The Winnowing Winds
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[51:47]
AND IT IS We who have built the universe with [Our creative] power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it.

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* v.47 : Lit., “the sky” or “the heaven,” which in the Qur’ān 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 innā la-mūsi‘ūn 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.