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Fazle Umar 274 meaning which the Word of God holds within it. If external nature can yield new knowledge from day to day, if philosophy and science can continue to advance, if geology, archaeology, physiology, botany, zoology, astronomy, political science, politi- cal economy, sociology, psychology, ethics, and other natural studies can be added to daily, should not the Word of God yield more and more knowledge as we advance from one period of history to another? T H E E v E R - E x PA n d I n G SP I R I T UA L U n I v E R SE OF H A d H R AT M U SL E H M AU ’ O O d [ra] It is a practice of Allah that with time He continues to refine the conceptual facul- ties of man, forever widening the horizon of his awareness. The unknown is forever being transferred into the known. Allah enabled Columbus to discover a New World and He expanded the heavens before Galileo. Galileo proudly announced to the world that he had increased the horizon of human vision a hundredfold. Little did he know that a day would soon dawn when man would perceive the universe enlarged a hundred million times greater and vaster than what he observed. The Hubble telescope beams back pictures of a myriad of galaxies and constella- tions covering the vast expanse of space over unimaginable distances. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] presented a spiritual universe, a universe with extraordinary constella- tions that keep on expanding. In presenting the history of the universe, Huzur points to a verse of the Holy Qur’an that sheds immense light upon the claim of this truth: “And the heaven (whether material or spiritual) We built with (Our Own) powers and indeed We go on expanding it. ” (Ch. 51:V. 48) The world of the unknown is boundless and fathomless, yet Allah will always permit man access to the material universe in measured portions. Similarly, Allah will create such righteous servants like Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] who will expand