Shehryar sahb: when we respond to atheist arguments, we know that people who raise these questions with us do not do so after they have carried out some original work. They have been hearing about those questions from atheists and don’t get good answers from scholars. They themselves have poor understanding of both science and scripture.

I knew from your use of word “explosion” for Big Bang that you haven’t studied science after high school.

Of course, Allah should be able to provide engineering level details of everything, but He closed the window of revelation 14 centuries ago. And, even when revelations were being made to Allah’s prophets, Allah answers whatever questions He decides to answer, none can “demand” answers from Him.

However, science cannot disprove anything stated in the scripture, if there is a God and scripture is from Him.

So that is the basis of “scientism” (atheism) a system of faith based on presumption that science will one day prove faith in Allah to be wrong and baseless.

Sabeeh sahb: I made it very clear that what you wrote as initial question was not a question. It is a common and regular attack of atheists on the validity of scriptures.

To say that you can decide if you’ve discovered a mistake in the scripture was aimed at making you realize that:

1- when you ask questions they should be phrased like questions.

2- If you phrase it like an objection (reference your phrase that included the word “contradiction” and overall form and content of your long paragraph, which is in a conclusive tone, as if conveying settled and agreed upon truths of science.) It is a typical tactic of militant atheists.

So, if you overheard it from someone, it was important to make you realize that the ideas you seem to believe in so firmly are simply very ignorant.

I say this to you in all sincerity and without a fee for my time. (Please remember that you pay heavy fee to your medical college, and do not know what’s my teaching fee and how many times more than your medical professors. And, no fee is charged on this forum).

Every human and especially students and scholars should first learn how to learn. That would include learning right mannerisms to attend a professor’s class, a scholar’s lecture, or a discussion among well educated people. Academically correct use of language is also a prerequisite of participation in any learning process.

Dr. Irfan sahb: thank you for sharing proper reference to the ayaat of Quran. I listened to recitation and translation several times.

The subject is warning against shirk. Reference to Allah’s acts of creation of heavens (as in sky or universe) and earth is made to impress upon mankind that He has no rival.

The same subject of creation of heavens and earth in Genesis (bible) became target of atheist attack during the period of political revolutions in 16th century Europe.

Whereas, ayat 12 that says Allah “revealed/inspired, in each “heaven”, its “command” is the foundation of modern science.

Because Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton (and everyone else at that time) believed in Allah and were looking for Laws of Allah (later to be called laws of nature) that govern the physical universe because they knew from scriptures that Allah made everything with power of His intellect and is governed by His commands. That’s why laws of physics are called “laws”, which would not be a correct use of word law if they did not believe in the divine Lawgiver/Lawmaker.

Ayat 12 informs us that each of the seven universes has its own set of laws of physics. Theories about multiple universes in physics are based on the idea that slight changes in value of “constants” of physics can create different universes.