The sky is widening

The Qur’an proved that the sky is constantly increasing in capacity.

Allah said ( interpretation of the meaning ) :

{ And the heaven We constructed with strength,1 and indeed, We are [its] expander. }

ADH-DHARIYAT (47 )

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