The Quran
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
Criticism of the Modern Muslim Ummah by the Prophet: The Glory of Faith
Quran 22:47: And they urge you to hasten the punishment. But Allah will never fail in His promise. And indeed, a day with your Lord...
Muhammad: Evidence of his Prophethood
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The Final Prophet and the Perfect Religion
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Was Ayesha a six year old bride?
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Those who follow ‘the unlettered Prophet’
Quran 7:157: Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel, who...
The Greatest Prophet (peace be upon him)
The following is taken from "Faizan-e-Madina" pg. 35: Almighty Allah has said: These (aforementioned Prophets) are the ones whom Allah guided; so follow their path....
Astronomy
‘Big Bang’ Quran 21:30
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every...
The Creation of the Universe in the Quran and Science
The Qur’an and the Creation of the Universe The Qur’an does not have a chapter on the genesis of our universe as do the Jewish...
The Smoke Quran 41:11
Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come , willingly or by compulsion."...
Expanding Universe
Quran 51:47: The following excerpt is taken from "Physics and the Holy Quran" by Abdul Rashid Khan: And with Power and Skill (with Hands), We...
The Galaxies
Quran 21:104: On that day when We shall roll up heaven as a scroll for writings; As We originated the first creation, so We shall...
Stars
Quran 56:75-76: Then I swear by the setting of the stars, And indeed, it is an oath - if you could know - great. The...
Stars and Planets
The following excerpt is taken from "The Quran and Modern Science" by Maurice Bucaille: Stars and Planets The word ‘star’ (najm) in the Quran (86:3)...
Formation of Planetary System in Quranic Context
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Perfect Orbits in the Universe
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Spherical Shape of the Earth – Ibn Hazm
By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that...
The Moon
The following excerpt is taken from "Maariful Quran" by Mufti Taqi Usmani vol. 4 pg. 516-521: Download Link
The Moon a Reflected Light
The following excerpt is taken from "The Quran and Modern Science" by Zakir Naik pg. 11-12: "It was believed by earlier civilizations that the moon...
Sirius
Quran 53:49, And that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius The following excerpt is taken from "Tafsir Ibn Kathir" Surah 53 pg....
The Wonder of the Night and the Wonder of the Day
Quran 17:12: (As in the life of humankind, “days” and “nights” alternate in the world, also.) We have made the night and the day two...
Dark Energy
Quran 51:47: “And heaven— We built it with might, and We extend it wide.” At the big bang, the universe had expanded from the state...
Space and the Universe in the Holy Quran
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The Forces
Quran 70:4: The angels and the spirit ascend unto Him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years: The following interpretation of...
Time and Relativity
The following excerpt is taken from "Islam and Science" by Mohammed Awal: Many scientists assumed that almost all laws governing the physical universe had been...
The Rosette Nebula
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Black Holes in the Quran
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Fine-Tuning of the Universe
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Seven Heavens – The Quranic Multiverse 41:12
And He completed them as seven heavens within two days and inspired in each heaven its command. And We adorned the nearest heaven with lamps...
The Seven Paths
Quran 23:17: And We have created above you seven paths, and We are never unmindful of creation. The following excerpt is taken from Tafsir Ibn...
The Conquest of Space
From this point of view, three verses of the Qur'an should command our full attention. One expresses, without any trace of ambiguity, what man should...
A Paradise as vast as the Heavens and the Earth
Quran 3:133: And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous The following...
Is our universe the only universe? Brian Greene
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Lord of ‘al alamin’ (All The Worlds)
Quran 1:2: praise is to Allah , Lord of the worlds - The following excerpt is taken from "Maariful Quran" vol 1 pg. 64-65: Al...
The stars that retreat
Quran 81:15: So I swear by the retreating stars The following excerpt is taken from "The Holy Quran in Today's English" under the commentary of...
Fate of the Universe (The Big Crunch)
The following excerpt is taken from "Islam and Modern Science" by Ibrahim Rather pg. 362: Fate of the Universe One of the two theories relating...
The use of the word ‘Day’ in the Quran
Verse 5 of the sura 'The Prostration' and Verse 4 of the sura 'The Heights' not only point to the relativity of time, but give...
Death of the Stars and the Sun
The following excerpt is taken from "The Quran: Its Undeniable Miracles" under the category: 'Death of the Stars and the Sun': At the time of...
The Future of the Universe according to the Quran and Science
The Future of the Universe While the scientific data on the fate of the universe are derived from piecemeal experiments and observations by modern scientists,...
