gradually reduce the land from its extremities? Are they then the victors? Say, "I am warning you through inspiration." But the deaf cannot hear the call when they are being warned. And when a breath of your Lord's punishment touches them, they say, "Woe to us, we were truly wicked." We will set up the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection, so that no soul will suffer the least injustice. And even if it be the weight of a mustard-seed, We will bring it up. Sufficient are We as Judge. We gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion, and illumination, and a reminder for the righteous. Those who fear their Lord in private, and are apprehensive of the Hour. This too is a Blessed Message that We revealed. Are you going to deny it?" (21:1-50).

Section II of the Quranic Chapter 21: The verses 21:51-95 are about stories of previous prophets/messengers who conveyed the True Divine Monotheistic Religion of the Lord God; this is juxtaposed with the earthly/terrestrial, man-made religion of polytheism and falsehoods; the good pious ones will enter into Paradise and the polytheistic disbelievers will enter into Hell; no dead people return to life after their test has ended: "We gave Abraham his integrity formerly, and We knew him well. When he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?" They said, "We found our parents worshiping them." He said, "You and your parents are in evident error." They said, "Are you telling us the truth, or are you just playing?" He said, "Your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the One who created them, and I bear witness to that. "By God, I will have a plan for your statues after you have gone away." So he reduced them into pieces, except for their biggest, that they may return to it. They said, "Who did this to our gods? He is certainly one of the unjust ones." They said, "We heard a youth mentioning them. He is called Abraham." They said, "Bring him before the eyes of the people, so that they may witness." They said, "Are you the one who did this to our gods, O Abraham?" He said, "But it was this biggest of them that did it. Ask them, if they can speak." Then they turned to one another, and said, "You yourselves are the unjust ones." But they reverted to their old ideas: "You certainly know that these do not speak." He said, "Do you worship, instead of God, what can neither benefit you in anything, nor harm you? Fie on you, and on what you worship instead of God. Do you not understand?" They said, "Burn him and support your gods, if you are going to act." We said, "O fire, be coolness and safety upon Abraham." They planned to harm him, but We made them the worst losers. And We delivered him, and Lot, to the land that We blessed for all people. And We granted him Isaac and Jacob as a gift; and each We made righteous. And We made them leaders, guiding by Our command; and We inspired them to do good works, and to observe the prayer, and to give out charity. They were devoted servants to Us. And Lot - We gave him judgment and knowledge, and We delivered him from the town that practiced the abominations. They were wicked and perverted people. And We admitted him into Our mercy; for He was one of the righteous. And Noah, when he called before. So We answered him, and delivered him and his family from the great disaster. And We supported him against the people who rejected Our Verses. They were an evil people, so We drowned them all. And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the case of the field, when some people's sheep wandered therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgment. And so We made Solomon understand it, and to each We gave wisdom and knowledge. And We subjected the mountains along with David to sing Our praises, and the birds as well - surely We did. And We taught him the making of shields for you, to protect you from your violence. Are you, then, thankful? And to Solomon the stormy wind, blowing at His command towards the land that We have blessed. We are aware of everything. And of the devils were some that dived for him, and performed other, lesser tasks. But We kept them restrained. And Job, when he cried out to his Lord: "Great harm has afflicted me, and you are the Most Merciful of the merciful." So We answered him, lifted his suffering, and restored his family to him, and their like with them - a mercy from Us, and a reminder for the worshipers. And Ishmael, and Idris, and Zu Al-Kifl; each was one of the patient ones. And We admitted them into Our mercy. They were among the righteous. And Jonah, when he stormed out in fury, thinking We had no power over him. But then He cried out in the darkness, "There is no God but You! Glory to You! I was one of the unjust ones!" So We answered him, and saved him from the affliction. Thus We save the believers. And Zachariah, when he called out to his Lord, "My Lord, do not leave me alone, even though you are the Best of heirs." So We answered him, and gave him John. And We cured his wife for him. They used to vie in doing righteous deeds, and used to call on Us in love and awe, and they used to humble themselves to Us. And she who guarded her virginity. We breathed into her of Our spirit, and made her and her son a sign to the world. This nation of yours is one nation, and I am your Lord, so worship Me. But they splintered themselves into factions. They will all return to Us. Whoever does righteous deeds, and is a believer, his effort will not be denied. We are writing it down for him. There is a ban on the town that We had destroyed - that they will not return."(21:51-95).

