Islam, Qur’an&Science

Introduction
•"Do they not consider the Qur'an? Had it been from any other than
God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. [Qur'an
4:82]"
• Do they not carefully consider (investigate) the Qur'an or are there
locks upon their hearts. [Qur'an 47:24]
• A scientific approach has been encouraged in the Qur'an with the
objective of ascertaining its truthfulness. It provides man with a
chance to verify it authenticity.

The Origin of Universe&Life
• Do the unbelievers not realize that the heavens and the earth used
to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water
we made all living things. Would they believe? [Qur'an 21:30]
• Say: The (Qur'an) was sent sent down by Him who knows the secrets
(that is) in the heavens and the earth... [Qur'an 25:6]
• " Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400
years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his
own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same
origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed here.
"Professor of Geology Dr. Albert Kroner".

The Origin of Life (Cont.)
• "... this very information is exactly what they awarded the 1973
Noble Prize for ... The Qur'an reveals the origin of the universe -
how it began from one piece - and mankind continues to verify this
revelation, even up to now. Additionally, the fact that all life
originated from water would not have been an easy thing to convince
people of fourteen centuries ago. "Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Gary
Miller

Cosmology
• Then he turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke (dukhaan): He
said to it and to the earth: come you together, willingly or
unwillingly. They said: we do come (together) in willing obedience.
[Qur'an 41:11]
• Scientists now can observe new stars forming up out of that smoke,
which is the origin of our universe, as we see on these pictures.

Expansion of the Universe
• The following verse of the Qur'an where God is speaking may perhaps
be compared with modern ideas:"The heaven, we have built it with
power. Verily, we are expanding it. [Qur'an 51:47]
• The expansion of the Universe is the most imposing discovery of modern
science. Today it is a firmly established concept and the only debate
centers around the way this is taking place. It was first suggested by
the general theory of relativity and is backed up by physics in the
examination of the galactic spectrum; the regular movement towards the
red section of their spectrum may be explained by the distancing of
one galaxy from another. Thus the size of the Universe is probably
constantly increasing and this increase will become bigger the further
away the galaxies are from us.

Evolution
• Is it not a fact that there was a time when the human being was
nothing to be mentioned? We created the human from a liquid mixture,
from two parents, in order to test him. Thus, we made him a hearer and
a seer. [Qur'an 76:1-2]
• And God created every living creature from water. Some of them walk
on their bellies, some walk on two legs, and some walk on four. God
creates whatever He wills. God is Omnipotent. [Qur'an 24:45]

Embryology
• What is the matter with you, that you are not conscious of God's
Majesty. Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
[Qur'an 71:13-14]

• He creates you in the wombs of your mother, in stages, one after
another, in three veils of darkness. [Qur'an 39:6]
• ... Subsequently, we reproduced him from a tiny drop, that is placed
into a well protected repository. Then we developed the drop into a
hanging (embryo), then developed the hanging (embryo) into a bite-
..size (fetus), then created the bite-size (fetus) into bones, then
covered the bones with flesh. We thus produce a new creature. Most
blessed is God, the best Creator. Then, later on, you die. Then, on
the Day of Resurrection, you will be resurrected. [Qur'an 23:12-16]

Embryology (Cont.)
• It was not until the middle of the 19th century when the scientists
began to discover that the human embryonic development took place in
several successive stages.
• A noted embryologist Keith L. Moore and expert in his field, upon
being presented with the statements made in the Qur'an regarding the
stages of the formation of the embryo from the mixing of the male and
female gametes up to the embryo's full development remarked"It has
been a pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about
Human Development. It is clear to me that these statements must have
come to Muhammad from God or Allah because almost all of this
knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later."

Embryology (Cont.)
• A famous French physician Maurice Bucaille addressed the French
Academy of Medicine in 1976 and expressed the complete agreement of
the Qur'an and established findings of modern science. He presented
his study on the existence in the Qur'an of certain statements
concerning physiology and reproduction. His reason for doing that was
that"our knowledge of these disciplines is such, which it is
impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'an
could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern
times".

Geology
• When you look at the mountains, you think that they are standing
still. But they are moving, like the clouds. Such is the manufacture
of God, Who perfected everything. He is fully Cognizant of everything
you do. [Qur'an 27:88]
• And the mountains as pegs
..[Qur'an 78:7]
• And He has set up on the Earth Mountains standing firm, lest it
should shake with you. [Qur'an 16:15]
• And we sent down Iron, in which is great might, as well as many
benefits for mankind [Qur'an 57:25]

Conquest of Space
• O assembly of Jinns and Men, if you can penetrate regions of the
heavens and the earth, then penetrate them! You will not penetrate
them save with a Power. [Qur'an 55:33]
•"Even if We opened unto them a gate to Heaven and they were to
continue ascending therein, they would say: our sight is confused as
in drunkenness. Nay, we are people bewitched." [Qur'an 15:14-15]
• When talking of the conquest of space therefore, we have two
passages in the text of the Qur'an: one of them refers to what will
one day become a reality thanks to the powers of intelligence and
ingenuity God will give to man, and the other describes an event that
the unbelievers in Makka will never witness, hence its character of a
condition never to be realized.

Conquest of Space (Cont.)
• The event will however be seen by others, as intimated in the first
verse quoted above. It describes the human reactions to the unexpected
spectacle that travelers in space will see: their confused sight, as
in drunkenness, the feeling of being bewitched. This is exactly how
astronauts have experienced this remarkable adventure since the first
human space flight in 1961.
• It is known in actual fact how once one is above the Earth's
atmosphere, the Heavens no longer have the azure appearance we see
from Earth. The human observer in space above the Earth's atmosphere
sees a black sky and the Earth seems to be surrounded by a halo of
bluish color due to the same phenomena of absorption of light by the
Earth's atmosphere.

Other Facts
• In regards to Clouds, "Have you not seen how God makes the clouds
move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack,
and then you see the rain come out of it...?" [Qur'an 24:43]
• Preservation of genetic data, "Does the human being think that We
will not reconstruct his bones? Yes indeed; We are able to recreate
even his fingerprint." [Qur'an 75:3-4]
• ... ...Lost City of Ubar, "Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with
the'Ad (people),- Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars, The like
of which were not produced in (all) the land?" [Qur'an 89:6-8]
• Currently, about 1,000 scientific signs have been identified in the
entire Qur'an.

Qur'an: A Reminder to the Worlds
• It must be stressed that the Qur'an is accurate about many things,
but accuracy does not necessarily mean that a book is a divine
revelation. In fact, accuracy is only one of the criteria for divine
revelations.
• The Qur'an states,"This book is a divine revelation; if you do not
believe that, then what is it?"In other words, the reader is
challenged to come up with some other explanation. Here is a book made
of paper and ink. Where did it come from? It says it is a divine
revelation; if it is not, then what is its source?
• … And they say,'Surely he [i.e. Prophet Muhammed] is possessed [by
jinn],' but it [i.e., the Qur'an] is not except a reminder to the
worlds."[Qur'an 68:51-52]

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