Qur'anic Commentary & Analysis through the Lens of Modern Science

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Master Sherif 12 years ago

Truth always stands clear from the errors. Very interesting,lslam is ok.

Truth always stands clear from the errors. Very interesting,lslam is ok.
Blessed by God 12 years ago

ignorant and envy and you will never see the right Path. Insha Allah you will be rewarded by your hate towards the Prophet. Keep doing it

ignorant and envy and you will never see the right Path. Insha Allah you will be rewarded by your hate towards the Prophet. Keep doing it
Mansa Musa 12 years ago

Why don't you response with Quranic verses that it is not true about our prophet. Challenge me to produce Quranic verses to support my case that Mohammed was a pedophile and cut a pregnant woman into pieces on allegation of a ...
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Why don't you response with Quranic verses that it is not true about our prophet. Challenge me to produce Quranic verses to support my case that Mohammed was a pedophile and cut a pregnant woman into pieces on allegation of adultery. Have you read these facts in Quran or not? Answer me.
Son of Man 12 years ago

You are really an enemy of God Almighty, for you have not believe in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The greatest sin in this world is reject Jesus Christ. If you don't know, take it from me that to reject Jesus Christ as Savi ...
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You are really an enemy of God Almighty, for you have not believe in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The greatest sin in this world is reject Jesus Christ. If you don't know, take it from me that to reject Jesus Christ as Savior and beloved Son of God is the greatest sin.
kwan 12 years ago

You win. congrat

You win. congrat
koo nimo 12 years ago

is he not God? i thought Jesus Peace be unto him is God too. only him a God and a son? Nawa oo. wow. your hearts are all same. deaf dumb and blind. therefore you have no sense.

is he not God? i thought Jesus Peace be unto him is God too. only him a God and a son? Nawa oo. wow. your hearts are all same. deaf dumb and blind. therefore you have no sense.
AlHassan 12 years ago

WE can debate with people who make sense, but not with people who do not even know their own religion.
At least you mention God the father!. So there we go. 1+1+1=1?. Any logic in that? three God's but one God. 1+1+1 can nev ...
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WE can debate with people who make sense, but not with people who do not even know their own religion.
At least you mention God the father!. So there we go. 1+1+1=1?. Any logic in that? three God's but one God. 1+1+1 can never be one even with all the mathmaticians in the world. It simply defies all mathematical theories!
real ghanaian 12 years ago

Okay well said define and explain how JESUS was able to walk on the sea?

Okay well said define and explain how JESUS was able to walk on the sea?
real ghanaian 12 years ago

That is what i say all the time. www.charismanews.com/.../41212-muslim-man-wakes-from-coma-conv...Check the link below

That is what i say all the time. www.charismanews.com/.../41212-muslim-man-wakes-from-coma-conv...Check the link below
real ghanaian 12 years ago

Why do you consider defeat. The enemy here is satan not mohammed that was created in the image of God Almighty. Mohammed was deceived by satan. Stop worshipping satan and revert to GOD because His love is everlasting. The Blo ...
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Why do you consider defeat. The enemy here is satan not mohammed that was created in the image of God Almighty. Mohammed was deceived by satan. Stop worshipping satan and revert to GOD because His love is everlasting. The Blood of JESUS is everlasting. All that you have to do is accept JESUS as your Lord and Personal saviour. Even the quaran says JESUS is the Messiah and that He will return to judge the world why dont you learn about JESUS in the Book that wrote about him the Holy Bible. After that don't follow Christianity as a religion otherwise you will be lost again. Christianity is a way of life. have relationship with the Almighty God through Jesus Christ. And read the Bible that's Christianity because the Bible will teach you what you can and cannot do

real ghanaian 12 years ago

So then my question is did Mohammed marry a girl of 9 years age? That is the actual question not the excuses of puberty and societal age restriction. If he did then he cant be a prophet because that is totally wrong. Force ca ...
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So then my question is did Mohammed marry a girl of 9 years age? That is the actual question not the excuses of puberty and societal age restriction. If he did then he cant be a prophet because that is totally wrong. Force cannot be allowed since the child cannot consent to marriage at that tender age of 9. Maybe read the quaran if Mohammed did actually marry his sons wife and come again
Mohammed 12 years ago

May ALLAH bless u. Also analyse chapter 55:33

May ALLAH bless u. Also analyse chapter 55:33
Anas 12 years ago

Indeed Allah has completed his deen. We strongly believe in Allah and His holy Books. Should there be any contradictions btn the Quran and what the so called Modern Scientists are depicting, we are strongly by Quran cos the Q ...
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Indeed Allah has completed his deen. We strongly believe in Allah and His holy Books. Should there be any contradictions btn the Quran and what the so called Modern Scientists are depicting, we are strongly by Quran cos the Quran Stands Tall among all other books.
Akua Sheban 12 years ago

Koo aren't you being too emotional? If you can't post a comment without being emotional, then please refrain from doing so.