Section III of the Quranic Chapter 21: The verses 21:96-112 are about one of the signs of the advent of the Hour; namely, the emergence of Gog and Magog from under the crust of the earth to its surface; we find also information about what will happen when the Hour takes place; the last verses of the Quranic Chapter 21 contain preaching and warning similar to what we read in the opening verses: "Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they swarm down from every mound. The promise of truth has drawn near. The eyes of those who disbelieved will stare in horror: "Woe to us. We were oblivious to this. In fact, we were among the unjust ones. You and what you worship besides God are fuel for Hell. You will enter into it. Had these been gods, they would not have entered into it. All will abide in it forever. In it they will wail. In it they will not hear. As for those who deserved goodness from Us - these will be kept away from it. They will not hear its hissing, and they will forever abide in what their hearts desire. The Supreme Fear will not worry them, and the angels will receive them: "This is your Day which you were promised." On the Day when We fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just as We began the first creation, We will repeat it - a promise binding on Us. We will act. We have written in Zabur, after the Remembrance, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous servants. Indeed, in this is a message for people who worship. We did not send you except as mercy to the humankind. Say, "It is revealed to me that your God is One God. Are you going to submit?" But if they turn away, say, "I have informed you sufficiently. Although I do not know whether what you are promised is near or far." He knows what is said openly, and He knows what you conceal. "And I do not know whether it is perhaps a trial for you, and an enjoyment for a while." He said, "My Lord, judge with justice." And, "Our God is the Dominant Lord Whose help is sought against what you allege."" (21:96-112).

2- Before talking about the emergence of Gog and Magog, the Lord God asserts that dead people (among the ancient nations destroyed by Him) will never return back to life on earth: "There is a ban on the town that We had destroyed - that they will not return." (21:95); the exception is the return of non-human creatures; i.e., Gog and Magog: "Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they swarm down from every mound. The promise of truth has drawn near. The eyes of those who disbelieved will stare in horror: "Woe to us. We were oblivious to this. In fact, we were among the unjust ones." (21:96-97).

Fourthly: we infer the following points from the Quranic Chapters 18 and 21:

1- Gog and Magog were the mighty, powerful, dominant ones who controlled the earth; the Lord God has allowed their being imprisoned beneath the crust of the earth to give the chance for the generations of human beings to live on the surface of the earth for many eras – to be tested. Shortly before the Hour of the destruction of the universe, Gog and Magog will emerge on the surface of the earth and mingle with human beings.

2- Before the destruction of Planet Earth with the Quake (see the Quranic Chapter 99), Gog and Magog who reside beneath the crust of the earth will feel what will happen because of their scientific progress/advancement; this will drive them to emerge within the surface of the earth; they will mingle with human beings – and then, the Hour will take place. In other words, one generation after the other, Gog and Magog adapted to living beneath the crust of the earth; at one point, they will feel the eminent destruction of the earth; this will drive them to emerge on its surface; their scientific progress/advancement might make them think to seek to flee Planet Earth to settle in other planets; this will be in vain; the Hour means the total destruction of the whole universe, not merely the earth.

3- The Quranic description of the emergence of Gog and Magog on the surface of the earth is unique; suddenly, the earth will be filled with holes everywhere from which Gog and Magog will emerge; the earth will seem as if it were pregnant with them. From the outer space, the earth will seem like a huge watermelon filled with holes from which new creatures will emerge and mingle with human beings. The Lord God says the following about human beings and Gog and Magog: "On that Day, We will leave them surging upon one another. And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them together." (18:99); "Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they swarm down from every mound. The promise of Truth has drawn near. The eyes of those who disbelieved will stare in horror: "Woe to us. We were oblivious to this. In fact, we were among the unjust ones."" (21:96-97).

