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(water cycle science citation).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/science/water-cycle Water Cycle Entry] - Britannica | (water cycle science citation).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/science/water-cycle Water Cycle Entry] - Britannica | ||
[https://scijinks.gov/rain/ What Makes It Rain?] Water and Ice. NOAA SciJinks.gov </ref> '''- this verse mentions clouds specifically | [https://scijinks.gov/rain/ What Makes It Rain?] Water and Ice. NOAA SciJinks.gov </ref> '''- this verse mentions clouds specifically - rain as clouds go to dead land to revive it.''' | ||
----“They have taken gods other than He, in order that they be given victory, but they are not able to give them victory.” (36: 74-75) {{Quran|36|74-75}} - also loses battles to | ----“They have taken gods other than He, in order that they be given victory, but they are not able to give them victory.” (36: 74-75) {{Quran|36|74-75}} - also loses battles to | ||
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* ships that drown | * ships that drown | ||
* Birds held up by God & parallel | * Birds held up by God & parallel | ||
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=== Inanimate objects and animals worship God === | === Inanimate objects and animals worship God === | ||
Inanimate objects that do not have a consciousness capable of worshipping anything. (pre-Islamic parallel)? - ask academic | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|13|13}}|<b>The Thunder celebrates His praise,</b> and the angels [too], in awe of Him, and He releases the thunderbolts and strikes with them whomever He wishes. Yet they dispute concerning Allah, though He is great in might.}}{{Quote|{{Quran|22|18}}|Have you not regarded that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth prostrates to Allah, as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars, the mountains, the trees, and the animals and many humans? And many have come to deserve the punishment. Whomever Allah humiliates will find no one who may bring him honour. Indeed Allah does whatever He wishes.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|13|13}}|<b>The Thunder celebrates His praise,</b> and the angels [too], in awe of Him, and He releases the thunderbolts and strikes with them whomever He wishes. Yet they dispute concerning Allah, though He is great in might.}}{{Quote|{{Quran|22|18}}|Have you not regarded that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth prostrates to Allah, as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars, the mountains, the trees, and the animals and many humans? And many have come to deserve the punishment. Whomever Allah humiliates will find no one who may bring him honour. Indeed Allah does whatever He wishes.}} | ||
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{{Quote|{{Quran|13|15}}|To Allah prostrates whoever there is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows at sunrise and sunset.}}Everything in the cosmos (presumably covering the vast amounts of near-empty space and elements) worships and prostrated before him, as does every animal and angel, all allegedly fearing God ({{Quran|16|49-50}} {{Quran|22|18}}), including the birds, which do so while flying ({{Quran|24|41}}). | {{Quote|{{Quran|13|15}}|To Allah prostrates whoever there is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows at sunrise and sunset.}}Everything in the cosmos (presumably covering the vast amounts of near-empty space and elements) worships and prostrated before him, as does every animal and angel, all allegedly fearing God ({{Quran|16|49-50}} {{Quran|22|18}}), including the birds, which do so while flying ({{Quran|24|41}}). | ||
God sends ''The Quran claims that Lightning is a sign of Allah, it frightens people and gives them hope. But lightning is a complex electrical phenomenon and only somebody without this knowledge would simply attribute it to Allah.'' | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|30|24}}|And among His Signs, He shows you the lightning, by way both of fear and of hope, and He sends down rain from the sky and with it gives life to the earth after it is dead}} | |||
==== Inanimate objects refused the task of being Gods followers, but humans accepted. ==== | ==== Inanimate objects refused the task of being Gods followers, but humans accepted. ==== | ||
It is hard to know what was meant by this or why Allah would offer an inanimate object with no biology for consciousness (unless you think they're magic pegs in the Earth) that he already knew couldn't answer the task, nor how they refused it. (look at tafsirs (some such as al-Jalalayn say they could speak at that time: https://quranx.com/tafsirs/33.72, Ibn Kathir doesn't mention that but took it literally). | It is hard to know what was meant by this or why Allah would offer an inanimate object with no biology for consciousness (unless you think they're magic pegs in the Earth) that he already knew couldn't answer the task, nor how they refused it. (look at tafsirs (some such as al-Jalalayn say they could speak at that time: https://quranx.com/tafsirs/33.72, Ibn Kathir doesn't mention that but took it literally). | ||
it is hard to see why humans would accept this task with the risk of hell being involved, given our natural propensity for risk aversion.<ref>Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky. “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk.” ''Econometrica'', vol. 47, no. 2, 1979, pp. 263–91. ''JSTOR'', <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1914185</nowiki>. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025. | |||
See also: Kahneman, D. (2011). ''Thinking, fast and slow.'' ''Chapter 26: Prospect Theory.''</ref> | See also: Kahneman, D. (2011). ''Thinking, fast and slow.'' ''Chapter 26: Prospect Theory.''</ref> | ||
look for pre-Islamic for parallels. | look for pre-Islamic for parallels. | ||
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* Mountains and earth couldn't deal with task of being human? Worshipping or something they were asked? {{Quran|33|72}} | * Mountains and earth couldn't deal with task of being human? Worshipping or something they were asked? {{Quran|33|72}} | ||
* he animals (every dabba, Q 16:49; 22:18) {{Quran|16|49}} {{Quran|22|18}}worship God by prostrating themselves, including the birds, which do so while flying (Q 24:41). {{Quran|24|41}} | * he animals (every dabba, Q 16:49; 22:18) {{Quran|16|49}} {{Quran|22|18}}worship God by prostrating themselves, including the birds, which do so while flying (Q 24:41). {{Quran|24|41}} | ||
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==== Not random cause and effect; ==== | ==== Not random cause and effect; ==== | ||
{{Main|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Predestination}} | {{Main|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Predestination}} | ||