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No Scientific Miracles of the Quran! I remember when I first started practising, one of my earliest "wow" moments came from reading a leaflet at a local mosque about the stages of embryonic development mentioned in the Quran. At the time, it blew my mind. It made me feel so much closer to Islam and gave me this massive drive to dive deeper into the words of the Quran. But fast forward to a few years later when I was studying at a Jamia in Pakistan. One of our teachers told us a story about Mawlana Yusuf Banuri (may Allah have mercy on him). The Mawlana was in Makkah when a prominent Egyptian scholar came to meet him and asked if he had read his 25-volume tafsir called Al-Jawahir. Mawlana Yusuf said yes, but after giving it some polite praise, he told the author he completely disagreed with his approach. The author had built his entire explanation of the Quran around modern scientific discoveries. The Mawlana warned him that even if a verse seems to match a specific scientific discovery today, that science is probably going to be debunked or modified down the line, and when that happens, ordinary Muslims are going to end up disheartened and confused about the text. And he was entirely right. Think about how we interact with the world through science. It's all induction: we collect whatever data we can see, spot a temporary pattern, and try to build a theory around it. Then down the line, someone else comes along with fresh data, points out a completely different pattern, and throws the old theory out the window. That’s just the nature of science, it is built to constantly change and update itself. But the Quran isn't bound by that kind of guesswork. When it talks about the physical world, whether it's the skies, the earth, rain, or how a fetus develops, it speaks from a place of absolute, ultimate reality. It's like a spectator who can see the whole picture from the subatomic level to the galactic level, clearly with their own eyes, completely independent of the limited, flawed observations we rely on. The Creator sees things exactly as they truly are. But because it's addressing human beings who simply don't have the capacity to wrap their heads around that absolute reality, the wording has to meet us where we are. It uses language that stays relatable across thousands of years. By using everyday expressions, idioms, and observational phrases that humans can actually visualize, the message simplifies deep realities. Just because a modern reader tries to force a 21st-century scientific theory into that simplified language, it doesn't mean the verse was meant as a literal blueprint for a modern lab finding. If we don't draw limits, people will not stop at the scientific miracles but add architectural miracles, culinary miracles, artistic miracles etc... At the end of the day, if we lose sight of why the Quran was actually revealed, it just becomes a toy for people looking to connect dots that aren't even there. The real purpose of the Quran is guidance (hidayah), to bring people back to the worship of Allah and to break us away from the false ideas and practices invented by men.