Al-A'raf (The Heights)
Surah 7 · Verse 185
Have they not looked into the kingdom of the skies and the earth and everything which Allah has created and (come to the conclusion) that it may be that (the end of) their term has come near, then in which statement after this will they believe?
The degree of disorder or the entropy of the universe is always increasing and would reach a maximum value causing the ‘Heat death of the Universe’ or the end of the present phase of the universe. The masses of the heavenly bodies and with them the mutual gravitational attraction increase with increase in the velocity of the observed expansion of the universe. If this velocity of expansion increases beyond a critical value, the masses of the heavenly bodies and consequently the mutual gravitational attraction between them will increase to such an extent that the whole universe will collapse (the Crunch) which will take place within an extremely short period of one divided by ten followed by 42 Zeros of a second. The universe is closely balanced between run away expansion and violent collapse. It is quite possible that the universe has already started collapsing but we have not yet received the signal because of the unimaginably large distances of the further most galaxies, the light signal from which would take millions of years to reach us. We might thus meet the end suddenly which might be due to very high gravitational pull between all the heavenly bodies according to the opinion of scientists too, but the time of this event is known only to Allah (SWT).



