NATURE AND ISLAM

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NATURE AND ISLAM

• By AMAL KAMAL

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Two Approaches

• Broad Topic- 2 different approaches
• Using verses in the Quran to prove that Allah
  created nature
• Using nature to prove the existence of Allah and
  the accuracy of the Quran

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SURAT AR-RAD(first approach)

• Juz 13
• Verse 3-4

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Translation of verse 3

• He is the one who has spread out the earth and
  placed thereon mountains and rivers, created
  fruits of every kind in pairs, two and two, and
  made the night cover the day. Certainly in these
  things, there are signs for those who use their
  common sense.

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Recollection

• Allah (swt) created the universe which includes
  nature mountains, rivers, fruits, etc.
• Common sense referring to the obvious proof of
  Allahs power
• Non-believers are ignorant to the proof that
  surrounds them

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Translation of Verse 4

• In the earth there are tracts side by side
  gardens of grapes, cornfields and palm trees with
  single and double trunks-they are all watered
  with the same water, yet, We make some of them
  excel others in taste. Surely, in this, there are
  signs for the people of understanding.

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Recollection

• Allah created grapes, cornfields, and palm trees,
  etc
• The miracle of how such different plants could
  come out of tiny seedlings
• While the plants used the same water (soil and
  sun) to grow they still have different tastes

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Evidence (second approach)

• In addition to the Quran stating that Allah
  created all of nature
• There is evidence through nature that proves
  Allahs existence and the truth mentioned in the
  Quran

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Mountains

• Discovered in the 1960s, the theory of plate
  tectonics states that mountains work as
  stabilizers for the earth
• (And He has set firm mountains in the earth so
  that it would not shake with you)quran 1615

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Mountains (cont.)

• Scientists have recently found out that mountains
  have deep underlying roots embedded in the ground
  which make the mountains shaped like a peg.
• (Have We not made the Earth as a bed, and the
  mountains as pegs?) 786-7

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Seas and Rivers

• Modern science has discovered that in places
  where two seas meet, there is a barrier between
  them
• (He is the one who has set free the two kinds of
  water, one sweet and palatable, and the other
  salty and bitter. And He has made between them a
  barrier and a forbidding partition) 2553

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Deep Seas

• (Or the unbelievers state is like the darkness
  in a deep sea. It is covered by waves, above
  which are waves, above which are clouds.
  Darknesses, one above another. If a man stretches
  out his hand, he can not see it)2440

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Deep Seas (cont)

• Scientists have discovered the extreme darkness
  of the deep seas
• Also, internal waves, or waves under the surface,
  have recently been discovered

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Clouds

• (Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move
  gently, then joins them together, then makes them
  into a stack, and then you see the rain come out
  of it)2443
• This verse describes the perfect system of how a
  cumulonimbus cloud forms (pushed by
  wind-------joining together------stacking caused
  by updrafts--------rain

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Conclusion

• There is evidence all around about the existence
  of Allah
• Many modern scientific discoveries have already
  been mentioned in the holy Quran
• Therefore, non-believers (atheists) choose to not
  accept the obvious proof that surrounds them

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Credits

• Books A Brief Illustrated Guide to
  Understanding Islam (second edition) I.A.
  Ibrahim
• English Translation of the Meaning of Al-Quran
  Muhammed Faroog-i-Azam Malik
• http//www.quranexplorer.com/