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Did the Entire Universe Come From Nothing!?

📖Quran 11:7
He is the One Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days—and His Throne was upon the waters—in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And if you ˹O Prophet˺ say, “Surely you will ˹all˺ be raised up after death,” the disbelievers will certainly say, “That is nothing but pure magic!”

📖Quran 41:9
Ask ˹them, O Prophet˺, “How can you disbelieve in the One Who created the earth in two Days? And how can you set up equals with Him? That is the Lord of all worlds.

📖Quran 41:10
He placed on the earth firm mountains, standing high, showered His blessings upon it, and ordained ˹all˺ its means of sustenance—totaling four Days exactly ( These four Days include the first two, so the total period of creation is six heavenly Days.)—for all who ask.

📖Quran 41:11
Then He turned towards the heaven when it was ˹still like˺ smoke, saying to it and to the earth, ‘Submit, willingly or unwillingly.’ They both responded, ‘We submit willingly.’

📖Quran 41:12
So He formed the heaven into seven heavens in two Days, assigning to each its mandate. And We adorned the lowest heaven with ˹stars like˺ lamps ˹for beauty˺ and for protection. That is the design of the Almighty, All-Knowing.

📖Quran 7:54
Indeed your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days, then established Himself on the Throne. He makes the day and night overlap in rapid succession. He created the sun, the moon, and the stars—all subjected by His command. The creation and the command belong to Him ˹alone˺. Blessed is Allah—Lord of all worlds!

  • The word day is not always used in the Quran to mean a 24-hour period. According to 22:47, a heavenly Day is 1000 years of our time. The Day of Judgment will be 50 000 years of our time (see 70:4). Hence, the six Days of creation refer to six eons of time, known only by Allah.

📖Quran 22:47
They challenge you ˹O Prophet˺ to hasten the torment. And Allah will never fail in His promise. But a day with your Lord is indeed like a thousand years by your counting.

📖Quran 70:5
Through which˺ the angels and the ˹holy˺ spirit ( The holy spirit is the angel Gabriel.) will ascend to Him on a Day fifty thousand years in length.

  • Judgment Day will seem like 50 000 years for a disbeliever, but it will seem like a very short period for a believer. The Prophet (ﷺ) is reported in a ḥadîth collected by Imâm Aḥmed to have said that, for the believer, this long period will be like the time they took to perform a single prayer in the world.

📖Quran 21:30-32
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? And We have placed firm mountains upon the earth so it does not shake with them, and made in it broad pathways so they may find their way.And We have made the sky a well-protected canopy, still they turn away from its signs.

  • The signs of the heaven include the galaxies, planets, stars, etc., all of which have an orbit. Our planet orbits the sun, the sun orbits the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Milky Way Galaxy orbits the Virgo Supercluster, etc.

📖Quran 21:104
The Day when We will fold the heaven like the folding of a [written] sheet for the records. As We began the first creation, We will repeat it. [That is] a promise binding upon Us. Indeed, We will do it.

📖Quran 21:33
And He is the One Who created the day and the night, the sun and the moon—each travelling in an orbit.

📖Quran 51:47-48
And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.And the earth, We spread it out: We made it level: what excellent Spreaders then!, We are.

📖Quran 6:101
He is, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, which He originated uniquely without precedent; how should He have a son, when He has no consort, spouse, and He created everything, that was meant to be created, and He has knowledge of all things?

📖Quran 4:171
O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, “Three”; desist – it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.

📖Quran 6:102
That is Allah, your Lord; there is no deity except Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He is Disposer of all things.

📖Quran 6:1
All praise belongs to Allah who created the heavens and the earth, and made darkness and light; yet those who disbelieve equate (others) with their Lord.

📖Quran 59:1
Allah’s purity has been proclaimed by all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

📖Quran 6:1
All praise is for Allah Who created the heavens and the earth and made darkness and light.1 Yet the disbelievers set up equals to their Lord ˹in worship˺.

  • “Light” is always used in the Quran in the singular (nûr), whereas “darkness” is used in the plural (ẓulumât). Nûr is usually used in a metaphorical sense to refer to true guidance, whereas ẓulumât refers to different forms of misguidance.

📖Quran 6:2
He is the One Who created you from clay, then appointed a term ˹for your death˺ and another known only to Him ˹for your resurrection˺—yet you continue to doubt!

  • i.e., created your father, Adam, from clay. Some scholars suggest that if we examine all the minerals found in the earth (potassium, nitrogen, and carbon), we find that these are the same minerals that make up our body. Furthermore when we die, our bodies are absorbed back into the ground. And when we are resurrected, we will be resurrected from the ground ?From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will bring you back again. Quran 20:55).

📖Quran 13:12-14
And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay.Then We placed him as a sperm-drop in a firm lodging.Then We made the sperm-drop into a clinging clot, and We made the clot into a lump [of flesh], and We made [from] the lump, bones, and We covered the bones with flesh; then We developed him into another creation. So blessed is Allah , the best of creators.

📖Quran 40:67
He it is Who created you from dust, by having created your father Adam from it, then from a drop [of sperm], then from a blood-clot, congealed blood, then He brings you forth as infants, then, He sustains you, that you may come of age, [until you have attained] your full strength — [this being] from the age of thirty to forty — then that you may become aged (read shuykhan or shiykhan)– though there are some of you who die earlier, that is, before coming of age or becoming aged. He does this to you so that you may live [on], and that you may complete an appointed term, a defined length of time, that perhaps you might understand, the proofs of [His] Oneness and thus become believers.

  • Clay is a related term of dust. · As a proper noun clay · As a noun dust is · As a verb dust is.

📖Quran 76:2
We have created man from a mixed sperm-drop to put him to a test; then We made him able to hear, able to see.

