raise the clouds and then He spreads them in the sky as He wills, breaking them into fragments, until you see rain drops falling from within them, then when He has made them to reach those of His servants as He wills, see how they rejoice even though before they received the rain, they were dumb with despair.” (Quran 30:48-49) While science is the study of the material world and the way in which nature works, religious teachings, as in the Qur’anic revelation, present an overview. “Have you not seen that Allah sent rain down from the sky and caused it to penetrate the ground and come forth as springs, then He caused crops of different colors to grow…” (Quran 39:21) “And among His signs He shows you the lightning, by the way of both of fear and hope, and He sent down rain from the sky and with it gives life to earth after it is dead , truly in that are signs for those who are wise.” (Quran 30:24) In the short history of modern science, many ideas and concepts have been presented only to be discarded as new evidence points to a different truth. Nevertheless, there are many scientific discoveries that can be said to be undisputed facts. This fact is commonly known and widely accepted today that the Sun is a direct source of light and the moon, having no light of its own, is merely a reflective body. Such specific details were not commonly known 1400 years ago. Yet in the Qur’an moon light is described as “munir”, a word which means “reflected light”. The Sun is compared to a blazing lamp (Wahhaj in Arabic) or a torch (Seraj) and the source of light; a precise and accurate description of the difference between Sun-light and Moon-light. “Blessed is the One Who placed the constellation in heaven and placed therein a lamp and a moon giving light.” (Quran 25:61) For a long time, European philosophers and scientists believed that Earth stood still in the center of the universe and every other planetary body, including the Sun, moved around it. In the West, this theory of geocentrism went unchallenged from the time of Ptolemy, in the 2nd century BC, right through the 16th century AD when Copernicus asserted that it is Earth which moves around the Sun. In 1609, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler published the Astronomia Nova in which he concluded that not only the planets move in orbits around the Sun but they also rotate upon their axis at irregular speeds. With this knowledge it became possible for European scientists to explain correctly many of mechanisms of our Solar System including the process of night and day. In explaining the sequence of night and day the Qur’an used the Arabic verb (kawwara) to describe the way the night ‘winds’ or ‘coils’ itself around the day and the day around the night. It fits perfectly with the cycle of night and day produced by the spinning of Earth upon its axis. “He coils the night upon the day and the day upon the night.” (Quran 39:5) “It is He Who created the night and day, the sun and the moon, all the celestial bodies traveling in an orbit each with its own motion.” (Quran 21:33) The Qur’an asks man to look for the science within him and on the horizons. To attain understanding man must use his eyes, his mind and his heart. Any part of knowledge demands an act of faith but not, as it is commonly misunderstood, blind faith. True seekers of knowledge expect their ideas and their faith in those ideas to be continually tested. Revelation goes much further than science in its unified vision of creation. Yet those aspects of it which particularly describe the material world agree with well-established scientific facts. There is no observation in the Qur’an which is contradicted by scientific facts. Subhanallah! May Allah (SWT) grant success to all the Muslims around the world and guide us all to the path of Sirat-ul-Mustaqeem. Watch the video: http://www.islamicbulletin.org/videos/book_of_signs/book_of_signs.mp4
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