Are there scientific miracles in the Qur'an? (2022-12-09)

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discusses scientific miracles found in the Qur'an, such as the discovery that living things are made from water and that vertical commerce is a scientific miracle. It also discusses the concept of Revelation, which is when God reveals himself to humanity. discusses how Islam has helped to develop science and civilization to unprecedented heights, pointing to examples such as the development of mathematics and astronomy, geography, medicine, and other fields.

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Discusses scientific findings that are supported by the Quran, and shows how this Harmony between science and religion is beneficial for understanding the world.
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Discusses the accuracy of the moon's phases and how this was discovered by various ancient civilizations. The Qur'an reveals this information in a way that is accurate and easy to understand. This shows that the Qur'an is a revelation from God, and not just a collection of poetic verses.
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Discusses how the Quran claims that the universe was created at a certain point in time, goes against the scientific consensus of the past, but has since been vindicated. It also discusses the idea of the Big Bang, how it was initially dismissed as an absurd idea, and how the Quran teaches this idea.
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Discusses scientific miracles found in the Qur'an, such as the discovery that living things are made from water and that vertical commerce is a scientific miracle. also discusses the concept of Revelation, which is when God reveals himself to humanity. Abdul Rahman, a young man, has found that wherever the Qur'an mentions the word "insan," or "human," there are always either 23 or 46 letters. This suggests that human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes, and that the Qur'an is balanced in its revelation over a period of decades.
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Discusses the numerical patterns found in the Quran. It cites examples of patterns including the number of letters in a word, the number of verses in a chapter, and the number of letters in a sura. The presenter claims that these patterns are evidence of divine miracles.
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Discusses how Islam has helped to develop science and civilization to unprecedented heights, pointing to examples such as the development of mathematics and astronomy, geography, medicine, and other fields. He also points out the benefits of having a religion that provides hope and purpose in life.
**00:30:00 ** The Qur'an presents a hopeful message about the future, including the promise of a great life after difficult times. It also warns of the consequences of not following God's guidance.
**00:35:00 ** a translator reads from the Qur'an about how God creates things and how humans don't have any control over their own lives. God asserts His authority over the natural world and humans by saying that death will end one's worldly life and that nothing can stop Him. The Quran asks a deep question that atheists have failed to answer: "Why does anything exist at all?"
**00:40:00 ** reflects on the beauty of the Quran, which asks questions about the natural world and the creator. He notes that the engineer is a proud profession, and that the Quran is asking questions about the purpose of life and the Hereafter. He points out that the dying person cannot return to the world, and that this is a revelation from Lord of the Worlds.
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Discusses various scientific miracles in the Qur'an, such as medical advances and amazing treatments that can save lives. She points out that these miracles are not just limited to medical treatments, but also apply to things like the design of the universe and the way it is constantly being fine-tuned. She argues that science is naturally an ally of belief in God, as it reveals the Wonder of design.
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Discusses the idea that there are scientific miracles in the Qur'an. It points to verses such as 21-23 in Surah al-Baqarah, which talk about Allah spreading the Earth and setting down rain. These miracles have impact because they are the result of God's creative work. Humans should be grateful for the blessings God has given them, and should appreciate and value the Creator's creations.
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Discusses how the Quran provides principles that support scientific discoveries, and how Muslims are expected to engage with signs to aid them in glorifying and understanding God's creation. He also discusses how science can enhance our appreciation of Islamic teachings.

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discusses how there are scientific miracles in the Quran, and how Muslims should be grateful for the scientists who have worked to preserve and share the Quran.

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Discusses how there are scientific miracles in the Quran, and how Muslims should be grateful for the scientists who have worked to preserve and share the Quran.

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0:00:03 hello everyone and welcome to blogging 0:00:06 theology today I'm delighted to talk 0:00:08 again to Dr mushroom Hussein you're most 0:00:11 welcome sir 0:00:13 assalamu alaikum 0:00:15 and your wonderful audience good to have 0:00:19 you back sir for those who don't 0:00:20 remember or don't know Doctor Who's 0:00:21 saying came to Britain from Pakistan in 0:00:24 1966 with his parents to the Yorkshire 0:00:27 town of Halifax where he memorized a 0:00:30 Quran learned tajweed and basic Arabic 0:00:33 after completing a degree in 0:00:35 Biochemistry Aston University he went on 0:00:38 to gain a science doctorate he worked as 0:00:41 a scientist until uh 1990 and then 0:00:44 decided to dedicate himself to serving 0:00:46 the Muslim Community 0:00:48 and in 2009 uh he was awarded an Obe for 0:00:52 his services to community relations in 0:00:55 Britain and in 2019 he was awarded the 0:00:58 imamuel Amal special award by the Muslim 0:01:01 news for his translation of the Quran 0:01:04 which is uh that's his translation there 0:01:06 a fantastic translation uh today uh Dr 0:01:10 Hussein will be discussing a fascinating 0:01:13 topic 0:01:14 which is this scientific findings about 0:01:16 the natural world are supported by the 0:01:19 Quran so why is that significant and why 0:01:23 does the Quran describe the natural 0:01:25 world so frequently so it's over to you 0:01:29 sir 0:01:33 um Paul uh you know 0:01:36 we in the west often think that science 0:01:39 and religion uh are at loggerhead and 0:01:44 this is not the case with 0:01:47 Islam and science with Quran and science 0:01:51 they are not at loggerhead in fact there 0:01:54 is a Harmony a Unity of purpose 0:01:57 for The Godly mindset the one that 0:02:01 really wants to understand this amazing 0:02:04 world creation around us but at the same 0:02:07 time wants to know what is the purpose 0:02:12 and meaning of my life and so science is 0:02:16 an attempt really to explain to 0:02:18 investigate and to find out how the 0:02:20 natural world works for example when I 0:02:23 was doing my PhD my aim was to actually 0:02:28 understand and investigate and find out 0:02:32 how the glucose molecule you know the 0:02:36 important molecule in your sugar lumps 0:02:40 how does this molecule actually lead to 0:02:45 the beta cells in your eyelids of 0:02:47 langerhan inside your pancreas how does 0:02:50 it make those cells 0:02:53 stimulate them to release insulin the 0:02:56 most important hormone that has 0:02:57 determines your metabolism life and 0:03:00 death hormone actually so important so 0:03:03 how does it do that so am I able to how 0:03:06 does it work I was interested in the 0:03:08 mechanism that is what science is about 0:03:11 trying to discover how this Amazing 0:03:15 Creation Of God