Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?
Peace Med911
I was going to let you have the last say on this occasion because I have said I all I wanted to say … my previous post to you was all about clarifying to you that I didn’t contradict my position and it seems that you have accepted that with your response, the length of which was unnecessary repetition … however you intrigue me with your conviction about the Word of God … you seem to have a lot to say about what the Qur’an actually is …
To me Al-Qur’an is “sheer knowledge and the highest truth” - Truth is both literal and metaphoric … what we need is context to ascertain which and in some cases both are implied … The Qur’an has two main properties … for those who do not need to be convinced that it is The Word of God for them there is much guidance and wisdom in it … however it has another dimension, it has within it a means to show itself as from Divine source … it confirms itself … it does this through a number of routes one of which is revelation, another is prophecy … in the case of prophecy it foretells a future event and in the case of revelation even when these are being read and looked at we don’t see them they are present yet hidden until that is a scientific discovery is made and then in that light of that discovery the words present themselves in the beauty that they were meant to be seen … it unlocks secrets as we progress through time … It is indeed not a scientific manual - a manual has no secrets to unlock … a manual is clear and “dictates” things - the Qur’an leaves clues.
So my point being that there are quite a few places in the Qur’an that I believe to be scientific notions - without actually explaining those notions scientifically … In other words some revelations are made that we can only possibly know through scientific discovery.
Examples are:
Khalaq Al-insana min 'alaq
**Created man from a clot **
{There is absolutely no direct guidance in this statement - it is meant to show us who we are dealing with - the knowledge of The One} the guidance indirectly is obtained through conviction that such truths can only be known to God, therefore this Book is from Him.
Surah 21 Ayah 30
Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and We made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?
If this verse is not a scientific notion then please Med911 show me what spiritual guidance is in the bold terms above?
Surah 78 verse 6 and 7
“Have We not made the Earth as a wide expanse and the mountains as pegs?”
{Are you saying that this must be a rhetorical question? And are you saying that the term “pegs” has no scientific significance to the function of mountains? Why would the word “pegs” be used Med911 … please say what is the spiritual guidance in that statement?}
And there are plenty more …