| Answer: Yes it has been said so in the Qur’ān that
everything has been created in pairs:
وَمِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ
تَذَكَّرُونَ (٤٩:٥١)
And We have made pairs of everything
so that you may take heed. (51:49)
However, what the Qur’ān states is a general principle
without taking exceptions into account. Remember the Qur’ān is not delineating a
fact of science; it is merely directing the attention of the people that
everything is created in pairs in general. A member of one pair when taken
individually is incomplete and purposeless. It is only when both members of a
pair are considered that both of them become meaningful since both compliment
each other in some manner or the other. Commonly observed pairs are man and
woman, sun and moon, sky and earth. Now the purpose of this delineation is to
show that just as man is incomplete without a woman; similarly this world also
has a counterpart without which it would seem meaningless. It would seem to be a
place of oppression and injustice, for example. On the other hand, when this
world is viewed together with a Hereafter, it becomes meaningful and purposeful.
Otherwise, we find it to be a place where many things and phenomena are
inexplicable. |