Fifthly: the emergence of Gog and Magog is the last sign before the advent of the Hour:

1- The Quran-hating persons, especially atheists, who seek to undermine God's Word ridicule and mock the story of Gog and Magog and Zu Al-Qarnayn. In contrast, the Quran-believing pious monotheists know that the Quran is the Absolute Truth from the Lord God and that it contains miraculous scientific indications and future events which include the signs of the advent of the Hour.

2- Prophet Muhammad never knew when the Hour will take place; the only information about the Hour is found in the Quran and not in the false hadiths forcibly ascribed to him two centuries after his death. We know from the Quran that the Hour is drawing near; Moses was told the following by the Lord God at Mount Al-Tur, in Sinai, Egypt: "The Hour is coming - but I keep it almost hidden - so that each soul will be paid for what it endeavors. And do not let him who denies it and follows his desire turn you away from it, lest you fall." (20:15-16). The Quran, the Last Message from the Lord God to all humanity, asserts the fact that the Hour is drawing near: "Are they just waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? Its signs have already come. But how will they be reminded when it has come to them?" (47:18); " The Hour has drawn near..." (54:1); "The Judgment of human beings has drawn near, but they turn away heedlessly." (21:1). The Lord God says in the Quran: "The command of God came, so do not rush it. Glory be to Him; exalted above what they associate." (16:1); this is in response to those who rush the coming of the Hour; the divine command has been already issued so that it will take place; what remains is the execution of this command; i.e., the Hour will take place in a certain point in time, preordained by the Lord God, as per the time on earth which differ in the sense of time in the metaphysical Upper Realm.

3- The Quran mentions the signs of the advent of the Hour; some of them have occurred in our modern age; we mean the underlined, italicized words in this verse in particular: "The likeness of the present life is this: water that We send down from the sky is absorbed by the plants of the earth, from which the people and the animals eat. Until, when the Earth puts on its fine appearance, and is beautified, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it, Our command descends upon it by night or by day, and We turn it into stubble, as if it had not flourished the day before. We thus clarify the Verses for people who reflect." (10:24). Human beings have reached the stage of ever-increasing scientific progress/advancement; this means they will assume that they master/control the earth; this means the Hour of the destruction of the universe is very near as per 10:24.

4- The signs of the advent of the Hour include the emergence of a strange creature which will talk to human beings: "And when the Word has fallen on them, We will bring out for them from the earth a creature which will tell them that people are uncertain of Our Verses." (27:82). This creature is the penultimate sign of the advent of the Hour; i.e., it will occur before the last one; namely, the emergence of Gog and Magog is the last sign of the advent of the Hour. This means the Hour of the destruction of the universe will take place shortly after the emergence of Gog and Magog on the surface of the earth.

Sixthly: Gog and Magog is part of the miraculous Quranic predictions which will be realized shortly before the advent of the Hour:

1- We assert here again that the contemporaries of Muhammad (among both the People of the Book and the Gentiles) knew some oral narratives about Zu Al-Qarnayn and Gog and Magog; this is why they asked Muhammad about Zu Al-Qarnayn, and he typically waited for the Quranic answer: "And they ask you about Zu Al-Qarnayn. Say, "I will tell you something about him."" (18:83). The Quranic answer came in a way which fits the human mind of people at the time (i.e., the 7^th century A.D. in Arabia); namely, without many details. Of course, the few details of this Quranic answer are enough for warning and preaching true monotheists who believe in the Hereafter and in the Quran as the Lord God's Word.

2- Of course, the Quranic miraculous scientific indications and the Quranic predictions precede modern science and explorations; many scientists within their explorations now assert the existence of an advanced pre-human civilization which dominated the earth, as per their examining and studying of sites of some ruins and monuments; some scientists assert the existence of (Atlantis); many scientist, explorers, and writers assume that the mysterious owners of this pre-human civilization are hidden somewhere and have mysterious relations with the surface on earth (e.g., within the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle). We maintain that this advanced civilization that preceded the existence of human beings on earth belongs to Gog and Magog who, as per God's Word (i.e., the Quran), live now underneath the crust of the earth and who will emerge on its surface shortly before the advent of the Hour.