actually works that's 0:03:17 what it is about really it's 0:03:19 understanding helps us to better 0:03:21 understand the world which Allah has 0:03:24 made for us so there is a Harmony 0:03:26 between our religion and between what 0:03:30 signs have discovers the Quran of course 0:03:33 isn't a scientific book nor does it 0:03:36 claim to be what it teaches about the 0:03:38 world is accurate scientifically and I'm 0:03:41 going to give you an example in a minute 0:03:42 yeah it's a book about God nature human 0:03:45 life here and in the Hereafter and you 0:03:48 know when it so science is about 0:03:50 mechanism how and the processes of 0:03:54 physical and living things whereas the 0:03:56 Quran deals with meaning and purpose of 0:03:58 life science is how the Quran tells us 0:04:01 why yes well right right yeah so that's 0:04:03 important distinction isn't it so 0:04:05 science tells us how how things work the 0:04:07 mechanisms investigating the 0:04:09 connectedness and the causality of 0:04:11 things but the Quran tells us the 0:04:12 purpose the meaning the why of creation 0:04:15 why it is why anything exists at all and 0:04:19 what our purpose is well look at this 0:04:21 Paul look at this uh Surah yunus Surah 0:04:24 yunus or Jonah Surah yunus begins with 0:04:28 this 0:04:29 um question you know God asks foreign 0:04:36 why are people surprised that Allah sent 0:04:40 the Revelation to human beings 0:04:42 and then it's what does it do abruptly 0:04:45 goes on to show Allah is the creator of 0:04:48 the universe the Sun and the Moon the 0:04:51 two Heavenly Bodies now what I want to 0:04:53 share with you here is just just look at 0:04:55 you know this is where what so-called 0:04:57 the Miracles of the Quran appear for 0:05:00 example you know after saying this the 0:05:02 Quran says well look 0:05:07 it is your lord who created the heavens 0:05:10 and the Earth and sick days and then 0:05:12 turned to the management and the running 0:05:16 of this amazing world okay and then to 0:05:19 him you will be returning and then what 0:05:21 did what does it go on to do 0:05:27 you know Allah says that it is he who 0:05:32 made the son a glowing 0:05:35 star whilst the Moon is a reflective 0:05:40 light 0:05:41 you know now by using these two 0:05:44 different adjectives for the Sun and the 0:05:47 Moon 0:05:48 you know we see this amazing chronic 0:05:51 accuracy and which people will then say 0:05:54 ah you see this is the miracle of the 0:05:56 Quran this is the scientific Quran and 0:05:59 of course that's what it is you know it 0:06:01 is he who created 0:06:05 is in Arabic they are is any uh 0:06:11 luminescent or incandescent 0:06:15 um I think for example the candle glows 0:06:18 okay it produces the light right uh the 0:06:22 the bulb you know when you turn the 0:06:24 light on the electric then heats up the 0:06:26 tungsten filament and it lies nowadays 0:06:29 of course we've got much more modern uh 0:06:31 um ways of uh than the old filaments but 0:06:35 it glows it produces the light okay but 0:06:39 when you put a mirror in front of it 0:06:41 what does the mirror do the mirror 0:06:43 merely reflects it okay and that is 0:06:46 called Nur you know reflective light it 0:06:49 so Allah calls the sun 0:06:53 and the the Moon is this reflective 0:06:57 light now that accuracy you know you 0:07:00 might I I I'm sure the astronomers and 0:07:03 the people in the 7th Century I had no 0:07:06 clue you know whether you wouldn't 0:07:08 actually if you were just standing in 0:07:10 the desert today or in the 7th Century 0:07:12 you looked up at the the sky and you saw 0:07:13 yeah you saw the sun shining and then 0:07:15 maybe at night you saw the moon shining 0:07:17 and so both of them are giving off their 0:07:19 own light you could conclude but what 0:07:22 they can't have done is say what no one 0:07:23 is its own light emitting his own life 0:07:25 the Sun the other one's reflected light 0:07:27 and that's a very subtle distinction 0:07:29 that's not obvious if you just take away 0:07:31 our modern awareness of the facts if you 0:07:33 just go back to a more phenomenological 0:07:35 perspective you would perhaps think they 0:07:37 were both emitting light independently 0:07:39 of each other but actually the Quran uh 0:07:42 gets that distinction quite accurately 0:07:45 you know and what do you say you just 0:07:46 say subhanallah glory to God and so and 0:07:50 it goes on to say and who precisely 0:07:52 determined its phases the phases of the 0:07:56 moon you know this idea that you know 0:07:58 God throughout the Quran is 0:08:00 showing that I am the Creator the 0:08:03 sustainer I am the Lord okay I am in 0:08:07 control of this world I know what's 0:08:09 happening I am absolutely in control so 0:08:12 this is precisely determined its faces 0:08:15 of of course we know that you know the 0:08:17 moon we know takes 29 days 12 hours and 0:08:19 44 minutes and 10 seconds to do it uh 0:08:23 you know I walked down I didn't know 0:08:24 that okay 0:08:26 Paul you know the Jewish astronomers 0:08:29 back in the middle 0:08:30 Medieval Time knew this it was well 0:08:33 known and that is how they used to 0:08:34 calculate their their new months and and 0:08:38 the Muslims obviously use that that's 0:08:40 called the birth of the moon so that you 0:08:42 if you know that you know well we know 0:08:43 that formula from that you can calculate 0:08:45 exactly when the next moon is going to 0:08:48 be born and so on anyway that's a very 0:08:50 but but you know the Quran is so precise 0:08:52 who precisely determined its phases so 0:08:56 that you might calculate the passing 0:08:58 years and keep time subhanallah so Allah 0:09:02 did not create all that except for a 0:09:04 clear purpose 0:09:06 and I think that is where you know we 0:09:09 see this 0:09:10 um this merger of Science and religion 0:09:14 revelation uh and and and and 0:09:18 um observation reasonable thinking 0:09:21 coming together for this amazing purpose 0:09:24 so that you know we human beings May 0:09:27 understand that you know there is this 0:09:29 amazing relation not a dichotomy you 0:09:32 know this is really what we've got to 0:09:33 challenge you know there's something 0:09:35 weird about Western way of thinking 0:09:37 everything is binary and there has to be 0:09:40 hostility there has to be conflict we 0:09:43 always have to have of course we know 0:09:45 there is God and there is shaytan you 0:09:47 know there is good and that is bad but 0:09:48 you know to always create those 0:09:52 well there isn't that dichotomy it's 0:09:55 actually a very foolish and a very 0:09:57 satanic way and this of course is smacks 0:10:00 of not accepting diversity not being 0:10:04 inclusive and I think that's the that is 0:10:06 what it smells anyway it goes on to 0:10:08 verse six of Surah yunus which I'm 0:10:10 reading is in the rotation of day and 0:10:13 night and in what Allah has created it 0:10:16 in the heavens and the Earth there are 0:10:18 surely signs for people who are 0:10:21 Mindful and this is really interesting 0:10:23 you know mindful about their purpose of 0:10:26 life and mindful about the intricate 0:10:30 reasonable and amazing complexity of the 0:10:33 University 0:10:34 so I see that you know the Quran the 0:10:37 significance of Revelation really lies 0:10:40 lies in the in in this that it's 0:10:42 life-changing it's teachings and it's 0:10:45 solution to human misery okay it gives 0:10:48 us a sense of morality and a purpose 0:10:51 really that's what I think what is what 0:10:53 makes it so special then okay 0:10:58 you know there is a the other point that 0:11:02 you know the Quran keeps on reminding us 0:11:04 and and that again brings us to the idea 0:11:07 of science uh and uh religion is is this 0:11:11 that you know Allah is the creator who 0:11:14 created this universe from nothing okay 0:11:17 and again this is something which is a 0:11:19 uh very scientific nowadays you know the 0:11:22 idea of the Big Bang the idea that the 0:11:25 world came from this nebulous gaseous 0:11:30 which is again mentioned in the Quran in 0:11:32 many places and obviously perhaps on 0:11:34 