Friday, April 27, 2007

169)"One hour of contemplation on the works of the Creator is better than a thousand hours of prayer."

What a work of art from the Maker of the Universe! This immaculate spiral galaxy is 118 million trillion kilometers away from us, very similar in size to our own Milky Way galaxy and reminds me of the following saying of the Prophet Mohammed:

"One hour of contemplation on the works of the Creator is better than a thousand hours of prayer":

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070427.html

Meanwhile, much closer to home, a mere 200 thousand million kilometers away, an aging star has been found that has 3 planets orbiting around it. The closest planet to this star has been found to be the most earth-like of all the 200 or so planets found outside our solar system so far:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070426.html

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Islam, eminently logical, placing the greatest emphasis on knowledge, purports to understand God's creation:Aga Khan 4.
The God of the Quran is the One whose Ayats(Signs) are the Universe in which we live, move and have our being:Aga Khan 3