Seventhly: strange phenomena unexplained by modern science:

1- In his books, the Swiss author Erich Von Daniken (often quoted by the Egyptian writer Anis Mansour) asserts that there are ruins/monuments which indicate an advanced civilization which dominated the earth before the existence of humanity on the planet. Some writers ascribe this civilization to aliens; we do not believe in the existence of aliens, of course. The explorers and scientists who examined the Pyramids of Giza, in Egypt, the monuments in India, Mexico, etc., and Stonehenge in Britain (this is not to mention Antarctica and Siberia) have unveiled many secrets within the topic of this pre-human civilization. There are proofs (e.g., ancient maps) that some people in the Old World (before and during the Middle-Ages) knew about the existence of the two Americas and of what came to be known as the Bermuda Triangle.

2- In his books, Erich Von Daniken also links this mysterious pre-human civilization to the phenomenon of UFOs or flying saucers witnessed by the Ancient Egyptians in the Pharaonic Era, some Hebrews, and some Europeans in different stages in history. The internet is filled now with websites with interesting photos of flying saucers and UFOs. Some people theorize about the hypothesis that the creatures of the pre-human advanced civilization are trying to contact human beings and to explore and examine the changes that happened to Planet Earth.

3- Some people (e.g., the authors Charles Berlitz and Richard Winer) theorize about the hypothesis that the creatures of the pre-human advanced civilization are kidnapping samples of human beings, planes, ships, etc. within the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea near Japan (a.k.a. the Dragon's Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle) to examine and study these samples.

4- Some theorists assume there are 'aliens' who explore the earth through flying saucers and UFOs photographed by some scientists and amateurs; within certain scientific documentaries in some TV channels and websites, there are news about (1) dead 'aliens' who are partly cells and partly robots with strange head shapes, (2) space ships never built by human beings, (3) secrets about 'aliens' supposedly kept hidden by the USA government, and (4) signs of advanced technology which predates the existence of human beings on earth.

5- We do not believe in the existence of aliens (in the sense of 'creatures' living in other planets somewhere in the universe); we believe that the much-talked-of advanced, pre-human civilization belongs to Gog and Magog who are hidden beneath the crust of the earth; we assume they have space ships and/or flying saucers which kidnap samples of human beings to study them or do some experiments on them; these space ships and/or flying saucers may have allowed Gog and Magog to explore the outer space as well.

6- We also assume that Gog and Magog do this to make sure they know all about the Planet Earth while they continue living under its crust as they have adapted themselves to this; they may feel that human beings are endangering the earth; they may feel troubled by major wars and events on the surface of the earth and they sent flying saucers which hover above military bases, battlefields, nuclear explosions, etc. Of course, such theories need to be verified with more proofs. We are quite sure that in the future decades, more details and proofs will be revealed about such topics.

Lastly:

We sincerely hope to have enough time and effort to show to the world, in our coming writings, the Quranic interpretation or explanation of these phenomena acknowledged by the people of the West but whose scientific explanations vary; behind most of such phenomena is Gog and Magog about whom the Lord God has informed us in His Word, the Quran, more than 14 centuries ago; the Quran asserts the presence of Gog and Magog inside the crust of the Earth and that they will emerge on the surface of the Earth shortly before the Hour (i.e., the destruction of the universe) takes place. The Hour has drawn near; glorified be our Lord God who will inherit the Earth, and all things and people on it, and to Whom all human beings will return in the Hereafter.

