Allah 's Miracles in the Qur 'an
Truly it (the Qur 'an) is revelation sent down by the Lord of all the worlds. (Qur 'an, 26:192)
Harun Yahya
ISBN
June 2005
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Translated by Carl Rossini Edited by David Livingstone, Qaiser M. Talib, Jay Willoughby
Abbreviations used: (saas - sall-Allahu 'alyahi wa sallam): May Allah bless him and grant him peace (following a reference to Prophet Muhammad) (as - 'alayhi 's-salam): Peace be upon him (following a reference to the prophets)
All translations from the Qur 'an are from The Noble Qur 'an: a New Rendering of its Meaning in English by Hajj Abdalhaqq an Aisha Bewley, published by Bookwork, Norwich, UK. 1420 CE/1999 AH
PREFACE
BOOK ONE: Allah 's Scientific Miracles in the Qur 'an The Formation of the Universe The Expanding Universe The End of the Universe and the Big Crunch Creation from Hot Smoke The Separation of the Heavens and the Earth The Creation of What Lies between the Heavens and the Earth The Perfect Equilibrium in the Universe The Fine Tuning in the Universe The Structural Differences between the Sun, the Moon and the Stars Orbits and the Rotating Universe The Sun 's Trajectory The Moon 's Orbit Calculating the Lunar Year The Force of Gravity and Orbital Movements The Spherical Earth The Earth 's Direction of Rotation The Earth 's Geoid Shape The Diameters of the Earth and Space Atmospheric Layers The Well-Guarded Sky The Sky Made a Dome The Sky that Returns The Layers of the Earth The Earth
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