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"We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty (in) the stars (For beauty) and for guard against all obstinate rebellious evil spirits. (So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side. Repulsed for they are under a perpetual penalty. Except such as snatch away something by stealth and they are pursued by a flaming fire of piercing brightness. Just ask their opinion: are they the more difficult to create or the (other) beings We have created? Them have We created out of a sticky clay! "

Surah As-Saffat Surah 37, Ayah 6-11

The lower heavens as they are described in the verses above are decked with stars, like those building up the Milky Way and other galaxies. It is impossible for us to travel through them. They are merely too far away, even if we miraculously were to reach the speed of light one day, still the life-span of a human being is too short. It would take 10 million years, see Universe & Space, Structure.

We have just reached the lowest heaven, our solar system, with manned flight to the moon (NASA/Apollo) and satellites to the outer planets (NASA/Voyager). After that we have lost track of these satellites and they are left to be found possibly by alien intelligence some distant day. Even messages were included in our limited capacities, semantics and media, like LP-recordings and graphs.

Additionally, there are extremely bright quasars surrounding black holes , which cannot be passed by any form of matter without being "pursued" or sucked into their eternally high gravity. This is the case for light and astronomical observations as well, they are simply blocked off from exceeding this boundary of the lower heavens. Thus, even if somehow men or spirits (see Universe & Life, Other life form) were to cross these lower heavens and enter the zone of the "exalted assembly", the upper heavens (see Universe & Space, Structure), 1 billion light years away, one would certainly be squeezed into their centre, a deadly heavy dense mass of a dying star of "piercing brightness" as a guard against evil. The 1990s have seen the discovery of gamma-ray-bursts in quasars, perhaps the last energy of a giant dying star collapsing into a black-hole. This burst of light less than a second long contain the energy that our sun produces in 10 billion years. How else could we describe it, but "a flaming fire of piercing brightness" (Surah 37, Ayah 11).

A false colour X-Ray radio map of a QuasarThe picture show A FALSE COLOUR X-RAY RADIO-MAP OF A QUASAR, we can associate the following Ayah from the Quran:

"And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires. We used indeed to sit there in (hidden) stations to (steal) a hearing; but any who listens now will find a flaming fire watching him in ambush"

Surah Al-Jinn 72, Ayah 8/9

Jinns are telling their story of creation and action.

 

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Astronomy

1. Universe development

Big Bang
Formation
Expansion

2. Universe & Space

Age
Relativity
Structure

3. Universe & Life

Elements
Alien life form
Other life form

4. Universe & Motion

Dimensions
Exploration
Travel

5. Planets & stars

Comets
Planets
Speed of light

6. The Solar System

Course
Orbit
Motion

7. Sun & moon

Difference
Function
Eclipses

 

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