47وَالسَّماءَ بَنَيناها بِأَيدٍ وَإِنّا لَموسِعونَMuhammad AsadAND IT IS We who have built the universe1 with [Our creative] power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it.2Lit., "the sky" or "the heaven", which in the Qur'an often has the connotation of "universe" or, in the plural ("the heavens"), of "cosmic systems".See note 38 on the first part of 21:30. The phrase inna la-musi'un clearly foreshadows the modern notion of the "expanding universe" - that is, the fact that the cosmos, though finite in extent, is continuously expanding in space.