Subject: [Masjid Tucson] Submission weekly reminder

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Peace be upon you,

	Greatness of God*
[Quran 39:67] They can never fathom the greatness of GOD. The whole earth is within His fist on the Day of Resurrection. In fact, the universes are folded within His right hand.* Be He glorified; He is much too high above needing any partners.


According to NASA there are about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And while scientists do not know exactly how many stars are in our galaxy, the Milky Way, they estimate it is somewhere between 200-400 billion. For simplicity, let us assume there are about 100 billion stars in the average galaxy. That gives us an estimate of about 200 sextillion stars [200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000] in the universe!

If we take only a quintillion [1,000,000,000,000,000,000] of those stars and simply count them [from 0 to quintillion] one count per second, day and night, this will take 32 billion years (more than the age of the universe). That is how long it will take to just "count" them; but God "created" them. Such is the greatness of God.

All praise be to God, Lord of the universe!

References:
Greatness of God, https://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/appendices/appendix6.html or watch at: https://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/videos/vid.php?vid=64v6qoyK3cA
Appreciating God's Greatness, https://masjidtucson.org/God/greatness/
Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space? https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/our-milky-way-galaxy-how-big-is-space/

Peace.