Earth from space

Subhanallah, walhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar….

Betapa kerdilnya kita manusia ini berbanding dengan makhluk ciptaan Allah SWT yang lain dalam alam semesta ini. Itupun masih ramai lagi manusia yang tidak percaya dan ingkar dengan titah perintah Allah SWT, masih was-was dengan Kebesaran dan Ketinggian Allah Yang Maha Agung. Allah SWT Maha Pengatur segala sesuatu, dari sekecil-kecilnya hinggalah sebesar-besarnya. Allahu Akbar!

Ratusan ayat dalam Al-Quran menjelaskan penciptaan bumi dan langit. Masihkah kita mengingkari ayat-ayat ini?

Berikut dipaparkan beberapa terjemahan ayat tentang penciptaan alam semesta ini untuk renungan kita bersama:

* “(Yaitu) orang-orang yang mengingat Allah sambil berdiri atau duduk atau dalam keadan berbaring dan mereka memikirkan tentang penciptaan langit dan bumi (seraya berkata): “Ya Tuhan kami, tiadalah Engkau menciptakan ini dengan sia-sia, Maha Suci Engkau, maka peliharalah kami dari siksa neraka.” (QS: Ali ‘Imran: 191)

* “Sesungguhnya dalam penciptaan langit dan bumi, dan silih bergantinya malam dan siang terdapat tanda-tanda bagi orang-orang yang berakal.” (QS: Ali Imran: 190).

* Segala puji bagi Allah Yang telah menciptakan langit dan bumi dan mengadakan gelap dan terang, namun orang-orang yang kafir mempersekutukan (sesuatu) dengan Tuhan mereka. (QS: Al-An’aam: 11)

* “Dan Dialah yang menciptakan langit dan bumi dengan benar. Dan benarlah perkataan-Nya di waktu Dia mengatakan: “Jadilah, lalu terjadilah”, dan di tangan-Nyalah segala kekuasaan di waktu sangkakala ditiup. Dia mengetahui yang ghaib dan yang nampak. Dan Dialah Yang Maha Bijaksana lagi Maha Mengetahui”(QS Al-An’aam: 73)

* “Pencipta langit dan bumi. Bagaimana Dia mempunyai anak padahal Dia tidak mempunyai isteri. Dia menciptakan segala sesuatu; dan Dia mengetahui segala sesuatu.” (QS Al-An’aam: 101)

* “Sesungguhnya Tuhan kamu ialah Allah yang telah menciptakan langit dan bumi dalam enam masa, lalu Dia bersemayam di atas ‘Arsy {548}. Dia menutupkan malam kepada siang yang mengikutinya dengan cepat, dan (diciptakan-Nya pula) matahari, bulan dan bintang-bintang (masing-masing) tunduk kepada perintah-Nya. Ingatlah, menciptakan dan memerintah hanyalah hak Allah. Maha Suci Allah, Tuhan semesta alam.” (QS: Al-A’raaf: 54)

* “Sesungguhnya bilangan bulan pada sisi Allah adalah dua belas bulan, dalam ketetapan Allah di waktu Dia menciptakan langit dan bumi.” (QS At-Taubah: 36)

* “Dan apakah orang-orang yang kafir tidak mengetahui bahwasanya langit dan bumi itu keduanya dahulu adalah suatu yang padu, kemudian Kami pisahkan antara keduanya. Dan dari air Kami jadikan segala sesuatu yang hidup. Maka mengapakah mereka tiada juga beriman?.” (QS: Al-Anbiyaa: 30)

Berikut dikongsikan beberapa gambar pemandangan planet bumi dari angkasa (diambil oleh NASA). Semoga kita insaf dan memikirkan tentang Kebesaran dan Keagungan Allah Azza Wajalla….

Earth from space

Stunning views from the International Space Station.

Earth’s airglow is seen with an oblique view of the Mediterranean Sea area, including the Nile River with its delta and the Sinai Peninsula, in this October 15, 2011 NASA handout photograph taken by a crew member of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. Some areas of the photo like the river and river delta appear as the brightest areas because of either man-made lighting (mostly incandescent) or man-made lighting reflected off nearby surfaces. The other areas appear to be illuminated naturally by moonlight, starlight, or back-scattered light from the atmosphere, according to NASA. Picture taken October 15, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

With the Earth in the background, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member from aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in this photo released by NASA and taken February 9, 2010. REUTERS/NASA Handout.

The space shuttle Endeavour is silhouetted against the backdrop of Earth’s horizon prior to docking with the International Space Station in this picture taken by an Expedition 22 crew member on February 9, 2010 and released by NASA February 12, 2010. REUTERS/NASA Handout.

