This document contains summaries of several passages from the Quran and additional context from scientific sources that demonstrate similarities between ancient descriptions and modern scientific discoveries, including: 1) The Quran's description of stars guiding travelers by land and sea is echoed by our modern understanding of navigation using stars. 2) Verses describing clouds forming and releasing rain are consistent with scientific processes of cloud formation and precipitation. 3) References to layers of darkness in deep sea waters parallel the scientific absorption of light at increasing depths in the ocean.

8. And He it is Who has made the stars for you that you might follow the right way thereby in
the darkness of the land and the sea; truly We have made plain the communications for a
people who know. ( Quran6:97)

9. Everything’s orbiting something it seems. The Moon goes
around the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun. But did you
know that the Sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy?
"and the sun and the moon, all travelling in orbits.“ (Quran 21:33)
Position of the Sun in the Milky Way. Image credit: NASA

12. Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then
makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it.... (Quran, 24:43)
When the small clouds join together,
updrafts within the larger cloud
increase. The updrafts near the center
of the cloud are stronger than those
near the edges.2 These updrafts cause
the cloud body to grow vertically, so the
cloud is stacked up . This vertical
growth causes the cloud body to stretch
into cooler regions of the atmosphere,
where drops of water and hail formulate
and begin to grow larger and
larger. When these drops of water and
hail become too heavy for the updrafts
to support them, they begin to fall from
the cloud as rain, hail,

13. Between 3 and 30 percent of the sunlight is reflected at the sea surface. Then almost all of the seven colors of the light
spectrum are absorbed one after another in the first 200 meters, except the blue light. (reference:Oceans, Elder and Pernetta, p. 27.)
Or like utter darkness in the deep sea: there covers it a wave above which is another
wave, above which is a cloud, (layers of) utter darkness one above another; when he
holds out his hand, he is almost unable to see it; (Quran 24:40)

14. The mountains, like pegs, have deep roots embedded in the ground. (Anatomy of the Earth, Cailleux, p.
220.)
Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs? (Quran, 78:6-7)

15. and afterward thereby produces crops of different colors, and afterward they wither and you see them turn
yellow; then He makes them dry and broken pieces. Verily, in this is a Reminder for men of understanding.
Quran: 39:21-22

17. The fetus in the mother’s womb is a
fragile thing. If it were not protected well,
heat, cold, temperature variations,
impacts or even the mother’s sudden
movement might kill it or cause it
irreparable damage. The three zones
within the mother’s womb protect the
fetus against all sorts of dangers. These
are: 1- The abdominal wall,
2- The uterine wall, and
3- The amniotic sac.
He creates you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness.”
(Quran39:6)

19. The dark water in the photo is fresh water, while the lighter shade
is salt water.
He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and
the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a
forbidding partition. (Quran, 25:53)