Quora Answer: Does the Qur’an or Ahadits Approve of Evolution?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ Does the Qur’an or ahadits approve evolution? ” There is nothing in the Qur’an or the ahadits that explicitly endorses evolution. However, there is nothing in them that endorses creationism either. The Qur’an does not state that Creation was Created in six days; rather those verses are correctly interpreted as six stages. In fact, it was a Muslims scholar, Imam Abu ‘Utsman ‘Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Baswri al-Jahizh ( r.a. ), who proposed a theory of evolution more than a thousand years before Charles Robert Darwin. The general body of Muslim scholars of the natural sciences never subscribed to creationism. The closest we have is theistic creationism. No Muslim scholar ever believed as some Protestant Christians proposed, in the Young Earth creationism. Now, we have Muslims, particularly people like Adnan Oktar, who have co-opted thi...