wisdom and knowledge from the Bible, Torah, and Quran
Wisdom and Knowledge from the Bible, Torah, and Quran
Those are verses of Christianity(bible), Torah(Judaism), and Islam(quran) from the old and new testaments that explain about different topics,issues, and themes of the real world:1.Self Defense and Military Combat:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Exodus 22:2-3:"If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him."Bible(New Testament):Luke 22:36:He said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a bag. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one."
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 144:1:Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.
Bible(New Testament):1 Timothy 5:8:But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Qur’an: Surah Al-Baqqrah 2:190:“Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed, Allah does not like transgressors.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Haji 22:39: "Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory."
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Ecclesiastes 3:8:A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Luke 22:36:If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 20:1:When you go out to war against your enemies… do not be afraid of them.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Exodus 15:3:The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.
2.Empowerment and Transformation of Humanity:
Bible(New Testament):Romans 12:2: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."Torah:Deuteronomy 30:19: I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.
Bible(New Testament):Acts 1:8:But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Exodus 19:6:You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Isaiah 40:31:They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Ezekiel 36:26:I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
Qur’an:Surah Ar-Ra’d 13:11: Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:27:
God created man in His own image.
Bible(New Testament):2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
3.Animals and Wildlife:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:26: Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 12:10: A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Qur’an:Surah An-Naml (27:1-93): The Qur'an often cites animals (like the ant, the cow, the bee) as signs of God's power and wisdom.
Bible(New Testament):Matthew 6:26:Look at the birds of the air: they do not sow or reap… yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 22:6–7:When you encounter a bird's nest… you shall not take the mother with the young.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:26:Let them have dominion over the fish... birds... and every living thing.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Job 12:7–10:Ask the animals, and they will teach you.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:30:To every beast... I have given every green plant for food.
Qur’an:Surah Al-An’am 6:38:There is not an animal on earth, nor a bird that flies with its wings, but they are communities like you.
4.Women and Motherhood:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 31:25-26, 28: She is clothed with strength and dignity... She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue... Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 3:20: The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Ahqaf 46:15: And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his bearing and weaning is thirty months...
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 31:28:She is clothed with strength and dignity.
Bible(New Testament):Ephesians 6:1–2:Children, obey your parents in the Lord… ‘Honor your father and mother.’
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Exodus 20:12:Honor your father and your mother.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 31:10–31:Woman of valor praised
Qur’an:Sunan an-Nasa’i:31:4:Paradise lies at the feet of your mother.
Qur’an:Surah Luqman 31:14:His mother bore him in hardship... be grateful to Me and to your parents.
Bible(New Testament):Galatians 3:28:There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:27:Male and female He created them.
Qur’an:Surah An-Nisa 4:1:Fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Judges 4: Deborah leads Israel as a prophetess and judge.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Ahzab 33:35:Lists believing men and women equally in virtues.
5.Interracial Love and Relationships:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Numbers 12:1-8: Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman and God defends the union.Torah/Bible(Old Testament):1 Samuel 16:7: For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Ruth 4:Ruth (a Moabite woman) and Boaz marry and become ancestors of King David.
Bible(New Testament):Romans 10:12: "For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament): Ruth 1:16:Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Rum 30:22: And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and colors.
Bible(New Testament):Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Hujurat 49:13:Inter-tribal and inter-ethnic marriages were common among early Muslims.
Qur’an:Surah Ar-Rum 30:21:And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He put between you affection and mercy.
6.Unity and Equality of Different Races, Genders, and Religions:
Bible(New Testament):Galatians 3:28:There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Leviticus 24:22: You shall have one law for the stranger and for the native-born.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Hujurat 49:13:O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Leviticus 19:34: You shall treat the foreigner who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Malachi 2:10: Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 133:1: How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!
Bible(New Testament):Ephesians 4:3:Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit.
