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[FONT="]Continued from post # 132.[/FONT]
It is sometimes important just to repeat certain keywords or phrases in order to become familiar with the concepts involved. There must be understanding and not just casual reading. It is always good for you to revise or go over the previous posts. You will be amazed how much you have missed before and how much you will gain from a second and a third or a forth and so forth repeated reading.
Let us now analyze the two important Qur'aan Cosmological Model technical terms 'samaawaat' and 'arD' as found in the great Arabic - English dictionary compiled by Edward William Lane over 53 years prior to the discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929.
What is the samaawaat?
As has been said before (post # 99) [FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]samaawaat[/FONT][FONT="]is the plural of the Arabic [/FONT][FONT="]word [/FONT][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT] and is derived from the Arabic root verb meaning:-
[FONT="]- he or it was, or became, high, lofty, raised, upraised, uplifted, upreared, exalted, or elevated. [/FONT]
[FONT="]- he or it rose, or rose high.[/FONT]
[FONT="]-he or it rose higher or above.[/FONT]
As a noun it has the following meanings:-
[FONT="][FONT="][FONT="]-the higher, or upper, or highest, or uppermost, part of anything.[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]-the sky, or heavens. [/FONT]
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Let us analyze the meaning of the word [FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][FONT="] which is the singular of [/FONT]'samaawaat'.
When we study the Qur'aan we will see that the word [FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][FONT="] and its plural [/FONT][FONT="]'samaawaat'[/FONT] occurs about about 310 times in the Qur'aan. When these verses are studied it will be seen that the word [FONT="][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][FONT="] is not an object but refers to the open space that surrounds the objects of the universe or in other words it is the depiction of the vast space in which all the elements of the universe find itself including the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. It refers to that part of the Universe in which motion and 'clumpiness' take place. Here is a verse of the Qur'aan that gives us that depiction:-[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]The Qur'aan 22:18[/FONT]
[FONT="]"...that unto ALLAAH bow down whoever is in the [/FONT][FONT="]'samaawaat... and the Sun, and the Moon, and the Stars..."[/FONT]
The Qur'aan also gives other descriptions for various types of samaa' such as for example that part immediately above the earth where the birds fly.
[FONT="]The Qur'aan 16:79[/FONT]
"... the birds that are subjected to the jaww (the air or atmosphere) of the
[FONT="][FONT="]samaa."[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]The Qur'aan 41:11[/FONT]
Another verse which we shall not go into here says that 'The samaa' was in a certain 'smoke' state and ALLAAH caused it to undergo a state of obedience and then He completed it as seven samaawaat (plural of [FONT="][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][/FONT]). We are told that the seven samaawaat are like enormous spheres one beyond the other and that our position is in the lowest of the samaawaat and is callad the [FONT="][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][/FONT] of the duyaa (world or lower world).
The Qur'aan contrasts [FONT="][FONT="]samaa[/FONT][/FONT] with arD which are two opposing but complementary states of the universe: Space verses Matter; One inherently expansive and the other inherently contractive.
In the next post I shall define the Qur'aan Cosmological Model technical term 'arD' as found in the great Arabic - English dictionary compiled by Edward William Lane over 53 years prior to the discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929. After that we shall begin with the construction of the Qur'aan cosmological model.
See you in the next post inshaa allaah (God willing)
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