The Supreme Creator, the All-Knowing

create others like these people? Of course, He is! He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the All-Knowing” (36:81) In this verse, just as ‘Khallāq’ refers to the Great Creator, ‘Allām’ similarly refers to the Great Knower. This implies that Allah, the Lord of the worlds, is both the Great Creator and the All-Knower. The universe that God created is itself proof of the fact that God is the Supreme Creator and the All-Knowing One. A verse of the Quran indicates this fact in the following words: “Do not those who deny the truth see that the heavens and the earth were joined together and that We then split them asunder?” (21:30) The word ‘Ratq’ mentioned in the above verse means joined together, and ‘Fatq’ means to tear apart. At the beginning of this verse, the words “Do not those who deny the truth see” appear. This verse indicates that the phenomenon of the heavens and the earth being “joined together” and then being “split asunder” that the verse refers to is, for man, something known at the level of observation. Moreover, in the 20th century, this event became known at the scientific level due to a scientific discovery known as the Big Bang. According to modern scientific findings, the Big Bang occurred in space 13.8 billion years ago. The details of this event that science has discovered testify to what the Quran says in the verse quoted above. The Big Bang is scientific evidence that the One who brought this universe into being is the Great Creator and the AllKnower. Had He not been so, the universe’s coming into being would have been impossible. The words ‘Khallāq’