Employing Scientific Facts in Interpreting the Holy Quran between Theory and Application

Abstract

The research addresses an important issue - which some people sometimes confuse - which is not distinguishing between scientific theory and scientific fact, and not knowing the conditions of each of them, and what results from that when using each of them in interpreting the Holy Quran, although this is known to specialists and craftsmen, since theory has its conditions and scientific fact as well, so when the interpreter deals with scientific theory, he deals with it as an aspect of interpretation based on ijtihad, and it is not necessary that this opinion is correct, because he said in the verse with his ijtihad, so if he is right then he has two rewards and if he is wrong then he has one reward, and everyone is rewarded. As for scientific facts, scientists deal with them in the field of scientific miracles of the Qur’an, and therefore speaking about them is absolutely correct, because they have become a definitive truth, and are not subject to doubt. Hence, the truth is used in the field of miracles of the Qur’an, because miracles are a field of challenge, and the challenger must be standing on solid ground. As for the theory, it is used in interpretation, and interpretation is an effort, and there is no prohibition from the interpreter saying about the verse what his effort dictates to him.