COSMOLOGY
see also SUN, MOON, NIGHT, DAY.
- creation of the universe, Genesis 1.
- long period of time when man was nothing (YA's translation. all the rest say a period of time), ad-Dahr 76:1
- parted heavens and the earth, al-Anbiya' 21:30
- universe and man, In the Zabur, David describes his reaction to God's magnificient creation :
- vast extent (of universe), adh-Dhariyat 51:47
[To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.] O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! (Psalms 8)