Bible(New Testament):Colossians 3:11: Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
7. Different Cultural Exchange Around the World:
Bible(New Testament):Acts 2:5–12:Pentecost: people of many nations understand one message.
Bible(New Testament):Matthew 28:19:Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Isaiah 56:7:My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Anbya 21:107:And We have not sent you, O Muhammad, except as a mercy to the worlds.
So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Hujurat 49:13:Trade and travel are praised: “He created you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.
Bible(New Testament):Acts 10:34-35: God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):1 Kings 10:1:Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.
Bible(New Testament):Acts 17:26:And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 10: 19:Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Isaiah 2: 2–3: Nations streaming to the mountain of the Lord to learn His ways.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 12:3: All families of the earth shall be blessed” through Abraham.
Qur’an:Surah Saba’ 34:28: Muhammad sent as a messenger to “all mankind.
8.Diverse Communities Around the World:
Bible(New Testament):Revelation 7:9: After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 12:3:and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Torah:Zephaniah 3:9:For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one accord.
Qur’an:Surah Ar-Rum 30:22:And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Isaiah 56:7:My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
Qur’an:Surah Al-Baqarah 2:136:We make no distinction between any of them.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Numbers 15:15: For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 11:9:
The Tower of Babel story reflects cultural dispersion.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Hujurat 49:13:made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another.
Bible(New Testament):Matthew 28:19: Go and make disciples of all nations.
Qur’an:Surah Yunus 10:19: Mankind was but one community; then they differed.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Anbiya 21:92:Indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so worship Me.
9.Knowledge of the World and Universe:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 19:1:The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Hosea 4:6:My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 25:2:It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Qur’an: Sumar Az-Zumar 39:9:Say, ‘Are those who know equal to those who do not know?’ Only they will remember who are people of understanding.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Baqarah 2:31:And He taught Adam the names—all of them.
Surah Az-Zariyat (51:47): And the heaven We constructed with might, and indeed, We are its expander.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 2:6:For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Surah Al-Anbiya 21:30:Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them?
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 1:7:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Surah Al-Alaq 96:1-5:Read in the name of your Lord who created.
Bible(New Testament):Philippians 3:8:Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 4:6: Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 6: 6–7:Teach the commandments diligently to your children
Qur’an:Surah Al-‘Alaq 96:1–5:Read in the name of your Lord... Who taught by the pen.
Qur’an:Surah Taha 20:114: and say, 'My Lord, increase me in knowledge.
10.Understanding of Time and Space:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 90:4: For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Qur’an:Surah As-Sajdah 32:4-5:It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne.He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then it ascends to Him in a Day, the measure of which is a thousand years of your counting.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 1:1:In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Bible(New Testament):2 Peter 3:8:With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Ecclesiastes 3:1: To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Hajj 22:47:A day with your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count.
Qur’an:Surah Ya-Sin 36:38–40: Describes celestial orbits and appointed times.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Ma’arij 70:4:A day with Allah is like fifty thousand years.
Qur’an:Surah Adh-Dhariyat 51:47: And the heaven We constructed with power, and indeed, We are its expander.
11.Pregnancy and Babies:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament): Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.
Qur’an:Sumar Az-Zumar 39:6:He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in three darknesses.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 139:13-14: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearful and wonderfully made.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Genesis 25:23: The Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb,and two peoples from within you will be separated;one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.
Surah Maryam 19:22:So she conceived him and withdrew with him to a remote place.
Bible(New Testament):Luke 1:41:And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Mu’minun 23:12–14:Then We made the sperm-drop into a clinging clot, and We made the clot into a lump of flesh, and We made from the lump of flesh bones, and We clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed him into another creation. So blessed is Allah, the best of creators.
Qur’an:Surah Luqman 31:14: And We have enjoined upon man care for his parents. His mother carried him, increasing her in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning is in two years. Be grateful to Me and to your parents; to Me is the final destination.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Exodus 21:22-25: Deals with injury to a pregnant woman resulting in a miscarriage, establishing a fine but not a capital penalty for the loss of the fetus.
