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Understanding Quran : Understanding Quran Session -7
Surat An-Nāzi`āt : Surat An-Nāzi`āt Ayah (Verse) 27 onwards
Slide 4 : Are you more difficult to create, or is the Sama’ (heaven) that He constructed?
Slide 5 : Compare the size of the earth with other planets
Slide 6 : Now compare it with Uranus & Neptune This is the Earth
Slide 7 : Now Earth against Sun Against Sun, Earth is like a dot
Think !! Where do you find yourself now?? This is the Earth
Slide 8 : This map is a plot of the 1500 most luminous stars within 250 light years.
All of these stars are much more luminous than the Sun and most of them
can be seen with the naked eye. About one third of the stars visible with the
naked eye lie within 250 light years, even though this is only a tiny part of our galaxy. The Solar Neighbourhood
Universe within 250 light years
Slide 9 : The Universe within 50,000 Light Years
The Milky Way Galaxy A spiral galaxy of at least two hundred billion stars. Our Sun is buried deep within the
Orion Arm about 26 000 light years from the centre. Towards the centre of the Galaxy
the stars are packed together much closer than they are where we live. Notice also the
presence of small globular clusters of stars which lie well outside the plane of the Galaxy,
and notice too the presence of a nearby dwarf galaxy - the Sagittarius dwarf –
which is slowly being swallowed up by our own galaxy.
Slide 10 : He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
Slide 11 : Our galaxy is just one of thousands that lie within 100 million light years. The above map
shows how galaxies tend to cluster into groups, the largest nearby cluster is the Virgo
cluster a concentration of several hundred galaxies which dominates the galaxy groups
around it. Collectively, all of these groups of galaxies are known as the Virgo Supercluster
The second richest cluster in this volume of space is the Fornax Cluster, but it is not
nearly as rich as the Virgo cluster. Only bright galaxies are depicted on the map, our
galaxy is the dot in the very centre. Can you find the Milky Way in this??
Our Milky Way galaxy is part of Local Group & it is in centre Number of galaxy groups within 100 million light years = 200
Number of large galaxies within 100 million light years = 2500
Number of dwarf galaxies within 100 million light years = 25 000 The Universe within 100 million Light Years
The Virgo Supercluster
Slide 12 : The Universe within 1 billion Light Years
The Neighbouring Superclusters Galaxies and clusters of galaxies are not uniformly distributed in the Universe, instead they
collect into vast clusters and sheets and walls of galaxies interspersed with large voids in
which very few galaxies seem to exist. The map above shows many of these superclusters
including the Virgo supercluster - the minor supercluster of which our galaxy is just a minor
member. The entire map is approximately 7 percent of the diameter of the entire visible Universe.
Slide 13 : This map attempts to show the entire visible Universe. The galaxies in the universe
tend to collect into vast sheets and superclusters of galaxies surrounding large
voids giving the universe a cellular appearance. Because light in the universe only
travels at a fixed speed, we see objects at the edge of the universe when it was
very young up to 14 billion years ago. The Universe within 14 billion Light Years
The Visible Universe
Slide 14 : And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
Slide 15 : This map attempts to show the entire visible Universe. The galaxies in the universe
tend to collect into vast sheets and superclusters of galaxies surrounding large
voids giving the universe a cellular appearance. Because light in the universe only
travels at a fixed speed, we see objects at the edge of the universe when it was
very young up to 14 billion years ago. The Universe within 14 billion Light Years
The Visible Universe
Slide 16 : And after that He spread the earth.
Slide 17 : Extended to a wide expanse.
That is healthy to live on.
Slide 18 : And brought forth therefrom its water and its pasture;
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Slide 20 : And the mountains He has fixed firmly; And He has affixed into the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you, and rivers and roads, that you may guide yourselves.
(Surat An-Naĥl)
The modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth. This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s : The modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth. This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s
Slide 22 : As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
Slide 23 : But when there comes the greatest catastrophe
Slide 24 : The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
Slide 25 : And Hell-fire shall be made apparent in full view for (every) one who sees, Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The Hell would he brought on that day (the Day of judgment) with seventy bridles and every bridle would be controlled by seventy angels.
(sahih Muslim) Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as seying: The fire which sons of Adam burn is only one-seventieth part of the Fire of Hell. His Companions said: By Allaah, even ordinary fire would have been enough (to burn people). Thereupon he said: It is sixty-nine parts in excess of (the heat of) fire in this world each of them being equivalent to their heat.
(sahih Muslim)
Slide 26 : So as for he who transgressed
And preferred the life of the world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Slide 27 : Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge. But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts.
Slide 28 : Abu Sa'id al-Khudri and Abu Huraira both reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: There would be an announcer (in Paradise) who would make this announcement: Verily there is in store for you (everlasting) health and that you should never fall ill and that you live (for ever) and do not die at all. And that you would remain young and never grow old. And that you would always live in affluent circumstances and never become destitute, as words of Allaah, the Exalted and Glorious, are:" And it would be announced to them: This is the Paradise. You have been made to inherit it for what you used to do(Surat Al-'A`rāf: 43)". (sahih Muslim –Book 40, checpter-9)
Slide 29 : They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
Slide 30 : In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
To your Lord is its finality.
Slide 31 : You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Slide 32 : It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.
He (Allah) will say: "What number of years did you stay on earth?" : He (Allah) will say: "What number of years did you stay on earth?" They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day. Ask of those who keep account.“Surat Al-Mu'minūn
Conclusion : Conclusion