THE PAIRS IN CREATION Glory be to Him Who created all pairs: from what earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them. (The Qur'an, 36:36) Although concept of ''pair'' or "couple" commonly stands for male and female, statement of ''from things unknown to them'' has wider implications. Today, one of implications of verse has been revealed. The British scientist Paul Dirac, who proposed that matter is created in pairs, was awarded Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. This discovery, called ''parité'', maintains that matter is paired with its opposite: anti-matter. Anti-matter carries opposite properties to matter. For instance, as opposed to matter, electron of anti-matter is positively charged and its protons are negatively charged. This fact is stated in a scientific source in this way: ...every particle has its antiparticle of opposite charge… …and uncertainty relation tells us that pair creation and pair annihilation happen in vacuum at all times, in all places.8

"... these Hadîths (sayings of Muhammad) could not have been obtained on basis of scientific knowledge that was available at time of 'writer'... It follows that not only is there no conflict between genetics and religion (Islâm) but in fact religion (Islâm) may guide science by adding revelation to some of traditional scientific approaches... There exist statements in Qur'ân shown centuries later to be valid which support knowledge in Qur'ân having been derived from God."