Med911
March 9, 2011, 12:54am
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Re: Why are Muslims against Evolution?!?
No problem merey bhai… hear from you.
Please correct me if I am wrong but Islam unlike Christianity has no fixed date on the worlds existance… even early Christianity had no fixed date this somehow came to be agreed upon much later… at least from what I have gathered from first hand experience.
Islamic scientific thinking as you say clearly is very pro-evolution. In fact I will correct my stance right now and say that I am not entirely against the evolution theory as much of it makes sense and even is backed up by Koran which itself states clearly many scientific facts. However I dont agree with Darwinist theory either…like you said…
Now heres where it gets really technical becuase Islam states that Allah created the world out of Noor. Roughly translated that means light and if you split atoms that is what they tend to become… light…
In fact Rumi got it right a long time ago just read this…
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels bless'd; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones,
To Him we shall return.
از جمادی مُردم و نامی شدم — وز نما مُردم بهحیوان سرزدم
مُردم از حیوانی و آدم شدم — پس چه ترسم؟ کی ز مردن کم شدم؟
حمله دیگر بمیرم از بشر — تا برآرم از ملائک بال و پر
وز ملک هم بایدم جستن ز جو — کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
بار دیگر از ملک پران شوم — آنچه اندر وهم ناید آن شوم
پس عدم گردم عدم چو ارغنون — گویدم کانا الیه راجعون
I will end by saying that I dont totally agree with Darwin however Islamic science has it’s own explanation and I am more inclined towards the belief that we all share the same ancestor rather than us having sprouted from monkeys.
Well I think what it comes down to is whether we should take Islam literally or figuratively.
I should imagine that 2000 years ago, no one had any clue what DNA was, or what evolution is.
So God isnt going to explain things to 5th century Bedouins in terminology that they couldn’t possibly fathom. As Hadeeth teaches us, one should speak to others, in THEIR capacity.
So God may have used poetic terminology because this is what the people could understand, without going into specifics.
But that was nearly 2000 years ago. Our understanding of God must evolve beyond the level of 5th century desert dwellers.