Didn't He SayCLAIM № 21-30-ASŪRAT AL-ANBIYĀ' · COSMOLOGYSources verified
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أَوَلَمْ يَرَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا
"Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them?"
Qur'an 21:30 · trans. Saheeh International
Independent findings
The standard cosmological model holds that the observable universe expanded from an initial hot, dense state — reached through redshift observation and background radiation measurement, twelve centuries after this text was fixed in writing.
[2] Peebles, Physical Cosmology · [3] Hubble 1929, PNAS 15(3) · [4] Penzias & Wilson 1965, ApJ 142
PROVENANCE: manuscript → Ḥafṣ transmission → 1924 Cairo edition✓ text unchanged