6 Preface إِنّا زَيَّنَّا السَّماءَ الدُّنيا بِزينَةٍ الكَواكِبِAhmed AliHe decked the nearest heavens1 with ornaments of stars, Read in conjunction with 41:12, and 67:3, 5, that God created several skies and ingrained their functions in each, would show that our universe is the nearest in space, the others being placed farther away, with their own functions (different kind of physics and space-time). Modern scientists are reaching similar conclusions. See Andrei Linde’s recent theory of many universes: Newsweek, April 20, 1987, p. 51. See also 65:12 for a number of universes.