Scientific Comments on Verses Of the Holy Quran
By: Dr. Salama Abdel-Hady
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Are we created with a Creator? Had this Creator addressed us through
scientific approaches that suit our present times such that we may
confess by this logical fact? If you want to search for a mental
answer to these questions, please read this article.
Quran is a word of the God "Allah", that was revealed to his last
prophet "Mohammad", in the light of the history to guide the humanity
at the time of its maturity. Mohammed is looked upon by the Muslims as
a man who received from the Creator a message or a religion called
"the Islam." Such Quran guides them to know Allah and leads them to
have a successful life and to perform ideally their role on the earth.
The meaning of the word "Islam" is "the complete obedience to God".
Muslims know Allah by His Mercy and Wise, but they believe that He is
beyond the abilities of their imagination or vision.
Quran can be viewed from a scientific point of view as a sustaining
proof that assures the truth of Mohammed's message, since its wording
is different from the traditional wording of people. Any one, who
reads or understands the Koran, will find that its source cannot be a
man who was born in a Bedouin culture since more than fourteen
centuries. But it is surely revealed from the Creator of the man and
the universe, Who has unlimited science regarding all His creations.
We can find that our modern sciences concerning our universe and
ourselves just help us to have a more perfect and deeper understanding
of the verses of the Koran.
We can see such vision in the following verses which are found in a
Surah of the Quran with the title "Al-Wakihah" (the day of
resurrection). Allah leads us by these verses through a series of
logic questions to assure certain fact "We are created and He is our
Creator". So, the first verse states the following question:
"We (Allah) have created you, so why you don't believe that." (57/56)
(The verse number 57 from SuratAl-Wakihah[1])
Now, let us read the answer of this question in the next verses from
Surat Al-Wakihah (verses 57 -75)[2]:
Have you (O' man) ever seen (or observe and investigate) the semen
that you emit (emitted during a man and a woman intercourses), `is it
you who create it, or are we the Creator? We have ordained death to
you and none of you shall escape it, and We are not to be prevented
(or are able) to replacing you with the same kind (or transfigure
you), or recreate you in any other form that you haven't ever known.
And indeed, you know the initial form of creation (i.e. the creation
of Adam). Have you ever seen (or investigate) the seeds (the source
of your food) that you are sowing in the ground (and then you feed
upon them), is it you who master its growth and cultivation (or the
characteristics of each plant), or are We the Master? Were it our
Will, We could crumble such cultivation to chaff and you would be
regretful (or left in wonderment). Then you would say, "We have
incurred a loss. Nay. But we are deprived." Have you ever seen the
water you drink (or looked to its sources and cycles)? Is it you who
mastered it to be dropped to you from Al -Mozn (from clouds)? Or We
are the Master? If it is Our Will, We could leave it salty (in its
original form as sea water). Then why aren't you thanking? Have you
ever seen (or investigate) the fuel (or fire as a source of energy)
that is hidden (is hidden during its combustion in your bodies), is it
you who constructed its tree (as the factory which produce the source
of such fire)? We are Who make it in this way to let you enjoying
your strength (through motion and doing effort) andto remind you (with
God's Will). Then (as a conclusion for that proofs), Glorify with
praises the Name of Your Lord, The Most Great (56/58-74).
As the reader can find, the answer in the first verse is given by
another four specific questions that motivate our abilities of
investigating and deep looking. All of them start by 4 words: "Have
you ever seen (or looked at)
Of course, being in this century, we have a higher ability to look,
search, understand and explain theses verses and discuss their logic
through deep scientific procedures. So, I will try to explain these
verses from my point of view as an engineer. Of course my explanation
or understanding will be limited to my scope of thinking. Of course
such understanding is different from the explanation of a man who has
deeper knowledge than me. However, I hope the reader will appreciate
my trial or approach to explain my limited understanding.[3]
Question 1.a. (is concerned with the origin of our creation): Have
you ever seen the semen that you emit?
The scientific comment: The Creator leads us in this verse or question
to look to the starting cell in our formation or creation. By the
modern techniques we see the magnificent structure of such cells and
what is called the marvelous genetic map. After having the electronic
microscopes that can enlarge the size of such semen many million
times, we can really see it and answer this question scientifically.
The man emits a semen and the woman emits too a semen[4], each
providing a half of a human cell. By integrating these two halves into
one cell in the womb of the woman, it offers an origin for the
formation of a complete human creature. Seeing this semen we find it
is a miraculous unit that is responsible for keeping our race, it
inherits features of each race and the peculiarities of the father and
the mother into a new birth. Such completed cell starts to be divided
pair by pair and forming the textures and bones of a new creature. We
can see such formation and divisions by our magnifying equipment in
ordered processes. It is evidence that it is surely designed, created,
and guided by Great Creator who arranges for it such formation and
mechanisms of subdivision to keep each race. The mechanism of
subdivision and the way of unifying the semen of the male and female
is fixed in all the human beings and also in all races in a unique
manner since He is the same Creator for all these races. The
scientists just discovers the discipline of subdivision and the
mechanisms of forming different organs, but they do not know how these
cells keeps such unique behavior in all creatures and also they do not
yet know many secrets of the genetic map in such cells and How the
life is gifted to such creatures. Those means as we approach the
reality and see the semen, we are faced by more ambiguous or un-
answered questions. But the answer is in the first verse we have: "We
have created you, so why you don't believe".
The question asked by the God is to look at this semen is followed by
another astonishing question in the following verse:
Question 1.b: Is it you who create it, or are We the Creator?
Hence, can we claim that we creates this semen that is responsible
for forming the new birth by features inherited from the mother and
father or is it created by itself. Can such genetic map that can be
seen in this semen be created by a just chance? Or do we find any one
who can claim that he created it. If the God sent a book, the Koran,
telling us that We are the creator , so, why not to confess that who
really sent these words is the true Creator, since there is no way to
deny that fact. The verse that follows is expressing our limited
abilities regarding the death. Of course, when we die or loose our
life, no one can return it back to our bodies. As it is told in the
next verses, the Creator is Who decides for each person the specific
time of death and the leaving of his soul (is an ambiguous thing
related to the existence of life), as no-one can extend his life.
Now we came to the second question:
Question 2a: (Is concerned with the source of our food) Have you
ever seen (look to and investigate) the seeds (the source of your
food) that you are just sowing it in the ground?
