THIS BEAUTIFULLY-ARRANGED SYSTEM
Innumerable stars constantly move about in space, but no clash exists among them. If one planet crashed into another, it would cause enormous destruction. But that does not happen.
The precise location of the Sun is of great significance for sustaining life on Earth. It is located far from a region in space that is characterized by the presence of dangerous supernovas. Because of this, the Earth is protected from their impact. The Sun is located in one corner of the Milky Way galaxy. Had it been located at the centre of the Milky Way, many of the astronomical bodies there could have crashed onto Earth. Likewise, the electromagnetic waves from the galaxy’s centre could have harmed some living beings.
The moon is located relatively close to Earth. But despite this, it does not crash against the Earth, whereas artificial satellites routinely fall on the Earth when their time is up. It is estimated that the weight of the moon is 73.5 million tons. Its diameter is 3500 kilometres, and its distance from the Earth is 3,84,000 kilometres. The Earth revolves around the Sun, and the moon revolves around the planet Earth. This has been happening for millions of years. But their system is so firm and fixed that they remain established in their orbits with complete accuracy. The Earth’s magnetic force pulls the moon towards it, but the force of the moon’s motion keeps it constantly at a distance from the world. As a result of these two mutual processes of gravity and motion, the moon’s pathway adopts the form of a long oval orbit. If the moon were to depart from its orbit and begin to fall toward the Earth, its speed would be 11 kilometres a second. If it were to rush with such incredible speed and crash on the Earth, it would be a more severe accident than all the bombs in the world exploding simultaneously. But this has never happened. Have you thought about why this is so? Could ‘good fortune’ or ‘mere chance’ account for it? Does it not point to some Divine arrangement?