another occasion we can go into those 0:11:35 depths of what it talks about 0:11:38 um but here you know Allah Almighty is 0:11:40 the creator of everything this suggests 0:11:42 that the creation does not necessarily 0:11:45 have to exist 0:11:47 this is contingent it is dependent and 0:11:50 reliant on the Creator yeah I know 0:11:52 you're a philosopher Paul and and you 0:11:54 will see that you know God is 0:11:56 independent the world is dependent yeah 0:11:59 the world is contingent you know 0:12:01 everything Depends for its existence on 0:12:04 God on Allah 0:12:07 there's a an amazing statement there 0:12:09 which is not really appreciated today 0:12:11 for understandable reasons the idea that 0:12:13 God created the universe at a certain 0:12:16 point I was gonna say in time but of 0:12:18 course time presumably was created at 0:12:20 the same moment as a universe space and 0:12:22 time together but until the 1930s in the 0:12:26 scientific Community it was usually 0:12:28 assumed that the Universe was eternal 0:12:29 they didn't really have a beginning and 0:12:32 the idea of the Big Bang uh was 0:12:34 developed uh in the 1930s and so on was 0:12:37 initially dismissed as an absurd idea 0:12:39 and that's where the word the term Big 0:12:41 Bang is is meant to kind of mock the 0:12:43 idea that the Universe came about in in 0:12:46 one point point but the universe was 0:12:48 seen as basically Eternal that was the 0:12:51 standard model so when the Quran claims 0:12:53 that the the universe was brought into 0:12:54 being this this went against the 0:12:57 scientific consensus at that time in the 0:13:01 past but the crime has been Vindicated 0:13:03 obviously since then we now know because 0:13:05 of the you know the expanding Universe 0:13:07 because the universe is expanding 0:13:08 obviously we can reverse that process in 0:13:10 the center go back in time to the point 0:13:13 when the universe was a singularity 0:13:15 before it you know came apart and 0:13:17 expanded and that of course is mentioned 0:13:20 in the Quran as well so the Quran was a 0:13:21 head of science actually absolutely um 0:13:24 until the 1930s and has been confirmed 0:13:26 by science 0:13:29 we just take it for granted the universe 0:13:31 had a beginning but that was not the the 0:13:33 wisdom until you know about 100 years 0:13:36 ago and and that is the beauty of the 0:13:39 Quran that the people who it was talking 0:13:42 to the Bedouins the desert people who 0:13:45 had actually very little understanding 0:13:46 of astronomy or or these sort of 0:13:49 scientific realities 0:13:51 um they they would also be able to 0:13:53 understand the way it was presenting it 0:13:55 what it said that it said that the earth 0:13:59 and the skies okay meaning the planet 0:14:02 and the space were all one and then God 0:14:07 split them open okay and it uses that 0:14:10 word of splitting asunder you know 0:14:13 actually breaking them up and that is 0:14:16 the way this this idea of the big bang 0:14:18 and and of course now that's almost a 0:14:21 unanimously accepted idea now because 0:14:24 there's so much evidence in his you know 0:14:27 in terms of the history of science 0:14:28 there's a relatively new idea but it's 0:14:30 the eight but it was it's clearly taught 0:14:31 in the Quran and that's the Quran uh it 0:14:33 vindicates uh uh the truth I think 0:14:36 you're referring to isn't it um chapter 0:14:39 21. I don't think disbelievers know that 0:14:41 the heavens and the Earth were joined at 0:14:43 one time we split them apart and and 0:14:47 made every living thing from water won't 0:14:50 they believe and this thing about 0:14:51 there's another extraordinary thing made 0:14:53 every living thing from water I mean if 0:14:56 you're on the desert inside in a radar 0:14:58 let's say Saudi Arabia in Arabia 0:15:00 um in the 7th Century it's not obvious 0:15:02 that living things are made from water 0:15:03 and yet we now know this is the basic 0:15:06 constituent of all living organisms 0:15:08 another remarkable vertical Commerce 0:15:11 scientific Miracle of the Quran yeah and 0:15:14 so you know this is the difference 0:15:15 between the Creator and his creation one 0:15:20 is eternal the other is uh dependent 0:15:24 finite so and this is what is mentioned 0:15:34 say he is Allah the one Allah is eternal 0:15:39 neither a son nor a father none is equal 0:15:43 to him and you know that in itself is 0:15:46 actually 0:15:47 um in a very pithy short uh 0:15:51 portrayal of the uh the great Creator 0:15:55 you know Ahab the one who is assamad you 0:16:00 know this infinite Eternal independent 0:16:03 uh being you know who has no beginning 0:16:05 and no end and who is Almighty you know 0:16:07 and and and has no uh progeny nor does 0:16:11 he have uh you know from who he 0:16:15 descended from he's oh you know he's 0:16:18 Almighty so this is the doctrine of Tori 0:16:21 the Oneness of Creator Allah does not 0:16:23 need the creation he's Eternal so as I 0:16:26 think you know the Quran is trying to 0:16:27 give this very clear image of God the 0:16:31 Creator and then the speech is his 0:16:35 divine revelation so that's the other 0:16:37 thing you know so religion is of course 0:16:39 God communicating his will to humanity 0:16:42 that's what religion is or Islam is 0:16:44 certainly it is God speaking and and 0:16:47 communicating his will to and revealing 0:16:50 himself you know when we talk about 0:16:51 Revelation what we mean is he's 0:16:53 revealing his you know he's manifesting 0:16:55 look this is what I am I have given you 0:16:59 a purpose and I want you to be living 0:17:02 you know according to that yeah no so 0:17:06 you know so so I think that there is 0:17:08 this the harmony of Science and Quran 0:17:10 the harmony of uh religion and and 0:17:14 what we discover in in nature uh is is 0:17:17 really something that we should really 0:17:20 cherish and relish and and be really 0:17:23 appreciative of yeah okay 0:17:26 um if well one of the other properties 0:17:28 of the crime is not strictly to do with 0:17:29 science I'm just looking at Abdel 0:17:31 halim's amazing translation of the Quran 0:17:33 published by Ox University press and he 0:17:35 makes this very tantalizing comment just 0:17:37 almost in passing which I think is 0:17:40 really remarkable he's talking about 0:17:41 these stylistic features of the Quran 0:17:43 this is in the introduction to his 0:17:45 translation he says a central feature of 0:17:48 quranic style is contrast he says 0:17:50 between this world and the next each 0:17:52 occurring exactly 115 times between 0:17:56 Believers and discipline Believers 0:17:58 between paradise and hell this has been 0:18:01 studied in great detail and Scholars 0:18:04 have found truly remarkable patterns of 0:18:08 contrasts angels Devils Life Death 0:18:11 secrecy openness and so on occurring 0:18:15 exactly the same number of times and in 0:18:19 this sense of balance in the text is 0:18:20 impressing him but but for me also 0:18:23 there's a sense that the way the Karma's 0:18:24 revealed in over over a couple of 0:18:27 decades in very different circumstances 0:18:29 and yet you have this numerical balance 0:18:31 between these opposites these pairs 0:18:34 occurring exactly the same number of 0:18:36 times this suggests a remarkable 0:18:38 property of the crime is symmetry 0:18:40 scientific Miracle but it you know it's 0:18:43 kind of a numerical miracle I suppose 0:18:45 mathematics which is similar to science 0:18:48 it is that and there are many many other 0:18:51 examples of that you know the the number 0:18:54 of times it uses the word day 0:18:57 and days is really interesting there is 0:19:01 265 times and days is 30 times okay one 0:19:07 30 days in a 0:19:09 in in a month 365 in a year and recently 0:19:13 a young man uh by the name of Abdul 0:19:15 Rahman has really made another amazing 0:19:18 Discovery and we're actually working on 0:19:19 that which is that uh wherever the Quran 0:19:23 mentions the word insan human 0:19:27 and nafs the self 0:19:30 what abdulrahman found was that from the 0:19:34 beginning of the Ayah to the word 0:19:38 