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

Firstly: major leaps in the history of science has typically begun with unexpected incidents observed by great minds:

1- We quote the following (partially and briefly) from (https://en.wikipedia.org): Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 B.C.) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; he is regarded as one of the leading scientists and the greatest mathematician of antiquity; he studied mathematics in a school established by Euclid of Alexandria; he was also one of the first to apply mathematics to physical phenomena. Archimedes is known for his Archimedes' principle.The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape. A crown had been made for the king of Syracuse who had supplied the pure gold used in making it, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether some silver had been substituted by the dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body in order to calculate its density. While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. Water is incompressible; the submerged crown would displace an amount of water equal to its own volume. By dividing the mass of the crown by the volume of water displaced, the density of the crown could be obtained. This density would be lower than that of gold if cheaper and less dense metals had been added. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying in Greek "Eureka!" (i.e., "I have found it!"). The test was conducted successfully, proving that silver had indeed been mixed in. The Archimedes' principle, which he describes in his treatise "On Floating Bodies", states that a body immersed in a fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.Using this principle, it would have been possible to compare the density of the crown to that of pure gold by balancing the crown on a scale with a pure gold reference sample of the same weight, then immersing the apparatus in water. The difference in density between the two samples would cause the scale to tip accordingly.

2- Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727 A.D.) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author, and physicist; heoften told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravity by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. This is an ordinary incident, but great minds observe what goes unheeded by others.

3- Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955 A.D.) is known for his greatest intellectual achievement (i.e., he developed the theory of relativity) which was inspired to his mind when he, in 1907, saw out the window builders/workers working on the roof of the opposite building; this has made him think of falling bodies, within this free fall, which are in a state of weightlessness (like astronauts later on); this has made him reach the equivalence principle; alongside with his reaching the relativity principle, this helped him formulate the relativity theory.

Secondly: What would have happened if scientists of the European Renaissance had read the Quran and reflected on the Quranic miraculous scientific indications?:

1- Scientific knowledge accumulated by Arabs during the Middle-Ages reached Europe through Andalusia (now the Iberian Peninsula) and Italy (especially Sicily) as Arab trade and merchants reached Europe through both locations. This is part of the reason why the European Renaissance began in Italy in particular; this is not to mention the cultural influence of Arab scientific knowledge on Crusaders who established kingdoms in the Levant and Asia Minor. Within the 11^th and 12^th centuries A.D., many European men (e.g., Da Vinci and Constantine the African) sojourned in the Arab world to seek knowledge and they became the pioneers of the European Renaissance.

2- During the Second Abbasid Era, before the dominance of the obscurantist Hanbali Sunnite clergymen, a scientific movement flourished; books of Greek heritage in many branches of knowledge were translated into the Arabic tongue; the scientific movement of Arabs includes these great scientists: Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Al-Razi, Al-Biruni, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Al-Haytham, Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Avicenna (i.e., Ibn Cina), and Averroes (i.e., Ibn Rushd). Some of them were Arabs and some were of non-Arab origin but authored their books in the Arabic tongue, of course. This scientific movement declined in later decades and its scientists left books which were translated into Latin and other European tongues; thus, these scientists grew famous in Europe after their death; their translated books helped in the emergence of the European Renaissance.

3- These Arab scientists never took heed of the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text; the wrong idea which dominated the Abbasid Era was that the only miracle of the Quran is its eloquence and unique style of Arabic. This means that these Arab scientists focused on developing and building on the Greek heritage while abandoning the Quran; hence, we are not to blame the scientists and scholars of the European Renaissance since they imitated and followed the footsteps of Arab scientists whose books were translated into Latin and the other European tongues.

4- This is why the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran remained unnoticed until some Arab scientists of the 20^th century A.D. have focused on them based on scientific discoveries made by the scientists of the West; yet, some of the Arab polytheistic scientists among the Muhammadans insist on sticking to the myth that the so-called Sunna hadiths/narratives contain miraculous scientific indications and they are bragging of this myth; it has become a fad for a few years to write lengthy articles about this myth. These Arab scientists never read the Quran as per its own terminology; besides, the influence of the Sunnite religion has made them grossly misunderstand most of the Quranic terminology. It is very silly that some brainless Arab scientists among the polytheistic Muhammadans stubbornly insist on forcibly linking the silly, laughter-inducing Sunnite narratives/hadiths to the miraculous scientific indications in the Quran. Our own Quranist methodology contradicts this faulty approach of the Arab scientists among the polytheistic Muhammadans. As a Quranist Muslim thinker, we understand the Quranic text only through its own terminology (i.e., without any other sources besides the Quran); this applies to our conclusions drawn when we examine/study/analyze the Quranic verses which contain miraculous scientific indications and when we draw the attention of readers to them. We assert here the fact that today's Muslim scientists specializing in branches of modern science are the ones who can discern and study the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text in the best manner (within examining the Quranic terminology in the right way and discarding the so-called Sunna hadiths and, of course, other similar types of mythology); these Quran-believing scientists can infer scientific facts reached or unreached yet by the scientists of the West.

