Greatness of God
“They can never fathom the greatness of God. The whole earth is within His fist on the Day of Resurrection. In fact, the universes are folded within His right hand. Be He glorified; He is much too high above needing any partners.”
We learn from that God's greatness is far beyond human comprehension — the verse states that all seven universes are “folded within God's hand.”
Supported by the Quran's mathematical code, we are taught that our universe is the smallest and innermost of seven universes (, , , & ). Meanwhile, our scientific advances have shown us that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 100,000 light years across, and that our universe contains a billion such galaxies and a billion trillion stars, plus countless decillions of heavenly bodies. Our universe is estimated to span distances in excess of 20,000,000,000 light years.
Count the Stars
A Thought Experiment
If we take only a quintillion [1,000,000,000,000,000,000] of the stars and simply count them — one count per second, day and night — this will take 32 billion years (more than the age of the universe). That is how long it would take to just count them. God created them. Such is the greatness of God.
A Space Odyssey
We can appreciate the vastness of our universe by imagining a journey at the speed of light. Leaving Earth toward the sun, we travel 93,000,000 miles and arrive in 8 minutes. To exit our galaxy would take more than 50,000 years at the speed of light. From the outer limit of the Milky Way, our planet Earth is invisible — not even the most powerful telescope can detect it.
To reach our nearest neighboring galaxy would require more than 2,000,000 years at the speed of light. To reach the outer limit of our universe: at least 10,000,000,000 years. From that outer limit, even the Milky Way is like a speck of dust in a large room.
The second universe surrounds our universe. The third universe is larger than the second, and so on. More accurately, our universe should be considered the seventh universe, surrounded by the sixth, which is surrounded by the fifth, and so on. Can you imagine the vastness of the first, outermost universe? No number exists to describe its circumference. This incomprehensible vastness is “within the fist of God's hand.”
From the outer limit of the outermost universe, where is the planet Earth? How significant is it? On this infinitesimal mote, such minuscule creatures as Mary, Jesus, and Muhammad lived. Yet some people set up these powerless humans as gods!
God's greatness is represented not only by the fact that He holds the seven universes in His hand, but also by the fact that He fully controls every atom — even subatomic components — everywhere in the greater universe (, , & ).