21. [al-Anbiyaa, Mecca 73]
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
وَجَعَلْنَا
السَّمَاء
سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا...
21: 32. And We have made the heavens as a canopy well-guarded:
C2694. Canopy well guarded: the heavens form a canopy that is secure from falling down: they also form a sublime spectacle and a Mystery that man can only faintly reach.
Cf. also 15:17.
...وَهُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ ﴿٣٢﴾
Yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)!
21: 32
Asad and [that] We have set up the sky as a canopy well-secured?"
And yet, they stubbornly turn away from [all] the signs of this [creation],
Pickthall And We have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.
Unknown And We mad the sky a well protected roof. Still they turn away from its signs.
[ref. see www.quranmiracles.com/articles]
Transliteration Wa ja'alnas sama_a saqfam mahfu_zaw wa hum an a_ya_tiha_ muridu_n
[[see www.quranmiracles.com/articles. The Van Allen belts protect us against radiation bombardment. Had it not been for this, life on earth would have been impossible. The lethal cosmic rays coming from the stars other than the sun cannot penetrate this shield. These plasma clouds can reach 100 billion-fold the value of the atom bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Thanks to the Van Allen belts at a distance of 60,000 km from the world, the solar winds cannot penetrate the earth we live in. The “well protected roof” in the verse 21:32 was the result of the speed of rotation of our world, its position in relation to the sun, the structure, the shape and thickness of atmospheric layers, the structure of the core of the earth, the proportion of the constituents in its composition and the perfect and harmonious of a multitude of parameters have made this possible. ]]