Oscillating Universe
The following excerpt is taken from "Quran and Modern Science" by Anisur Rahman pg. 52-53: Oscillating Universe (after Big Crunch again Big Bang): Allah (SWT)...
Earth Science
Timeline of Creation – According to present day scientific discoveries
Timeline of Creation – According to present day scientific discoveries Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago – Emergence of the universal and cosmic background radiation....
The Carpet
Quran 15:19: And the earth - We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein of every well-balanced thing....
Chest contraction with increasing height – The Quran
Quran 6: 125: So whoever Allah wants to guide - He expands his breast to Islam; and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes...
The Mountains
Quran 20: 105-109 The following excerpt is taken from "The Holy Quran in Today's English" by Yahiya Emerick under the commentary of the above verse...
The Wonder of the Night and the Wonder of the Day
Quran 17:12: (As in the life of humankind, “days” and “nights” alternate in the world, also.) We have made the night and the day two...
And on the Earth are things of different types
Quran 16:13: And whatever He multiplied for you on the earth of varying colors. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who remember....
The Fruits
Quran 6:99: {And it is He who sends down water from the sky. With it we produce vegetation of all kinds, from which we bring...
Allah is the Cleaver of the grain
Quran 6:95: {It is Allah who splits the grain and the seed. He brings the living from the dead, and He brings the dead from...
He who made the Earth a habitat for you, Quran 2:22
{He who made the earth a habitat for you, and the sky a structure, and sends water down from the sky, and brings out fruits...
The Signs of Allah
Quran 2:163: Your god is One God; there is no god but He, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the last...
Formation and weight of Clouds
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The Creation of everything on Earth and its order
Quran 2:22: who made for you the earth a bed and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth...
The Water Cycle in the Quran
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Well Guarded Canopy
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Winds Impregnate the Clouds
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The Moon
The following excerpt is taken from "Maariful Quran" by Mufti Taqi Usmani vol. 4 pg. 516-521: Download Link
Of Every Noble Kind
Quran 26:7: Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind? According to "Ishraq al Maani"...
The Creation of Earth in 4 Stages
Quran 41: 9-10: Say to them, “Are you rejecting the One Who created the earth in two stages? Are you making others equals with Him? ...
The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran
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Atmosphere
“We verily created human beings in an atmosphere.” Quran (90: 4) It has been discovered that the Earth has many layers of atmosphere. These serve...
Biology
God and Chance Events: Chance and the Theory of Evolution
Chance or random events are an integral part of the theory of evolution. What do we mean by chance? The simple meaning of the word...
Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), the Father of Evolution
Abu Bakr Muhammed ibn-Arabi (1165-1240), one of foremost interpreters of the Quran, was born in Spain. By the time he was twenty five years old,...
Islamic view of the Creation of life on Earth
Quran 2:22: O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - who made for you the...
Pre-Darwin Muslim Scholars and Evolution
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Creative Evolution: The Only History of Life
The following excerpt is taken from "Evolution of Living Organisms" by P.P. Grasse pg. 88-89: In all respects, evolution is a long story. Spontaneous generation...
From Water We Evolved Every Living Thing
Quran 21:30: Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from...
Creation from ‘Clay’
Quran 15:26: We have created the human being from hardened clay of aged mud The following excerpt is taken from "Quran: A Reformist Translation" by...
The Holy Quran on DNA and Destiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlkorLLM_0 “Nothing occurs, either in the Earth or in yourselves, that was not set down in writing before We brought it into being–that is easy...
Humanity’s Origin from a Single Life Cell
The following excerpt is taken from "Exposition of the Quran" by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez pg 141: Quran Surah 4 Verse #1: O humanity! Adhere to...
Timeline of Creation – According to present day scientific discoveries
Timeline of Creation – According to present day scientific discoveries Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago – Emergence of the universal and cosmic background radiation....
Evolution in the Animal Kingdom and the Transformations of the Human Form – Maurice Bucaille
Evolution in the Animal Kingdom - Maurice Bucaille
No, Humans and Apes do NOT share a common ancestry!
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Animal Communities
Quran 6:38: {There is no animal on land, nor a bird flying with its wings, but are communities like you. We neglected nothing in the...
Lord of ‘al alamin’ (All The Worlds)
Quran 1:2: praise is to Allah , Lord of the worlds - The following excerpt is taken from "Maariful Quran" vol 1 pg. 64-65: Al...