My thanks to Ghanaweb for allowing readers to post comments on its forum. May cultural sensitivit ...
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Koo aren't you being too emotional? If you can't post a comment without being emotional, then please refrain from doing so.

My thanks to Ghanaweb for allowing readers to post comments on its forum. May cultural sensitivity make us more tolerant as a people as we learn from each other!
AlHassan 12 years ago

Have you ever heard "Land of the Rising Sun"?. This what Japan is refrred to. This is because the Japanese PERCIEVED that their country, was the most eastward and was the first to be visited by the sun when it rose. Now, Zhul ...
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Have you ever heard "Land of the Rising Sun"?. This what Japan is refrred to. This is because the Japanese PERCIEVED that their country, was the most eastward and was the first to be visited by the sun when it rose. Now, Zhulqarnian's episode is naration of his perception. It does not simply mean that the sun was setting in a muddy spring but a discription of how percied the setting of the sun. Qur,aan is a book that must be studied even for we Muslims - Alhamdulillah. To be able to critices the Qur'aan even as a Christian, I advise you to books from notavle scholars on Qur'aanic exegesis or Tafseer in Arabic, and I'll recommend Ibn Katheer. If you find it too expensive you can sit with scholars when you have doubts and these are both advised by Allah in The Qur'aan when Allah command "iqra" or read, and "Do as the people of knowledge if you do not know" On the other hand there are qur'aan copies with commentary and if you are interested we can send you a copy of one of the best. You can contact me at idris_alhassan@yahoo.com
You may need to give me your mailing address on how to get stuff to you.
Meanwhile May Allah bless the author for this effort, and Bless you for caring to read. Only people who seek the truth about The creator will read religiouse articles. On the whole I liked your comment.
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

What happened in the days of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed have no constructive relevance in this modern era. How many of you will trade places with the old bloody and primitive days. These Abrahamic leaders were nothing ...
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What happened in the days of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed have no constructive relevance in this modern era. How many of you will trade places with the old bloody and primitive days. These Abrahamic leaders were nothing short of cult leaders who did not know any better!!!
Mullahba 12 years ago

Hussein BabalWaiz, please clarify.

"With power did We(Allah) constructed the heaven(universe), verily, We are (continuously) expanding it." --- Qur'an 51:47

Sura 7:54, 10:3, 11:7, and 25:59 clearly say that God crea ...
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Hussein BabalWaiz, please clarify.

"With power did We(Allah) constructed the heaven(universe), verily, We are (continuously) expanding it." --- Qur'an 51:47

Sura 7:54, 10:3, 11:7, and 25:59 clearly say that God created "the heavens and the earth" in six days. But then there is also the following passage:

2 Say: Is it that ye deny Him Who created the earth in TWO Days
And do ye join equals with Him? He is the Lord of (all) the Worlds.
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He set on the (earth), mountains standing firm, high above it,
and bestowed blessings on the earth, and measured therein all things
4 to give them nourishment in due proportion, in FOUR Days
in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (Sustenance).

Moreover He comprehended in His design the sky,
and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth:
"Come ye together, willingly or unwillingly."
They said: "We do come (together), in willing obedience."
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2 So He completed them as seven firmaments in TWO Days,
and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command.
And We adorned the lower heaven with lights,
and (provided it) with guard.
Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge.
-- Sura 41:9-12 (Yusuf Ali)

= 8 altogether these are EIGHT Days.
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

Those people being described in the bible, koran and torah, were living in the savagery doctrine of the survival of the fittest. They killed each other, enslaved the weak, died from common disease and got eaten by wild beasts ...
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Those people being described in the bible, koran and torah, were living in the savagery doctrine of the survival of the fittest. They killed each other, enslaved the weak, died from common disease and got eaten by wild beasts. The holy books paints rosie pictures which are based of sheer fantasies, fabrications and lies. Even just 500 years ago, human beings lived in miserable conditions. We human beings are responsible for our survival. There is no god to intervene if fail to help each other and keep behaving like the modern day moslem fanatics. Where was god when the backward people of Rwanda turned on each other like animals and when is allah with all the savagery going on in the moslem world?????
Dickson 12 years ago

Subhallah. May our God have mercy on miscreants like you. All what you are saying was said before by the isralites to Moses. quran (2:55) And recall when you said: “O Moses, we will not believe in you until we clearly see A ...
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Subhallah. May our God have mercy on miscreants like you. All what you are saying was said before by the isralites to Moses. quran (2:55) And recall when you said: “O Moses, we will not believe in you until we clearly see Allah (speaking to you).” Thereupon a tremendous thunderbolt struck you before your very eyes.