12.Anger and Fear:
Bible(New Testament):Ephesians 4:26:Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.
Bible(New Testament):2 Timothy 1:7:For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Psalm 37:8: Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.
Qur’an:Surah Ali’ Imran 3:175:And do not fear them but fear Me, if you are indeed believers.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 6:13: "It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve...
Bible(New Testament):James 1:19-20:Be slow to anger... Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Deuteronomy 31: 6:Do not be afraid... the Lord your God goes with you.
Torah/Bible(Old Testament):Proverbs 14:29: Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Imran 3:134:Those who restrain anger and pardon people – Allah loves the doers of good.
Qur’an:Surah Al-Anfal 8:12: God calms believers’ hearts during battle.
13.Science and Technology:
Torah/Bible(Old Testament)1. Genesis 1:1–3
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”
Meaning: The concept of creation from nothing (ex nihilo) — foundational to cosmology. Light as the first creation resonates with modern physics seeing light/energy as a fundamental element.
2.Genesis 4:22 (Early Technology): "Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron."
Interpretation: A straightforward acknowledgement of early metalworking technology and human skill.
3.Genesis 11:6 – “Behold, they are one people… nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.”
Refers to human ingenuity and technological ambition at the Tower of Babel.
4.Genesis 1:26: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'"
Interpretation: This verse is often cited as the basis for stewardship and the human mandate to explore, understand, and use the natural world, which includes scientific inquiry and technology.
5.Genesis 1:28 (Blessing and Dominion): (Similar to the Christian verse, but central to the Jewish concept of action) "And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it...'"
Interpretation: The command to "subdue" the earth is often understood as the obligation to master and improve the natural world through human effort, which encompasses agriculture, building, and technology.
6. Genesis 2:19–20:“Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.”
Meaning: Early taxonomy — humanity’s intellectual role in observing, naming, and categorizing creation, akin to scientific classification.
7.Exodus 35:35: "He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twisted linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or of designer."
Interpretation: Highlights that human technē (skill/craftsmanship), essential for technology, is a gift from God and divinely sanctioned for projects like the Tabernacle.
8.Proverbs 3:19 (Wisdom in Creation—from Ketuvim): "The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens."
Interpretation: Connects God's act of creation with ordered wisdom, suggesting that the universe is rationally structured and therefore open to human investigation.
9. Job 26:7: “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”
Meaning: Ancient poetic description consistent with the modern understanding of a planet suspended in space.
10.Job 38:31-33:"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the bear with its cubs?"
11. Psalm 19:1–2:“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.”
Meaning: Encourages astronomy and natural observation as ways to understand divine order.
12. Chronicles 26:15: "In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong."
Interpretation: Technology, when used wisely and effectively, is seen as a source of strength and blessing.
13.Proverbs 25:2:“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”
Meaning: The pursuit of discovery — scientific inquiry is portrayed as noble and divine.
14.Exodus 31:3–5:“And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts.”
Meaning: Technological and artistic craftsmanship are seen as divinely inspired.
15.Genesis 1:31:“God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.”
Affirms the inherent order and goodness in creation, a basis for scientific exploration.
- Exodus 31:3-5:Describes Bezalel being filled with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to craft the Tabernacle. This highlights divine inspiration in craftsmanship and technology.
Bible(New Testament)
1.1 Corinthians 10:31: "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
Interpretation: Provides a core ethical framework for the use of any human endeavor, including science and technology—they must be used morally and for good purposes.
1.1 Corinthians 6:12: "‘All things are lawful for me,’ but not all things are helpful. ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but I will not be dominated by anything."
Interpretation: A warning against becoming overly reliant on or controlled by technology, and a call for discerning, beneficial application.
3. Romans 1:20:“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Meaning: Observation of nature reveals divine truth — an early form of natural theology.
