Quran
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13- THUNDER AL R'AD Madinite /
Verse 2
2- Allah, the Omnipotent, is He Who raised the heavens with its spheres lying above or outside of each other inlaid with heavenly bodies superstructures that are kept aloft without pillars or visible means* of support that you people can see, then set He Himself on the Throne of Supremacy and dominion, of grace and mercy, and reduced the sun** and the moon to a state of subserviency. Each describing its orbit for a determined period of time. He conducts all affairs and expounds His revelations and clearly displays His cosmic signs to the mind and renders His discourse readily understood so that you people may hopefully realize that you shall inevitably assemble before Him, at the predetermined point of time. *see introduction ** Commentary: Says astronomer Nigel HenBest: Among the stars, the sun is a fairly average star intermediate in mass, temperature and size and it is near enough to earth to study in details. It is a huge ball of gases, some 1,400,000 km. or 665,000 miles across, made up mainly of hydrogen and helium, the commonest elements in the universe. Temperature at its surface is 5500 C and within its core 14,000,000 C hot enough for the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms to join together and make up the nuclei. of the next lightest element, helium. As they do so, the reaction liberates huge amounts of nuclear energy which makes its way up through the suns body. To emerge at the surface as sunlight and heat. It has such huge reserves of hydrogen-fuel that it can keep going for some 10,000 million years (or as Allah will) its centre is literally a hydrogen bomb but programmed to go off in a slow motion to serve mankind, plants. animals or all animate beings Reference: The Mysterious Universe Ebury Press London 1981 P.78
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