al-insan to the first letter there are 0:19:41 always either 23 or 46 letters they 0:19:47 explain why that's significant well you 0:19:50 know and and and the significance of it 0:19:53 that is that you know human beings to 0:19:55 have 23 pairs of chromosomes that is you 0:20:00 know 46 if you double them or singlely 0:20:04 it's 20 pairs of 23 Pairs and the and 0:20:09 this is actually been you know he he's 0:20:12 he sent me a document with more than 250 0:20:15 verses where he has counted this and 0:20:18 I'll then have this checked out by a few 0:20:20 people here myself as well and we did 0:20:23 find exactly that and that in itself is 0:20:27 you know you just begin to see how you 0:20:30 know and they occur from the beginning 0:20:33 to the end in many different places in a 0:20:35 large book like that who would sit there 0:20:38 and count that they're going to put 0:20:39 al-insan after you know 23 letters or 46 0:20:43 letters enough how you know 0:20:47 say is 0:20:48 these are 0:20:51 for us to for us modern people in 0:20:55 particular because I think the people of 0:20:56 the positively yeah they wouldn't yeah 0:20:58 because originally it was an oral 0:21:00 Revelation it was 0:21:02 they wouldn't know 23 0:21:05 chromosomes either and it just is as 0:21:08 though you know the Quran obviously we 0:21:10 know it is for all ages uh but these are 0:21:13 you know really amazing quirky things 0:21:17 which are have actually 0:21:19 um and I I you you've seen I've used the 0:21:21 word Quirk again and and I I really do 0:21:24 mean you know that but in a way as 0:21:26 though God is putting these things there 0:21:28 for us to recognize and the challenges 0:21:31 you know to this inshallah you know 0:21:33 inshallah I hope to do I hope you could 0:21:36 do a much more detailed work on the 0:21:39 numerical patterns in the Quran because 0:21:42 they are significant as well but the 0:21:45 whole point is really you know I think 0:21:47 we shouldn't lose sight of what the 0:21:49 Quran stands for in itself it's on magic 0:21:52 its own Miracle its own powerful way of 0:21:57 impressing us you know with its amazing 0:22:00 teachings because at the end of the day 0:22:01 you know if I can't be a better human 0:22:05 being if I can't overcome my loneliness 0:22:09 if I can't overcome my mental anxiety 0:22:14 um you know through this book by 0:22:16 practicing its teachings then what what 0:22:20 is the value of it then okay so I think 0:22:22 it's really important to recognize that 0:22:24 this is a book that actually changes 0:22:26 people's lives and I think the the 0:22:29 problem we're having here in the west uh 0:22:32 Paul is you know we have this view of 0:22:35 anthropocentric 0:22:38 um Faith you know this notion that you 0:22:42 know we humans are the center of the 0:22:44 world we are Center of creation and and 0:22:48 we are you know the reference point of 0:22:50 everything and and and and of course you 0:22:53 know the Quran doesn't present Us in 0:22:55 that way it presences us Allah you know 0:22:58 Allah says 0:23:02 I will make my representative on Earth 0:23:06 okay and we are repeatedly called 0:23:09 representative here it simply means a 0:23:11 deputy deputizing on the on behalf of 0:23:14 the Lord and in in a way that's a huge 0:23:17 honor you know you can't just imagine 0:23:19 you know just it's just like uh you know 0:23:22 um well obviously it's just like you 0:23:25 know you have the Prime Minister and 0:23:26 then you have a deputy prime minister 0:23:28 don't you who would act in his place if 0:23:31 he's not around okay or a head teacher 0:23:34 and a deputy head the deputy head would 0:23:37 be there when that head teacher is 0:23:39 absent and and this is really a great 0:23:42 honor a great status in itself and if 0:23:45 each of us human beings actually 0:23:47 recognize this I think we will feel we 0:23:50 would have an amazing meaning it would 0:23:52 add meaning to our lives a purpose to 0:23:54 our lives really that look I've got this 0:23:57 look at this amazing God's creation I am 0:24:01 God's Deputy this belongs to God and 0:24:03 therefore I am his Steward now I'm his 0:24:05 representative here I should take care 0:24:07 of this I should love this and it's 0:24:10 serving me of course that's the other 0:24:11 thing you know the whole world you know 0:24:13 the Quran keeps on reminding us 0:24:17 the son is there to serve you the Moon 0:24:21 is there to serve you to provide you 0:24:24 those amazing romantic moments you know 0:24:26 that light and of course it has many 0:24:28 other purposes is like if you didn't 0:24:30 have it we wouldn't have the tidal waves 0:24:32 and our seas would rot and and putrify 0:24:35 it and you know it wouldn't you know so 0:24:37 they all have their own purposes as well 0:24:39 there yes just I I add to that I mean 0:24:42 you're talking about our responsibility 0:24:44 uh um to be the deputy to to care for 0:24:48 the the the world but in history uh the 0:24:52 discoveries of uh Islamic science have 0:24:55 changed the world I just wanted to just 0:24:57 quote a few words from the Lost Islamic 0:24:59 history by far as al-qaib and as a 0:25:02 marvelous book I do recommend people who 0:25:04 haven't read it chapter five he talks 0:25:06 about the intellectual gold and ages 0:25:08 just the first paragraph is so important 0:25:11 the 9th through 13th centuries in the 0:25:14 Muslim World Mark an era of scientific 0:25:16 religious philosophical and cultural 0:25:19 development the scale and depth of which 0:25:21 has never been seen in the world in 0:25:24 world history before all since after its 0:25:27 meteoric rise and the baron visits of a 0:25:29 rainbow this is where that makes 0:25:30 civilization began in the barren deserts 0:25:32 of Arabia Islamic civilization now 0:25:36 Encompass many diverse cultures you 0:25:38 mentioned diversity diverse cultures 0:25:40 religions and intellectual Traditions 0:25:43 from Spain to India 0:25:46 in this realm the previous 0:25:48 accomplishments of distant civilizations 0:25:50 could be brought together compared and 0:25:53 built upon to create a new golden age of 0:25:57 scientific discoveries 0:25:59 nowhere else sorry well Paul this is a 0:26:03 very beautiful uh description of the 0:26:07 motivation and the encouragement that 0:26:11 Quran and Islam Islamic teachings give 0:26:14 to the those young scientists those 0:26:18 astronomers those biologists those uh 0:26:21 Physicians yes to actually go out 0:26:24 because they didn't have to contend with 0:26:26 this uh you know idea what is it for who 0:26:31 is it what is it they're actually they 0:26:33 knew why we exist and I think that is a 0:26:37 very crucial question science is not 0:26:39 concerned with that really you know the 0:26:40 study of nature leads to this to a 0:26:43 philosophical questions that are beyond 0:26:45 the scope of science you know science 0:26:46 cannot answer the question you know of 0:26:49 why science wants to discover the 0:26:52 engineering it wants to understand how 0:26:55 this has been fashioned you know it 0:26:57 wants to just look at you know the 0:27:00 mechanism behind it the process is 0:27:01 behind it it doesn't really it's not 0:27:04 interested in why China and that is 0:27:06 where Islam gave that answer to them 0:27:09 once they were clear on that they were 0:27:11 free to do this amazing discoveries and 0:27:13 and as you said from 9 to the 13th 0:27:15 century just in four centuries they were 0:27:17 able to create a science that of course 0:27:20 led the foundations of our modern 0:27:22 medicine 0:27:23 in the last sense it's going to read 0:27:25 exactly the point he makes the result 0:27:26 was an ear which not only served as a 0:27:29 bridge but between the knowledge of the 0:27:30 Ancients this is Greece and Rome 0:27:32 obviously and Renaissance Europe but 0:27:35 also laid the foundation for today's 0:27:37 modern scientific world it was the point 0:27:39 you're making and then he goes on to 0:27:41 talk about the Muslim contributions to 0:27:44 mathematics and the Golden Era astronomy 0:27:46 uh he mentions geography uh medicine uh 0:27:50 