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I was arguing with an Atheist (who left Christianity very recently) about how Muhammad was not wrong to marry a 9 year old woman because it was accepted in his society at the time--so he cannot be held accountable for doing an immoral deed. This atheist did not want to even look at Islam because Muhammad was a pedophile.

This was my logic: (you don't have to read)

Premise one: People married young because of the way society was based
Premise two: When the way society is based changes, people considered marrying young immoral
Premise three: Therefore, age in marriage is based on the way society is set up at a certain time
Premise four: Therefore, It is morally acceptable to marry young based on the way ancient society was based and it is NOT morally acceptable to marry young based on the way modern society is based.

So this is good an all and the Atheist accepted this but then he said and I quote "Fine, thank you for showing that the profit was just a child of his time and environment, and NOT a role model for ALL ages to follow
So now we know that 7th century ideas/ideologies were ok for the 7th century and we've moved along
We're in the 21st century can we plz live accordingly?
Can we relegate Islam now to its rightful place? To the history pages?"


I responded to that by saying that: "Where does the Quran say he should be a complete role model? The Quran said to listen to him. The Quran is your role model--that's the book you follow and you should accept it and can accept it for ALL ages to follow.

Muhammad was a mere human being, we should follow how he followed the Quran and how he worshiped God, NOT his personal life. The Quran commands that. I don't have to eat date stalks and grow a beard like Muhammad and completely live as if I was in his personal life"

Now excuse me for saying this, but this is what I really believe, my question is am I wrong? Can you give me Quranic or authentic hadith verses that say we are commanded to do exactly as Muhammad does? Was I missing something.

I know a sunnah is just something we do to respect Muhammad (pbuh) , but is it really required? I don't eat dates, nor have a beard nor marry young...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M4T4uD7sjBk

^Please watch critically. I am sure that verses 41:9-12 are talking about Earth's atmosphere. Here is my little explanation (watch the video please 

Say, "Do you indeed disbelieve in He who created the earth in two days and attribute to Him equals? That is the Lord of the worlds."

And He placed on the earth firmly set mountains over its surface, and He blessed it and determined therein its [creatures'] sustenance in four days without distinction - for [the information] of those who ask.

^After the Earth was created he put mountains/volcanoes over its surface and through those activities in the mountains, the creatures on the Earth could have sustenance!!!!

Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come [into being], willingly or by compulsion." They said, "We have come willingly."

^After it talks about mountains, it mentions SMOKE!!--Volcanoes! That is how the Earth's atmosphere was created, through volcanic emissions. Through those emission the atmospheres could develop!

And He completed them as seven heavens within two days and inspired in each heaven its command. And We adorned the nearest heaven with lamps and as protection. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

^It doesn't say the nearest haven has 'lamps', it says it was adorned or decorated with lamps. So the lower heaven is adorned with the beauty of the stars and not the stars themselves!


Think about it: The Quran is discussing the creation of the Earth in the first verse. It does not say the Earth was created and then the universe (heavens), it says the earth was created and then the atmosphere (heavens can also mean sky)--Which is scientifically accurate. MOREOVER, the QUran says that through mountains--smoke developed and made the atmosphere which was competed therefore creatures could have sustenance. Without the atmosphere, the first life forms could have not evolved.

^I love this video! Alhamdulliah I have found it--It cleared up so much!

I hope it does for you,
Salam


Now my question is: When the Quran said that God created the heavens and the Earth in 6 days, is it referring to the universe or the atmosphere?

The Quran says the Universe and the Earth was created in 6 days (Quran: 10:3) and that the Earth was created in 2 days (Quran 41:9).That tell us that according to the Quran the earth should be 1/3 (2/6) the age of the universe.

And now what does science tell us?
-The Earth is 4.54 billion years old
-The Universe is 13.7 billion years old

4.54/13.7 is 1/3. So according to our best estimations the earth is 1/3rd the age of the universe!

Hey everyone, this is my first Ramadan ever: I have been looking online and at my mosque for information about the duties and I feel like I can do it. Do you have any advice for me?

I sincerely thank Allah for guiding me to Islam through Answering-Christianity, and I will always be grateful to Osama for his work. May Allah reward him grant him peace and blessings.

