This note, this idea of Allah covering the day with the night obviously isn't scientific.
Scientifically, it's just that the sun is on the other side or the planet has turned and now it's on the other side of the planet.
So, it's not that the night has covered the sun. Nothing covers the sun in that sense but in our experience from our eye,
it looks like the night has overrun or taken over the sun. This is an important side note to make that I've made often
that the Quran is not speaking in the language of science the Quran is speaking in the language of two perspectives
human perspective and Allah's perspective those are the two perspectives the Ayat speak from.
Sometimes the Ayat are speaking from what you observe you observe that the night took over the sun
from your point of view that's what it looks like and that's how it describes it sometimes Allah will speak from His own perspective
and that perspective is beyond even the perspective of science it's the perspective that nobody else can have.
And that's usually when He talks about spiritual realities or realities that are far beyond our ability to see.
Then he'll talk about Allah's own perspective and often when He talks about His perspective He'll just let us know
"You can't know the reality of it anyway. You don't know much about that anyway."
But the thing is the Quran just like regular language just language at large we don't speak in scientific terms.
That's not how people communicate. Yes we live in a scientific age. Yes. But we still don't speak in scientific terms.
If somebody insults somebody else and you say "Man he got burned." Scientifically there are no burn marks.
First, second or third degree, you don't have to call 911. But you still say they got burned.
That's the language of people we use imagery we use example we use parables we use verbs that allude to other things
"Man he destroyed me in basketball. Oh man I got killed when I watched that movie." Or whatever you didn't die you're still alive
clearly. I don't know how that works. But we say these kinds of things my favorite one is when grandparents say
"My grandchildren stole my heart" and I'm like "It's still there ‏الحمد لله"
So the point here is we shouldn't be so obsessed in trying to find scientific phenomenon in the Quran.
Yes there may be some that are there. But that over obsession because we feel science is the supreme way of thinking in life today
and therefore the Quran will be legitimate if we find more and more scientific phenomenon in the Quran.
That's a weak way of thinking. It's actually already acknowledging somehow that the word of Allah
has to conform to the standards of modern Science and until it does it's not really that powerful or it's not as convincing.
This is a problematic way of thinking for a number of reasons science changes.
Science is changing from one century to the next to the next. The dominant theories about energy or motion
or the very fundamentals of physics today might change in a hundred years.
We don't know because they absolutely did 100 years ago and when at the time the leading scientist of the world
were absolutely convinced that that is what the truth is and anybody who disagreed with them were fools
and now those are the very theories that are considered myth and so if we peg the Quran which is timeless
to science to show that the Quran is a miracle and then science moves on we leave the Quran behind too
because then you just tied it to a theory that is no longer applicable you understand.
So yes there may be very explicit phenomenon of nature and science that we can perhaps say there is some correlation there
like for instance Allah saying that the moon is in fact subservient to the sun which is scientifically in a sense somewhat true
it's light depends on the sun's light it reflects the sunlight, and gravitationally the sun is actually the dominant player
in the solar system and everything else is actually a subsidiary and they are following it.
And so in that sense sure but taking it any further than that is a problem or even using that to say
"Aha Quran is on to something that nobody had ever discovered before." I personally feel that that's a dangerous road to go down.
What is then the miracle of the Quran? My personal view on the miracle of the Quran is that it's timeless
you can validate the Quran from within itself and then you can validate the Quran from outside things.
Science is an outside thing. The first validation of the Quran is within itself. Within its own speech. Within its own powerful messaging.
Within its own language. There is something that is timeless that if anybody ponders they will come to the conclusion
{وَلَوْ كَانَ مِنْ عِنْدِ غَيْرِ اللَّهِ لَوَجَدُوا فِيهِ اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا} [04:82] they'd be convinced this can only be the word of God.