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 I agree with the general concept, I differ slightly with the author in its interpretation as I will explain in the conclusion. Prior to the physical conception of life on […]
Quran 2:22: O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous – [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not […]
Quran 22:65: Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you whatever is on the earth and the ships which run through the sea by His command? And He restrains the sky from falling upon the earth, unless by His permission. Indeed Allah , to the people, is Kind and Merciful. The following excerpt […]
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 is like a thousand years of those which you count. The following excerpt is taken from “Exegesis of The Holy Qur’ân Commentary and Reflections” by Allamah Noorudin pg. 744-745: “One […]
Quran 22:18: Have you not seen that all those who are in the heavens and all those who are in the earth prostrate themselves before Allah; 31 and so do the sun and the moon, and the stars and the mountains, and the trees, and the beasts, and so do many human beings,32 and even many of those […]
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 it, are recorders. The following excerpt is taken from “Tafsir Ibn Kathir” under the commentary of the above verse: So whoever does righteous good deeds while he is a believer, […]
Quran 21:48-49: The following excerpt is taken from Tafsir Abdullah Yusuf Ali surah 21 verses 48-49: 48. In the past We granted to Moses and Aaron the Criterion (for judgment), and a Light and a Message for those who would do right — C2709. Here three things are mentioned as given to Moses and Aaron: 1. The Criterion for […]
