Overwhelming!

SubhanAllah, Allah has made us with eyes, ears, hands and feet and intelligence that lets us accomplish great things in life. Man has built great buildings, aircrafts, space crafts and all sorts of amazing things. We look below us, we see tiny specs of dust, small organisms and insects that look tiny compared to us. Plants, animals that we see around us make us think of the things we created as “big” and “amazing”. We begin to imagine ourselves as “big”, “intelligent” and “mighty”.





Then we look around us and we see the vast lands, huge mountains and oceans. We get the feeling of how big the earth is. When we stand at the foot of a giant mountain, or at the beach of an open sea, we are humbled by its greatness.






Somehow we are still able to relate to the huge oceans and mountains and earth in comparison to ourselves. Then we look up to the skies. We see planets and stars. So numerous and shining And we ask Is Earth the biggest thing in existence?




Certainly not …..
Allah Almighty created the planet Jupiter, the larger than earth by 1300 times!!!


A real scale image illustrates the magnitude of the giant planet Jupiter with the Earth.... 1300 times bigger!
Is there something bigger than Jupiter?
Certainly there is………
The sun is much bigger than Jupiter. Sun has a diameter of about 1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi). Look at the picture below and you will realize how much bigger the sun is as compared to the earth.
But is there something even bigger than the sun?
Certainly there is….!

The star Antares dwarfs our sun

A real scale image illustrates the magnitude of our sun (a point hardly seen on the picture) compared to star Antares (Heart of the Scorpion).

Antares compared to Arctus and the Sun
Image above compares, on a real scale, our sun and the star
Arcturus with the giant Antares. The dotted line represents the entire orbit of Mars (227 Million Km) while the Antares is 300 Million Km! The smaller star to the side is Arcturus. It is a mere 20 Million Kilometers. And our bright sun is the small dot on the top. If Antares were placed in the center of our solar system, its outer surface would lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. So are there more stars like Antares, or is it the only one?

There certainly are many…….


A true picture is a small part of the sky shows stars are innumerable - even giant stars like the Antares.


Verily! We have adorned the near heaven with the stars (for beauty). (As-Saffat - 6)
Praise be to Allah, A sky filled with stars like Antares. But is there something bigger than Antares?

There certainly is….!


The VY Canis Majoris

Comparison on a real scale of our Sun and the small sliver on the side of largest star discovered in the universe! It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion) Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris!!!
SubhanAllah Praise be to Allah, My mind is truly humbled and numbed by this comparison. I cannot even imagine its vastness. Is there something bigger than VY Canis Majoris? Certainly there is….!


Pulsar

In recent times scientists have discovered the existence of pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation. Their radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing straight towards the Earth. This lighthouse effect causes an observed pulsed nature that gives pulsars their name. The first pulsar was observed on November 28, 1967. Pulsars make sounds like a hammer or knock, and the radiations they emit can penetrate and puncture anything
including the earth. The link below is to sounds of pulsars from Cornell University’s database. From this database
please listen to: “B1933+16 One of the brightest known pulsars--every pulse is audible”; And also listen to the third file in the set: “B2020+28 A bright pulsar, most individual pulses are audible”. Notice how the sounds seem like a knocking in the stillness of the night – here is
the link:

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~deneva/psr_sounds/pulsars_sounds.htm

This is what summed up for us in the verse of the Quran wonderfully, Allah gives a description of these stars through two words:
By the heavens, and At-Târiq (one who knocks at night); And what will make you to know what At-Târiq is? (It is) the star of piercing (brightness); - Taariq 1-3
The word “Tariq” accurately reflect the action or audio waves of these stars – knocking sounds, and the word
“Thaqib” accurately reflect the outputs of these stars –

penetrating waves, Is Pulsar the only thing that hugely endangers us with
radiation or is there something that endangers us also?

There certainly is …… and it is much nearer to us than the pulsars

The burning sun

At the time of the descent of the Quran, no one on earth knows the true reality of the sun. But Allah, who created the sun, described it precisely saying:
And We have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun).-An Naba (13).
This verse emphasizes that the sun is a lamp and lamp is a machine for burning fuel and the generation of light and heat. This is what the sun does; it burns fuel and generates light, heat and radiation. We benefit a lot from the light and heat of the sun. But just as one must be shielded safely from a lamp’s power to burn, we must be safely shielded
from the Sun as well. Thus it is scientifically very accurate to label the sun as a lamp.
SubhanAllah Praise be to Allah, what good information. My mind keeps going back to the huge pulsars. Is there something more in the universe of even more significance?

Certainly there is!......


The Black hole

Scientists have recently discovered the existence of black holes they called Stars, and is characterized by three properties: 1 – it cannot be seen, 2 - are at high speeds, 3 - to attract everything as if the sweep everything from the sky. It works like a broom (6 "5 م) of the Universe, gathering all the celestial debris.
These are the three qualities that are told to us in the Quran in three words:
So verily, I swear by the (planets) receded. And by the planets that
move swiftly and hide - At-Taqwir (15-16).

First word “AlKhunnas” (>4 " 7? ) means any that cannot be
seen; Second “AlJawar”( > !? ) i.e that which moves swiftly and Third “AlKunnas” ( >4 " 5? ) i.e that which sweeps and gathers everything to itself. This verse of the Koran are a frontrunner in talking about black holes before they were even discovered by the scientists.
SubhanAllah Praise be to Allah, This is amazing. Tell me, If the sun can burn us and pulsars emit such harmful
radiations and the blackholes sweep everything up, how safe are we?