Monday, January 2, 2017

Quran As a Collection of Evidence That Is Revealed Over Time

There are verses in Quran which must have been barely comprehensible until the modern age when we are equipped with the required knowledge and the technology to explore the world and make sense of the natural phenomena.

The following are a few examples:

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيم
الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ
55:5
"The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation."

14:33
وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ دَائِبَيْنِ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ
"And He subjected for you the sun and the moon, continuous [in orbit], and subjected for you the night and the day."

25:53
وَهُوَ الَّذِي مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا

"And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition."
55:19-20
مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ
"He released the two seas, meeting [side by side];"
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ
"Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses."


صدق الله العلي العظيم
Quran quotes and translations from Quran.com


And the following two videos can be regarded as a contemporary take on what the above verses of Quran mean today.

https://youtu.be/VEA_mknada0  Earth Without Moon - Full Documentary 2016 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUAQy14g0Qc   The Seas not mixing with each other ┇ Quran and Modern Science ┇ IslamSearch.org - YouTube

Considering the fact that it is highly unlikely that people of 1400 years ago could understand such verses to the degree that we can today, by the way of extrapolation we can come to the conclusion that the verses of Quran that seem incomprehensible at our time may be perfectly understood in future. The numerous verses of Quran about "Jinn"  might be good examples of such cases.

This means that in case of verses whose true meaning are apparently hard to grasp at our time, we can not jump to the conclusion that they are meant metaphorically.  Evidently, when human's perception of the world is evolved enough, their true application/meaning will be unveiled to us.

The miraculous nature of Quran is revealed to us as "Personal Experience or Empirical Evidence" which will follow next.