it would not be visible, and they would not know Adam nor his descendants."

Most of these narrations—and they are many—conclude with expressions such as: "If this world of yours were placed in the middle of one of them, it would be as a ring cast into a desert, or as a white hair upon a black bull."

[131] And from the Messenger of Allah (exalted be his might): "Indeed, Allah has twenty-eight thousand worlds, and there is not a single world [identical to] another, and in [this] world there are a thousand nations."

Among the things we also believe is that there are many suns and moons in this vast universe, other than our own sun and moon.

[132] It has been reported from the Messenger (exalted be his might) that he said: "The orbits of the eyes of this sun of yours are thirty-nine sun-eyes, and behind this sun of yours are thirty-nine moons." This statement points to multiplicity, not mere enumeration.