 about the the Islamic concept of creation. In Islam the beginning of the story starts with this massive cloud of smoke from which the heaven and earth are pulled from inside the smoke and then the earth after that gets formed into what it looks like before the beings are created. Hello guys, welcome to the channel. Once again, I sincerely appreciate your time. We do not know what is going on with modern free men. He traveled to some Islamic countries to really get inside into the cosmological definition of the creation of the world by Muslims. And of course, theological perspective to that. I do not know whether this really explains that. Does it mean that he's ready to be a Muslim or he's already a Muslim? I've not watched this video, but based on the title and the thumbnail, I am judging him based on that. So let's really see how it goes. Perhaps he might be on his way to becoming Muslim or he's pretty basically looking at Islam as a whole. When I got older, I heard scientists had found evidence of the big bang. According to that theory, the entire universe burst out of a single point in an instant of fiery creation. Now that science knows so much about our cosmic origins, what place is there for religious belief in the beginning? I want to know about the Islamic story of creation. So I'm going to Cairo. Islam has deep roots in science. Muslim astronomers were charting the heavens soon after the time of Muhammad. Speak to me about the Islamic concept of creation. In Islam, the beginning of the story starts with this massive cloud of smoke. From which the heaven and earth are pulled from inside the smoke, and then the earth after that is formed into what it looks like before the beings are created. Interestingly, that is very cosmic. Right. In Islam, the moment of creation exists alongside the scientific view of its formation. This is not the unbeliever's seat. These atheists, these agnostics, the people who deny the existence of God, can they see? No, those Allah expects them to see, to be able to see, to witness. That the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit of creation. Who is he talking to? Who is he addressing? Kaafir. Which Kaafir? The Bedouins of 1400 years ago? No, no. What can the poor man understand? Well, what did he know about the universe, about the creation of the heavens and the earth? What did he know? He only accepted whatever was said if this was Allah's Kalam, Amenna Saddatna. We hear and we accept. We believe. We believe. This was imam that they had. They didn't have a grasp. Allah is not addressing those unbelievers of the times of Muhammad or the unbelievers in the Congo or among the Eskimos who might not believe in God. No, no, no, no, no, no. He is talking to the men of science, men of learning, who are now expanding to the world the theory of creation that these astronomers with the mighty telescopes, when they're looking into space and they're analyzing the movements in the heavens, such a person with his great learning, he says that this universe came into being with a big bang billions of years ago because he's watching the universe and he's noticing that these heavenly bodies are receding from a central place somewhere is all going out in all directions, moving away, away, away, like a balloon. When you blow it just bigger and bigger, something like that is happening in the skies, in the heavens. These galaxies, they're receding from us at a faster and faster speed, at a faster and faster speed. So they say that this universe came into being with a big bang, a big bang theory who says that the most learned men of science, astronomers, they say, where did you get these funny ideas from? It's fairy tale about a big bang. So no, no, no, no, no, it is not fairy tale. These are facts, demonstrable facts. We can demonstrate it, show you what is happening and from that we can conclude if we had a film and put in reverse gear, you could see what is happening is all coming back again. The way it's going out, the balloon, if you can deflate it, you'll see it all coming back to one central point and there was a big bang. When did you discover this? It's yesterday because 50 years is yesterday in the history of man, what is 50 years? Nothing. I said an illiterate man in the desert, a person who didn't know how to read or write, a person who couldn't sign his own name, he couldn't have known this, could he? This is no never impossible. A man does it in astronomy, he hasn't got the instruments, he hasn't got a telescope, nothing in the desert and among an many people illiterate. And he is now telling you, this man in the desert 1,400 years ago, and he's with them a center. A new biologist, people who study my nuclear, microplopism, he says, you know life originated in the sea, water. Without this water, no life. And they tell you, we look back in time, in space, this is how life originated. There was a time when this earth was a molten mass, nothing could have survived here, everything boiling, boiling and over a period of millions of years, you know the vapors went up and came down and the vapors went up and came down and start cooling this earth, it took a millions of years and then started life, germ, plant life and all these things started. At one time there was nothing and then it started. Where did life come from? It says from the sea. Certain chemical actions, the sun playing its part and life started from there. When did you find this out? It's yesterday, because 50 years is yesterday in the history of man and illiterate man in the desert, he couldn't have known that. What is it? It says no, never. Well, listen. It's made from water every living thing. You mean up science, you mean up learning, you copy, you ate this, you agnostic, why can't you believe? Well, this is really scary and touching. How could Mohammed, who is apparently living in a desert, know that water was actually this sort of life? How would he have confirmed a later learning of that magnitude? It took scientists a very great deal to dig deep into that reality just about 50 years ago. How was he able to pinpoint that and present it? Man, so this is pretty amazing to be completely honest. I have never thought about this before, like deeply the way I am seeing it right now. It's completely amazing to be quite honest. Man, so to say the least, the origin of life, being water, is really apparent. Check it, with that water, you can absolutely do nothing. I was boiling something the other day and forgotten and went to sleep. It nearly got burnt. So I had water in my kitchen. So what I did was to pick the pot which was about to burn and dip it inside the water and guess what? Everything went ice. It went very cold and I was able to handle the metal again. It's really amazing the power of water that even something that is hot can be made cold with hot water. Do you know that? If you're working in a place where they use fireworks or black smooth or where they work with iron, hot irons, you can also notice that hot