If you read the Quran, you will find that it deals with all of the subjects relating to human beings. But the basic theme of the Quran is the creation plan of God. All other subjects touched on by the Quran are related to this basic theme, directly or indirectly. God Almighty created the universe, and it is God Almighty who revealed this book called Quran. The primary purpose of the Quran is to reveal that divine plan according to which the world was created and people were settled in it. This theme, which is central to the Quran, is thus described in chapter 67 Al-Mulk (The Kingdom): “He created death and life so that He might test you, and find out which of you is best in conduct”. (67: 2) The word ‘life’ represents pre-death period and the word ‘death’ represents the second period, which may be called the post-death period. The pre-death period is very short, about a hundred years, while the post-death period has no such limit. It will continue for all eternity.
I want to speak about something which was unknown before 1927. An event that happened 15 billion years ago was unknown until 1927. But the Quran had already spoken about it in the 7th century. That is, 1300 years ago.
How did someone get to know this?
The Quran was revealed in the 1st quarter of the 7th century. 1300 years after the Quran, in 1927, humans came to know that the Big Bang happened. There was a super atom that exploded.
How did someone come to know this? This means that there is someone beyond space and time. He knew about things when no one else could see or know. The Quran has two verses about this:
Copy Arabic text (21:30)
The two words in the Quran are ratq and fatq. Ratq refers to something joined together. Fatq means to split open. The Quran says that the heavens and the earth were joined together, and then We split them asunder. This is same as the idea that there was a super atom which was split up, and that led to the universe. The heavens and the earth were joined together and We split them asunder by an explosion, which formed the universe. Another verse says: Copy Arabic text (14:10) Fatir literally means one who splits open or breaks something apart.
Do you have doubts about God who split up the heavens and the earth?
If you read commentaries, the word fatir is defined as one who creates.
Do you have doubts about God who created the heavens and the earth?
Fatir doesn’t mean to create. The literal meaning of fatir is not one who creates. But because this was unknown, everyone including Muslims were unware of it, even after the revelation of the Quran. That there was an explosion in the heavens and the earth is something about which the whole history had been unaware. When this verse was revealed in the Quran, even Muslims and commentators on the Quran were unaware of it. Fatir doesn’t mean one who creates. It means one who splits something apart.
This is a clear proof that the Quran was revealed by a Being who knew about matters when people were still unaware of them. We learn two points: first about God's existence, and second that the Quran is God's book. This world has a God, and the Quran is a book of God.