Scientific comment: The Creator in this question directs our abilities
of observing to look to our role in cultivation of plants which is
limited to throwing the seeds. Such plants prepare for us the food
necessary for our surviving. He creates the plants as autonomous
creatures that grow by just the falling rains, and we are non-
autonomous creatures that should have such plants to live. These seeds
prepare for us the food that suits our creation.
The question asked by the God is to look at these seeds. And then this
question is followed by another scientific question in the next verse:
Question 2b: Is it you who master its growth and cultivation (orthe
processes done by each seed), or are We the Master?
As we can understand, this verse asks us "Who learns such plants its
role in preparation of our food" Our role is just to throw the seeds
and wait. But the seed of each plant after its throwing starts to
perform specific complicated tasks as if it is well trained to perform
it. Looking at the roots of these plants, such roots select and absorb
specified salts from the soil. Then the leaves of these plants that
start to absorb carbon dioxide from the air and receives the sunrays
to perform other complicated processes. Who ordered this seeds and
learnt it to do these complicated processes and finally to offer us
vegetables or fruits that feed us. Have we any role in such tasks.
May any one claim that he taught these seeds how to perform such
tasks? Or, can any one or any group of scientists create such seeds
and plan for them to do these tasks. The answer is NO. So, we should
confess: You are the Master.
So, the Creator Who creates such seeds and defined such roles for it,
have sent His messengers. Those messengers are normal men who received
a revelation to tell us that such arrangements are His doing. Why not
to believe such statement and to assure his sayings and to announce:
"We believe that we are created. You are our Creator Who arranges for
us such suitable feeding by such obeying plants in this ordered
mechanism".
In the verses that follow, the God shows that as He is able to offer
us our food by these obeying plants, He is also able to destroy such
plants if it is His Will. Of course we see it is actually done through
any diseases, by shortage of water or by any storm or flood sent by
Him. And we can do nothing if it is damaged, but just to declare our
sorry as we can't stop such damage. So, why we deny the true Creator
Who can really create and who can damage.
Now we come to the third question:
Question (3a): (Is concerned with the water that we drink) Have you
ever seen the water you drink?
Scientific comment: In the third question, the Creator directs us to
think over the fresh water that we drink. The process of extracting
such fresh water from the salty water of the seas and oceans to reach
us is a complicated process. The God keeps in the oceans and the seas
these unlimited stores of salty water. These salts in the water
protect the water from being spoilt due to action of bacteria and the
limited motion of water in these oceans or seas. The Creator designed
also limited amount of sunrays to warm the water on the surface of
this oceans or seas and a limited movement of wind to form from them
the clouds of fresh water-vapors. These clouds are raised up to a
height at which its density is balanced through an equal density of
the air at high elevations. These clouds start to be grouped and move
by the influence of directed winds to selected regions, determined by
the God. Such clouds at certain regions loose its balance and are
dropped, causing the formation of rivers which supplies us with the
water necessary to survive. So, the creator guides us in the third
question to look and think how this water is done available to us. To
investigate these procedures and arrangements that led to have the
fresh water available in our rivers for drinking and surviving. So, we
are ordered in this verse to look to the scientific cycle of water on
the earth. Of course, by such look or thinking over we can answer the
head question, are we created by a Creator who designed for us such
managed cycle to get the fresh water or not. Of course without such
water we will not survive. It is the source of irrigating the plants
too. Let us look to the next verse which envelops this question by a
magnificent scientific wording:
Question 3b: Is it you who mastered its dropping from Al -Mozn (or
from clouds)? Or are We the Master?
The Arabic origin of the word Al-Mozn is the balance or equilibrium.
It is written here replacing the clouds to show that the clouds are a
certain state or phase of the water that exists at such height and
density in complete equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere. If
this state of equilibrium is changed, the water is dropped from these
clouds. In other words, when these clouds are pushed to certain
environmental or atmospheric conditions, such equilibrium is lost and
we get the fresh water to be flowing in rivers. Now, can we find an
answer for question (3b)? Who masters the formation of the sources of
such water (the clouds), and Who masters its dropping into specific
areas, in specific times and in specific drinkable conditions by
changing its state of Mozn. Can any one claim that he does that? But
the Creator of the man announces that it is His Will in His Last
revealed word, the Koran. So, why we should not announce the following
answer: "We believe that we are created and You, Who sent this Koran,
are our Creator".
In the verse that follow this question, the Creator states that as He
is able to make the fresh water available to us, He is able too to
stop all these processes to supply the fresh water. In this case,
there will be available to us only the salty water in the seas and
oceans. What can we do? Nothing. So, We should keep thanking Allah
for such sustenance and mercy, and then He will keep it for us. These
meanings are found in next verses, ended by this order: Then why
aren't you thanking?
Let us read the next verse:
Question (4a): Is concerned with the source of our energy Have you
ever seen (or investigate) the fire (or the combustion that evolves
the energy) that is hidden (or that is done but it not seen in your
tissues)?
Scientific comment: The final question as can be read guides us to
think over how our bodies can get the fuel that supplies it with the
required energy to move. This fuel is prepared and produced in the
trees. The green leaves stores the energy from the sun in a very
complicated photo-electro-chemical processes that are expressed in
thousands of reactions. We call such reactions by "Photosynthesis
Process". During this process, the leaves of the plants or trees
store carbon dioxide from the air and absorbs water from the soil
( through the roots) to form the carbohydrates in our food ( as in
some fruits or vegetables ). When we eat the offered food, such
carbohydrates burn in our bodies with unseen or hided fire and the
absorbed energy is released. So our bodies get the energy required to
be capable of moving, enjoying our life, and doing the required
activities. When we see or look to the mechanisms of energy absorption
in the trees and of energy release in our bodies, we will find that
the both are identical but are done in opposite direction. So, they
should have the same Creator. Now, Who arranged all these mechanisms,
reactions and processes? Such question is given in the verse that
follows.
Question (4b): Is it you who constructed its tree (as the factory
which produce the source of such fire or energy)? We are Who make it
in this way to let you enjoying your strength (through motion and
doing effort) and to remind you (with God's Will)
Can any one claim that he design and produce the green leaves of the
plants or trees to perform such complicated tasks to absorb the solar
energy. And then he designs our cells to be capable to restore such
energy by combustion in a hidden manner to enjoy the use of the
strength of our muscles. Of course the answer is NO. And we have no
way other than to confess the stated fact written by Who design,
create and revealed this verse. So, if He tells us that He is the
Creator Who create us in this form and create for us this sources of
energy to enjoy our life, we should believe Him, otherwise we should
not deserve His gifts, I mean our abilities to see, to think and to
read.
