The Quran and the Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Divine Verses and Modern Discoveries

• Asmin Nahar

  Bangladesh University of Professionals

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• Humayra Jannat

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Attempts to relate Qur’anic verses to scientific findings often equate thematic affinity with empirical substantiation, making it necessary to examine the foundations and limits of these relationships. This study analyzes the forms of relationship between Qur’anic accounts of natural phenomena and scientific knowledge and identifies their interpretive limits. It adopts a qualitative literature-based design with comparative and interpretive analysis. Sources include Qur’anic verses, relevant hadith, classical and contemporary exegesis, and scientific literature in cosmology, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology, geology, and biology. The analysis compares textual meaning, empirical support, the form of association, and the scope of conclusions. The findings identify three categories of relationship: thematic correspondence, interpretive analogy, and theological statements. Thematic correspondence emerges in discussions of celestial motion, water and life, hydrological processes, marine resources, and human development. Associations with more specific concepts, such as cosmic expansion, boundaries between water masses, and mountain structures, require additional interpretive arguments. The literature reviewed provides no basis for treating similarities in wording as direct evidence of scientific prediction or for using biological explanations to test resurrection. The study concludes that dialogue between the Qur’an and science must preserve interpretive context, scientific conceptual accuracy, and distinctions between evidential foundations. This framework provides a basis for developing an integration of knowledge that is critical and open to correction, with conclusions limited to the sources reviewed.

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