God and the Universe

THE UNIVERSE TESTIFIES TO GOD’S EXISTENCE As a result of these two mutual processes of gravity and motion, the moon’s pathway adopts the form of a long oval orbit. If the moon were to depart from its orbit and begin to fall toward the Earth, its speed would be 11 kilometres a second. If it were to rush with such incredible speed and crash on the Earth, it would be a more severe accident than all the bombs in the world exploding simultaneously. But this has never happened. Have you thought about why this is so? Could ‘good fortune’ or ‘mere chance’ account for it? Does it not point to some Divine arrangement? EARTH’S PROTECTIVE SHIELD The Quran says: “We have made the heaven a well-secured canopy.” (21:32) From this, we learn that God has made the upper atmosphere with His mercy and power so that it becomes a means to protect man from harmful things. There are innumerable aspects of this Divine system. One part of it is the atmospheric gas called ‘ozone.’ The Sun provides us with light and heat; life on Earth would have been impossible without it. In the Sun’s rays, some things—for example, ultraviolet rays—can lead to various illnesses, and excess of them can even kill human beings and animals. Ultraviolet rays are continuously emitted from the