NOW, at the end of these four questions regarding four disciplined and
planned creations. They are written in an ordered form: the origin of
our formation, the source that offers our food, the source that offers
us our drinking water, and the source that offers us the energy. Who
is responsible for that? Can we claim that it is done and planned
without a Great and Wise Creator? And can we claim that this verse
that guides us to this answer in such sequential manner is not
revealed from Him, the Merciful and Great Creator. Or can we claim
that a Bedouin, who was born in a desert from more than 15 centuries,
can direct such scientific questions in such scientific sequence.
This reached conclusion is written at the end of these verses by this
order:
Then why aren't you thanking?
Scientific conclusion: At the end of any scientific research, we
should write the conclusion. So, the creator at the next verse gives
us the conclusion, which should be told by any man "Our Sincere Thanks
to Allah, The Truly Merciful God Who surely created us and Who guides
us by His Miraculous Koran"
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May our universe be found or arranged for us in this magnificent order
without a Creator? If the answer is No, So, Did this Creator offer us
the mental proof to be convinced by His mercy? If you like to have a
clear answer to these questions, Please read this article
The Quran is the core of Islam and a concrete tangible word of Allah
to all people. Quran is also representing the supreme embodiment of
the sacred beliefs of Islam. It is simple to prove that it is the
last word revealed from Allah to the Humanity after the Bible and the
Gospels. It can be viewed as a logical and scientific announcement
from Allah to acknowledge that He is the Creator of such ordered
universe and the Sponsor of its life and also of our lives. Since the
Quran is revealed from a God of unlimited science, so, who reads the
Koran will find a complete consistence in all of its words and its
parts with any discovered facts. A French scientist of the name
"Maurice Pokay" turned to the Islam and wrote a nice book with the
title: "The Sacred Books (The Koran, the Gospels and the Bibles) in
light of modern sciences". As an introduction to his book, He wrote
"IN VIEW OF THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN MUHAMMAD'S DAYS,IT IS
INCONCEIVABLE THAT MANY OF THE STATEMENTS IN THE QURAN WHICH ARE
CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE COULD HAVE BEEN THE WORK OF MAN. IT IS
MOREOVER, PERFECTLY HAS BEEN LIGITIMATE, NOT ONLY TO REGARD THE QURAN
AS THE EXPRESSION OF A REVELATION, BUT ALSO TO AWARD IT A VERY SPECIAL
PLACE ON ACCOUNT OF THE GURANTEE OF AUTHENTICITY, IT PROVIDES AND THE
PRESENCE IN IT OF SCIENTIFIC STATEMENTS WHICH, WHEN STUDIED TODAY,
APPEAR AS A CHALLENGE TO HUMAN EXPLANATION"
In the presented article, we will look at some verses from a chapter
of the Koran called "Surat Al-Anbyaa", where we can see how these
verses are directing us to think the wise of the Creator and his
oneness through highly mental and scientific proofs. These verses
discuss the start, the sustainability, and the end of the universe.
The scientists tried to answer some questions as how such universe had
started so uniquely and so neatly, how it is surviving in such ordered
form, and how will be its end. They observed the materials of the
stars and planets of the universe. They find them similar. They
observe the system of motion of these stars inside groups; ways and
they scan the planets that follow these stars. They observe the sizes
and the life of these stars and find that there exist specific laws
that govern all these systems, groups, elements and bodies of the
universe. They found that such systems are actually following specific
programmed procedures in their life. So, they conclude that all these
stars should come from one origin. They tried to know and explain the
reason of the found uniqueness in every thing. So, they assume that
there was in the start a compacted substance that was pressed in a
very limited space under an infinite pressure. They claim too that
there happens in a moment a great explosion that caused this substance
to be turned into waves. Such waves spread throughout the universe in
a moment. Due to the extreme coldness of this universe, these waves
are changed into similar atoms in no time elapse. Then these atoms are
grouped into similar stars obeying similar laws that control their
motion, emissions, lifetime, and transformations in the same moment!!
The stars were also grouped in such moment into similar "ways" that
were also obeying similar laws!!
But the logical thinking should state that the explosion couldn't lead
to the found homogeneity and such observed uniqueness. But the
explosion should lead to destruction and an unbalance, not to such
organized sky and magnificent earth with highly ordered systems
obeying strictly justified laws or rules.
No one knows the facts regarding the start of creation. But the
Creator of the whole universe who managed such start knows these
facts. He told us in His last Word that was revealed to Mohamed, many
scientific and logical facts regarding such start. Let us read how
Allah directs us to the truth through a scientific question concerning
the start of the universe and look to His guidance to the actual
answer. Let us read the verse number 30 from Surah "Al-Anbyaa":
Have not those who disbelieves seen that the heavens and the earth
were originally joined together as a Ratk, then we Fatak-nahoma (by
Allah's Will). And we have made from the water every living thing.
(Why) Will they not then believe (the existence of a Supreme
Creator)? (30/ 21)
Scientific comment (or a trial of explanation): In this verse, we
read a question directed to the disbelievers who denied the hand of
the God in starting the creation of the universe so nicely and
orderly. The question is: Can this start, after they saw or observed,
be done really by just a chance? By two words "Ratk[5]" and
"Fatak[6]", Allah summarized all their illogic words that the
disbelievers assume its occurrence. Those disbelievers tried to
explain the uniqueness they find in the whole universe by the words:
"highly compacted substance", "momentarily great explosion", "sudden
cooling ", and so on. Those scientists were correct in concluding that
the whole creation starts from a single origin. The Koran described
such origin by the Arabic word "Ratk", that means a connected and
compacted piece of woven fibers or material. But those materialistic
scientists were misled when they imagine that this material is
transformed or spread into such magnificent order by itself. They
should confess by a Power of the Creator and by His Will in order to
be scientific or logical in their conclusions. The Creator describes
the spread of this compacted material by the word "fatak-nahoma". This
word means that he separated this compacted woven material (the Ratk)
into homogenous fibers by His Will to form the earth and the heavens
in such ordered and unique form. We see such homogeneity of the fibers
or the constituents that filled orderly the universe, where the
materials of the sun is similar to materials on the earth, on the
moon, on other planets, and on any other star. And all these materials
are formed by atoms of similar constituents, i.e. nucleus of positive
charge and electrons of negative charge. Such homogeneity and order
started from the first moment of creation because such creation is
done by one Creator and is fulfilled in a single order. I think the
word Ratk as a woven piece of cloth is better in expressing the start
than the assumed compressed material. And the word fatak-nahoma that
means forming the skies and the earth by spreading the fibers of such
Ratk by the Will of Allah into such order is better than the claimed
expression of great explosion. So, the materialistic researchers
should leave their illogic assumptions of a universe exploding itself
in a wise manner and they should confess with the truth of theses
words in the glorious Quran. Such confession will lead them to be true
believers of a true religion that came to correct all mysterious and
illogical beliefs.