all of these were developed we were just 0:27:53 um preserving the ancient knowledge they 0:27:54 were taking it to new levels of 0:27:57 scientific discovery and and this was 0:27:59 then bequea to uh the European uh 0:28:02 peoples at the Renaissance and led to 0:28:03 the modern world so yeah that's actually 0:28:06 right 0:28:07 uh Paul you know I I think by having 0:28:11 these two 0:28:14 um important Wheels okay and in a 0:28:18 science and religion reason and 0:28:21 Revelation and having God With Us and 0:28:25 God's creation you know our lives can 0:28:29 actually are no longer divided now we're 0:28:31 not schizophrenic now and I think when 0:28:34 we make that we become schizophrenics we 0:28:37 become paranoid we lose that perspective 0:28:40 on reality and and these things help one 0:28:43 avoid a faulty rejection you know 0:28:46 um of religion okay which leads to this 0:28:49 aggressive secularism uh and and uh 0:28:52 faulty view of this conflict between 0:28:54 science and religion so we must focus on 0:28:57 Islamic concept of reality as purposeful 0:29:00 creation and I think that is what we are 0:29:03 told reality uh as the purposeful or the 0:29:08 reality of this purposeful creation a 0:29:11 purposeful creation means I have a 0:29:14 purpose I have a meaning you know 0:29:16 suddenly Paul we see we hear a lot about 0:29:18 young people you know committing suicide 0:29:21 uh and and 0:29:23 um and and others committing suicides 0:29:25 and and the reason always given by their 0:29:28 parents or their relatives or friends or 0:29:31 close ones is that you know they had 0:29:33 lost meaning they were they were 0:29:35 distraught they were depressed they 0:29:38 could not see meaning and purpose okay 0:29:41 because people have driven them to that 0:29:43 state really Jenna uh so you know but 0:29:46 Islam on the other hand is giving us 0:29:47 this where humans must live a good life 0:29:50 to get a paradisical life in the 0:29:52 Hereafter and this is the connection of 0:29:54 this world with the next World which 0:29:57 again gives human beings a great hope 0:30:00 really that look this probationary 0:30:02 period of 1890 years that we are we are 0:30:05 blessed with here it's a probationary 0:30:07 period and then there is a continuation 0:30:09 Beyond it you know which is far greater 0:30:12 and far bigger in its scope and where 0:30:16 human beings will have you know far more 0:30:19 amazing Powers you know of enjoyment of 0:30:22 delight and of you know social 0:30:25 interactions really and that is what the 0:30:28 Quran is leading to I'll share with you 0:30:30 you know if you've got something to say 0:30:31 let's you know something from Surat 0:30:33 al-wakia which is really amazing and it 0:30:36 pull it I think in many ways this brings 0:30:39 this whole idea of reason and revelation 0:30:42 of religion and uh and and Science and 0:30:47 and really the way the Quran presents it 0:30:49 is just amazing do you want to say 0:30:51 something before I it was just it was 0:30:53 just I'm gonna quote from the Quran your 0:30:55 translation of course the Majestic Quran 0:30:57 Guidance the good news for the mindful 0:30:59 um from the same paragraph uh which I 0:31:01 quoted earlier beginning of the universe 0:31:03 but it's just a verse at the end they're 0:31:04 very powerful verse 35 this is 21 0:31:08 everyone will chase death we shall test 0:31:11 you all with something good and 0:31:14 something bad and finally you will be 0:31:17 returned to us and this sense of uh 0:31:20 being tested with something good we're 0:31:22 good so goodness success in life wealth 0:31:25 Prestige Fame is a test obviously a test 0:31:29 of a person's humility and gratitude to 0:31:32 God but also is something bad so the 0:31:34 trials of life and there's plenty of 0:31:36 those as well but finally you will be 0:31:39 returned to us as what you were talking 0:31:41 about they're the Greater Life or to 0:31:43 come very powerful 0:31:45 and and I think you know in in that poll 0:31:48 the Quran mentions this idea that we 0:31:50 will test you well 0:31:53 we're going to test you with all kinds 0:31:56 of trials and tribulations and 0:31:59 sufferings we're going to test you that 0:32:00 uh and why we we're telling you this now 0:32:05 so that you know that after difficulty 0:32:08 will come ease after these hard times 0:32:11 will come good times it's preparing us 0:32:14 mentally and also of course telling us 0:32:16 look you know you are a sentient being 0:32:21 and you are free agents in many ways not 0:32:25 completely of course we have of course 0:32:28 our genetics which controls and limits 0:32:30 us but but on the whole we have been 0:32:32 given the freedom of choice and that's 0:32:36 what morals are ethics are you know we 0:32:38 have the choice of doing the right thing 0:32:41 or the wrong thing going to the right or 0:32:42 to the left you know we have the right 0:32:44 to you know we've been given that choice 0:32:46 so and and that choice gives us dignity 0:32:51 you know that choice gives us the 0:32:54 freedom and that choice so on the day of 0:32:57 judgment when Allah puts us uh and says 0:32:59 well 0:33:00 um um Paul you ought to go to asabul 0:33:04 Yamin you are with the people of the 0:33:06 right-hand call you're gonna go into 0:33:08 paradise and you know you would feel 0:33:11 alhamdulillah thank you God that's 0:33:13 amazing I I did behave well and and 0:33:16 thank you for giving me that guidance 0:33:18 which I I vowed to and I accepted and I 0:33:21 followed okay so but you will feel look 0:33:24 I I I I have some I don't fully deserve 0:33:28 it but I I did do something for it 0:33:29 anyway I was going to share with you you 0:33:33 know something from Surah al-wakia which 0:33:35 again you know so beautifully 0:33:39 um brings together uh you know there is 0:33:42 this idea of reason this idea of 0:33:45 revelation of Quran and Science and 0:33:49 output and the inward world just look at 0:33:51 this this is a passage from Surah 0:33:53 al-wakia where actually God is talking 0:33:55 first about it it takes us to the day of 0:33:58 judgment where Humanity will have to 0:34:01 give account of how they live this 0:34:03 probationary period here and then how 0:34:05 God then talks about we will divide 0:34:08 Humanity into three groups those who are 0:34:11 going to be very near to me 0:34:13 those who will be people of paradise and 0:34:15 those who are people of hell and and 0:34:18 then after mentioning that you know it 0:34:21 describes how the poor people of the 0:34:23 left hand the hell hellish people will 0:34:26 have a terrible time and how the people 0:34:28 of Jannah will be delighted and enjoying 0:34:31 themselves it gives a beautiful portrait 0:34:34 but I don't want to read that now but 0:34:35 what I want to do now is I after 0:34:38 mentioning that the Quran what it does 0:34:41 is it tells us well are you not 0:34:44 convinced I'm gonna convince you the 0:34:46 Quran says listen you know you know and 0:34:49 this is what it says Allah says 0:34:51 um 0:34:58 [Music]0:35:04 you know Allah says we created you why 0:35:08 don't you admit this haven't you seen 0:35:11 the semen you emit did you create it 0:35:15 yourself or we are the ones who created 0:35:18 it we decree death well that you know 0:35:23 that will come to you okay 0:35:26 um let me just read that from my 0:35:27 translation rather than doing an 0:35:29 accident partly uh for you Diana which 0:35:32 is we have decreed that death will end 0:35:35 your worldly life nothing can stop us 0:35:38 from that you know this is really 0:35:39 amazing God again asserting his 0:35:41 authority okay uh from changing you and 0:35:45 and we will change you and we will 0:35:47 recreate him you know well your first 0:35:50 Creation in mother's womb so why do you 0:35:53 not pay attention to these facts Allah 0:35:55 you know here as though the Quran is 0:35:57 telling us my goodness why don't you 0:36:00 think about your own you know your own 0:36:04 meager and really uh almost uh you know 0:36:09 in 0:36:10 um you know this minute beginning of 0:36:13 yours 0:36:14 um one which you