SPIDER’S WEB, THE FRAGILE HOME

The example of those who take allies other than Allah is like that of the spider who takes a home. And indeed, the weakest of homes is the home of the spider, if they only knew.

AL‑ANKABUT (41)

[Al-Qur’an 29:41]

Besides giving the physical description of the spider’s web as being very flimsy, delicate and weak, the Qur’an also stresses on the flimsiness of the relationship in the spider’s house, where the female spider many a times kills its mate, the male spider. The parable also has reference to the weakness of such relationship of the people who seek protection for this world and for the hereafter from those other than Allah.

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ATOMS CAN BE DIVIDED

In ancient times a well-known theory by the name of ‘Theory of Atomism’ was widely accepted. This theory was originally proposed by the Greeks, in particular by a scholar called Democritus, who lived about 23 centuries ago. Democritus and the people that came after him, assumed that the smallest unit of matter was the atom. The ancient Arabs used t...

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PHYSIOLOGY BLOOD CIRCULATION AND MILK

The Qur’an was revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the circulation of the blood and 1,000 years before William Harwey brought this understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the process of digestive absorptio...

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Belief in the Torah and the Bible will guide you to believe in Muhammad

The "true" Torah and Gospel were ordering to do what is good and forbidding falsehood. Muhammad was sent for the same purpose, and Qur’an is to complete the way of the true Torah and Gospel. Allah said : ( interpretation of the meaning ) : { Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Tor...

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THE Quran And EMBRYOLOGY ( 10 )

The first sense to develop in a developing human embryo is hearing. The fetus can hear sounds after the 24th week. Subsequently, the sense of sight is developed and by the 28th week, the retina becomes sensitive to light. The Qur'an explains it thus: { Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul and made for you hearing...

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Earth's crust faults

The Qur’an proved that one of the most prominent features of the earth’s crust is that it is divided by a network of deep faults into twelve major pieces. Allah said ( interpretation of the meaning ) : { And [by] the earth which splits,1 } Quran ( AT-TARIQ : 12 )

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The sun is not static

Modern science has proven that the sun travels at a speed of 43,200 miles per hour, this fact is proven by the Qur’an. Allah said ( interpretation of the meaning ) : { And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing. } Quran ( YASEEN : 38 )

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SPIDER’S WEB, THE FRAGILE HOME