4. Hebrews 11:3: “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”
Meaning: Matter’s origin from the unseen — interestingly aligns with atomic and quantum ideas.
5. Colossians 1:16–17:“For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Meaning: Cosmic unity — all creation is interlinked and sustained by divine law/order.
6.1 Timothy 6:20:“Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.”
A caution about misusing knowledge, relevant to ethical boundaries in science.
7.Luke 11:52:“Woe to you experts in the law… you have taken away the key to knowledge.”
Emphasizes the responsibility of scholars and leaders in guiding truth.
Quran/Islam:
1.Surah Al-‘Alaq (96:1–5): “Read in the name of your Lord who created—created man from a clinging substance. Read, and your Lord is the Most Generous—Who taught by the pen—taught man that which he knew not.”
Meaning: The first revelation commands reading and learning — central to knowledge, literacy, and science.
2. Surah Al-Anbiya (21:30):“Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?”
Meaning: Alludes to the cosmic origin of the universe and the biological necessity of water — remarkably consistent with modern cosmology and biology.
3. Surah Al-Nahl (16:68–69):“And your Lord inspired the bee, saying: ‘Take for yourself among the mountain houses, and among the trees and in what they build… from their bellies comes a drink of varying colors, wherein is healing for mankind.’ Surely this is a sign for people who reflect.”
Meaning: Observation of natural processes and biology (bees, honey) — encourages study of nature for human benefit.
4. Surah Al-Rum (30:22):“And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.”
Meaning: Diversity and order in nature as evidence of divine design — a basis for anthropology and linguistics.
5. Surah Al-Ghashiyah (88:17–20):“Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? And in the sky, how is it raised? And in the mountains, how are they set up? And on the earth, how is it spread out?”
Meaning: Calls to observe natural phenomena — the spirit of empirical science.
6. Surah Yunus (10:101):“Say, ‘Observe what is in the heavens and the earth.’ But of no avail will be signs or warnings to people who do not believe.”
Meaning: Encouragement of observation and scientific curiosity as a form of faith.
7.Surah Al-Alaq (96:1):“Read in the name of your Lord who created.”
The first revealed verse, urging literacy and inquiry.
8.Surah Al-Anfal (8:60): “Prepare against them whatever you can of power…”
Often interpreted as a call to develop technological strength.
9.Surah Fussilat (41:53):“We will show them Our signs in the universe and in themselves…”
Encourages exploration of the cosmos and human nature as paths to divine truth.
10.Surah Al-Baqarah (2:164):Lists natural phenomena (rain, ships, stars) as signs for those who reflect.
This verse links observation of nature with spiritual insight.
11.Surah Ar-Ra'd (13):3: "And He is the One Who spread out the earth, and placed firm mountains and rivers on it. And He made in it two pairs of every fruit. He covers the day with the night. Surely in this are signs for people who reflect."
Interpretation: Directs believers to study and reflect upon the details of the earth and its processes—a call to observational science.
12.Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51):47: "And the heaven We constructed with might, and indeed, We are [its] expander."
Interpretation: This verse has been interpreted by many modern Muslim scholars to align with the scientific discovery of the expanding universe.
13.Surah Al-'Alaq (96):1-5: "Read! In the Name of your Lord Who created, Created man from a clinging substance. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous, Who taught by the pen, Taught man that which he knew not."
Interpretation: The first verses revealed to the Prophet Muhammad are a powerful command to seek knowledge and use instruments (like the pen/writing) for learning, forming the basis for the high value placed on education and scientific inquiry in Islamic civilization.
14.Surah Al-Anbiya (21):30: "Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one joined entity, and We separated them, and We made from water every living thing? Will they not then believe?"
Interpretation: The first part alludes to a cosmic singularity (like a "Big Bang"), and the second part highlights the essential role of water in biological life, both viewed by some as anticipating modern scientific discoveries.
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