would even the despise 0:36:16 you know and then he goes on to say have 0:36:18 you not seen what you saw 0:36:21 do you know do you make it grow or are 0:36:24 we the ones who grow it you know here 0:36:26 God is talking about the seeds you know 0:36:28 with the farmer plants okay and God says 0:36:31 well okay 0:36:32 um you saw he saw it but tell me who 0:36:36 makes it grow 0:36:37 what do you do how do you make that Dead 0:36:40 Sea seed of wheat 0:36:43 under the soil you know three inches 0:36:46 under the soil how does it come out how 0:36:49 does the stroke develop how do those 0:36:51 green fresh leaves come out and then 0:36:54 begin to produce the energy that we 0:36:56 which will then lead to the you know 0:36:59 production of those delicious cereals 0:37:01 which will you'll have for your 0:37:02 breakfast how does it happen are you 0:37:04 growing it Allah you know that's a very 0:37:06 deep question and of course nowadays you 0:37:09 know as a biochemist you know we we we 0:37:11 can say ah yes okay the the seed absorbs 0:37:15 the water and then that summer switches 0:37:18 on the DNA that then switches on the RNA 0:37:21 which then switches on the production of 0:37:24 certain enzymes that then makes certain 0:37:26 proteins and fats and that leads oh my 0:37:29 God you know there is a 100 step uh you 0:37:32 know processes that are going on in that 0:37:35 little thing and God is asking us uh 0:37:37 well tell us did you make that or are we 0:37:41 are we the ones who who then make it 0:37:43 grow and some people think that's it 0:37:45 because science can ex um describe the 0:37:47 mechanisms as you have the various 0:37:49 stages uh in that process that somehow 0:37:52 that explains in a way that you have a 0:37:56 complete explanation of it but you've 0:37:57 not even got done to scratch the surface 0:37:59 of why there is anything at all why this 0:38:03 mechanism exists so there's so many 0:38:05 layers of understanding and uh that I 0:38:08 have remain Untouched by that and the 0:38:11 Quran is asking that Quran is asking 0:38:13 that really question that's what 0:38:15 atheists make a mistake that they've 0:38:17 lowered their Horizons they're such a 0:38:18 narrow limited 0:38:20 um uh explanation they think that is all 0:38:22 of reality without appreciating the the 0:38:25 depth and the Wonder and the purpose and 0:38:27 the meaning in it all and so they have a 0:38:29 very shriveled minimalist understandable 0:38:31 well let me carry on with Surah al-wakia 0:38:35 it goes on to ask another question then 0:38:37 have you not seen the water that you 0:38:39 drink 0:38:40 do you send it down do you send down the 0:38:42 water from rain clouds or are we the 0:38:45 ones who send it 0:38:47 if we wanted we could make it bitter 0:38:50 so why do you not thank God 0:38:54 you know it's really interesting water 0:38:56 of course you know again you know we 0:38:58 know the the rain cycle we know that the 0:39:01 the winds evaporate the water from the 0:39:03 sea from the surface of the lakes and 0:39:05 the rivers and it as those water 0:39:08 molecules you know well the water 0:39:11 molecules when they are liquid are very 0:39:14 close together that's what liquid is and 0:39:16 they are able to flow and they are very 0:39:18 close together and they are dense but as 0:39:21 the as they are heated they begin to get 0:39:25 looser you know they become further away 0:39:28 and you get the evaporation uh you get 0:39:31 the vapor and then eventually it rises 0:39:34 forming clouds and then at the right 0:39:37 temperature they condense coalesce those 0:39:40 molecules to form those raindrops and 0:39:43 then but the question is you know are we 0:39:46 the ones who send it down and then God 0:39:48 said well if we made it bitter if we 0:39:51 added something to it what would you do 0:39:54 and of course you know in in the 90s do 0:39:56 you remember Paul there was a big 0:39:58 Devastation in the Scandinavian 0:40:00 countries and in Denmark in particular 0:40:02 when we had the rain uh acid rain 0:40:06 because you know the powerhouses were 0:40:09 producing too much uh of CO2 plus the 0:40:13 sulfur dioxide which sulfur dioxide as 0:40:15 it Rose and went into the clouds 0:40:18 fell with the water forming sulfuric 0:40:22 acid of course okay and so you know and 0:40:24 that destroyed lots of forests okay so 0:40:27 so why do you not thank Allah have you 0:40:31 seen the fire you burn did you make the 0:40:34 wood or are we the ones who make it 0:40:36 Allah so glorify the name of your 0:40:40 Almighty Lord so you know the Quran is 0:40:43 asking these questions and I think it's 0:40:45 so beautiful the way you know the Quran 0:40:47 is bringing nature uh the creation and 0:40:51 the Creator together here say I just 0:40:54 can't understand what's wrong you know 0:40:56 for example you know BMWs I have a BMW 0:40:59 Paul Marshall uh and and uh you know you 0:41:04 just wonder at the engineers 0:41:07 and you know you just say wow what an 0:41:09 amazing engineering Guys these are what 0:41:11 an amazing Engineers they are what what 0:41:13 is you know the company you just admire 0:41:15 I'm not sorry I'm not showing off uh 0:41:17 Paul all right 0:41:18 I know you're going with this don't 0:41:20 worry you're not posting about your BMW 0:41:22 don't worry about it 0:41:24 okay but just just do you know just to 0:41:28 admit how wonderful you know that 0:41:31 engineering is and you know and and 0:41:33 these guys who made it are very proud of 0:41:36 it as well you know and they know how 0:41:39 everything in that machine works you 0:41:42 know they know its capacity it's torque 0:41:44 how many miles it will be able to do you 0:41:47 know per gallon how many uh you know how 0:41:49 quickly it can speed up and all those 0:41:51 sort of things because they are the ones 0:41:53 who made it okay so Allah is drawing our 0:41:56 attention to look this is my creation 0:41:58 you know this series that you eat I made 0:42:01 them Jenna these amazing 0:42:04 um apples and bananas you have I 0:42:08 what's good for you and what is it 0:42:10 subhanallah you know the let me just 0:42:12 carry on with the whole you know the 0:42:14 Quran is carrying on with the this 0:42:16 series of questions I mean this is Surah 0:42:19 al-wakia and you know this is amazing 0:42:21 Paul every quranic Surah 0:42:24 has you know is trying to convince us 0:42:27 about the purpose of our lives uh and 0:42:31 how we should be heading and how we 0:42:33 should really be remembering the 0:42:35 Hereafter all the time we should never 0:42:37 be forgetful that this probationary 0:42:40 period of life is amazingly good and 0:42:43 it's God has given us all these 0:42:45 Provisions but what should be in our 0:42:47 sights it should be the the longer 0:42:50 lasting the more amazing delightful life 0:42:53 of the Hereafter as well we shouldn't 0:42:55 forget that now it goes on to say I 0:42:58 swear by the position 0:42:59 positions of the Stars here God is 0:43:03 talking oh swear taking the Oaths of the 0:43:06 different constellations and of course 0:43:08 again that is another first is it God 0:43:11 has been talking about the Earth you 0:43:13 know these the soil the earth now it's 0:43:16 taking us to the Stars if only you knew 0:43:19 this is indeed a mighty oath you know 0:43:22 this isn't something trivial 0:43:24 indeed this is the Glorious Quran stored 0:43:29 in a hidden book The Hidden book here 0:43:32 meaning you know what is what we call 0:43:34 the Divine tablet or the Divine CPU 0:43:38 where God's you know all the information 0:43:41 you know of course uh you know the uh 0:43:44 our internet our emails uh and all the 0:43:48 work that we do has a you know all these 0:43:50 companies have digital companies will 0:43:52 have these amazing 0:43:54 um you know places where they keep their 0:43:57 central processing units are and where 0:43:59 all this information is kept Allah has 0:44:02 the Divine tablet and he you know our 0:44:05 attention is drawn to that only the pure 0:44:08 can touch it subhanallah you know this 0:44:10 idea of pure here means you know those 0:44:14 um who