4.6 Maelezo ya Matukio ya Kimaumbile
4.6 Descriptions Of Natural Phenomena
Qur'ani inamvuta usikivu wa msomaji kwenye matukio mengi ya kimaumbile ambayo ni dalili za uwezo wa Allah, hekima yake, rehema yake, na mengineyo. Kadiri ufahamu wa binadamu kuhusu mwenendo wa maumbile unavyoongezeka, hali ya kimuujiza ya maelezo haya ya Qur'ani inazidi kudhihirika. Hapa si mahali pa majadiliano ya kina kuhusu suala hili, lakini mifano michache inatajwa kama mfano wa kuonyesha.
The Qur’aan calls the reader’s attention to numerous natural phenomena that are indicators of Allaah’s power, wisdom, mercy, etc. As humanity’s understanding of the workings of the natural has increased, the miraculous nature of these Qur’aanic descriptions has become manifest. This is not the forum for a detailed discussion of this issue, but a few examples are mentioned by way of illustration.
"Mbingu nilizozijenga kwa uwezo, na hakika mimi ni mwenye kuzipanua."58
“The heaven I created by might, and, verily, I am expanding it.58
Neno la Kiarabu moos‘ioon ni kitenzi-shirikishi tendaji (active participle). Linaonyesha tendo linaloendelea kutokea sasa na litaendelea kuwepo siku zijazo. Haikuwa hadi uvumbuzi wa spektrografu na uundaji wa darubini kubwa ya kuakisi (yenye kipenyo cha inchi 100) ndipo Edward Hubble aliweza kugundua galaksi nyingine mwaka 1926, na kuandika mwaka 1927 mabadiliko mekundu (red shift) ya mionzi yao ya spektra, yanayoonyesha kuwa zinasogea mbali nasi. Encyclopaedia Britannica inasema kuhusu jambo hili: “Athari za ugunduzi huu zilikuwa kubwa mno. Ulimwengu, ambao kwa muda mrefu ulifikiriwa kuwa tuli, ulikuwa unapanuka.”59
The Arabic word moos‘ioon is an active participle. It indicates an ongoing action that is occurring at the present time and will continue into the future. It was not until the invention of the spectrograph and the development of a huge (100 in. diameter) reflecting telescope that Edward Hubble was able to discover other galaxies in 1926 and to document in 1927 the red shift of their spectra that indicates they are moving away from ours. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says about this: “The implications of this discovery were immense. The universe, long considered static, was expanding.”59
Allah anasema katika Surat an-Nur
Allaah says in Soorah an-Noor
Je, huoni kwamba Allah huzisogeza mawingu kwa upole, kisha huyaunganisha pamoja, kisha huyafanya kuwa rundo? Nawe huona matone ya mvua yakitoka katikati yake. Yeye huteremsha mawe ya barafu kutoka angani, kutoka milima ya barafu iliyomo humo, na huyapeleka yaanguke kwa amtakaye, na huyaepusha na amtakaye. {Je, huoni kwamba Allah huzisogeza mawingu kwa upole, kisha huyaunganisha pamoja, kisha huyafanya kuwa rundo? Nawe huona matone ya mvua yakitoka katikati yake. Yeye huteremsha mawe ya barafu kutoka angani, kutoka milima ya barafu iliyomo humo, na huyapeleka yaanguke kwa amtakaye, na huyaepusha na amtakaye.} 60
“Have you not seen how Allaah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them a heap? And you see raindrops issuing from their midst. He sends down hail from the sky from mountains of hail therein, causing it to fall on whom he wills and averting it from whom he wills.” 60
Gazeti la Gulf News la Ijumaa, Mei 30, 1997, lilichapisha habari ifuatayo:
Gulf News of Friday, May 30th, 1997 carried the following item:
Dunia imeoshwa na "mvua ya kikosmiki" ya vitu visivyojulikana hapo awali kutoka angani, ambavyo humwaga kiasi kikubwa cha maji kwenye angahewa, kulingana na ushahidi wa kushangaza uliotolewa Jumatano.
Earth is bathed by a steady “cosmic rain” of previously undetected objects from outer space that pour vast quanti-ties of water into the atmosphere, according to startling new evidence released Wednesday.
Vitu hivyo, mipira ya barafu yenye uzito wa tani 20 hadi 40 na ukubwa wa nyumba yenye vyumba viwili vya kulala, huruka angani kwa maelfu kila siku, huvunjika bila madhara maili 600 hadi 15,000 juu, na kuacha mawingu makubwa ya mvuke wa maji ambayo hatimaye huanguka juu ya uso wa Dunia kama mvua, kulingana na Louis A. Frank wa Chuo Kikuu cha Iowa. Yeye aliongoza timu ya utafiti iliyofanikiwa, kwa mara ya kwanza, kunasa picha za vitu hivyo... zilizopigwa katika mawimbi ya urujuanimno na yale yanayoonekana kwa macho, kwa kutumia chombo maalum kilichobuniwa na Frank, kilichowekwa ndani ya chombo cha anga cha NASA cha Polar, ambacho kilikuwa na umri wa mwaka mmoja.61
The objects, 20- to 40-ton snowballs the size of two-bedroom houses, streak into the atmosphere by the thousands each day, disintegrate harmlessly 600 to 15,000 miles up and deposit large clouds of water vapor that eventually falls on Earth’s surface as rain, according to Louis A. Frank of the University of Iowa. He led the research team that for the first time has captured images of these objects...taken at both ultraviolet and visible wavelengths by Frank’s specially designed instrument aboard NASA’s year old Polar spacecraft.61
Mifano hii ni "ncha ya barafu" tu. Kuna kauli nyingine nyingi zenye usahihi wa ajabu kuhusu sayansi ya bahari (oceanography), jiolojia, asili ya ulimwengu (cosmogony), fizikia, biolojia, embryolojia, etimolojia, hidrolojia na masomo mengine.62
These examples are just the “tip of the iceberg.” There are other remarkably accurate statements about oceanography, geology, cosmogony, physics, biology, embryology, etymology, hydrology and other subjects.62
Sura adh-Dhariyat (51):47.
58 Soorah ath-Thaariyaat (51):47.
59 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 114.
59 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 114.
Sūrah an-Nūr (24):43
60 Soorah an-Noor (24):43.
61 Gulf News, Ijumaa, Mei 30, 1997, uk. 10.
61 Gulf News, Friday, May 30th, 1997, p. 10.
Kwa usomaji zaidi, angalia The Qur’aan and Modern Science, cha Maurice Bucaille, na The Amazing Qur’an, cha Gary Miller.
62 For further reading, see The Qur’aan and Modern Science, by Maurice Bucaille and The Amazing Qur’an, by Gary Miller.