4.6 对自然现象的描述
4.6 Descriptions Of Natural Phenomena
《古兰经》提请读者注意众多自然现象，这些现象都是安拉权能、智慧、慈悯等的明证。随着人类对自然运行规律的理解不断加深，这些古兰经描述的奇妙之处也日益显现。此处并非详细讨论这一问题的场合，下面仅举几例以作说明。
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.
“我以大能创造了天空，而且，我的确在扩展它。”58
“The heaven I created by might, and, verily, I am expanding it.58
阿拉伯语词 moos‘ioon 是一个主动分词。它表示一个正在当前发生、并将持续到未来的持续性动作。直到光谱仪的发明和一台巨大的（直径100英寸）反射望远镜的研制，埃德温·哈勃才得以在1926年发现其他星系，并于1927年记录下它们光谱的红移，这表明它们正在远离我们。《大英百科全书》对此评论道："这一发现的意义是巨大的。长期被认为是静止的宇宙，正在膨胀。"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
安拉在《光明章》中说
Allaah says in Soorah an-Noor
“你难道没有看见真主如何轻轻地推动云层，然后把它们聚集在一起，再堆积成团吗？你看见雨点从云层中间涌出。他从天空中降下冰雹，那天上有如山岳般的冰雹，他愿意降给谁，就降给谁；他愿意避开谁，就避开谁。”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
《海湾新闻》1997年5月30日星期五刊登了如下消息:
Gulf News of Friday, May 30th, 1997 carried the following item:
地球不断受到一种此前未被探测到的来自外层空间的“宇宙雨”的冲刷。这些天体持续地向大气中注入大量水分,这是周三公布的一项令人震惊的新证据所揭示的。
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.
这些物体是20至40吨重的雪球，大小相当于两居室的房屋，每天成千上万地划入大气层，在距地面600至15,000英里的高空解体，且不会造成危害，并留下大团水汽，这些水汽最终以雨的形式落到地球表面。这是爱荷华大学的路易斯·A·弗兰克的说法。他领导的研究小组首次拍到了这些物体的图像，图像分别在紫外和可见光波段拍摄，所用的是弗兰克专门设计的仪器，该仪器搭载于NASA已运行一年的极地号航天器上。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
这些例子只是“冰山一角”。还有许多在海洋学、地质学、宇宙起源学、物理学、生物学、胚胎学、词源学、水文学以及其他学科方面极其精确的论述。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
Surah adh-Dhariyat (51):47 is a verse of the Qur'an, so I translate its meaning, which the rules call for: the verse's text is in braces in the original, and here it is given as a reference. **Chinese translation:** 第五十一章 风尘（Adh-Dhariyat）第47节： 我以力量建造了天空，我确是扩大天空的。
58 Soorah ath-Thaariyaat (51):47.
59 《新大英百科全书》，第6卷，第114页。
59 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 114.
《古兰经》24:43
60 Soorah an-Noor (24):43.
61 Gulf News,1997年5月30日,星期五,第10页。
61 Gulf News, Friday, May 30th, 1997, p. 10.
欲深入了解，可参阅莫里斯·布凯耶（Maurice Bucaille）所著的《古兰经与现代科学》，以及加里·米勒（Gary Miller）所著的《奇妙的古兰经》。
62 For further reading, see The Qur’aan and Modern Science, by Maurice Bucaille and The Amazing Qur’an, by Gary Miller.