are in touch with their lord 0:44:16 really uh who are not contaminated you 0:44:19 know who are not idolatrous who don't 0:44:22 love and and who don't really regard the 0:44:25 material things as be all and end-all 0:44:27 okay a revelation from Lord of the 0:44:29 worlds so how can you disrespect the 0:44:33 scripture like this despite its 0:44:35 countless blessings all you could do is 0:44:38 deny it you know that is what God is 0:44:40 saying you know we've given you so many 0:44:42 blessings and all you can do is deny 0:44:45 them why is it that the dying person 0:44:48 takes when uh when the dying person is 0:44:50 taking his last breath you cannot return 0:44:53 it 0:44:54 wow that is a again in our question 0:44:57 which you know of course ours is an age 0:45:00 of medical advancement and amazing 0:45:03 Medical Treatments you know we we we can 0:45:06 save lives 0:45:08 um but sadly when the last breath and 0:45:12 somebody's in it is in their death 0:45:14 throws then no matter how great a 0:45:17 surgeon or a doctor they are they cannot 0:45:19 return it you know you watch helplessly 0:45:22 the Quran asks 0:45:24 we are closer to the dying person than 0:45:27 you though you cannot see subhanallah 0:45:31 why do you think you don't need us 0:45:34 wow very powerful questions is it really 0:45:36 and wow why don't you you why do you 0:45:40 think that you don't need it if you are 0:45:42 truthful why can't you bring back the 0:45:45 ebbing life 0:45:47 wow amazing isn't it I mean it's really 0:45:50 you know the Quran is full of this this 0:45:52 wisdom and it's telling us okay look 0:45:55 science is there to actually and the 0:45:58 nature Is there further to enhance and 0:46:01 strengthen our faith really 0:46:06 and this is why you know we regard 0:46:07 science as a powerful tool to understand 0:46:10 the mechanics of God's beautiful 0:46:11 creation uh and not the end in itself 0:46:15 actually Islamic teachings expect us to 0:46:18 Care and look after this beautiful 0:46:19 creation that is a way of thanking him 0:46:23 and worshiping him okay and I'll I'll 0:46:25 read something from Surah al-baqarah if 0:46:27 you've got if you want to ask something 0:46:28 uh Paul or say something you're welcome 0:46:30 carry on this is really interesting okay 0:46:33 so here you know in Surah al-baqarah 0:46:36 Allah says 0:46:41 you know worship your lord who created 0:46:45 you and those before you 0:46:47 so that you may become Pious and mindful 0:46:49 you know 0:46:51 you know some of us perhaps don't want 0:46:53 to be comprised and mindful and then 0:46:55 some just you know I I know you know 0:46:58 when you listen to radio 4 you know you 0:47:00 do come across a lot of people who you 0:47:03 know who are frivolous who who regard 0:47:06 life as trivial who who regard life as 0:47:09 purposeless meaningless you know there 0:47:12 is no purpose in it of course this isn't 0:47:14 addressing those people this is 0:47:16 addressing people who are reasonable you 0:47:18 know when they see this intricate and 0:47:19 beautifully designed complex universe 0:47:22 and you know one thing about modern uh 0:47:25 science is that it's revealing every day 0:47:29 it's revealing something which is 0:47:31 showing you know there must be an 0:47:33 amazing designer a super designer a 0:47:36 super architect a super fashioner you 0:47:40 know he's adding these beautiful colors 0:47:42 to it okay and super engineer you know 0:47:45 who's really engineering these and and 0:47:47 you know this is why most of the best 0:47:50 scientific laborities now all over the 0:47:52 world including Oxford and Imperial and 0:47:55 Cambridge are now actually switching 0:47:58 physicists uh Paul are doing work on 0:48:01 what on living things on leaves on 0:48:06 plants on fruit on animals because they 0:48:09 say well you know this is where the real 0:48:11 Wonder is this is where you know we can 0:48:14 actually 0:48:14 we can emulate we can take we can take 0:48:19 these if we can understand how they work 0:48:22 we're aware we will use the you know 0:48:25 this is the best model that God has 0:48:27 created and we're going to use it so 0:48:29 that is what a lot of how how when 0:48:32 science 0:48:33 um uncovers reveals discovers uh in it 0:48:36 what to us is the Unseen the extremely 0:48:38 smaller they're very very very big it 0:48:41 doesn't reveal a chaotic 0:48:43 ugly purposeless uh phenomena it reveals 0:48:47 Exquisite fine-tuning it it discloses to 0:48:50 us engineering it exposes to us design 0:48:53 uh whether it be the humble the 0:48:55 Apparently humble cell or all the cosmos 0:48:59 that they exquisitely fine-tune laws of 0:49:01 physics at every level science discloses 0:49:04 The Wonder of design and it's always 0:49:07 struck me is that science is naturally 0:49:09 an ally of belief the belief in Creator 0:49:12 because of what it discloses and reveals 0:49:14 to us but people think that because we 0:49:17 can understand the mechanism 0:49:19 um say like Evolution for example 0:49:20 evolution of animals therefore that 0:49:22 somehow uh excludes God it doesn't God 0:49:26 uses either The evolutionary process to 0:49:28 bring about the various animals and and 0:49:30 that we see around us 0:49:32 um but that this is a mechanism I mean 0:49:34 this is a view that many hold this is 0:49:36 the mechanism that God uses theistic 0:49:39 Evolution I'm not by the way saying that 0:49:40 human beings are created uh by that 0:49:43 evolutionary process I think that's a 0:49:45 different story but in terms of the 0:49:46 animal kingdom in general uh evolution 0:49:49 is neither here nor there is God God 0:49:52 does it God designs creates evolves the 0:49:55 process and he deserves the glory and 0:49:57 the credit not our scientists who merely 0:50:00 observe and uncover this amazing process 0:50:03 absolutely and you know the this this uh 0:50:06 this verse 21 to 23 in Surah al-baqarah 0:50:09 you know goes on to say that Allah 0:50:17 you know he is the one who spread out 0:50:21 this Earth for you may the sky roof and 0:50:24 set down rain by which he produces 0:50:27 fruits for your systems so do not 0:50:30 deliberately make Rivals and equals with 0:50:33 God don't commit idolatry don't become 0:50:35 materialistic and believing that the 0:50:38 material world is is is the be all and 0:50:41 Endo no that is not the case of course 0:50:43 it has impact because God has put impact 0:50:46 into it it is you know those molecules 0:50:48 of of paracetamol and and of aspirin 0:50:52 will relieve your pain because God has 0:50:55 made it such that it will inhibit those 0:50:57 enzymes that cause the pain so you know 0:51:00 it's really and and uh so you know you 0:51:03 notice how directly God is drawing our 0:51:06 attention to the beauty of the creation 0:51:07 and its benefits and therefore humans 0:51:10 should be thankful 0:51:13 acknowledging appreciating and valuing 0:51:16 the Creator really that's what that is 0:51:18 what Islam is asking okay look you're 0:51:20 enjoying this you know it's just very 0:51:22 much like uh you know as a British 0:51:25 citizen 0:51:26 um you know as a deputy Lord Lieutenant 0:51:29 I I give out British citizenships to you 0:51:33 know people who want British 0:51:34 citizenships and I give out those 0:51:35 certificates in the town hall every now 0:51:38 and then and and uh you know people when 0:51:40 they get this very citizenship of course 0:51:42 they worked so hard for it they've paid 0:51:45 thousands of pounds for a team you know 0:51:47 live 10 15 years you know in order to 0:51:49 get this right and so they are then 0:51:53 privileged to get that passport you know 0:51:57 the blue passport or the maroon one 0:51:59 whichever you get you know of the 0:52:00 British passports and this now 0:52:03 guarantees you safe passage whether 0:52:06 you're in in Ghana or whether you're in 0:52:09 in Gambia or whether you're in Pakistan 0:52:11 or whether you're in in Qatar you know 0:52:13 it gives you a safe passage and and 0:52:16 you're 0:52:17 you're acknowledging 0:52:19 okay I am a citizen of this I appreciate 0:52:23 I'm contributing and I'm getting 