^thank you for your opinion sister. humans have a curious mind and strive to understand everything. and Allah tells us to look at nature and the Signs of Allah all around us and in our ownselves and reflect on thm and consider the Greatness and Wisdom of the Creator. Science should bring us closer to Allah than taking us away. But the theory of evolution attempts to place a veil over the eyes and make mankind blind! Just think of clouds and the rain cycle - if mankind pondered over it, they would realize that cloud formation and rain doesn't happen by itself. One of my teachers said that the water quantity on earth is the same as it was from the beginning - that is, water doesn't leave the earth's atmosphere. Water evaporates from the earth and turns into clouds and then rain comes down from clouds back to earth, so the whole is a repititive cycle. But what keeps water locked in the earth's atmosphere? why doesn't it leave? water is so necessary for life but what if water evaporated and left the earth's atmosphere, getting lost in space? what then? of course that doesn't happen becuase Allah made it that way.
so by studying all these amazing signs of Allah in nature we should realize that there is a Creator, the Creator is One, the Creator is Very Powerful, the Creator is Very Wise and the Creator is Very Kind. A lot of signs of Allah are mentioned in the Quran.
I do not think that evolution theory is made to keep us blind from the truth. If you look at the Holy Qur'an, it says that every living thing has been made out of water (21:30, Holy Qur'an), and consequently, scientists have understood this now hundreds of years later. Furthermore, the Holy Prophet (saw) said that every living thing has been made out of water in a Hadith (don't remember where I read it, it was in one of the Sunans), so how can we deny that scientists have learned rationally what the Holy Qur'an has already said by revelation?
If you look at religion, it has evolved as well. Humans went through stages of progressive intellectual and spiritual development through the centuries, and so Allah sent Prophets who came with laws that were fit for those lifestyles. Islam came when the spiritual evolution of man was complete and reached its zenith. Thus, Muslims follow the best law for mankind, whether mankind understands the "how" or not. This is the simple truth. Evolution occurs. just like species who were wiped out before don't exist now, so do evil generations of men cease to exist now and have been wiped out by Allah when they could not adopt to the new stage of evolution of the spirit.
If any Muslims say that belief in evolution is against Islam, then they are committing a sin, since they think that they know the exact meanings of the Holy Qur'an, while there are new and fresh signs of the truthfulness of the Holy Qur'an being observed all the time with more discoveries from science and in biology. Evolution does not go against the Holy Qur'an, but the Holy Qur'an certainly agrees with some of the concepts of it when you look into it carefully enough. Not every verse of the Holy Qur'an has been fully understood yet. It is a book with unlimited knowledge and signs. It will continue to be this way until the Day of Judgment. This is why it is the biggest miracle ever to happen to mankind. Evolution is simply another way to grasp this miracle. Allah is the Creator of the universe no matter what. It is possible that the way in which He created us is seen in the theory of evolution.
The Holy Qur'an says:
18:51
And remember the time when We said to the angels, ‘Submit to Adam,’ and they all submitted, except Iblis. He was one of the Jinn; and he disobeyed the command of his Lord. Will you then take him and his offspring for friends instead of Me while they are your enemies? Evil is the exchange for the wrongdoers.
18:52
I did not make them witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation; nor could I take as helpers those who lead people astray.
Thus, these scientists, who think they can figure out the exact creation of men as if they saw it cannot do so. The theories of our creation will always remain theories, since scientists cannot directly observe the creation of mankind, as Allah says above. Thus, the theory of evolution will remain a theory, but it will only be recognized as true because the revelation of Allah to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) speaks of the stages of human development in agreement with some parts of the theory. Science is all about observation, but when one reads this last verse above, they get a sense of Allah's profound wisdom, in that these people who worship their own egos and rational minds do not see that they can never completely satisfy themselves with the actual witnessing of their own creation. They will never have direct knowledge of how they came to be, only a theory.
In fact, they will never completely witness the creation of the universe in their laboratories, since the verse above says they did not witness the creation of the heavens and the earth. Thus, this verse limits the wisdom of scientists, and reassures Muslims that these men cannot claim to be all-knowing above Allah. The verse before it is telling us that these people are enemies to mankind, by trying to reject the Prophets of Allah and rely on their own knowledge to try and come to the answer about their own selves and how they got here. Man is severely limited, and no laboratory tests can give them the full knowledge of the evolution of man and the creation of the universe. So no Muslims should obey these Satans who are trying to deceive mankind into telling them that they have the answers, and that religion has no answers.
honestly, volumes can be spoken of about these two verses, since I think they really apply to our age. In fact, to try and recreate what happened in the creation of the universe is a much harder thing to do than to try and understand the creation of mankind:
40:57
Certainly, the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind; but most men know not.
These scientists do not understand how difficult it is to know the creation of the universe. The Holy Qur'an describes the frustration that scientists will feel at trying to grasp the full understanding of the universe:
67:3
Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity canst thou see in the creation of the Gracious God. Then look again: Seest thou any flaw?
67:4
Aye, look again, and yet again, thy sight will only return unto thee confused and fatigued.
This means no amount of astronomical observation will be able to satisfy the curiosity of man. Man will only find himself confused because he cannot fully grasp the harmonious laws of the workings of the universe. This might mean that men will never know the M-theory, where they get a theory that explains everything.
So read the Holy Qur'an and reflect on science. Mankind is only now learning of their inability to fully observe nature, but the Holy Qur'an has perfectly described the limits of observation on mankind, and thus our inability to ever be able to fully understand what only Allah knows perfectly well.
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