The word Qiblah is used in the Quran to mean a focal point for prayer and in a more general sense as a focal point for hajj (pilgrimage). We read in verse 143 of Sura 2 that God has changed the Qiblah, and that in that change there was a test for the followers of the messenger: …
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“I swear by the positions of the stars. This is an awesome oath, if you only knew” 56:75-76 The number of stars in our “Milky Way” galaxy is about 200 billion stars; and our galaxy is about average in size with regards to number of stars. Galaxies on average have between 100 billion and 1 trillion numbers of …
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