It started out with me looking for excuses to deny Islam and Answering-Islam was the site I would always visit to keep me from Islam: everytime I felt my faith in Christianity was weak, I look at anti-Islamic sites to make my faith in Christianity stronger-and it worked for a while. Suddenly I found myself at the rebuttals in this website and I got myself a Quran and within a year, I converted to Islam officially. Its kinda Ironic I converted to Islam from anti-Islamic websites. And I sincerely thank Allah for taking me on this journey.

I will be observing my first Ramadan, hope everyone has a great month!

And how can we know for sure, can you post some verses and analyze them?


Because some of the scientific miracles are derived from this, and if it is not talking about the whole universe, the scientific miracles with regards to this are invalid.

Like, the heavens and the Earth were once connected and then God stitched it etc.

Quran 4:136 says: O you who have believed, believe in Allah and His Messenger and the Book that He sent down upon His Messenger and the Scripture which He sent down before. And whoever disbelieves in Allah , His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day has certainly gone far astray.

Christians like to say:

"Why would God force you to believe in a corrupted/altered/false book, especially when the Quran says people have corrupted the bible/torah"

Explanation anyone?

Hello everyone and brother Osama. Firstly, thank you very much for your amazing website. I have a proposal; please read this with an open heart and mind.  I'm not saying that the theory of evolution is 100% infallible and is 100% fact (there are missing evidences, but that doesn't mean evolution doesn't exist--the evidence for it is overwhelming) I am proposing that the Quran  supports evolution. As a microbiologist, I have seen natural selection with my own eyes. I have seen how antibiotic resistance work.

Refer to the current article on evolution: http://www.answering-christianity.com/evolution.htm,

This article asserts that Evolution has no place in Islam and the Quran. It points out many verses about it.

It also says that Animals were sent from outer space; this can be true for bacteria and single-celled organisms, but an animal like cattle will not be sent from outer space. Firstly, they need to be able to breathe in outer space, secondly earth's atmosphere burns off the meteorites that hit earth. Animals like cattle cannot survive in those conditions.

I will now talk about the verses the article mentions:

"Behold, thy Lord said to the Angels: 'I will create a vicegerent on earth.'...(The Noble Quran, 2:34)" --> Verse 2:34 talks about prostration of the angels to adam, in no way does it disprove Islams support of evolution. A vicegerent is a person that is delegated power. Adam was delegated praise from Allah. Why? Perhaps because Adam (the first person to carry the human mutation) was the best of God's creation so far. He has free will so he is already better than the angels. He is also better than all of the other hominids in earth do not compare to the final result of God's amazing creation!

"From the (earth) did We Create you, and into it Shall We return you, And from it shall We Bring you out once again.--> This does not disprove Islam's evolution stand either. Instead it says that we are made of dust, all animals including Adam.


"Behold! thy Lord said To the angels: 'I am about To create man, from sounding clay From mud moulded into shape; 'When I have fashioned him (In due proportion) and breathed Into him of My spirit, Fall ye down in obeisance Unto him.'   (The Noble Quran, 15:28-29)"----> This verse obviously has symbolic characteristics. We are created from clay (a mixture of earth and water and we were shaped). Interestingly enough this verse says we have been fashioned, maybe it means we have been evolved to make us who we are. He could fashion us through evolution.

So this article doesn't entirely disprove Islams stance on evolution.

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Support for evolution:


Quran 29:20 Say: "Travel through the Earth and see how He BEGAN the Creation. THEN, Allah makes the latter Creation. Allah is capable of (doing) everything".

24.45 . Allah has created every animal out of water . Of them (is a category which) walks upon its belly, (another which) walks upon two legs, and ( a third which) walks upon four . Allah creates what He wills. Allah is Able to do everything (He wants).

21: 30 Have not those who disbelieve seen (known) that the heavens and the Earth were of one connected entity, then We separated them (from each other), and We made every living thing out of water? Will they not then believe?

71.17. And Allah has caused you to grow out of the earth like plants.

32.7. (Allah is He) who has made everything He created BETTER, and He began the creation of the human (being) out of clay.--> He made everything he created better. Evolution could have been a mechanism.

