For Zakaria Kamal, the deepest act of scientific tafsir was not to find a verse predicting the Big Bang. It was to look through a telescope and, in that very act of measurement and calculation, perform a silent dhikr . The scientist, when honest, is a theologian of the concrete. And the Qur’an, when read philosophically, is the manual for that theology.
: Kamal describes Paradise (Jannat) as a separate, greater universe existing beyond our own, while the re-created, collapsed version of our current universe becomes the location of Hell. scientific tafsir zakaria kamal