(2:56) Then We revived you after your extinction, that you might be grateful.71

71. The incident referred to here is the following. When Moses went to the mountain he had been ordered to bring with him seventy elders of Israel. Later, when God bestowed upon Moses the Book and the Criterion, he presented them to the people. Some mischief-makers, according to the Qur'an, began to complain that they could not believe in something just because Moses claimed that God had spoken to him. This invited the wrath of God and they were punished. The Old Testament, however, has the following account:

'And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank' (Exodus 24: 10-11),

Interestingly, it is stated later in the same book that when Moses requested God to show him His glory, God rejected the request and said: 'You cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live'. (See Exodus 33: 18-23)
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

Even if what you are saying about Moses is true, what has that got to do with you in this modern day? Has koran changed the minds of the many moslems who are committing atrocities in his name? What about the old muslim men ma ...
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Even if what you are saying about Moses is true, what has that got to do with you in this modern day? Has koran changed the minds of the many moslems who are committing atrocities in his name? What about the old muslim men marrying little 8 year olds? What god is going to reward the carnage being perpetrated by jews and muslims in his name? Even dogs are behaving better in god's eyes than most of these false believers in the middle east. Stop burdening yourself with an imaginary god and work towards peace and understanding amongst mankind for the goodness of your chidren and grandchildren. God does not need the propaganda from the so called holy books, and he does not need your interpretation of what is righteoius on his behalf,god can take care of himself!!!

Nana Yaw 12 years ago

I do not hate any religion though I know from the bottom of my heart that none of them is a legitimate representative of a just god. A cult is a cult whether it is led by jesus, kim jong un or mohammed. Let us see what benefi ...
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I do not hate any religion though I know from the bottom of my heart that none of them is a legitimate representative of a just god. A cult is a cult whether it is led by jesus, kim jong un or mohammed. Let us see what benefit your resources have contributed to the well being of all mankind. God can take care of himself!!!!!!
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

Religion can not make us tolerant beings. Yes, we evolve but religion is the worst enemy to the progress of evolution. We make mistakes and we correct them by ourselves. God can not and will not play any role to save us from ...
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Religion can not make us tolerant beings. Yes, we evolve but religion is the worst enemy to the progress of evolution. We make mistakes and we correct them by ourselves. God can not and will not play any role to save us from our mistakes because there is no god!!!!!!
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

Most moslems and Zionist jews will go to "hell" for causing so much pain in god's name if there is really god, paradise and hell!!!

Most moslems and Zionist jews will go to "hell" for causing so much pain in god's name if there is really god, paradise and hell!!!
muslim 12 years ago

yes there is God. and we shall see who will enter hell...."Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is t ...
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yes there is God. and we shall see who will enter hell...."Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they compass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)."
[Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]
Campus Ministry Report 12 years ago

The knowledge of the expanding characteristics of the Universe has been in the Scriptures, several hundreds of years BC, and apparently a knowledge of it had spread far and wide, especially, among people who were constantly ...
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The knowledge of the expanding characteristics of the Universe has been in the Scriptures, several hundreds of years BC, and apparently a knowledge of it had spread far and wide, especially, among people who were constantly in dealings with the Jews, and quite familiar with Jewish Scriptures.

Therefore, no amount of Scientific discoveries, past and future, compares to discovering that God has given us Life and that Life is in Christ.

Curiosity about the universe has intrigued many since time memorial, and a familiarity of the Jewish scriptures such as the book of Numbers(a star will rise up out of Jacob) provoked the 3 wise men to follow the star to Bethlehem. Let us remind ourselves that the wise men were from the nations where the Jews, in general and the Prophet Daniel, in particular, had left a legacy about the True God through the knowledge of the Scriptures.

Once again, the Bible is not a scientific book, yet it unerringly touches on many disciplines including Astronomy or Physics.

You may google "Expanding Universe and Bible", the following is just one of them foe your reading.

The first direct scientific evidence for a big bang universe dates back to 1916. That is when Albert Einstein noted that his field equations of general relativity predicted an expanding universe.

Unwilling to accept the cosmic beginning implied by such expansion, Einstein altered his theory to conform with the common wisdom of his day, namely an eternally existing universe.

All these scientists, however, were upstaged by 2500 years and more by Job, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other Bible authors. The Bible’s prophets and apostles stated explicitly and repeatedly the two most fundamental properties of the big bang, a transcendent cosmic beginning a finite time period ago and a universe undergoing a general, continual expansion. In Isaiah 42:5 both properties were declared, “This is what the Lord says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out.”

