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 […]
Quran 15:19: And the earth – We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein [something] of every well-balanced thing. The following excerpt is taken from Tafsir Abdullah Yusuf Ali surah 15 pg. 10-11: And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereonmountains firm and immovable […]
Quran 6: 125: So whoever Allah wants to guide – He expands his breast to [contain] Islam; and whoever He wants to misguide – He makes his breast tight and constricted as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does Allah place defilement upon those who do not believe. The following excerpt is taken […]
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 (20: 105-109): Now they’re asking you about the mountains – (will they really be crumbled to nothing)? Say to them, “My Lord will pull them out from their roots and […]
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 signs (manifesting the truth of God’s Power, Knowledge, and absolute sovereignty, and His grace on you). We have obscured the sign of the night (made it dark), and We have […]
Quran 16:13: And [He has subjected] whatever He multiplied for you on the earth of varying colors. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who remember. The following excerpt is taken from “Anwar al Bayan” vol 5 pg. 180: “Thereafter Allah mentions a fifth sign saying, “And the things that He has created […]
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 greenery, from which we produce grains in clusters. And palm-trees with hanging clusters, and vineyards, and olives, and pomegranates—similar and dissimilar. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen. Surely […]
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 the living. Such is Allah. So how could you deviate?} [Quran Ch6 – V95] The following is taken from “The Study Quran” by Hossein Nasr under the commentary of the […]
{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 thereby, as a sustenance for you. Therefore, do not assign rivals to Allah while you know.} [Quran Ch2 – V22] The following excerpt is taken from “The Quran with Annotated […]
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 in a long line of scriptures from God that include the Torah, Psalms and Gospel. Each message confirms the other, and the Qur’an is the final testament from God to […]