The statement "We have made from water every thing living" is
mentioned at the end of this verse. As Allah states in this verse that
He started the creation of the universe from such compacted or woven
material, He states too that the creation of the living creatures
started from water. These are the words of the Creator. Of course,
according to our knowledge, if there is no water, there is no life.
The main proof of that is stemmed from just a look to the planets
around us. As there is no water in other planets, we find no life over
them. However, we do not know the meaning of "life", or the difference
between the dead cells and the living cells. In any living cell or
organism, we find that the water is representing more than 70 % of its
weight. So without this water, there will be no sign for life at all.
But we really ignore fully the essence of life in such cells. Of
course the cell is the building block of every living creature; man,
animal, insect, or a plant. However, we can go deeper in that verse
telling that the most acids and compositions inside the cell are
formed mainly from the Hydrogen and Oxygen arranged in complicated
chains and extremely ordered compounds that depends on the structure
of each cell. These two gases, the Hydrogen and the Oxygen, are the
elements that formed the water, and may be they are the building
blocks for every other large atom of the remaining substances in the
cells. However, our knowledge limits our ability to have a deeper
explanation for this verse as it can be understood only by Heavenly
explanations. Of course, readers of higher knowledge and deeper
thinking may attain a better explanation than me. Perhaps, the
discoveries that will come after will lead also to a better
understanding of this verse.
However, anyone who looks to the living cell and looks at its giant
molecules and organic chains cannot deny the hand of the Creator. As
we cannot deny the hands of the Creator in such giant universe, we
should not ignore also the straight logic and assume that the nature
has formed such extremely complicated chains in the organic cell
containing millions of atoms of different substances in a specific
order. Similarly, we cannot assume that the nature is gifting the
essence of life to such complicated chemical chains inside these cells
to have the ability to move, breath, feed, burn, digest, exert and
even to think. Allah states in this verse that He is Who creates these
cells starting from the water and its constituent gases, Hydrogen and
Oxygen, and then He gives it the life, such unknown secret to us. Is
there anyone, other than Allah, may claim that he had done it in this
way or how it is done. Or, can anyone assume that it is done without a
Wise Creator? As mentioned above, the water is not only the origin
for starting the creation, but also it sustains the life. That means
the life of all the living creatures depends on such magic fluid. Its
secrets are also tied to the Creator. If we insert any seed in the
earth, we will find that its growth is tied with existence of water.
So, the plant cannot live without such water and without the plant our
life will not continue. Few words in this verse have summarized the
secrets of life and answered hundreds of ambiguous questions; because
it is surely revealed from the true Creator Who knows actually His
creation and its secrets. I think to confess with one secret, will
open for us all the ambiguous secrets, the universe have one Glorious
Creator Who reveals this Quran.
Let us read the next verses, number 31-33, that follows the previous
verse in Surah Al-Anbyaa. We can find that these verses are better
also understood by the use of modern discovered scientific facts.
These verses are showing the evidences of Wisdom and Mercy of the
Creator.
And We have placed in the earth Rawasi,[7]lest it (the earth's crust)
may tameed[8]with them, and We placed too (on this earth's crust) the
firm and available routes that guide their passages.
And We have made the sky (that surrounds the earth) as a safe and well-
guarded roof, but they (the disbelievers) are abundant from its
evidence (the sky as an evidence for the God's wisdom)
And He is Who has created the night and the day, the sun and the moon,
each is floating in its orbit. (31 - 33 /21)
Scientific comments: Looking at these successive verses of this Surah,
we find that they point also to other scientific facts, as if it is
just written in the twenty-one century, and not from more than
fourteen centuries. The Creator informed us in these verses that He
has designed a special planet for us, the earth, with a specific mass
and extension and a guarded sky to suit and sustain our life. He also
arranged for us such stable - earth's crust to have the opportunity to
move freely on its surface. He mentioned also that it is His Will to
arrange for us certain duration for the day and the night related to
the motion of the sun and the moon in highly controlled orbits by His
Science and Wisdom. So, it is an announcement that the order seen in
such highly controlled universe is His Will and His creation.
In order to understand the wisdom of the Allah in creation of our
earth and its special sky, let us have a look to the planets of the
solar system. Let us start with a planet called Mercury. It is the
smallest planet in the solar system and it is very near to our earth
but is closer to the sun. Its mass or its rawasi is less than the
mass of the earth (0.0543 the mass of the earth). So, its ability to
attract bodies is about one third of the earth's gravity. So, our
motion on such planet will not be stable due to such low gravity, and
such planet is not able to attract a similar atmosphere or biosphere
as that is surrounding our earth. As it hasn't such atmosphere, the
surface of such planet is not protected against the shooting stars
hitting its surface or the sun's harmful radiation. So, the surface of
such planet is covered with deep holes due to the impact of such
bodies with its surface, and such surface will not be allowing any
possible motion or human's life there. The structure of Mercury has
affected its spinning or its day-duration. So, one day on this planet
is equivalent to 88 days on the earth. Such low speed affects the
temperatures on its surface where it may reach 400 C on the radiated
face (radiation from the sun) and - 180 C on the dark face. Therefore,
no trace of any water is found on this planet and no trace of any life
is noticed too.
