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, he was famous throughout the land as a brilliant scholar, a great writer of elegant poetry, and a Sufi of the first order. Between 1193 and 1198, he wrote Uqlatu’l-Mustawfiz […]
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 […]
Evolution in the Animal Kingdom – Maurice Bucaille
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 from “Islamic Theory of Evolution” by T.O. Shanavas pg. 140-141: “The Quran adresses mankind, proclaiming that God created both mankind and also “those who came before” mankind: ‘Oh! Mankind! Worship […]
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 living thing? Then will they not believe? The following excerpt is taken from “The Message of the Quran” pg. 630: “The statement that God “made out of water […]
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 Edip Yuksel: Creation “from” clay has two meanings. (1) clay as the substance of origin, and (2) clay as a place of origin. Both meanings could be true at the […]
“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 for Allah” (Quran, Al Hadid, 57: 22) DNA or your genomes, have all the information your body needs to function, make more cells and each cell knows, because of Methyl groups, […]
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 is something that happens unpredictably, without discernible human intention or direction, and in dissociation from any observable pattern, causal relation, or natural necessity. We define events as unpredictable in two […]
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 the laws of your sustainer who initiated your creation with a single life-cell (6:99, 39:6) which split into two parts – one male and the other female – and through […]
Timeline of Creation – According to present day scientific discoveries Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago – Emergence of the universal and cosmic background radiation. Numerous thresholds where chemistry and physics both at the nuclear level and at the visible levels take place. 12 billion years ago – Stars and galaxies. 4.6 billion years ago […]
