A047
Surah: 051 - Ayah: 047
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51:47
Musiun(Expanders, extenders)
It is said in verse (51:47): "And We built the heaven with Our hands and indeed, We are expanders." Whether it is the external world or the personal world, God both enfolds and unfolds it. Scientists say that the universe is expanding, but I say that God unfolds it and He will enfold it. We have mentioned this fact repeatedly.
Whether it is the physical world or the world of religion or the physical world, or the world of creation or the world of command, everyone comes under the law of fitrat or nature and the act of “creation within creation” continues in it, due which vastness of various kinds is created in it, such as events and knowledge, as the Holy Quraan says: “We built the heaven with Our hand and indeed We are the extenders.”(51:47). In this wisdom-filled verses very many secrets of the personal world and the universe are hidden. One of them is that due to “creation within creation” spiritual vastness and vastness of knowledge are created, just as the world of religion was created in the time of Hazrat Adam And it creation continues by the shariats of other natiqs also. Thus with scared manifestations of the Holy Prophet, there was “creation within creation” six times in the world of religion, about which it is said that Allah created the heavens and the earth in six days (7:54; :10;3 11:7; 25:59; 32:4; 50:38; 57:4).
Study the blessed verses (51:47-49): “And We built the heaven with might, and We extend it wide. And We spread the earth forth; what excellent spreaders [are We]! And all things We created in pairs, that haply you may reflect.”
Ta’wili purport: And We created the macrocosm by Our might and power and We continue to extend it perpetually. Verse (35:1) says: “He adds what He wills in the creation. Verily Allah has power over all things.”
This verse has been referred 3 times.