Let us move to another planet called Venus. It is the closest planet
to our earth in the solar system, and has about the same mass and
volume as the earth. However, it is closer to the sun. Having the same
weight as the earth, it has also about the same gravity and similar
ability to keep specific atmosphere. However, the atmosphere of Venus
is formed mainly of a heavy gas called "Carbon-Dioxide", and its
clouds are formed from vapors of Sulfuric acid. As Carbon Dioxide is a
compound and heavy gas, it has the ability to absorb the solar
radiation that turns the atmosphere of such planet into a hell. The
acidic clouds of such planets drop acidic rains that influence the
surface of the planet and turn it to a soft one that prevents any
motion on it. However, due to the nature of its rawasi (contents), a
day on Venus is equivalent to about 243 days of the earth. Due to its
closeness to the sun and its long day, the temperature of the radiated
face of this planet reaches 450 C, and the atmospheric pressure jumps
to 90 bars. So, such pressure, temperature, atmospheric and surface
conditions prevent the existence of water or any biological life on
such planet.
And if we look also to the known Mars as a planet just next to our
earth, it has about the same length or duration of the day as the
earth. But the atmosphere of such planet is formed also of the Carbon
Dioxide under extremely low pressure. As Mars is more far from the
sun, so its temperature has a maximum value of - 40 C, and reaches to
- 123 C in most times. At such low temperature, we find that the water
content of such planet is in frozen state. Hence, no trace of life is
seen on such planet and will not be seen too.
After this tour over some planets of our solar system, we get a better
understanding of these verses. The earth is designed to keep water in
its liquid phase and to keep the life on its surface by extensively
ordered arrangements prepared by a Supreme Creator "Allah". The sky of
the earth was designed to be a guarded roof filled mainly by two
gases, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Both of these gases are not absorbing the
sun's radiation but allowing them to pass and allowing also suitable
environments for the life of the creatures on the earth. So, the sky
of the earth has special contents that form "a safe and well guarded
roof." It protects the earth from the shooting stars, which are burnt
when they approach the earth's atmosphere, and from the harmful sun-
radiation by the Ozone layers, which reflects the harmful radiation.
The stability of the earth's crust is a result of the earth's special
mass and extent that are neatly designed. The mass and the orbits of
the earth result from the specific content of the core of the earth,
or the Rawasi in the earth's core. Such contents give the earth a
suitable gravity that keeps such atmosphere having suitable pressure,
temperature and humidity. Such atmospheric conditions in the arranged
and guarded sky offer a possible life on the earth for all creatures.
It gives also the stability for all the creatures to move safely under
suitable gravity during the rotation of the earth around itself and
around the sun. Such rotation and distance from the sun are mastered
also by such contents which give a certain degree of inclination to
axis of rotation of the earth with respect to its axis of rotation
around the sun and determine the earth's magnetic field that affects
the life and sustainability of all creatures. Of courses by such exact
inclination, we have suitable and different weather condition during
the four earth's seasons.
After this look to our earth and to the other planets of the solar
system, we are obliged to confess that our earth, as its Creator
announces, is specially created with special environment for our life.
Can any one claim that the nature has arranged all these peculiarities
to our earth? Or can any one claim that he arranged it to us. Or can
any one claim that a man like Mohamed had written by himself these
verses since more than fourteen centuries.
After describing the process of starting the creation by the verse
number 30, as have been seen, Allah informed us in the verse number
104, at the end of this Surah, about the future of such universe at
its end, or in the Day of Resurrection:
"In that Day (Day of resurrection), We overlap the sky in the same
way as the pages of a Book is overlapped, as we start the creation we
return it (to its initial form), as We promise, and We should do (i.e.
fulfill our promise)" 104/21
Scientific comment: In this verse, Allah describes the process of
ending the life of the universe. It was started from this Ratq. So,
its end will be returning it to the same origin by the same way as it
was starting. At this end, the Creator revealed that He would overlap
all the heavens to return to its origin as a Ratq. The revealed words
show the Creator's greatness. He told that He would overlap the skies
as a one who is going to overlap the pages of a book. According to
the scientific theories, the scientists proved that such end is
waiting the universe. Those scientists told that after the continuous
expansion of the universe, it would be collapsed in a self-contraction
process. This will be done due to the limited material in the
universe, which will not be ready for more expansion after the
continuous widening of the universe. Hence, this material will be
contracted and the size of the universe will be diminished once more
to its initial size.
So, the science is in full agreement with what have been mentioned in
the Koran. But the Koran recite that it is the Will of Allah. And the
scientists imagine in their theories that it is the will of the
nature, as a very brain-full thing. Allah informs in His Koran that he
determines the time of such contraction only, and the scientists
imagine that such universe will decide the time of its damage by its
own mind.
However, any man with a brain and smart heart will understand such
surviving words as an announcement to worship Allah in a righteous
way, as the next verse, verse number 106 from the same Surah, states
It is an announcement to worshipping (obeying) people, 106 / 21.
(3)
Is it possible for this ultimately regular motion of the earth around
itself in exactly 24 hours and also around the sun in exactly 365.25
days to be a matter of pure chance? The motion of the earth is never
disturbed, whatever is happening to the sun or the moon, solar or
lunar eclipses, solar spots, etc., or by its hitting by any meteor or
a shooting star. Any deviation in such timing will destroy our lives
on the earth. How it is so accurately managed? Who manages it in such
accurate order to save our lives? Did He address us in a scientific
approach to thank Him for His Wise? If you like to have an answer for
theses questions, please read the following article.
The Quran is the book revealed to Mohamed, the prophet of Islam, from
Allah since more than fourteen centuries. Allah is the name of the God
in the Arabic language. The Quran represents the core of Islam and a
living soul from Allah which gives the Islam such ability to survive.
It is a fact that the Quran existing in our hands nowadays is an exact
copy of the Quran revealed to Mohamed. People can in any time see the
coincidence of the available copies of the Quran and original copies
that was written directly after the death of Mohamed. The Arabic
language is the language by which the Quran was revealed to Mohammed.
This language is still surviving, and the Quran is actually recited
and understood by it in the whole Islamic world. Readers of the Quran
find that the Quran mentions many scientific facts that show the
Glory, Power and Wise of the Creator of the man and the universe. Most
of such recorded scientific facts are recently discovered by
physicians, physicist, chemists, geologists, psychologists, etc. The
beliefs and the instructions of the Quran help in building a marvelous
life to the Muslims and to their society. It deals with the Muslim as
a human institution which should live in a balance between his needs
and values. Such balance was really found in the Muslim's life and in
his family and society.
