Science in the Qur’an

Question

Someone holds the view that the Holy Qur’an was revealed so that people might attain felicity and salvation in the Hereafter and true knowledge of Allah. For this same purpose Allah, wherever He deemed it fitting, related parables and employed proofs drawn from the horizons and from the soul, but the Qur’an is not a book that teaches science and materialism.

Answer

“Fayd al-Bari” contains something close to this: it states, for instance, that the sky appears to move; the motion of the moon, sun and stars is observed. The Holy Qur’an has mentioned this outward appearance: [ar]وَٱلشَّمْسُ تَجْرِى لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا ۚ وَكُلٌّ فِى فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ[/ar] “The sun runs to a fixed resting place for it...

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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