NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 114
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 114 ~ their enormous numbers are at immeasurable distances from each other and follow their respective courses, like ships sailing hundreds of miles apart in the vastness of the oceans. The whole universe is made of countless constellations, or galaxies, all of which are in perpetual motion. The nearest example of such motion is the moon’s circling of the earth at a distance of 240,000 miles. It completes each revolution in 29½ days. Similarly, our earth, at a distance of 95 million miles from the sun, rotates on its axis at a thousand miles an hour, and takes one full year to go around the sun. Besides the earth, there are in the solar system eight other planets, all of which are continuously revolving around the sun. Pluto is the farthest away of all, with an orbit of 75 million miles. All these planets move on their individual paths with thirtyone moons in orbit around their respective planets simultaneously. In addition to these nine planets and thirty-one moons, a group of thirty thousand asteroids, thousands of comets and innumerable meteors also remain perpetually in orbit. The central place among them is, of course, occupied by our Sun, which is also a star. Its diameter is 865,000

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