In the following article we shall try to give some
scientific comments or a trial to a scientific explanation to some
verses of the glorious Quran. Such comments represent a limited
understanding to theses verses as viewed by me, i.e. as an engineer of
limited knowledge.
He has created the heavens and the earth in righteousness, He spherize
the night over the day (creeping the night over the day along the
spherical surface of the earth due to revolving of this sphere around
its axis), and He spherize the day over the night (creeping of the sun-
rays over the dark hemi-sphere during earth's rotation), And He has
subjected by His Will the sun and the moon to be running (on a fixed
course) for an appointed term. Verily, He is the All-Mighty, the Oft-
Forgiving.
He created you all from a single Nafs (Adam); then made from him his
wife (Eve). And He Has created ( or sent down) for you the cattle in
eight pairs ( of the sheep two ( male and female ); of the goat two
( male and female); of the oxen two ( male and female); and of the
camel two ( male and female ) . He created you in the wombs of your
mothers, in stages, creation after creation ( or generation after
generation), in three veils of darkness ( the chronic membrane, the
uterine walls, and the abdominal walls), This is Allah who creates
that, That is His kingdom, La ilah illa Huwa ( none has the right to
be worshipped, but He ). How then they (the unbelievers) turned away.
5-6 /39)
Looking at these two verses from a Surah called Al-Zomor; we shall
start by the word "spherize" in the first verse. We can see that such
word does not exist normally in the Arabic or English languages. But
the God inserted it in the Arabic language to express how the
successions of day and night or night and day are happening
simultaneously on the spherical earth. Since in every time we have one
half or face of the earth's sphere in dark (far from the sun), but
the other half is in day-time (or facing the sun). So, as revolving
the earth or by the motion of this sphere around its axis, the sun's
rays are going to cover the dark face of the sphere, to change night
time to day. While in the same moment, the other face is leaving these
rays to change its state from day to night. Can any one, in the time
of revealing of the Koran, be able to express the succession of the
day and the night on the surface of the earth by such single word
"spherize" that expresses both, a spherical shape of the earth and its
rotation around its axis? Only one word describes all what a normal
man can express in many lines and a fact that was discovered after 13
centuries. I think if any man had tried to explain such verse in its
time of revelation by our new discoveries, he was to be charged by
madness. Similarly, as the motion of the earth is done in a neat
discipline, the sun and the moon are moving also in a neat discipline.
The God tells us in the next verses that such discipline is also
managed and arranged by His Will. So, why we deny and try to claim the
absence of the God's Will in such neatly ordered motion, or to deny
the revelation of these verses of the Quran from Him. The Creator Who
set such neatly ordered universe is stating such neatly scientific
verses in His Book to know Him, obey Him, and worship Him. Is there
any power had expressed its Will in these simple words: And He has
subjected by His Will the sun and the moon to be running (on a fixed
course) up to an appointed term (the day of resurrection). Verily, He
is the All-Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving.
The word running is understood as it is running by itself or is
running the things around it. For the sun both meanings are
applicable, since the sun is actually running in the wide universe in
a helical trajectory accompanied by all the solar group of planets.
And it is running the motion of earth once per year around it, exactly
in 365.25 days. While the moon is running around the earth, it is
accompanied by the earth in its motion around the
sun.
Of course, no one had seen how the creation started, but if we look to
the man and the woman, it is easy to find that both have the same
origin. The scientists are able in these days to make a copy from any
creature starting from one cell of that creature. Similarly, Allah
stated in the next verse that He had created the first woman, Eva,
from the first man, Adam. The source of such scientific expression for
the first creation process cannot be other than the Creator "Allah",
since no others have ever seen such start. These words is proved now
by scientific evidences after seeing the structure of the cells of a
man is similar to the cells of a woman and all the organs are similar
except the organs responsible for reproduction. So, it is a scientific
fact that is just discovered nowadays.
Now, how many creatures were arranged to serve us, as human beings,
and to offer an easy way of life for us? Who does theses arrangements?
Such question is answered in the next verse.
And He Has created ( or sent down) for you the cattle in eight pairs
( of the sheep two ( male and female ); of the goat two ( male and
female); of the oxen two ( male and female); and of the camel two
( male and female ). Can any one else claims that these creations is
his deeds. Why the cow, the camel, the sheep and the oxen have
different nature than the lion, the tiger, the fox, and the other wild
animals. Who arranged its nature in such peaceful and useful forms?
Can it be done by just a nature? Oh!!! Such very intelligent and
ultimately wise and smart nature!!! I think we should be submitted to
the Creator Who sent theses verses to know His mercy. Who follows the
transitions of the zygote formed as a result of fertilization of the
ovum by the spermatozoa, from a one cell creation through successive
stages of creations as seen by the modern equipment, will discover how
the next verse summarizes in a deep scientific explanation these
staging processes of the human embryo. Of course a detailed
description of the stages of such embryo will need many pages, but it
is known that these stages summarizes the processes of development of
the creation of the living creatures on the earth starting from a
single cell creature up to the complete man. Such staging is done into
three veils of darkness; the interior abdominal walls, uterine walls,
and (. membrane, or is surrounded by three layers (ectoderm, meso-
derm and endoderm). Who could know these facts in the time of the
Qumran's revelation and expressed it by such simple words. He created
you in the wombs of your mothers, in stages, creation after creation
(or generation after generation), in three veils of darkness (the
chronic membrane, the uterine walls, and the abdominal walls)
Such stages and creations are surely planned and assigned by Allah.
So, He described His doings by simple words in His Quran. Such simple
words mean a lot and cannot have any other source than the true
Creator. The Creator at the end of theses verses asks the people to be
judge theses words by their minds and not to turn away. That is His
kingdom, La ilah illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped, but
He). How then they (the unbelievers) turned away. Can we
really be turned away after theses words. I doubt!!!!
Do you like to enjoy a life of peace between you and yourself, or
between you and your family, your society, and the whole universe? Of
course our human race is searching for such peace. But such peace
cannot be found without feeling of the sponsorship of a higher power
to the existence of our universe and our selves. Is really such power
existing, and is owned by the Wise Creator? Did He offer the
scientific evidence for having our submission? Did He really assign
for us a guide for a peaceful life? If you like to have an answer to
these questions, please, read the following article.
