The surah begins with the eponymous ( muqatta'at) Arabic letters: يس ( yā sīn). While the surah begins in Juz' 22, most of it is in Juz' 23. Some scholars maintain that verse 12 is from the Medinan period. It is regarded an earlier " Meccan surah". Is it not a clear proof of the fact that this whole universe is the creation of One God and the Kingdom of One Ruler? Then from the order and the wisdom and the excellence of workmanship and the deep relationships which are found in the hundreds of thousands of the galaxies and in the millions and billions of the stars and planets revolving in them no sensible person can imagine that all this has come about automatically.Yā Sīn (also Yaseen Arabic: يٰسٓ, yāsīn the letters ' Yāʼ' and ' Sīn') is the 36th chapter of the Quran ( sūrah). It cannot be predicted how far and deep man will yet be able to see with greater and more efficient means of observation at his disposal.Īll the information that has been gathered so far about the universe proves that this whole world is made up of the same substance of which our tiny earthly world is made, and the same law is working in the universe which is working in the world of our earth otherwise it was not at all possible, that man should have made observations of the very distant worlds from the earth, measured their distances and estimated their movements. It is a small part of the Kingdom of God which man has yet been able to observe.
Even now it cannot be claimed that man has seen the whole universe.
As for the farthest celestial bodies which are visible through the modern instruments, their light reaches the earth in about 100 million years. According to the investigations made so far, it has been estimated that it is one of about 2,000,000 spiral nebulae, and the nearest nebula is about a million light years away from the earth. Then this galaxy also is not the whole universe. The galaxy which includes our solar system has about 3,000 million suns in it, and its nearest sun is so distant from our earth that its light takes about four years to reach us. Notwithstanding this vastness, the solar system occupies a very insignificant part of a huge galaxy. However, if Pluto is taken as the farthest planet, it revolves 4,600 million miles away round it. The vastness of the solar system in which our earth is included is such that its parent body, the sun, is 300,000 times bigger than the earth, and its farthest planet Neptune is at least 2,793 million miles distant from the sun. These verses are not intended to describe the realities of astronomy, but are meant to make man understand that if he looks around himself, with open eyes, and uses his common sense, he will find countless and limitless proofs of the existence of God and His Unity, and he will not come across a single proof of atheism and shirk. (4) That the movement of the stars in their orbits is similar to the floating of something in a fluid. (3) That the orbits are not moving with the stars in them, but the stars are moving in the orbits. (2) The falak, or orbit, of each one of them is separate. (1) That not only the sun and the moon but all the stars and planets and celestial bodies are moving. The sentence, “Each in an orbit is floating” points to four realities. The word falak in Arabic is used for the orbit of the planets, and it gives a different meaning from the word sama (sky). Nor does this happen either that the night should approach before the appointed period of the day comes to an end, and should start spreading its darkness suddenly during the time when the day is meant to spread its light.ģ7. It is not possible that the sun should suddenly appear on the horizon when the moon is shining at night.ģ6. (2) The sun cannot appear in the times which have been appointed for the rising and appearing of the moon. (1) The sun does not have the power that it should draw the moon into itself, or enter its orbit and collide with it. This sentence can have two meanings and both are correct.
(36:40) Neither does it lie in the sun’s power to overtake the moon nor can the night outstrip the day.
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