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Al-Quran,
Chapter 36 Ya-Sin, Verse 36 |
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the Name of Allah, The Benevolent, The Merciful |
Glory be to
Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth
produces and from themselves and from things unknown to
them. |
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While "male and female" is equivalent to the concept of
"pair," "things unknown to them," as expressed in the Quran,
bears a broader meaning. Indeed, we encounter one of the
meanings pointed to in the verse in the present day. The
British physicist Paul Dirac, who discovered that matter was
created in pairs, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933.
This finding, known as "parity," revealed the duality known
as matter and anti-matter. Anti-matter bears the opposite
characteristics to matter. For instance, contrary to matter,
anti-matter electrons are positive and protons negative.
This fact is expressed in a scientific source as follows:
... every particle has its antiparticle of opposite
charge… The uncertainty relation tells us that pair creation
and pair annihilation happen in the vacuum at all times, in
all places.47
Another example of duality in creation is
plants. Botanists only discovered that there is a gender
distinction in plants some 100 years ago.48 Yet, the fact
that plants are created in pairs was revealed in the
following verses of the Quran 1,400 years ago: |
There are antimatter equivalents of all the basic particles
in the universe. Antimatters possess the same mass but carry
opposite charges. For that reason, when matter and
antimatter make contact they disappear by turning into
energy. |
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Al-Quran,
Chapter 31 Luqman, Verse 10 |
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In
the Name of Allah, The Benevolent, The Merciful |
It is
Allah Who created the heavens with no support-you can
see them-and cast firmly embedded mountains on the earth
so that it would not move under you, and scattered about
in it creatures of every kind. And We send down water
from the sky and make every generous plant grow in it,
in pairs. |
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Al-Quran,
Chapter 20 Ta-Ha, Verse 53 |
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In
the Name of Allah, The Benevolent, The Merciful |
It is He
Who made the earth a cradle for you and threaded
pathways for you through it and sent down water from the
sky by which We have brought forth diverse pairs of
plants. |
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Footnotes
47. Henning Genz, “Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space,”
205, www.2think.org/nothingness.shtml
48. The Revival 5, Issue 2, “Wanna C A Miracle: Quran: The
Living Miracle,” www.therevival.co.uk/Revival_issue/vol5_iss2_quran_miracle.htm. |