Islam is a religion that was sent to the humanity in the age of its
maturity, after the Christianity and Judaism. The Muslims believe in
Jesus and Moses as they believe in Mohamed, the prophet of Islam. But
they consider all those prophets are just messengers from Allah with a
human nature to inform the people about their right role in the
present life to attain a peaceful life. Through the Quran, the Muslims
are conceived with the religion of Islam and its instructions. It is
easy to prove that this Quran is the same Quran that was revealed from
Allah to Mohamed since more than fourteen centuries. Similarly the
scientific and logical wording of Quran proves that this Quran is
revealed from a God of the highest information regarding His universe
and Creations.
So, let us look firstly to the following two verses from a Surah
called: Al-Morsalat, as an evidence to what is stated in this
introduction: Have We not made the earth sustainable (receptacle,
have a self sufficiency), For the living and the dead. (77/ 25-26)
The Scientific Comment: These two verses states that our earth, such
very small planet in the universe, had been created in a form that
keeps sustainability of its resources such that it will be sufficient
for all of its inhabitants, alive or dead. Can this sustainability
that allows the life of all these creatures be a matter of chance? Or
is it done by a Wise Creator? The previous verse starts by such
question. Who is asking, He is the Creator Himself who sent it to
state that such creation is His Doing and is His Wise and Science.
Logically, it is impossible that our earth have counted by itself how
much it needs for the living creatures from Water, Salts, Oxygen,
Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorous, Sulfur, Carbon, Soil, Seas, Oceans,
Rivers, Air, Energy resources, mineral resources, liquid resources,
solid resources, etc........ Scientifically, these substances are made
sufficient by inserting it into cycles that make use of them for the
processes of life and then they are returned back to its original
forms to be reused once more for billions of creatures; men, animals,
insects, plants, etc. So, who design for each element its own cycle to
keep its sustainability?
Let us use our scientific approaches to look how such statement is
done.
The interdependence of different kingdoms is one of the cores of
sustainability of the available resources on the earth. The plants
prepare for the whole animal's kingdom its food. And the human race
has the capabilities to plant the crops it needs for its food.
The man and animals consume during their breathing the Oxygen and
produces the Carbon dioxide. While the plant consumes, during a vital
process, called the photosynthesis, the Carbon dioxide and returns the
oxygen back to the animal kingdom. Such process is essential for the
life of the plants and the animal's kingdom since it stores for them
the energy from a sustainable resource: The sun. The Calcium in the
earth's crust is absorbed by the plant, and then it feeds the man and
animals to build their bones. Such Calcium returns once more to the
soil when they die. So, the dead bodies are analyzed once more to its
elements by the effect of bacteria where such bacteria analyzes their
residuals and wastes by complicated chemical processes. The nitrogen,
which is consumed from the air to form the nutrients, that builds the
proteins, the main substance in the cells of our bodies and the
animal's bodies, return once more to the air after death or during
excretion processes of the man and animal. Some of the salty water
stored in the seas and oceans are evaporated by the sunrays to form
fresh water. Such fresh water returns once more to be stored in the
seas after being used for irrigation and drinking. The carbon that is
burnt in our tissues or by combustion is returned once more by the
plant processes. The plants absorb from the earth the salts that the
man needs. The man and animal feed on the plant and the residuals of
them form a fertilizer necessary for the growth of such plant. So,
such sustainability is a matter of designed cycles and complicated
calculations and estimation. Can such uniform circulation or such
highly designed cycles which are the subject of highly complicated
sciences be a matter of chance...?
If the dead bodies are not analyzed and returned to its simple
elements by different types of bacteria, you will find billions of
tons of dead bodies from different animals and plants and so on. Who
arranges these bacteria to perform such excellent tasks? So, the death
is a stage for every living body, and Allah had surely arranged it as
a part of a cycle that is passed by operating such bacteria. So, the
verse is mentioning the life and death as two conjugate words to
express How His wise used their mutual effects to keep the
sustainability of our earth where all the elements which are consumed
in a process, return back in different processes to keep the limited
quantity of such element. Of course to discuss in detail the cycle of
each element in the earth that is designed by the Wise Creator and to
show how this verse expresses million of scientific researches is
beyond the size of this article.
If we go to any planet other than the earth, will we find these
resources in such quantities and with such sustainability? The answer
is known. No any other plant has such capability.
Now, who had such ideas about sustainability, cycles, the sufficiency
and the limited but sustainable resources to write such miraculous
question in this verse to announce that it is His Wise? Such question
has a unique answer: Yes, Allah, You and no One but You Who created
Our earth with such specified resources that is made sufficient for
survival of all its inhabitants. You are Who ordered the
sustainability of these resources that kept them available during the
whole age of the earth and up to the time you assigned for its end.
And You are Who sent this Book, the Quran, to guide us to Your
straight Path.
Now, let us look to the verses number 19 in a Surah with the name Al-
Hijr, it the Surah number 15 in the Quran. It states:
" And We extend out the earth ( with such volume or diameter) and
placed therein settling masses, and every kind of thing that We
produced or placed on such earth ( through planting, birthing,
growing, rising, etc.) is in due balance ( equilibrium, proportion,
measure, etc.)
The Scientific Comment: Allah, the Creator of the whole universe,
states in this verses His Wise in the creation of our earth. The
creation of the earth is designed with such specified extension or
volume and specified mass to keep a very accurate balance for
accommodating our life on such earth. Such dimensions and mass
determine the gravity acceleration on the earth's surface, the
atmospheric pressure, the temperature,
This verse expresses the miracles of the Creator in the following
aspects:
The Creator determined for the earth such defined extension or volume,
and placed in the earth these substances (rawasi) that determine the
mass of the earth. The mass is the fundamental parameter that defines
the earth's gravity and specifies its distance from the sun. Such
rawasi and the extent of the earth also determine the gravity and many
other parameters on the earth's surface. Of course the Creator adapts
the balance of all the creatures on the earth by such determined
extent, mass and gravity. Such balance as the verse indicates also
includes the motion, the life, and the growth of every creature on the
earth.
