01/09/2024
# The Creation of Skies
Aselamu Alykum Worahmetullah, families of Mysteries of the universe in Quran. today I came up with one of the most interesting topics in the creation of the universe, which is the creation of the skies.
I wanted to address the creation of the skies before the creation of the earth because, as you know, the earth's sustenance comes from the skies.
Ok, then, let us start...
This topic is not about the Earth, but I like to go on tangents and talk about interesting concepts. We should know that the skies were created before the earth, and everything in between took six days to be made.
# # List of Ayats
1. Al-A'raf (7) - Aya 54
2. Yunus (10) - Aya 3
3. Hud (11) - Aya - 7
Example: Al-A'raf
إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ يَطْلُبُهُ حَثِيثًا وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ وَالنُّجُومَ مُسَخَّرَاتٍ بِأَمْرِهِ أَلَا لَهُ الْخَلْقُ وَالْأَمْرُ تَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ (54)
> Indeed your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days, then established Himself on the Throne. He makes the day and night overlap in rapid succession. He created the sun, the moon, and the stars—all subjected by His command. The creation and the command belong to Him ˹alone˺. Blessed is Allah—Lord of all worlds!
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**What a beautiful Aya Wallahi I have goosebumps reading it, as you can see, mentions six days.**
The question that first came to my mind was why, in six days, Allah is capable of creating it in a millisecond, or even less, or with no time limit.
# # # The scholars of the umma had discussed this and had opinions regarding it.
A. First, it could be to show the angles this magnificent creation process and make them witness their lord creating the universe.
B. Some of the scholars said that, actually, it could be a lesson for us human beings, that Allah (SWA) wanted to teach us one of the most beloved qualities to him which is *Ate-ani*, which is taking things strategically, slowly, gradually, and planning things out properly, so we learn from that to be gradual when we do things and to do things properly with Ihsaan ( excellence )
if you ask me, I am more attracted to second opinions because you can guess why :).
Ok, then what?
Our beloved prophet said that Allah (SWA) started the creation on the day of Saturday and finished the creation on Friday, which is the best day of the week.
We also completely reject the idea of Allah (SWA) needing to rest or relax, because Allah (SWA) says.
**Qaf - verse- 38**
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ وَمَا مَسَّنَا مِن لُّغُوبٍ ٣٨
Indeed, We created the heavens and the earth and everything in between in six Days, and We were not even touched with fatigue.
Even Allah (SWA) says we constructed the heavens or the skies with strength, and we are constantly expanding them.
**Adh-Dhariyat - verse 47**
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَـٰهَا بِأَيْيدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ ٤٧
We built the universe with great might, and we are certainly expanding it.
In fact, this is a scientific miracle, As we know, the latest scientific discoveries prove that the universe in which we are living inside is expanding with an expansion speed greater than the speed of light.
Imagine our universe is expanding with an expansion speed our mind can not grasp, but the question is how much km/mil it expanded till now from it first created, I leave this to you to ponder…
to some of my favorite question.
Is the skies a solid objects? Or they are
Gasses? Interesting one don't you think?
Before we dive into what we found in our tradition, lets us look at what the modern science is saying.
Modern since doesn't have information about what is there above because we have limited technologies to travel directly above or below or right or left for hundreds of years, considering where we are on planet earth. And we can't reach the end because as we now our universe is expanding every mili second with a speed that is great than speed of light,impossible don't you think,
But in our Islamic tradition we have so many description given to as, that the skies are solid objects they even have doors that opens and closes, and they are 7 skies one above the other, and a travel between them, from one sky to the other take 500 years, but is it 500 years of the earth time or 500 years in Allahs time, because time is perspective, if it is in Allahs time the calculations to our time is different because one day in Allah is like a thousand years or some surah like 50000 years in earth time. I will let the calculations to you…
We talked about other creations could exist in those skies, we are in the first sky, which is called the worldly sky ( Semae adunya).
But some surah also say e.g. Surah a Kahf that the earth sky has been beautified with lights which means stars… And one can drive from this the other skies may not have the stars like we have… or even don't have any stars at all, because why needed to mentioning the earth sky alone… but this is an other discussion for an other time 🤗,
See u in another discussion bey bey