5- Reading the Quran in its own terminology will certainly lead to the discovery of more miraculous scientific indications unreached yet in the West; besides, it will offer solutions to some problematic issues debated by scientists of the West; e.g., whether there are any forms of life (outside Planet Earth) in the universe (i.e., in the outer space) or not.

6- The Omniscient Lord God never mentions in the Quran that there are any forms of life in planets, stars, and galaxies; rather, He tells us in the Quran that there are living, ethereal creatures in the Barsakh realm levels. These ethereal beings include the angels who glorify the Lord God: "To God bows down everything in the heavens and everything on earth - every living creature, and the angels, and without being proud. They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded." (16:49-50); other Quranic verses mention the fact that the Barsakh realm levels have their own days and nights: "To Him belongs everyone in the heavens and the earth. Those near Him are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they waver. They praise night and day, without ever tiring." (21:19-20); "But if they are too proud - those in the presence of your Lord praise Him night and day, and without ever tiring." (41:38); this is about the Barsakh-level torment for the souls of Moses' Pharaoh and his people: "The Fire. They are exposed to it morning and evening. And on the Day the Hour takes place: "Admit the people of Pharaoh to the most intense torment."" (40:46).

Lastly: permissible, hopeful daydreams:

1- We have written above about examples of major leaps in the history of science; humanity now needs major leaps in science which will widen the scope and change the course of scientific knowledge; this is possible when scientists worldwide ponder on the miraculous scientific indications in the Quranic text which, since its revelation/descent 14 centuries ago, tells people about signs in the outer space and inside the human body: "We will show to them Our signs on the horizons, and inside themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the Truth. Is it not sufficient that your Lord is witness over everything?" (41:53).

2- If scientists of the West would read the Quran and research and ponder on its text within its own terminology in the way done by Quranist researchers, they would realize the futility of trying to find any forms of life (or aliens) within other planets and galaxies or wasting time and money trying to reach the stars inside or outside the Milky Way; rather, it is better (after believing in the Quranic fact that there are Barsakh levels, and ethereal creatures inside them moving within unimagined speeds, unseen by the naked eye) to try and examine Barsakh metaphysical levels which overlap with our physical existence on Earth (especially that the Superstring theory will lead human beings to explore the very first Barsakh level on earth); this may lead to controlling and making use of waves/energies/powers of the Barsakh levels on earth; this will allow human beings to pass through such Barsakh levels of the earth (within certain limits, of course); we know from the Quran that it is impossible for human beings and jinn to pass through the Barsakh levels of the heavens: "O communities of jinn and humans! If you can pass through the bounds of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and pass. But you will not pass except with authorization...You will be bombarded with flares of fire and brass, and you will not succeed." (55:33-35). As we have explained before, the Quranic expression (the heavens and the earth) means, in one word, the universe.

3- After the exploration and use of electricity and other types of energy on Planet Earth, it is OK to go on daydreaming about further amazing discoveries; we are to remember all the time that the Lord God has created things in the heavens and the earth in the service of humankind: "And He placed at your service whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth - all is from Him. In that are signs for a people who reflect." (45:13). Within permissible, hopeful daydreams, we imagine that when human beings explore and use all types of energy found in the universe, they can control (within certain measures or limits) time and space; this will open the gates of unknown realms within what is allowed for human beings (by the Lord God the Creator) to be known, reached, and explored.

4- This is the aim of writing this BOOK which you, dear readers, have read now. May the Lord God come to our help and aid.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION:

CHAPTER I:

CHAPTER II

ANNEXES of the BOOK:

CONCLUSION