Please read the article linked at the end  for more Quranic verses.


I'm a Muslim who strongly believes in evolution by design NOT in blind evolution and chance, natural selection and chance alone CANNOT make such a wonderful tree of life.

-Eve from Adam's rib:  Most of the ideas that contradict evolution among Muslims are from the myths of other religions which were imported to Islam and attributed falsely to the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Our father Adam (peace be upon him) was preferred or chosen over other people of his time as Allah stated clearly in Quran 3:33-34, just like Allah chose any prophet after him also Quran stated in these verses that all were "offspring", Adam was included and Allah is never short of words.

-Creation of Adam in Heaven: There is no such thing in the Quran, Adam was reworded to stay in Heaven with his wife AFTER he won the contest against the angels (the naming of creatures) as Quran stated clearly in 2:35 and 7:19. When Adam disobeyed Allah and ate from the tree him and his wife were sent back to Earth.

-Why Adam disobeyed Allah? Because Allah didn't promise Adam to be immortal in Heaven, Adam was growing older and Satan promised him that if he ate from the immortality tree then he will not grow older. Quran: 20:120 and 7:20

-Creation of Adam from dust: We are all created from dust, just like our father Adam. Quran 18:37, Quran 30:20, Quran 35:11, Quran 40:67.

-Adam was created suddenly: Just This verse is enough to refute such claim and there are many others Quran 7:11: And We created you (humans, in plural form), THEN fashioned you (made you in the image you are, also addressing humans in plural form), then said to the angels: Prostrate to Adam!

-How can Adam be our father if there were many humans?: The children of the smart man that Allah chose were the most fit to survive to our days (survival of the fittest), there are many other human species which we found their fossils only and they didn't make it to our time. Allah chose Adam and gave him a challenge of naming creatures and Adam was able to do that, the other hominids at the time did not have the intellectual capacity to do so! So Allah told the angels to prostrate to Adam, God's perfected creation (through evolution). Adam is our father because he is the hominid creature that survived (the most fit).

Similarity of Adam And Jesus (Peace and blessings be upon them): Quran 3:59 talks about the similitude between Adam and Jesus. Anti-evolution muslims assert that this means that they were both created miraculously and instantly. Well, Jesus was not. Jesus developed as an Embryo, so Adam would have too. Jesus was born without a father but he had a mother--> Adam may have too, perhaps the mother bearing Adam was non-human like and God caused a mutation to make Adam. That is of course how mutations occur, they occur before the fetus is formed.  Further into verse 3:59, when Allah said 'be' and it is, is most likely referring to genetic processes like a mutation. How could have Jesus been created without a father scientifically? Perhaps Allah has added genetic processes to the egg before it became a fetus to make Jesus, the same occurred to Adam.  Also take note that: The biggest similarity between Jesus and Adam (pbut) though is that they were both prophets when they were born, So compared to the other prophets, like Muhammad (pbuh) who was told he was a prophet later in life, Jesus and Adam have the most similarity.

If you guys are interested in giving birth without sperm (father) take a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1431489.stm there are many other articles about this online and it is a work in progress. Allah is most definitely able to make Jesus and Adam without a father

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Allah is NOT a wizard, He does NOT pull new stars and new galaxies from a magic hat and certainly He doesn't do that for new species. Allah created and planned this universe on scientific laws; evolution is just one of them. Evolution means way more ingenious creator than a wizard who had to come to Earth and pull species one after another because he couldn't plan that from the beginning and you know very well that Allah is the best planner, evolution was part of the plan from the beginning of creation of this universe.

Please read the article linked here, don't be brainwashed by the myths of other religions. Just because Christianity is against it, doesn't mean Islam is. Thank you.

Click on the link below for more information about evolution in the Qur'an:

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Islamic%20Editorials/2007/October/Creation%20and%20Evolution%20in%20the%20Holy%20Qur%27an%20By%20Hassan%20El-Najjar.htm


May Allah guide us into the right path. Thank you Brother Osama for an amazing website! May Allah reward you.


I would like to conclude this with a verse from the Quran, chapter 59:24

He is Allah , the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner The Evolver (al bari); to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

^Not only does Allah create, he FASIONS creation, he EVOLVES creation.