From the surah Adh-Dhariyat, in the 47th Verse, this is what is said:
We built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it˺.
Now, this verse quite clearly says that the universe is being expanded. The farthest back I could find any reference of a universe that is forever expanding is from 1922. According to Wikipedia, this was when "Alexander Friedmann used the Einstein field equations to provide theoretical evidence that the universe is expanding".
Logically, I cannot think of any scenario where with the existence of the Quran and more specifically this verse, Islam is false.
The only 2 ways I can see this verse as being possible to have been written are:
1- It was a total guess and a fluke, a stroke of luck.
2- The translation is a misinterpretation and the verse is talking about something else that could've been known by humans when the Quran was sent down.
Number 1 is honestly kind of laughable, I don't think I need to disprove it.
As for Number 2, Let's look at the verse itself, this time in Arabic.
"وَالسَّمَاءَ بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ"
The last word, لَمُوسِعُونَ, Comes from the root word, وسع, which means expand or extend, and I say this as a native Arabic speaker.
Literally speaking, this sentence is 'We are broadening the sky.’ I would like to post a relevant part of tafsir from Tazkirul Quran, which talks about verse 51:47:
Literally ‘We are broadening the sky.’ This statement refers perhaps to that characteristic of the universe which has been only recently discovered, i.e. continuous expansion of the universe on all sides after the Big Bang.
I do not see any scenario where 'We are broadening the sky' can be interpreted differently. I would like to hear some counter-arguments because I really can't think of any way where 51:47 does not single-handedly prove Islam to be true.
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