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He it is Who made for you the night that you may rest therein, and the day giving sight.
(Qur’an, Surah Al-Furqan, 25:47) For over 1,400 years, these words stood quietly in the Qur’an—simple, poetic, and profound. And now, in the age of laboratories and brain scans, science begins to whisper the same truth through a different tongue.
The divine blueprint of human creation
The field of genetics has unlocked profound insights into human biology, revealing the intricate mechanisms of inheritance, DNA sequencing, and the laws governing physical and biological traits. These discoveries echo the divine wisdom found in the Quran, where Allah speaks about the creation of humanity, inheritance, and the boundaries set for human relationships. This article […]
Body “Art” or health hazard?
The intersection of modern scientific discoveries and Islamic teachings often reveals profound alignments, particularly concerning health and well-being. A recent study from the University of Southern Denmark highlights potential health risks associated with tattoos, suggesting a possible link to increased cancer risk due to ink particles migrating to lymph nodes. This finding resonates with Islamic […]
Weird Science
Science has acquired a new meaning in certain Muslim circles. When classical Muslim scholars declared that “whosoever does not know astronomy or anatomy is deficient in the knowledge of God”, they were emphasising the importance of the scientific spirit in Islam and encouraging the pursuit of empirical science. But today, to a significant section of […]
Inventor of the algorithms
Al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician who spent most of his life in Baghdad. He lived during the reign of Caliph al-Ma’mum of the Abbasid caliphate. Al-Khwarizmi is considered the ‘father of algebra’. In 825 AD, Al-Khwarizmi wrote his first book in Arabic to explain the Hindu system. It was titled Al-Khwarizmi on the Hindu Art […]
Zakir Naik Oxford debate
Doctor Zakir Abdul-Karim Naik was born on October 18, 1965 in Mumbai, India, where he completed his primary and secondary education, and general medicine and sur- gery at the University of Mumbai. Although he completed his medical studies, he became one of the most popular international lecturer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. […]
How Islamic inventors changed the world
The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen […]
(700 – 1400 C.E.)
Name Years (C.E.) Description Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber) Died 803 Chemistry (Father of Chemistry) Musa al-Khawarizmi (Algorizm) 770 – 840 Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography (Algorithm, Algebra, Calculus) Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (Alkindus) 800 – 873 Philosophy, Physics, Optics, Medicine, Mathematics, Metallurgy Thabit Ibn Qurra (Thebit) 836 -901 Astronomy, Mechanics, Geometry, Anatomy Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari 838 […]
IBN KHALDUN (1332–1395. C.E. )
Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad is generally known as Ibn Khaldun after a isolated ancestor. His parents, initially Yemenite Arabs, had resolved in Spain, but after the drop of Seville, had migrated to Tunisia. He was born in Tunisia in 1332 C.E., where he obtained his early education and where, still in his teens, he went […]
IBN AL-NAFIS (1213-1288 C.E.)
Ala-al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi al- Damashqi al-Misri was born in 607 C.E. of Damascus. He was educated at the Medical College-cum-Hospital founded by Nur al- Din Zangi. In surgery his teacher was Muhaththab al-Din Abd al- Rahim. Apart from surgery, Ibn al-Nafis discovered jurisprudence, literature and theology. He therefore became a […]
JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273 C.E.)
Jalal al-Din Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Husain al-Rumi was born in 604 A.H. (1207/8 C.E.) at Balkh (now Afghanistan). His dad Baha al-Din was a renowned devout scholar. Under his patronage, Rumi obtained his early education from Syed Burhan-al-Din. When his age was about 18 years, the family (after some migrations) finally resolved […]
IBN AL-BAITAR (DIED 1248 C.E.)
Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Baitar Dhiya al-Din al-Malaqi was one of the greatest researchers of Muslim Spain and was the utmost botanist and pharmacist of the Middle Ages. He was born in the Spanish city of Malaqa (Malaga) towards the end of the 12th century. He wise botany from Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, a […]
IBN RUSHD (1128-1198 C.E.)
Abu’l Waleed Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd, known as Averros in the West, was born in 1128 C.E. in Cordova, where his father and grandfather had both been judges. His grandfather was well versed in Fiqh (Maliki School) and was also the Imam of the Jamia Mosque of Cordova. The juvenile Ibn Rushd […]
AL-IDRISI (1099-1166 C.E.)
Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idris al-Qurtubi al-Hasani, was born in Ceuta, Spain, in 1099 C.E. He was educated in Cordova. subsequent he traveled far and wide in attachment with his studies and then flourished at the Norman court in Palermo. The designated day of his death is contentious, being either 1166 […]
ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI (1058-1128 C.E.)
Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi’i al-Ghazali was born in 1058 C.E. in Khorasan, Iran. His dad died while he was still very young but he had the opening of getting learning in the common curriculum at Nishapur and Baghdad. Soon he came by a high benchmark of scholarship in belief and philosophy […]
OMAR AL-KHAYYAM (1044-1123 C.E.)
Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam was born at Nishapur, the provincial capital of Khurasan round 1044 C.E. (c. 1038 to 1048). Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, doctor and poet, he is commonly renowned as Omar Khayyam. Khayyam means the tent-maker, and whereas usually advised as Persian, it has furthermore been proposed that he […]
IBN SINA (980-1037 C.E.)
Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina was born in 980 C.E. at Afshana beside Bukhara. The juvenile Bu Ali received his early education in Bukhara, and by the age of ten had become well versed in the study of the Qur’an and diverse sciences. He begun revising beliefs by reading various Greek, Muslim and […]
ABU RAIHAN AL-BIRUNI (973–1048 C.E.)
Abu Raihan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad al-Biruni was one of the well-known numbers associated with the court of King Mahmood Ghaznawi, who was one of the well known Muslim kings of the 11th years C.E. Al-Biruni was a versatile scholar and scientist who had identical facility in physics, metaphysics, numbers, geography and annals. Born in the […]
ABU AL-HASAN AL-MAWARDI (972-1058 C.E.)
Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi was born at Basrah in 972 C.E. He was educated at-first in Basrah where, after culmination of his rudimentary education, he learned Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the jurist Abu al-Wahid al-Simari. He then went to Baghdad for sophisticated studies under Sheikh Abd al-Hamid and Abdallah al-Baqi. His […]
ABU ALI HASAN IBN AL-HAITHAM (965-1040 C.E.)
Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham was one of the most eminent physicists, whose contributions to optics and the scientific methods are spectacular. renowned in the West as Alhazen, Ibn al-Haitham was born in 965 C.E. in Basrah, and was educated in Basrah and Baghdad. then, he went to Egypt, where he was asked to find […]