The atmospheric conditions that surround the life-creatures on the
earth are in balance with those creatures. However, these conditions
as pressure, temperature, humidity and constituents are determined
also by the mass (rawasi) and volume (extent) of the earth. There are
also another balances in different races, it is the balance of the
number of males and females of every race. Such balance, which we call
environmental balance, is not done by itself. It is done by the Will
of the Creator as this verse demonstrates. This Creator announces such
fact by these distinct and neat words. The sustainability of this
balance is a Creator's will not by a chance or by the force of the
nature, because the nature has no mind. But the Creator has His Will
and sends His verses in the Koran to announce this fact.
This balance can be seen in the building block of the whole universe,
I mean the atom. In the atom; the positive and the negative charges
balance each other. The motion of the electrons is balanced in its
orbits around the nucleus, according to its specific mass and
velocity. This balance can be seen in the atom of every substance.
Similarly, this balance is seen in building block of every living
creature, I mean the cell. In the cell we find the pressure of the
liquid inside the cell s balanced with the atmospheric pressure across
the cell walls, the temperature of the cell is balanced with is
balanced with the atmospheric temperature, and the humidity of the
cells is balanced with the humidity of the atmospheric air across the
cell walls. This balance is kept with different mechanisms and nature
of the cell walls according to the location of such cell in the
desert, the sea, the town, the north, the south, the high mountains or
the low lands. Each cell has the peculiarities, the jeans and
chromosomes that make it adapting its self with its surrounding
conditions. Who sets such designs to give these cells such
capabilities of balance? The answer is announced in this verse as the
will of Allah, with very simple words "to be balanced".
If we look to the plants and the living creatures of the deserts, of
the rivers, and of the seas, you will find each of them has been
adapted to this balance by different approaches and designs. For
example, the fishes of the seas have cold blood, other wise the small
fish may need a ton of food every year to balance the heat lost from
its body, if its blood will have the same temperature as that of the
land's creatures. Who stated that temperature? The body of the fish
can balance the high pressure suffered by its body at the depths of
the seas. However, the man cannot be able to sustain such pressure.
Such balanced pressures and temperatures is done by whom, He announced
this fact in His last book to the Humanity. And He acknowledge that
discovering such scientific fact have a positive influence on the
belief of the scientists. This meaning is stated in the following
verse.
Those scientists who have deep knowledge fear Allah better, Verily;
Allah is All-Mighty, Oft-Forgiving. (35 / 28)
When looking also to the balance that pushes the water and the
solutions from the roots of the plants to the leaves or the fruits of
such plant, in a balance of the capillary suction against the gravity.
Such balancing phenomena occur in the small plants and in the huge
trees. We can see too the force that sucks the salts from the soil to
the roots of the trees due to balancing of the osmotic pressure across
the root's walls. From such salts and by such substances the plant
offers for us the food which gives us the energy, the sustainability
and the growth. Who designs such marvelous designs to keep such
balance, that keeps life of all creatures in the whole universe, the
verse tells us Who. He expresses this fact in one of His names as:
The Originator of the Marvels of the Heavens and the earth(117 /2)
Looking also to what is done in the body of a man, where such balance
is kept by the juices secreted inside the stomach to balance the
acidity of the food there. The balance of bones of the body to the
loads on each member, the balance of the muscles to required forces,
the balance of blood pressure to the environmental pressure, the
balance of the skin's temperature and humidity to the environmental
temperature and humidity in every atmospheric conditions. The
scientists considered the skin of the man or of any living creature
the best a marvelous balancing system in the universe, which offers a
natural air conditioning system for our bodies.
Looking also to see how such balance is kept by the heart of a mouse
and the heart of an elephant, each heart is doing the same jobs, such
that the blood can reach each cell and the blood pressure in each cell
is able to balance the atmospheric pressure. Who design such suitable
sizes of the hearts of each creature? Similarly, the roots and the
stems of each plant is so strong such it can balance the loads on such
plant including the weights of its fruits and branches. Who is
responsible for such unimaginable designs, He announces these facts in
His last book by these fine and neat words.
Looking what different kinds of bacteria is doing to keep the
environmental balance, where it restore the remains of the dead bodies
or garbage to its elements to keep the balance of the raw materials or
elements in this universe. Looking also to the balance in every island
or piece of earth, how the existence of birds, rats, people, animals,
and different kinds of bacteria are balanced. If the man tries to
change any parameter in the ratio of the number of the existing
creatures, some disturbance will happen. However, the Creator fixed
such mechanisms through which the balance will be restored once more.
Who is designing such mechanisms, the Creator announces that it is His
doings. We can look to the earth and see how its thermal balance
through the adjusted length of the day and night so that the energy
stored from the sun during the day time balances the heat lost in the
night time. So, the temperature is changing through a limited range.
If we imagine an increase in the day time, by few hours, will result
in an increase in the temperature of the earth's surface that enjoys
the day time by more than 30 degrees and that in the dark will be
decreased by the same value. This means most of the water in the
oceans will boil or freeze, and the life on many parts of the earth
will vanish. Similarly, if the rawasi in the earth will change by
small percentage, our distance from the sun will be longer or shorter,
and the valid thermal balance will be violated, and our skins will be
burnt or frozen too. Who orders such balance? Allah declares by these
neat words that it is His Wise. Who can not confess that it is His
Will or claim that it is not true statement?
We can look to the universe around us and see the balance done by the
creator in every thing, motion, corner or piece. Speaking of the
balance may not end. Inviting scientists from different branches of
science, they can add further facts that are seen from their different
points of views. So, we can assure that the existing balance in our
universe is mastered by His Will, as He declared in His Book, and as
no other one declared or or dared to declare that it is his doings.
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References:
[1] It is a chapter of the Koran with this title . Such chapter has
the number "56" in the Holy Koran, and has 96 verses (sentences) . The
translation of the word "Al-Wakihah" is "the events of the Day of
Resurrection." Generally we write beside each verse the number of the
verse followed by the number of the chapter.
[2]( the words written in green color are the tried translation of the
Koran. However, the bracketed words are another trial to show the
meaning or a deeper explanation of these words, since the words in
Arabic are of broader destinations than the translated words )
[3] Of course, the complete understanding of these verses is just
known to Allah
[4] The semen is a half cell that is emitted from the man or the woman
during the enter-courses. By their unification, the cell of a new
birth is formed.
[5]A piece of fibred cloth
[6] Separations of the fibers one by one to fill the universe
[7] The contents of the earth which gives it such stability and force
to attract the bodies
[8] It may give the meaning of destabilize their life on the earth if
it is firmly fixed