Lets assume that the Quran has scientific miracles that can only be discovered with modern knowledge and technology. People would interpret those verses in tafsirs that that made sense to them in the past. But now we are in the future and we discover that there is a deeper meaning to the Quran. God intended this to happen, he had to make sure:
1.) Verses in the Quran do not clearly contradict what the ancients at the time of Muhammad believed
2.) Verses in the Quran do not clearly contradict and clearly support the future scientific facts what the future people believed
^For example,
Imagine the moon was actually made of cheese. We believe right now that it is not made of cheese. Imagine a prophet comes and tells us the moon is made of cheese--we would all reject him, we would call him unscientific and an idiot and his religion would not get passed on. So what does God do?-he makes a verse in the Quran that hints at the scientific absurdity the moon is made of a rock but tells us in it is actually made of Cheese so we can discover in the future. So the verse would be like "And by the moon with it's coagulated milky protrusions"--
(Obviously I have not matched the elegance or divine superiority of the Quran, but this is just an example). So now:
1.) we would not see this as a contradiction (the moon has white or milk-like protusions): CHECK
2.) Future people will discover the moon is actually made of cheese and will say it is a miracle: (Cheese is coagulated milk). CHECK
^I know it is a stupid example, but it works. The Reality is, people in the future will say this is not a scientific miracle, it is just describing what the moon looks like or that the moon sometimes looks like cheese and it is just an observation..etc. They will make many excuses to deny this miracle (if it were real) Etc..
The final connection:Imagine the prophet muhammad explicity told them science clearly that contradicted their beliefs? They would never believe in Muhammad. So what did God do? God ingeniously left verses that have multiple meanings that *hints* to what the ancients believed but DOES NOT contradict scientific facts of the future! For example, the Arabs thought the Earth was flat and didn't move. The Quran does not say the Earth is flat and didn't move, The Quran does not explicitly state the Earth is round and moves: if it did, people would have never followed Muhammad. So what does the Quran do: It stays silent on the subject but it gives you hints the Earth is round and moves (The mountains you reckon as solid are moving like the motion of clouds, etc.).
So in conclusion: You can say that verses 81:15-16 were talking about the night stars disappearing AND black holes. The reason why I say black holes too is because of the way the verses are worded. So this is an example of Allah making sure the people of the past and the future do not see a contradiction in those verses and that the people of the future can use these verses to increase their faith. Also: Recognize that the Quran is separating verses 15/16 from 17/18. So it is talking about 2 different phenomena! So verses 15 and 16 are seperate from 17/18.
So I swear by the retreating stars -(81:15)
Those that run [their courses] and disappear -(81:16)
^ He swears by the retreating stars that run their courses and disappear
And by the night as it closes in(81:17)^So he swears by the retreating stars that run their courses and disappear AND the night that closes in
And by the dawn when it breathes(81:18)What does he mean by the dawn when it breathes and why is separate from the night as it closes in? Scientifically, plans photosynthesize in the morning and respire (BREATHE) at night! ANOTHER MIRACLE! That is why the Quran separates those verses, they are pointing to different phenomena.
^So he So he swears by the retreating stars that run their courses and disappear AND the night that closes in AND the dawn when it breathes! Three different swears=three different phenomena
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But lets assume those verses are NOT talking about black holes, there are many other verses that do:
[Quran 86.1-3] And the heaven and the "Knocker" (Tarek in Arabic) 2 How could you know about the "Knocker"? 3 The piercing star (Thakeb in Arabic). ^ A star that pierces..hmm--> A black hole literally pierces!!! The Arabic word "Thukb" means hole; "Thakeb" means the one who makes the hole. The Quran is describing a knocking star that makes a hole.
More on it: From:
http://www.speed-light.info/relativity_quran.htmGeneral relativity predicted the formation of black holes from neutron stars. (Neutron stars are remnants of exploded stars, see Iron below). As more matter falls into a neutron star its mass increases; and as its mass increases its gravity increases. A point will be reached where gravity would have grown so much that not even light could escape, thus a black hole forms.
Most neutron stars discovered today are in the form of radio pulsars. They are called radio pulsars because they emit radio waves; we can simply connect a radio telescope to a loud speaker and hear a pulsar. Pulsars sound like someone persistently knocking. Click here and listen to a slow knocking pulsar. Click here and listen to a fast knocking pulsar.
So in short, we can hear a pulsar knock; and if matter continues to fall into this pulsar a black hole will eventually form. Moslems say that this is what Allah says. The Quran describes a star by "The one who knocks" and says that it is "The one who makes a hole".
[Quran 86.1-3] And the heaven and the "Knocker" (Tarek in Arabic) 2 How could you know about the "Knocker"? 3 The piercing star (Thakeb in Arabic).
The Arabic word "Thukb" means hole; "Thakeb" means the one who makes the hole. The Quran is describing a knocking star that makes a hole.
All stars will eventually die. They will either directly collapse on themselves and become black holes or their remnants will merge with other stars that will eventually become black holes, or if external mass falls into those remnants they will blow up and leave black holes... So black holes are the destiny of most stars. Actually our solar system formed out of debris of a stars 100 times more massive than our sun that exploded and became a black hole. At the center of black holes (collapsed stars) lies a location called the Singularity. An observer far away from a black hole sees the events near a back hole in slow motion. If he shines a beam of light into this black hole he will have to wait forever but still this beam of light will never reach the singularity. The singularity is a location in the future of stars where gravity goes so mad that space and time become indistinguishable. From general relativity we know that this is a location where the structure of spacetime becomes singular (hence the name singularity). However singular (Ahad in Arabic) is one of God's 99 names. In the Quran God swears by the locations of stars which turned out to carry His own name:
[Quran 56.75-77] I swear by the locations of stars, 76 it is a great swear if you knew, 77 it is a noble Quran...
Here God swears not by the stars but rather by their locations (mawakeh in Arabic). Today we know that the future of those locations is singular, that is they carry God's own name: "Ahad".
Moslems ask how could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have figured out Pulsars, Black Holes and Singularity?
