Not only contains stories from the past, the Qur’an also contains a lot of information about science (science) like astronomy. Astronomy with all its phenomena is one type of science that is mentioned a lot in the Quran. Humans are stimulated to study celestial phenomena through science and place celestial bodies as God’s creatures that are not taboo to study.
Science is a methodology for understanding nature, understanding the workings of nature. The need to perfect the prayers of Muslims gave birth to practical astronomy, gave birth to a scientific methodology, which essentially contained observations, measurements, understandings, or explanations.
The universe is circumambulating written by T. Djamaluddin, research professor of astronomy-astrophysics, LAPAN, presents a concrete discussion of astronomy in the Koran. Books This presents an interesting discussion about the world of astronomy so that readers can easily understand various things about astronomy which for some people are still relatively foreign.
The author explains, knowing astronomy to understand the Koran is important so that humans can know the greatness of God’s creation that they do not know. Al-Quran reveals that the universe was created with a certain period of time, the universe begins and ends (Surah Al-Dukhan [44]: 38), the universe was not created in vain, there are benefits to be sought, benefits for human life.
Through a 152-page book that is discussed with a fairly detailed discussion of the phenomena of the universe, the reader can know that the author has a scientific perspective, not only purely an understanding of astronomical science about celestial phenomena, but also has a relationship with the attitude of obedience to the exaltation of celestial objects and phenomena. to Allah swt.
In this book, readers can find themes of writing on astronomy as a “bridge” regarding the Koran in several chapters such as the Sky, Sun, Light, Stars, Rainbows, Black Holes, Earth, to Eclipses.
Perhaps, not many writers have discussed the correlation between scientific astronomy and the Qur’an, so this book is so unique and interesting to be discussed and studied, even discussed in various forums to give birth to various opinions or responses about astronomical phenomena from the perspective of the Qur’an. Hopefully the presence of this book can enrich the reader’s insight about various things related to astronomy.
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