Science Has No Answers

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART II:

19. Latarkabunna tabaqan AAan tabaqin

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84:19. You [humans] do move from stage to stage.¹

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1. Mankind is aware of the many stages through which man passes from his conception in a womb to his grave. Then why does he not believe in the divine intimation to him of his further stages of barzakh (state of complete unconsciousness from death till his resurrection in the Hereafter) and further life in the Hereafter? This very question is posed to him in the next two Verses. The divine intimation is given to him through the Qur’aan, which he ought to believe in and prostrate (submit himself) to. But one may ask why. The answer is: there is no other source which gives us the information as to what happens after death. Our knowledge of science just tells us that we cease to exist. Science also does not tell us as to what it is that triggers life in the 3-week-old fertilized ovum in mother’s womb. Science is thus helpless in giving us this vital info. So, we have no alternative but to go to the divine source. And the divine info provides answers to several unresolved questions arising in the human mind. Why do innumerable cases of injustices apparently remain unpunished in this world? And why acts of good deeds remain unrewarded? Why do innocents suffer and why do wrong-doers apparently enjoy good life on this earth? Science has no answers to such questions; the Qur’aan has!

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 28^th of September 2018.

Believers Defined

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES -A Modern Tafsir PART II:

15. Innama almu/minoona allatheena amanoo biAllahi warasoolihi thumma lam yartaboo wajahadoo bi-amwalihim waanfusihim fee sabeeli Allahi ola-ika humu alssadiqoona

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49:15. The believers are only those who believe in Allah and His Messenger. Then they doubt not and struggle hard with their wealth and their lives in the way of Allah. Those are they who are the true believers.²

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2. The believers defined!

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 21^st of September 2018.

The Divine Hand

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART II:

4. Wafee khalqikum wama yabuththu min dabbatin ayatun liqawmin yooqinoona

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45:4. And in your creation and in animals Allah proliferates, there are Signs for people certain of their belief in Him.²

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2. Take only one part – the eye – of human creation. Scientists are agreed that it is one of the marvels of creation, which no man can equal. All other parts of the body – of any animal – are all marvels of creation, which no man can ever hope to equal! And the atheists’ unscientific assumption that all these marvels just happened of their own, is just nonsense! Every part of the body provides a loud and clear evidence of the existence of the Creator. The other Sign that this Verse mentions is the proliferation of some animals like sheep. Imagine the factual position of lakhs of sheep being slaughtered every day for their meat being served as food for mankind all over the world! But has this fact ever rendered sheep as endangered species like tiger and other wild animals are? Here, in this case also, the divine Hand operating behind the scenes is very much apparent.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 14^th of September 2018.

Beware!

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART II:

30. Wama asabakum min museebatin fabima kasabat aydeekum wayaAAfoo AAan katheerin

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42:30. And whatever calamity befalls you, it is because of what your own hands have earned.⁶ And much He pardons.

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6. Modern-day Muslims, beware! You yourselves are responsible for the ignominy you are suffering.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 7^th of September 2018.