The Rightfulness of Real Science in the Qur'an (A Critique of the Theory of the Rightfulness of Apparent Science in the Qur'an)

Document Type : Original Article

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Director of Quran and Science Department, Al-Mustafa International University

10.22081/jqr.2025.72136.4238

Abstract

The expansion of empirical sciences and the revelation of some apparent conflicts between the propositions of these sciences and the Holy Qur'an led to various reactions from Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers. Some, considering these conflicts to be real, fabricated examples and evidence for this assumption and used it as a pretext to attack the sacredness of the Holy Qur'an. Some, accepting this view, tried to defend the sacredness of the Qur'an by proposing premises such as the non-scientific nature of the Holy Qur'an, the conventionality of the language of the Qur'an, the truthfulness of what the audience of the era of its revelation considered true in their apparent view of nature, and as a result, accepting the legitimacy of apparent science in the Qur'an. They tried to document them without paying attention to the consequences of accepting these alleged premises. A critical analysis of this view shows its many shortcomings; because the rightfulness of the Qur'an and the absence of falsehood in it, as well as the guidance, immortality, and wisdom of this divine text, require that the issues raised in it, whether in the field of human or natural sciences, be completely true and reflect the realities of existence; unless an indication such as the allegory or polemic nature of a verse indicates that God Almighty did not intend to present reality in that particular verse.

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  • Receive Date: 14 June 2025
  • Revise Date: 26 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 29 July 2025
  • Publish Date: 22 December 2025

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