The Hebrew verb translated “created” in Isaiah 42:5 is bara’ which has as its primary definition “bringing into existence something new, something that did not exist before.”7 The proclamation that God created (bara’) the entirety of the heavens is stated seven times in the Old Testament. (Genesis 1:1; 2:3; 2:4; Psalm 148:5; Isaiah 40:26; 42:5; 45:18). This principle of transcendent creation is made more explicit by passages like Hebrews 11:3 which states that the universe that we humans can measure and detect was made out of that which we cannot measure or detect. Also, Isaiah 45:5-22; John 1:3; and Colossians 1:15-17 stipulate that God alone is the agent for the universe’s existence. Biblical claims that God predated the universe and was actively involved in causing certain effects before the existence of the universe is not only found in Colossians 1 but also in Proverbs 8:22-31; John 17:24; Ephesians 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2; and 1 Peter 1:20.

The characteristic of the universe stated more frequently than any other in the Bible is its being “stretched out.” Five different Bible authors pen such a statement in eleven different verses: Job 9:8; Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13; Jeremiah 10:12; 51:15; and Zechariah 12:1. Job 37:18 appears to be a twelfth verse. However, the word used for “heavens” or “skies” is shehaqîm which refers to the clouds of fine particles (of water or dust) that are located in Earth’s atmosphere, not the shamayim, the heavens of the astronomical universe.9 Three of the eleven verses, Job 9:8; Isaiah 44:24; and 45:12 make the point that God alone was responsible for the cosmic stretching.

What is particularly interesting about the eleven verses is that different Hebrew verb forms are used to describe the cosmic stretching. Seven verses, Job 9:8; Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 51:13; and Zechariah 12:1 employ the Qal active participle form of the verb natah. This form literally means “the stretcher out of them” (the heavens) and implies continual or ongoing stretching. Four verses, Isaiah 45:12; 48:13; and Jeremiah 10:12; 51:15 use the Qal perfect form. This form literally means that the stretching of the heavens was completed or finished some time ago.

That the Bible really does claim that the stretching out of the heavens is both “finished” and “ongoing” is made all the more evident in Isaiah 40:22. There we find two different verbs used in two different forms. In the first of the final two parallel poetic lines, “stretches out” is the verb natah in the Qal active participle form. In the second (final) line the verb “spreads them out” (NASB, NIV, NKJV) is mathah (used only this one time in the Old Testament) in the waw consecutive plus Qal imperfect form, so that literally we might translate it “and he has spread them out . . .” The participles in lines one and three of Isaiah 40:22 characterize our sovereign God by His actions in all times, sitting enthroned above the earth and stretching out the heavens, constantly exercising his creative power in His ongoing providential work. This characterization is continued with reference to the past by means of waw consecutive with the imperfect, the conversive form indicating God’s completed act of spreading out the heavens. That is, this one verse literally states that God is both continuing to stretch out the heavens and has stretched them out.

This simultaneously finished and ongoing aspect of cosmic stretching is identical to the big bang concept of cosmic expansion. According to the big bang, at the creation event all the physics (specifically, the laws, constants, and equations of physics) are instantly created, designed, and finished so as to guarantee an ongoing, continual expansion of the universe at exactly the right rates with respect to time so that physical life will be possible.

This biblical claim for simultaneously finished and ongoing acts of creation, incidentally, is not limited to just the universe’s expansion. The same claim, for example, is made for God’s laying Earth’s foundations (Isaiah 51:13; Zechariah 12:1). This is consistent with the geophysical discovery that certain long-lived radiometric elements were placed into the earth’s crust a little more than four billion years ago in just the right quantities so as to guarantee the continual building of continents.

Finally, the Bible indirectly argues for a big bang universe by stating that the laws of thermodynamics, gravity, and electromagnetism have universally operated throughout the universe since the cosmic creation event itself. In Romans 8 we are told that the entire creation has been subjected to the law of decay (the second law of thermodynamics). This law in the context of an expanding universe establishes that the cosmos was much hotter in the past. In Genesis 1 and in many places throughout Job, Psalms, and Proverbs we are informed that stars have existed since the early times of creation. As explained in two Reasons To Believe books,10 even the slightest changes in either the laws of gravity or electromagnetism would make stars impossible. As already noted in the accompanying article, gravity, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics yield stable orbits of planets around stars and of electrons around the nuclei of atoms only if they operate in a universe described by three very large rapidly expanding dimensions of space.

In conclusion, the Scriptures says God has put in the heart of man, a desire to know his works, yet man would not come to know completely all the works(discoveries etc) of God. Also, when it comes to making books, in general, there is no end and that too much studies or reading of books is a weary to the soul. The entire purpose of man is to fear God(The covenant God of Israel, the True God) and obey his commandments, meaning to repent, receive Christ as Lord and Personal Saviour, get Baptised and serve HIM through the knowledge and understanding of God and Jesus Christ whom HE sent.

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