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While driving I used to listen to recitation from the holy Quran. By the time I
completed translation by Pickthall, I felt that there were great treasures of sciences,
as divine revelation to mankind. I noted that there were many misconceptions,
besides lack of knowledge, about God, divinity, spirituality, materiality, natural
phenomena, historiography, naturalhistory, sciences, etc. I completed about a
dozen different audio translations. Everytime there were new spiritual
experiences, and sciences peeling off truth, layer by layer.
I did not start with tafsir. Many of them are thickly painted in specific school
of thought, and even claimed as such. However, after reading some plain
translations, old and new, I compared interpretations, tafsir, and dictionaries. Then, I collected some material on sciences in the Quran, given in this book, with
references.
Many verses of the holy Quran end with some combination of the Most
Beautiful Best Names and Attributes of God, relating to the facts mentioned in the
verse, section or surah. I have listed these, and tried to find and collate their
context, and explore meanings in the light of available resources and sciences on
the relevant subjects.
The aim of this humble exercise, started in 1995, is no more than inviting
attention for consideration, deliberation, thinking and reasoning, into facts and
phenomena mentioned in the Quran and increasing evidence provided by sciences
including natural history.
By the Grace of Allah, the Ever-All Gracious, the Ever All-Merciful , I sent
this compilation, titled 'Know your God', to Prof Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf,
Principal Cadet College, Larkana, for review in February 2008, and finally to Mr
Noor Ahmed Memon for publishing and printing on 10.3.2008. There can be
gaps, different interpretations, and even defficiencies in collating data pertaining to
various sciences refered in the Quran. It will be a great service, to point these out
for correction and improvement. I may also suggest to take up projects for
research in the facts, phenomena and sciences, mentioned in the Quran.
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