What is the ruling on speaking about the size of the universe, and the claim that the distance of space is millions of years?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on speaking about the size of the universe, and the claim that the distance of space is millions of years?
Answer:
How does he know? This is an overreach that has no benefit. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Al-Kahf 18:51] You do not encompass yourself, my brother; you do not encompass yourself, nor the veins, joints, benefits, and spirit within you; you do not encompass anything of yourself. So how can you encompass the universe and measure the universe and the distance of the universe?
All of this is baseless speculation that is not needed. Yes, it was mentioned that the distance between the heaven and the earth is five hundred years, and between each heaven and the next is five hundred years, and the thickness and width of each heaven is five hundred years. This came in the hadith, and this is sufficient for us. We proceed only with what came in the hadith. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on speaking about the size of the universe, and the claim that the distance of space is millions of years?
Answer:
How does he know? This is an overreach that has no benefit. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves
مَّا أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ خَلْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنفُسِهِمْAll of this is baseless speculation that is not needed. Yes, it was mentioned that the distance between the heaven and the earth is five hundred years, and between each heaven and the next is five hundred years, and the thickness and width of each heaven is five hundred years. This came in the hadith, and this is sufficient for us. We proceed only with what came in the hadith. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [164 -560] ما حكم التكلم في حجم الكون، والقول أنّ الفضاء مسافته ملايين السنين؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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