Friday, August 20, 2010

Ramadan Dailies: #10


Today, one Ayah captured by attention and made me question modern world theories of evolution.

(قُلْ هَلْ أُنَبِّئُكُم بِشَرٍّ مِّن ذَلِكَ مَثُوبَةً عِندَ اللّهِ مَن لَّعَنَهُ اللّهُ وَغَضِبَ عَلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهُمُ الْقِرَدَةَ وَالْخَنَازِيرَ)

"Shall I tell you who, in the sight of God, deserves a yet worse retribution than these? They whom God has rejected and whom He has condemned, and whom He has turned into apes and swine because they worshiped the powers of evil" - (5:60 Holy Quran)

The theory that came to my mind once I read this was Darwin Theory of Evolution. Darwin believed that humans came from Apes. This Ayah tells us that God has transformed people who disobeyed him into Monkeys and Pigs.

Which might suggest that Monkeys and Pigs today are descendants of humans (And not the other way around). Perhaps if we think deeper we can figure a theory of the evolution of these animals.

Just a thought.

Verse of the Day: (قُلْ هَلْ أُنَبِّئُكُم بِشَرٍّ مِّن ذَلِكَ مَثُوبَةً عِندَ اللّهِ مَن لَّعَنَهُ اللّهُ وَغَضِبَ عَلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهُمُ الْقِرَدَةَ وَالْخَنَازِيرَ)
Quran: 12/30 - #2
Extra activities: Patience, Patience, Patience.

1 comment:

  1. Wise thoughts … never thought of this Ayah that way…
    I personally hate ‘the Quran marathons’:“trying to finish as many times as possible”... because this go missing … pausing and thinking about an Ayah and having some philosophical thoughts about it… it’s something not only scholars have to do, every Muslim has to actually think when reading Quran…
    SO, I love that you have the ‘verse of the day’ in your Ramadan-dailies… and I love your thoughts about this Ayah….

    Keep it up !

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