📖Quran 42:11
˹He is˺ the Originator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you spouses from among yourselves, and ˹made˺ mates for cattle ˹as well˺—multiplying you ˹both˺. There is nothing like Him, for He ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

📖Quran 51:59
And of everything We created pairs, that possibly you would be mindful.

📖Quran 36:36
Glory be to the One Who created all ˹things in˺ pairs—˹be it˺ what the earth produces, their genders, or what they do not know!

📖Quran 13:2-3
It is Allah Who has raised the heavens without pillars—as you can see—then established Himself on the Throne. He has subjected the sun and the moon, each orbiting for an appointed term. He conducts the whole affair. He makes the signs clear so that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord, And He is the One Who spread out the earth and placed firm mountains and rivers upon it, and created fruits of every kind in pairs. (Males and females, sweet and bitter, etc.) He covers the day with night. Surely in this are signs for those who reflect.

📖Quran 13:4
And on the earth there are ˹different˺ neighbouring tracts, gardens of grapevines, ˹various˺ crops, palm trees—some stemming from the same root, others standing alone. They are all irrigated with the same water, yet We make some taste better than others. Surely in this are signs for those who understand.

📖Quran 71:17
And Allah has caused you to grow well out of the earth,

📖Quran 76:1
There has come upon man a period of time in which he was nothing worth mentioning.

📖Quran 21:33
And We created mountains on the earth, lest it should shake with them, and We have made therein paths and ways, so that they are guided.

📖Quran 15:19
As for the earth, We have stretched it out and placed on it firm mountains, and We have caused to grow in it everything well-balanced,

📖Quran 24:39-40
As for the disbelievers, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert, which the thirsty perceive as water, but when they approach it, they find it to be nothing. Instead, they find Allah there ˹in the Hereafter, ready˺ to settle their account. And Allah is swift in reckoning. Or ˹their deeds are˺ like the darkness in a deep sea, covered by waves upon waves, topped by ˹dark˺ clouds. Darkness upon darkness! If one stretches out their hand, they can hardly see it. And whoever Allah does not bless with light will have no light!

📖Quran 24:43
Do you not realize that Allah drives the clouds, then joins them together, then turns them into a heap? Then you see the rain coming out from their midst. He sends down from the sky mountains (of clouds) having hail in them, then He afflicts with it whomsoever He wills and turns it away from whomsoever He wills. The flash of its lightning seems to snatch away the eyes.

📖Quran 2:117
He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is.

📖Quran 2:118
Those who do not know say: “Why is it that Allah does not speak to us, nor does a sign come to us?” So spoke those before them as these people do. Their hearts resemble each other. We have indeed made the signs clear for the people who have certitude.

📖Quran 2:29
It is He who created for you all of that which is on the earth. Then He directed Himself to the heaven, [His being above all creation], and made them seven heavens, and He is Knowing of all things.

📖Quran 41:53
We will show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that this ˹Quran˺ is the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is a Witness over all things?

📖Quran 40:57
Certainly, the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of human beings, but most human beings do not know.

📖Quran 2:23-24
And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.And if ye do it not – and ye can never do it – then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.

  • Ever since the Quran was revealed, fourteen centuries ago, no one has been able to produce a single surah like the chapter 108

📖Quran 2:25
And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.

📖Quran 57:21
Compete each other in proceeding towards forgiveness from your Lord and to Paradise the width of which is like the width of the sky and the earth. It has been prepared for those who believe in Allah and His messengers. That is the bounty of Allah; He gives it to whomsoever He Wills and Allah is the Lord of the great bounty.

📖Quran 4:57
But those who believe and do righteous deeds – We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide forever. For them therein are purified spouses, and We will admit them to deepening shade.

📖Quran 3:91
Those who disbelieve and die as disbelievers, even an Earth-full of gold shall never be accepted from any of them, even if one were to offer it as ransom. They are the ones for whom there is a painful punishment, and for them there are no helpers.

📖Quran 6:27
If only you could (be there to) see when they will be made to stand by the Fire, and they will say, “Would that we were sent back, then we would not reject the signs of our Lord, and would join the believers.

📖Quran 57:1-3
Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah, for He is the Almighty, All-Wise. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He gives life and causes death. And He is Most Capable of everything, He is the First and the Last, the Most High and Most Near,1 and He has ˹perfect˺ knowledge of all things.

  • Another possible translation: “the Manifest ˹through His signs˺ and the Hidden ˹from His creation.

📖Quran 57:4-5
He is the One Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days,1 then established Himself on the Throne. He knows whatever goes into the earth and whatever comes out of it, and whatever descends from the sky and whatever ascends into it. And He is with you wherever you are. (By His knowledge.) For Allah is All-Seeing of what you do, To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. And to Allah all matters are returned.

📖Quran 57:6-7
He merges the night into day and the day into night. And He knows best what is ˹hidden˺ in the heart. Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and donate from what He has entrusted you with. So those of you who believe and donate will have a mighty reward.

📖Quran 20:124
As for the one who turns away from My message, he shall have a straitened life, and We shall raise him blind on the Day of Judgment.

Summary:

The confusion can be occurs because two days are mention in verse nine, four days in verse ten, and two days in verse twelve. However, it is understood that the four days in verse ten include the two days in verse nine. Ibn Abbas explained the verse, saying: Allah created the earth and everything in it in four days, and He created the heavens in two days. Muhammad Asad comments on the verse, saying: Almost all the classical commentators agree that these “four aeons” include the “two” mentioned in the preceding verse. Therefore, the passage in question does not say Allah created the universe in eight days. Rather, it explains the creation of the earthly realm in four epochs and the subsequent creation of the hidden heavenly realms in two epochs.