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Quranic Viewpoint regarding Universality of Pairing
By: Mahdi La'li
Tehran, Iran
Before the dawn of the modern era, humans conceived that only animal life was divided into two genders, male and female. Then the discovery was made that this phenomenon was present in plants and vegetation too. We have found this reality existing in every creation, animate as well as inanimate, though in different forms.
In electricity, these two genders can be classified as positive and negative. North and South Pole describe it in magnetism, electron and proton in atoms, matter and antimatter etc. Even bacteria could be positive or negative, while the truth is that this creation is made of pairs 1.
However, the Quran speaks of the universality of pairing in everything. The following glorious verses should indeed attract our attention in this regard:
-And all things We have created by pairs, that haply ye may reflect! Chapter51: verse49
-Glory be to Him, who created all the pairs of what the earth produces, and of themselves, and of what they know not 2. Chapter36: verse36
Given a great amount of thought about the import of these verses may lead us to the reality that how strongly a man 1400 years ago, ascribed the generality of pairing to all the existing things in the universe. To comprehend the magnificence of these miraculous verses, we offer you what scientists have to say about the pairing of all things as a general governing law in the universe.
Scientific Viewpoint
The most familiar of the elementary particles are proton, neutron and proton, which as we have seen, are the constituent particles of ordinary atoms. However, each of these can exist as a separate entity, as in cosmic rays, in the solar wind, in laboratory particle accelerators, or, for that matter, in the ionized gases that make up the bulk of stars.
We have learned in the 20th century, however, that these are by no means all the particles that exist.
First, for each kind of particles, there is a corresponding antiparticle. If the particle carries a charge, its anti has the opposite charge. The anti electron is the positron, of the same mass as the electron, but positively charged. The antineutron, like the neutron has no charge, but interacts with other matter opposite to the way the neutron does. The antiproton has a negative charge.
Some particles- among them the photon and graviton- are their own antiparticles. For them the particles and antiparticles are identical. Whole atoms could exist of positrons, antiprotons, and antineutrons.
These particles constitute what is called antimatter. Such atoms do not exist around here, because when a particle comes in contact with its antiparticle, the two annihilate, turning into energy. Antimatter in our world of ordinary matter, therefore, is highly unstable (in large doses, it would be mighty dangerous  , but individual antiparticles are found in cosmic rays and can be formed in the laboratory 3.
Quranic Viewpoint
The Quran describes the phenomenon in the most astounding manner:
-Glory be to Him, who created all the pairs of what the earth produces, and of themselves, and of what they know not. Chapter36: verse36
The Quranic statement: "...And of what they know not” is as true today as it was when Holy Quran was revealed. Though, we have discovered that every created thing exists in pair, we have yet to discover many things that exist.
As you notice the verses above, it is astonishingly stated that all things have been created in pairs; namely, all the particles in the world exist with their own corresponding antiparticles, as we noticed above.
At this point, it is essential to emphasize that these amazing statements prove the authenticity of Holy Quran as a revelation from Allah, the Glorified, since an illiterate man had not logically been able to make such an exact clarification in regard with the physics of the universe. Holy Quran would be no less than an everlasting miracle in the sight of those who possess right minds. Allah, the Almighty says in the Quran:
-[And] Such similitude coin We for mankind that haply they may reflect. Chapter59: verse21
References
1. The Bible, The Quran and Science (Le Bible, le Coran et la Science)," The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge, by Dr. Maurice Bucaille, French Physician, Seghers, Paris, 1987, English version published by North American Trust Publication, 1978.
2. Holy Quran translated by Marmaduke Pickthall, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London, Fifth Edition, 1969.
3. Exploration of the Universe, by Abell, Morrison, Wolff, Saunders College publishing, USA, 1987.
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