0:52:25 something in return for it not valuing 0:52:28 you know and acknowledging your 0:52:30 citizenship being part of this uh 0:52:33 country this nation it's really 0:52:35 important you know that is value again 0:52:38 God is saying well I've given you all 0:52:40 this you don't pay a tough you're not 0:52:43 really I'm not interested in saying even 0:52:45 thank you you know and and that is what 0:52:48 I of course is what what is known as 0:52:50 kofro 0:52:52 unthankfulness denial yeah exactly it's 0:52:55 not the meaning of it it's not just uh 0:52:57 unbelief is it in gratitude that's right 0:53:00 not acknowledging not appreciating you 0:53:03 know that I've got this okay uh you know 0:53:06 just to as we come to and and Paul you 0:53:09 know Allah has given us two books and 0:53:13 this is a concept which is often 0:53:15 mentioned by them for sale the 0:53:16 commentators of the Quran that you know 0:53:18 we have nature which is actually an open 0:53:21 book I'm just staring out into my 0:53:23 beautiful garden you know uh and it's 0:53:26 still beautiful you know it's it's near 0:53:28 winter but you know the 0:53:30 and the autumnal colors are still there 0:53:33 on some of the plants as there are lots 0:53:36 of Evergreens as well and of course a 0:53:38 green lawn as well it gives it you know 0:53:41 that beauty uh you know so this is open 0:53:44 this is inviting me to acknowledge and 0:53:48 value God's creativity God's design 0:53:51 really and his amazing power because you 0:53:55 know we we humans also manufacture 0:53:58 things but see the difference between 0:54:00 what how we manufacture and how God 0:54:03 manufactures for example for human 0:54:04 beings to manufacture ammonia molecule 0:54:08 which is the fertilizer you know you 0:54:10 need acres and Acres of factory 0:54:11 producing thousands and thousands of 0:54:14 tons of of poisonous gases uh and of of 0:54:18 uh and and side products whereas these 0:54:22 leaves are producing some amazing 0:54:24 hormones some amazing chemicals which 0:54:28 are so complex yet this little leaf you 0:54:32 know minute little leaf and the cell in 0:54:34 it is able to do it how so you don't 0:54:36 appreciate this amazing God this is why 0:54:38 the Quran is asking 0:54:40 says 0:54:42 you know 0:54:45 glorify your amazing Lord and so so we 0:54:49 have these two books nature and we have 0:54:51 this amazing book the scripture you know 0:54:55 the Majestic Quran of God you know this 0:54:58 is Allah's glorious Quran majeed you 0:55:01 know we have this and and so we really 0:55:02 do need to appreciate these two books 0:55:04 you know and saying that you know we can 0:55:06 live by one book 0:55:08 uh the nature by itself I think we will 0:55:11 be misguided we will lose particularly 0:55:14 you know if we have been wrongly 0:55:15 nurtured by ideas of aggressive atheism 0:55:19 and and and and and and godlessness and 0:55:22 of vanity we won't be able to appreciate 0:55:25 them Jen 0:55:27 um no indeed indeed so I was just gonna 0:55:28 very briefly you touched in that verse 0:55:31 you quoted we spread out uh the Earth 0:55:32 for you uh made the sky roof and sent 0:55:35 down rain 0:55:36 um in another place uh in uh sewer 21 uh 0:55:40 verse um 30 onwards it says and we made 0:55:44 the sky a roof that gives protection and 0:55:48 and again this is something that's been 0:55:50 remarkably confirmed by science it is it 0:55:53 is like a roof it provides protection 0:55:54 from harmful uh uh Rays from outer space 0:55:58 and advise all sorts of other uh ways 0:56:00 that protect us from um 0:56:02 ultraviolet rays and then of course uh 0:56:06 uh you know irons that would cause 0:56:08 severe kind of uh cancers if it was if 0:56:12 it was if if we didn't have these for 0:56:14 example the ozone layer and we didn't 0:56:16 have you know the stratosphere you know 0:56:19 the cosmic rays coming in would life 0:56:22 would not be possible actually without 0:56:23 yeah this amazing 0:56:27 and brief and doesn't go into uh or all 0:56:30 the all the detail but we made this guy 0:56:33 a roof that gives protection I mean how 0:56:35 would we know that uh you know in a 0:56:37 pretty modern context just when we 0:56:39 wouldn't know but the Quran obviously uh 0:56:41 hasn't had quite knowledge yeah 0:56:43 well uh you know inshallah we can do 0:56:47 much more details sort of analysis of 0:56:49 some of those 0:56:50 um 0:56:51 um you know verses and some of those uh 0:56:54 places where the Quran mentions those 0:56:57 but you know as a sort of a conclusion 0:57:00 um Paul I would say that the Quran is 0:57:02 size friendly because it provides 0:57:05 principles that lend support to the 0:57:07 scientific Enterprise that teaching that 0:57:11 there is a natural order to be 0:57:13 discovered so that is what it's saying 0:57:15 there is a natural order and of course 0:57:16 that is what scientists are discovering 0:57:18 day by day this there is a natural order 0:57:21 there and then humans have a rationality 0:57:23 that enables them to discover truths 0:57:26 about the creation so Muslims are 0:57:28 expected to engage with signs it aids 0:57:30 them to see the beauty of their Lord's 0:57:33 creation and thereby actually making us 0:57:35 more God conscious you know 0:57:38 more attentive to our duties to him what 0:57:43 what I mean very simply is to glorify 0:57:46 him say subhanallah saying alhamdulillah 0:57:49 Thank You Lord we thank you for this 0:57:51 amazing and beautiful world that is what 0:57:54 it means really the so the interesting 0:57:55 question can science enhance our 0:57:58 appreciation of chronic teachings or 0:58:01 Islamic teachings and can be answered 0:58:04 positively if we accept our previous 0:58:07 arguments Allah created human beings for 0:58:09 a specific person and a purpose endowed 0:58:13 them with a remarkable capabilities 0:58:15 though they are like other human other 0:58:17 living creatures sharing the same DNA 0:58:20 the same you know elements of the Earth 0:58:23 but they are very different they were 0:58:25 endowed with something very unique known 0:58:27 as 0:58:29 says I blew my spirit into them so we 0:58:35 have something very special and that is 0:58:36 what makes us actually 0:58:38 which gives us this amazing kind of 0:58:41 conscience which gives us amazing 0:58:43 kindness a sense of being conscious as 0:58:46 well and conscientious as well and being 0:58:49 moral as well you know that is that all 0:58:52 comes because we have something which 0:58:54 animals don't have and that is one 0:58:56 effect to feed him the Divine Spirit 0:58:59 within us which really makes us special 0:59:02 and the Quran you know is there to 0:59:05 remind us of that reality that hidden 0:59:07 reality all the time and I think that's 0:59:10 where you know the need for Quran and 0:59:14 science together is really what we 0:59:17 should be talking about oh it's 0:59:19 fantastic well thank you very much 0:59:21 indeed uh Dr uh Hussein um this of 0:59:24 course is your translation Majestic 0:59:26 Quran guidance and good news for the 0:59:28 mindful if you don't have a copy do uh 0:59:30 do get hold of it's very uh very 0:59:31 readable actually 0:59:33 um it's a delightful uh translation 0:59:36 um with lots of um notes helpful notes 0:59:38 as well so thank you very much Dr 0:59:41 Hussein for your expertise your time 0:59:43 your or eloquence and your enthusiasm as 0:59:46 well not just for God's word of crime 0:59:49 but but for science for the the universe 0:59:51 around us so the the two books as you 0:59:54 call them two books that we need to 0:59:56 understand to make sense of our life in 0:59:58 this world well Paul thank you and I 1:00:00 think we must appreciate the thousands 1:00:03 of Muslim Scholars scientists uh people 1:00:06 serving the Quran and reminding us all 1:00:09 the time we should be appreciative of 1:00:11 those amazing people uh you know whose 1:00:13 work we use and and so thank you Paul 1:00:16 okay fantastic until next time salam 1:00:19 alaikum

Are there scientific miracles in the Qur'an? (2022-12-09) ​

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