A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth’s atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the International Space Station passes over central Asia September 4, 2010 in this NASA handout photo obtained September 10, 2010. Picture taken September 4, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

This aurora australis image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 29, 2010 from The International Space Station located over the Southern Indian Ocean at an altitude of 350 kilometers (220 miles) and posted on NASA website June 21, 2010. REUTERS/ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center/Handout.

The space shuttle Discovery is seen with Earth in the background as the shuttle approaches the International Space Station for docking in this February 26, 2011 photograph by an Expedition 26 crew member released by NASA. Shuttle Discovery astronauts worked alongside the International Space Station crew on Sunday to prepare the orbital outpost for life after the United States retires its three existing spaceships. Picture taken February 26, 2011. REUTERS/NASA (SCI TECH).

This unprecedented view of the space shuttle Atlantis, appearing like a bean sprout against clouds and city lights shows the shuttle on its way home as photographed by the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station through a window of the station in this July 21, 2011 NASA handout photo. Airglow over Earth can be seen in the background. The Atlantis and its four-member crew returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday after a mission to resupply the International Space Station, ending a 12-year program to build and service the orbital research outpost. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (SCI TECH IMAGES OF THE DAY).

A full moon is visible with part of the International Space Station’s solar array wing in this view above Earth’s horizon, photographed by a crew member from the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) remains docked with the station in this NASA handout photo taken September 3, 2009. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES SCI TECH IMAGES OF THE DAY).

A night time photograph made by an International Space Station Expedition 25 crewmember shows the bright lights of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt on the Mediterranean coast as well as the Nile River and its delta which stand out clearly in this image released by NASA and taken October 28, 2010. REUTERS/NASA

An oblique view of Eastern Europe at night, with Budapest, Hungary in the foreground (center, L) and Kiev, Ukraine in the distance (top, C) in this October 15, 2011 NASA handout photograph taken by an Expedition 29 crew member aboard the International Space Station. Picture taken October 15, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

This image provided by NASA shows a night time image photographed by the Expedition 29 crew from the International Space Station Sunday Oct. 16, 2011. It features airglow, Earth’s terminator, Rocky Mountains, Denver-Colorado Springs (center-right), Santa Fe-Albuquerque (low-center-right), US Great Plains cities: Dallas-Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Chicago. (AP Photo/NASA).

The International Space Station is visible with the Earth in the background in this photo released by NASA and taken November 25, 2009. Picture taken November 25. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

A NASA Goddard Space Center handout photo taken by an Expedition 28 crew member aboard the International Space Station shows an image of Hurricane Irene off the east coast of the United States around 2030 UTC (4:30 p.m. EDT) August 26, 2011. Hurricane Irene battered New York with ferocious winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard. REUTERS/NASA/Expedition 28 – International Space Station/Goddard Space Center/Handout.

The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in this photograph taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21, 2011 and released September 4, 2011. The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes. Srinagar (L), Islamabad (bottom C), Lahore (centre near the border line) and Delhi (top C) can be seen as brighter spots. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (PAKISTAN – Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY).

Aurora Australis or “Southern lights” are seen in this picture captured by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) with a digital while they passed over the Indian Ocean, in this September 17, 2011 photograph. Auroras are light shows provoked by energy from the Sun and fueled by electrically charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere. In this case, the space around Earth was stirred up by an explosion of hot, ionized gas from the Sun.

A portion of the International Space Station (top) is seen along with a view of the Midwestern United States at night with Aurora Borealis, is seen in this September 29, 2011 NASA handout photograph taken by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. The night skies viewed from the space station are illuminated with light from many sources, including artificial light from human settlements with a characteristic yellow tinge and the green light of the Aurora Borealis, seemingly reflected off Earth’s surface—in Canada—beneath the aurora. Picture taken September 29, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

NASA undated handout image of the moon was photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station. The Earth transitions into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth’s atmosphere. The troposphere ends abruptly at the tropopause, which appears in the image as the sharp boundary between the orange and blue colored atmosphere. The silvery-blue noctilucent clouds extend far above the Earth’s troposphere. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

Fires, which may be wildfires or intentionally set agricultural fires, burn on the continent of Australia, with smoke plumes faintly visible in the night sky, in this picture taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) using a digital , September 17, 2011. A gold and green of atmospheric airglow hangs above the horizon in the distance. Picture taken September 17. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

A tweeted photograph from astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 engineer, taken aboard the International Space Station on August 14 with the following caption: “What a ‘Shooting Star’ looks like from space, taken during Perseid Meteor Shower.” REUTERS/Ron Garan-NASA.

This image provided by NASA shows parts of Europe and Africa very easily recognizable in this night time image shot by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying 220 miles above Earth on Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. The view “looks” northward over Sicily and the “boot” of Italy, with the Mediterranean Sea representing most of the visible water in the view and the Adriatic Sea to the right of center. Tunisia is partially visible at left. Part of a docked Russian spacecraft and other components of the ISS are in the foreground. (AP photo/NASA).

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