30 Preface أَوَلَم يَرَ الَّذينَ كَفَروا أَنَّ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ كانَتا رَتقًا فَفَتَقناهُما ۖ وَجَعَلنا مِنَ الماءِ كُلَّ شَيءٍ حَيٍّ ۖ أَفَلا يُؤمِنونَAhmed AliDo not these unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were an integrated mass,1 then We split them and made every living thing from water?2 Will they not believe even then? Space and matter were an integrated mass, or energy, which was ‘split up’ through the creative force of the word (God’s command embodied in) Kun, Be, (2:117) in a given moment of space-time, from which matter, space, time had their origin. This ‘splitting up’ led to an explosion which has led to the recent astro-physical theory of creation, known as the Big Bang. So would the world come to an end, says the Qur’an, on the Day of Doom: See 82:1-2, 89:21, 99:1, 101:4-5, 102:6-7, etc.See note to verse 4:1.