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Makes female & male: scientific error? :makes barren “He creates whatever He wants and bestows female to whomever He wants and bestows male to whomever He wants. Or He mingles them, males and females, and He makes barren whom He pleases. Lo! He is Knower, Powerful.” (42: 49-50) | Makes female & male: scientific error? :makes barren “He creates whatever He wants and bestows female to whomever He wants and bestows male to whomever He wants. Or He mingles them, males and females, and He makes barren whom He pleases. Lo! He is Knower, Powerful.” (42: 49-50) | ||
{{Quote|Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (pp. 62-63). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.|Even after having been fully set up, the natural realm is thus in no way causally independent of its creator, whom Q 55:29 describes as incessantly busy (kulla yawmin huwa fī shaʾn, “everyday he is engaged in something”).}} | |||
===== Punishes towns that aren't grateful to him in general ===== | ===== Punishes towns that aren't grateful to him in general ===== | ||
''“And Allah sets forth a parable: (Consider) a town safe and secure to which its means of subsistence come in abundance from every quarter; but it became ungrateful to Allah’s favors, therefore Allah made it to taste the utmost degree of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.” (16: 112)'' | ''“And Allah sets forth a parable: (Consider) a town safe and secure to which its means of subsistence come in abundance from every quarter; but it became ungrateful to Allah’s favors, therefore Allah made it to taste the utmost degree of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.” (16: 112)'' | ||
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Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (pp. 73-74). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (pp. 73-74). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | ||
==== Eyes ==== | ==== Eyes ==== | ||
''bʿā). Regarding God’s eyes, one may refer to Gen 6:8 or Ps 11:4 and 33:18, while God’s hand or hands figure, inter alia, at Exod 15:17, Isa 48:13 and 66:2, and Ps 8:4, 19:2, 89:14, and 95:5. God’s face, hands, and eyes are however not the only divine limbs that are invoked in the Bible, which also speaks of God’s finger (see Exod 31:18), feet (Zech 14:4), or back (Exod 33:23). In the Qur’an, this wider range of anthropomorphic figures of speech about God is trimmed down to a small core, namely, God’s eyes, hands, and countenance. That at least some measure of selectivity is at play here is indicated by the fact that the Qur’an retells the scene from Exodus featuring God’s back in a manner that does not involve any reference to divine body parts (cf. Exod 33:18–23 and Q 7:143).'' | |||
Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (p. 76). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | |||
==== Ears ==== | ==== Ears ==== | ||