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Pic 7: Pulsar

In recent times scientists have discovered the existence of

pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron

stars that emit beams of radiation. Their radiation can only

be observed when the beam of emission is pointing straight

towards the Earth. This lighthouse effect causes an

observed pulsed nature that gives pulsars their name. The

first pulsar was observed on November 28, 1967.

Pulsars make sounds like a hammer or knock, and the

radiations they emit can penetrate and puncture anything

including the earth. The link below is to sounds of pulsars

from Cornell University’s database. From this database

please listen to: “B1933+16 One of the brightest known

pulsars--every pulse is audible”; And also listen to the

third file in the set: “B2020+28 A bright pulsar, most

individual pulses are audible”. Notice how the sounds

seem like a knocking in the stillness of the night – here is

the link:

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~deneva/psr_sounds/pulsars_s

ounds.htm

This is what summed up for us in the verse of the Koran

wonderfully, Allah gives a description of these stars

through two words:

By the heavens, and At-Târiq (one who knocks at night); And what

will make you to know what At-Târiq is? (It is) the star of piercing

(brightness);

The word “Tariq” accurately reflect the action or audio

waves of these stars – knocking sounds, and the word

“Thaqib” accurately reflect the outputs of these stars –

penetrating waves,

Is Pulsar the only thing that hugely endangers us with

radiation or is there something that endangers us also?..

There certainly is …… and it is much nearer to us than the

pulsars

Pic 8: The burning sun

At the time of the descent of the Koran, no one on earth

knows the true reality of the sun. But Allah, who created

the sun, described it precisely saying:

And We have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun).

This verse emphasizes that the sun is a lamp and lamp is a

machine for burning fuel and the generation of light and

heat. This is what the sun does; it burns fuel and generates

light, heat and radiation. We benefit a lot from the light and

heat of the sun. But just as one must be shielded safely

from a lamp’s power to burn, we must be safely shielded

from the Sun as well. Thus it is scientifically very accurate

to label the sun as a lamp.

Praise be to Allah, what good information. My

mind keeps going back to the huge pulsars. Is there

something more in the universe of even more significance?

Certainly there is!......

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