Quran attracts reason and common sense and urges the readers who are knowledgeable 'to think, ponder or reflect upon certain statements’. The more one explores and ponders on such statements the deeper meanings one gets. A number of such statements give a clue to the scientific facts that have been duly proved by the modern search or will be proved by the future research. Their synopsis is given as below:

CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

All, apart from God, is the universe through which we can gain knowledge of its Maker and Artificer, It is a pure mirror to show the face of its Creator Who has endowed human nature with intelligence and wisdom and bestowed upon him a mind that man may be able to see God with it. There are several kinds of Universe, the physical and the spiritual. The physical world that is subdivided into several kinds: the celestial as galaxies and stars; the terrestrial as elements and atoms, the minerals, the vegetable and the animal kingdoms. Man is the essence of creation, supersedes all types of creatures, and is himself a miniature or Microcosm of the Universe also known as Macrocosm. First of all let us take the wondrous and infinite City of the Universe, the great celestial world that has always baffled mankind with its myriad twinkling stars.

Assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is a greater (matter) than the creation of men: Yet most of mankind understands not (40:57)

Surely when this verse was revealed, most men never knew the fact that the creation of the heavens and the earth was exceedingly greater than the creation of men. The universe is so vast, complex and mysterious that even today only the greatest intellects of science dare guess as to its extent and shape. The Earth and planets rotating around the Sun constitute an organized world of dimensions, which, to our human scale, appear exceedingly colossal and ineffable. The Earth is, after all, roughly 93 million miles from the Sun. This is a very great distance for a human being, but it is very small in comparison to the distance separating the Sun from the furthermost planet from it in the solar system (Pluto); in round numbers it is 40 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, i.e. approximately 3,672 million miles away. This distance, when doubled, represents the largest dimension of our solar system. The Sun's light takes nearly 6 hours to reach Pluto, and yet the journey is made at the terrifying speed of over 186,000 miles per second. On a fine summer night, the whole of space seems to be filled with stars that make up what is known as the Milky Way. This group has extremely large dimensions. Whereas light could cross the solar system in units of one hour, it would require something like 90,000 years to go from one extreme to the other of the most compact group of stars that make up our galaxy.

The Galaxy of Milky Way, of which the sun is a member, contains about one hundred thousand million stars and about an equal quantity of gas and dust which has not condensed into stars. Until about sixty years ago, it remained an open question whether our Galaxy was the whole Universe or whether there were other similar systems – island universes, as it were – scattered through space. Now it has been explored that our Galaxy is but one of many, which are fairly comparable to it in size and in mass. Space has been surveyed out to a distance of about 500 million light-years and, it is estimated that there are about 100 million separate galaxies. As mentioned above, a ray of light is the fastest thing in creation. Yet a ray of light leaving the earth today to circumnavigate the universe will not return to the earth again for 3,00,000 million years. Or say the light coming from stars on the very confines of the known celestial world takes trillions of years to reach us.

EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE

The Koran talks about an "expanding" Universe centuries before scientists described it:
We created the heavens, the earth and what is between them in six Days, and no weariness ever touched Us (50:38) See they not that God, Who created the heavens and the earth, and never wearied with their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yea, verily He has power over all things (46:33).

Before we discuss what science asserts on this subject, it is worth mentioning that in Genesis, the story of the creation of the world is told in considerable detail. But this statement that the Creation did not make God at all weary is stunning and outstanding, and varies from the Biblical description where God is said to have rested on the seventh day from the preceding days' work.

Now what is asserted in the above verses is that God is able to give life to the dead and the proof thereof is that He Who created the heavens and the earth (is still engaged in the act of creation) and is never wearied of their creation. The expansion of the Universe is the most imposing discovery and firmly established concept of modern science. John Robinson observes: ‘We have a strong evidence and a solid basis for the famous Theory of the Expanding Universe, since the constitution of the Universe the galaxies are running away from us and from each other at altogether, exceptional speeds. They are dispersing or scattering just as a puff of smoke disperses or the fragments of a bursting bomb; the parts steadily get further away from each other as the whole expands. Hubble determined the distances to the galaxies and the velocities that they were moving at relative to Earth and discovered an amazing thing - the farther galaxies were away from us, the faster they were moving away from us. In other words, the Universe is steadily and rapidly expanding! The most well known scientist, Einstein discovered a simple connection between space, time, and matter that appears to hold throughout the universe. His theory predicts that the universe will continue to expand forever if there is, on average, less than about a sugar cube's worth of matter and energy per trillion cubic miles of space. Here is another verse for us to behold and appreciate this wonderful reality in unequivocal and explicit terms; the action of creating the vastness of space is denoted not in any tense but in subjective form that gives subtle meaning of permanence and perpetuation to the attribute of the Creator who continues to create perpetually the vastness of space:
And the sky We built it with might, and we cause the expansion of it (51:47)

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