How accurate are the statements of astronomers regarding the creatures in the vast space "between the heavens and the earth"?
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The questioner : It is mentioned in the verse: [Al-Ma'idah 5:17] that what is between the heaven and the earth is a great creation. So how accurate are the statements of astronomers regarding those creatures between what they call space and those immense distances that the mind cannot count? Is this so?
The Shaykh : What the astronomers mention regarding this matter is neither confirmed nor denied, just like the statements of the Children of Israel; they are neither confirmed nor denied, and they are not agreed upon, because these are distances, as I said, immense. Some of them even say that the stars shining tonight, their light did not reach us until after twenty-four hours. Is this reasonable? In any case, we neither confirm nor deny these, but we know that there are creatures. We have mentioned previously how we know about the winds, the clouds, the rains, the moon, and the stars; all of these are between the heaven and the earth.
And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them
ولله ملك السموات والأرض وما بينهماThe Shaykh : What the astronomers mention regarding this matter is neither confirmed nor denied, just like the statements of the Children of Israel; they are neither confirmed nor denied, and they are not agreed upon, because these are distances, as I said, immense. Some of them even say that the stars shining tonight, their light did not reach us until after twenty-four hours. Is this reasonable? In any case, we neither confirm nor deny these, but we know that there are creatures. We have mentioned previously how we know about the winds, the clouds, the rains, the moon, and the stars; all of these are between the heaven and the earth.