Evolution of Living Organisms – Pierre Paul Grasse
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Anthropology
Regaining the Lost Paradise: The Story of Adam in the Quran
The Story of Adam: Surah 2 Verses 30-39 Surah 7 Verses 11-27 Surah 15 Verses 26-48 Surah 20 Verses 115-124 Terminology of some words in...
The Transformations of Man Over the Ages – The Animal (but non-ape) Ancestry of Man
Quran 2:21: O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - The following excerpt is taken...
No, Humans and Apes do NOT share a common ancestry!
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Adam
The following is from "Exposition of the Quran" by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez pg. 1141: Adam Ud-matun means the human characteristic of living together. Al-idam...
The ‘Names’
Quran 2:31: And He taught Adam the names - all of them. Then He showed them to the angels and said, "Inform Me of the...
Definition of Malaika (Forces of Nature)
The following excerpt is taken form "Exposition of the Quran" by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez pg. 1172-1173: Malaika It is usually translated in English as...
The Meaning of ‘Iblees’
The following excerpt is taken from "Exposition of the Holy Quran" by G.A. Pervez: Iblees Ab-Lasa means to feel dejected (Ibn-e-Faris). It also means...
To Mankind Prostrate All the Forces of Nature
{Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sends down water from the sky, and with it produces fruits for your sustenance....
The meaning of “that which I Created with my Own Hands”
Quran 38:75: said, "O Iblees, what prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My hands? Were you arrogant , or were you...
Language and Diversity in Humans
{And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and colors. In this are signs...
The Garden of Eden
The following excerpt is taken from "Islamic Theory of Evolution" by T.O. Shanavas pg. 161-168: The Location of the Garden of the Forbidden Tree Most...
Al Jannah (Paradise) Here and Hereafter
The following excerpt is taken from "Exposition of the Quran" by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez under the term Jannah in the index: Jannah, Jannat It is...
Adam and Eve: The Spiritual, not Biological Parents of Humankind
The following excerpt is taken from "Islamic Theory of Evolution" by T.O. Shanavas pg.154-156: "Contrary to commonly held view of Adam and Eve being the...
Mankind was once one community
Quran 2:213: The following excerpt is taken from "The Study Quran" under the commentary of the following verse: Mankind was one community; then God sent...
Single Origin Model of Modern Humans (Out of Africa Theory)
The following excerpt is taken from the article "Adam and Eve’s Origin: A Theory Harmonising Scientific Evidence with the Qur’anic Text" by Daud Abdul-Fattah pg....
A Vicegerent for the Lands: The Purpose of this life and the Hereafter
The following excerpt is take from "Tafsir Ibn Kathir" surah 6 verse 165: Download Link The following is taken from "The Scientific Tafsir of Zakaria Kamal"...
The Story of Adam: Reconciling the Literalist Creation story with Empirical Knowledge
I have borrowed the following concept from the book "Science and Scriptures: Friends or Foes?: Marrying science and religion in the quest for meaning". Though...
The Perfect Man: ‘Soul of Soul’ or ‘The Divine Spirit’
The following excerpt is taken from "Phenomena Of Nature" By Dr Syed Abdul-Wadud pg. 247-249: Man A Distinguished Creation The Holy Quran relates the story...
Deeds and Actions
All Believers in Allah are one Family
Quran 3: 33-34: God did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of Imran above all people. Offspring one of the...
A Righteous Believer shall earn his Reward in full
Quran 21:94: So whoever does righteous deeds while he is a believer - no denial will there be for his effort, and indeed We, of...
Clothing, Adornment and Beautification
{O children of Adam! We have provided you with clothing to cover your bodies, and for luxury. But the clothing of piety—that is best. These...
Allah will forgive every sin upon Repentance
Quran 4:17-18: The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance and then repent soon after. It is those to...
Virtues and Etiquettes
Do not say “Ra’ina” but say “Unzurna”
Quran 2:104: O ye of Faith! Say not (to the Messenger) words of ambiguous import, but words of respect; and hearken (to him): To those...
Clothing, Adornment and Beautification
{O children of Adam! We have provided you with clothing to cover your bodies, and for luxury. But the clothing of piety—that is best. These...
True Love is Sacrifice
Quran 30:21: And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed...
Sins are forgiven by Taubah (Repentance) alone
Quran 4:31: If you avoid the major sins which you are forbidden, We will remove from you your lesser sins and admit you to a...