water despite the height of the boiling point can also cool or stabilize the temperature of a hot metal. The word in Arabic means something that is fused and inseparable, fused and inseparable. The word was used when a mother is carrying a child because the mother and the child are inseparable. And when she would start delivering, the other word was used is the time for her to start parting. Really her body is parting up and she's parting from her child. So the IS says the heavens and the earth used to be fused and inseparable and then we caused them to come apart. Meaning there was the universe in origin in its original form was a fused united body, some sort of matter and then it became and spread out and then the words used later on it spread out far and wide. So it's close to, very close to, interestingly close to the big bang theory. Then Allah describes the beginning of the heavens. As if that is not enough, look at the frontier project of NASA right now. They're looking for a sign of life on Mars, spending about probably close to a billion dollars, 600 billion dollars on it, over going one trillion dollars. What are they looking for as a sign of life? Are they looking for emails, furniture? They're looking for water because you find water, you're going to find life. The same verse in Surah An-Ambiyah chapter 21 that told us how the universe started is telling us what is the source of life in the universe, the continuation of it and out of order we have created the 113. How would Prophemons us to know that? And as if that is not enough, you go to Surah Fusila chapter 41. The scientists would tell you that massive explosion, the stars and the planets did not come out like that. It was in the condition of smoke, huge light years areas of smoke and then it got so intense inside it that the stars are born and the planets are born. Then it was to the heavens when it was in a condition of smoke and sit to it and to earth come they said will come willingly. How would anyone imagine that you know the hills and the camels and the planet were smoke? But if it is the creator of heavens and earth then and that is being revealed to Prophemons us, then you know it. And then the third phase just recently scientists discovered that that big bang still happening, that explosion, the edges of the universe are still equing and expanding at the edges of the universe. In Surah An-Ambiyah chapter 51, and the skies, the heavens, we have created with our own powers and we are expanding them. This is the creating time, the creator of 1400 years ago, in the Quran. And then Subhan Allah the Quran is forever. Chapter 51 verse 47, As for the sky or the heavens, we have created it, we have built it and we are expanding it. So this seems to be very clear that God here is doing the work. He is the active participle here, we are expanding it. In fact I may add here if you allow me that some of the classical commentators were puzzled by the verse and they said well it just means that it is large or that God is filling it with more provisions because they couldn't conceive like the universe is expanding fast as it is already. So they avoided the obvious meaning but as Maurice Bouquet has shown in his book The Bible, Quran and Science, that is the literal meaning and that literal meaning actually makes sense to us today because we know today that the universe is expanding since the 1930s, 1920s. This was discovered and it became a firm theory since 1964 with the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation because that proved once and for all that the universe is in fact expanding from a big bound origin that occurred some maybe 14 billion years ago. Just a few decades ago there was a conflict between our theology as Muslims and physics. Physicists believed in the steady state theory, they believed that the universe had no beginning and the Quran is clear the universe had a beginning. Now the steady state theory has gone through a paradigm shift and we have the big bang theory now with 17 different models and it's more in line with the Quran. But what would we have Muslims have done 50, 70, 80 years ago when the steady state theory was accepted by everyone including people like Einstein? Would we just go around trying to argue with every single physicist as well? No, we would say well this is a prevailing idea in physics and we accept it as Muslims and we accept it as a working model, working theory, working paradigm but we don't believe it to be absolutely true. Maybe something will come in the future which will challenge it which is actually what happened. The correct thing is slumically and the correct thing even if you're not Muslim is to understand science only gives you working models which can then change and we need to understand we have a duty to be involved in science more than I would say other religious faiths or even people who are non-religious. Why? Because science as a method came from the Muslim world. The first scientist in history according to even mainstream secular academics historians like David C. Limburg the first scientist in history and the first person who came up with the scientific method which we're using till today to make all of our technology is Hassan Ibn Haitham who lived approximately a thousand years and hundreds of years before Francis Bacon or Galileo and you these characters and he was not only a scientist he was also a quranic scholar and he was the first person who actually uh and one of the things that he said was in his biography what drove him to do science was to become closer to our world become closer to God. That was actually his objective and sadly nowadays science is associated with atheism but as we know the more you discover about something the more you discover about the human body the more you discover about the universe if anything it should lead you towards God not away from God. I really have nothing more to add to what this guy said because I've learned a lot and I know most of you too have learned a lot too but all I would have to say is the last statement this guy made that the more you discover the universe the more you realize how important it is to believe that there's a creator and someone who engineered all this we are seeing today. I will share my little experience before I end my reaction here that's little experiences the first time I ever flew on an airplane that day I was sitting on the window side and took up time to look around the universe as we went about 5 000 feet above sea level I was at that place looking at the cloud looking at the sun this is an experience I can really not explain when I was seeing others what was coming to my mind obviously was God is great God is powerful he's amazing I could see the work of God these cannot just come like that God has a reason why it came he developed all this I was tortured when we learned it I obviously gave my life to God once again I was totally honest with myself this is the open-minded thinker show see you next time