Muslims always take pride and love to point out to others the scientific miracles in the Quran.
These Muslims assert that the scientific verses are proofs that the Quran is from God, since 1400 years ago, these scientific facts were supposedly not known to human then.
Well, 1400 years have passed.
All these facts and so much more scientific facts that are not in the Quran have been discovered.
Are we Muslim always going to use these same scientific facts as proof of the authenticity of the Quran?
Is it the only reason why God revealed these facts?
So that Muslims can just sit around on their asses while non-Muslims do the fun scientific stuff, and then when these non-Muslim scientists discovered something, we would just sit up, and shout "Aha!...THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE QURAN...SEE!... THIS PROVES THAT QURAN REALLY IS FROM GOD... THIS PROVES GOD EXIST...!"
And then, after having done shouting, we go back to our small insignificant lives, content that we have contributed to humanity's progress just by shouting those assertion.
It is a shame.
We are now just using the Quran to prop up our ego as a society that is now falling behind scientifically and technologically. Way, way behind...
The Quran is more than just a guide on how to live.
It is so much more.
When God says to look at how birds can fly (67:19, 16:79, 24:41), how the mountain stand (27:88, 35:27, 88:19), how the earth has many coloured layers (16:13, 35:27, 39:21), how the "heaven" works (3:190-191,30:22, 34:09), etc, it is an imperative to go explore and discover.
To be curious.
To ask questions.
Like a true scientist.
And not just to answer those questions that God asked in the Quran, but to find new questions about the world and the universe and answer them.
That is why those scientific verses are there.
As it is, the western non-Muslim scientists are living the Islamic life as per God's commandment.
They are doing what God intended us to do.
So, who is more Islamic?
I once had a theological "discussion" with one of my friends.
When he cannot answer a question, he simply said "sometime we cannot use "akal" to reason out this thing".
I felt frustrated with that statement.
Sadly, many preachers use the same tag line.
It implies Muslims cannot use "akal" or reason.
This is a dangerous thing to say.
The Quran never say do not use reason.
The Quran encourages us to use reason (2:164, 2:242 and many other verses).
Those who do not use reason, the Quran says are "deaf, dumb and blind" (2:171) and "the worst beast" (8:22) and "an abomination" (10:100).
If we do not know something, even about God, the answer is NOT "we cannot use reason".
The correct answer is "I do not know" and/or "I will find out".
There is no shame in admitting we do not know something.
Men have been trying to prove the existence of God scientifically and/or philosophically since ancient history. From Aristotle & Plato to Ibnu Sina, Al-Ghazali & Ibnu Rushdi to Stephen C. Meyer (and many more).
All these men, never say "I do not know" and stop thinking and not use the brains that God has given them.
They set out to find answers.
Scientifically and/or philosophically.
Using logic and reason.
Using their brains.
Never say "cannot think or cannot use akal".
Do not be afraid to use God's greatest gift to us.
It's that thing in your head, the brain.
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