Reflection on God's signs in creation

Sha'rawi holds that the Qur'an draws humanity's attention to God's signs in the heavens and the earth so that reason and perception work on them, that sciences accumulate, and that each science rests on an earlier one ^{1 2}. The verse that rebukes turning away from the signs is Yusuf 105.

He gives the example of steam, from evaporating water to the train, and the fallen tree that gave the idea of the wheel. He holds that every scientific advance springs from earlier knowledge and from capacities God gave ¹.

He tells that Newton watched an apple fall and reached the law of gravity, and he uses the date stone as an example: a whole palm is present in the stone potentially ².

He holds that every science rests on theories, that its starting point is axioms God placed in the universe, and that all human discoveries are present potentially, waiting for reflection and work ².

This is Sha'rawi's reading. The Newton anecdote has not been checked. No study of the history of science and no other reading of the relation between science and religion is set out here, and none is checked.