Were the heavens and the earth a joined entity, then separated?

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Primary source

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.

Physical Cosmology A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s

PROVENANCE: manuscript → Ḥafṣ transmission → 1924 Cairo edition✓ text unchanged

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