Cosmology and creation
Family: Evolution, origins and modern science · 6 entries
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Cosmic signs, miracles and the Qur'an as sign
Sha'rawi holds that disbelief is an attempt to hide God's existence, and one hides only what exists. He divides the signs into cosmic signs that God made to serve humanity, miracles that God breaks natural order to bring through a messenger to confirm him, and the Qur'an itself as signs.Reflection on God's signs in creation
Sha'rawi holds that the Qur'an calls for reflection on God's signs in the universe, that material sciences build on earlier knowledge God gives, and that every discovery was present potentially before it was found.The signs in the human being (ayat al-insan)
The signs of God in the human being, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents them: the upright stature and the unique fingerprint, breathing and the harmony of creation, and perfection and decline in the body and the soul.Adam's descendants latent in him
Sha'rawi holds that Adam's descendants were latent in him at creation, that life has been continuous since Adam, that each person carries a part of Adam, and that the angels prostrated to Adam and his descendants.The world's createdness or eternity
The eternity debate as al-Mas'udi stages it: Indian and Greek eternalists' great-year recurrence, the naturalists' hot-wet generation against cold-dry corruption, then his own kalam proof from the world's finite parts to a formless Maker — followed by the peoples' world-ages: the Jews' scriptural six thousand years, the Christians' agreement, and the Sabians' Greek doctrine.The human khilafa (stewardship) on earth
Sha'rawi holds that khilafa means the succession of people on the earth, that God subjected the universe to Adam by His will, and that the angels were informed because they had tasks with this new creature.
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