Quran

Quran /56- The Horrendous Eventful Event AL WAQIAH Meccan /

Introduction

$In The Name of Allah AL-Rahman, andAL-Rahim (The Merciful,) A description of some of the inevitable horrific events on the day the world comes to an end. Allah also alludes to the position of the stars. When we talk about space in the universe, we are possibly talking about infinity. Astronomers, therefore, chose a unit that can be appreciated by the human mind when they talk about distances in space. They chose the speed of light and the distance it covers in one year as the unit of the right size. Light travels at the speed of 300,000 km\second (186,000 miles\sec.). A light beam, therefore, would travel round the earth seven times in less than a second. The distance light covers in one year is almost 10 million, million\km. The sun is an ordinary star, one of the 100,000 million that make up our Milky Way Galaxy which is 100,000 light years across and thousands of light years away. These stars are separated from one another by several, light years, that is by several tens of million of million of kilometers. The framework of star distances reaches out some 10 - 000 light years for the brighter stars, and the spiral arms of galaxies happen to be the abodes of the brighter stars. Astronomers have located a spiral arm some 7,000 light years farther out than our sun. Our nearest important neighbor is the Andromeda galaxy, two million light years away. To give the reader an appreciable idea about the location or position of the stars; think of this: The sun, our local star is 150 million km. away from earth. This distance is covered by a supersonic airliner one way in 10 years. If we took the sun away so far that its light dwindled to that of a star like Sirius; we would have moved it 100,000 times further away, a jet journey of a million years. Also, the nearest large cluster of galaxies is 50 million light years away, Vs.75 - 76$

In The Name of Allah AL-Rahman, andAL-Rahim (The Merciful,) A description of some of the inevitable horrific events on the day the world comes to an end. Allah also alludes to the position of the stars. When we talk about space in the universe, we are possibly talking about infinity. Astronomers, therefore, chose a unit that can be appreciated by the human mind when they talk about distances in space. They chose the speed of light and the distance it covers in one year as the unit of the right size. Light travels at the speed of 300,000 km\second (186,000 miles\sec.). A light beam, therefore, would travel round the earth seven times in less than a second. The distance light covers in one year is almost 10 million, million\km. The sun is an ordinary star, one of the 100,000 million that make up our Milky Way Galaxy which is 100,000 light years across and thousands of light years away. These stars are separated from one another by several, light years, that is by several tens of million of million of kilometers. The framework of star distances reaches out some 10 - 000 light years for the brighter stars, and the spiral arms of galaxies happen to be the abodes of the brighter stars. Astronomers have located a spiral arm some 7,000 light years farther out than our sun. Our nearest important neighbor is the Andromeda galaxy, two million light years away. To give the reader an appreciable idea about the location or position of the stars; think of this: The sun, our local star is 150 million km. away from earth. This distance is covered by a supersonic airliner one way in 10 years. If we took the sun away so far that its light dwindled to that of a star like Sirius; we would have moved it 100,000 times further away, a jet journey of a million years. Also, the nearest large cluster of galaxies is 50 million light years away, Vs.75 - 76


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