The
picture represents the Big Bang,
which revealed once again that
God created the universe from
nothingness. The Big Bang is a
theory that has been proven with
scientific evidence. Although
some scientists tried to advance
alternative theories against the
Big Bang, scientific evidence
caused the theory to be completely
accepted by the scientific community.
Another verse about the creation
of the heavens is as follows:
"Do not the Unbelievers
see that the heavens and the earth were joined
together (as one unit of creation), before We
clove them asunder, and We made from water every
living thing. Will they not then believe?" (The
Qur'an, 21:30)
The word ratq translated as "sewn
to" means "mixed in each, blended" in Arabic dictionaries.
It is used to refer to two different substances
that make up a whole. The phrase "we unstitched"
is the verb fataqa in Arabic and implies that
something comes into being by tearing apart or
destroying the structure of ratq. The sprouting
of a seed from the soil is one of the actions
to which this verb is applied.
Let us take a look at the verse
again with this knowledge in mind. In the verse,
sky and earth are at first subject to the status
of ratq. They are separated (fataqa) with one
coming out of the other. Intriguingly, when we
remember the first moments of the Big Bang, we
see that a single point included all the matter
in the universe. In other words, everything, including
"the heavens and earth" which were not created
yet, were included in this point in a condition
of ratq. This point exploded violently, causing
its matter to fataqa and in the process created
the structure of the whole universe.
When we compare the expressions
in the verse with scientific findings, we see
that they are in perfect agreement with each other.
Interestingly enough, these findings were not
arrived at until the 20th century.