The Quran declares that Allah created pairs (azwāj) in everything that the earth produces - a statement about plant sexuality that predates scientific discovery by over 1,000 years. What Makes This Remarkable: 1. Plant Sexuality Unknown: Until Rudolf Camerarius (1694) experimentally proved plant sexuality, humans did not know plants had sexes. The concept was revolutionary even to 17th-century scientists. 2. Universal Pairs: The verse mentions pairs in three categories: - What the earth produces (plants) - Humans themselves - Things unknown to them (subatomic particles? Dimensions?) 3. Practical vs Scientific Knowledge: While Arabs practiced date palm pollination, this was folk tradition without scientific understanding. Children would hit male flowers on female trees - they knew it worked but not why. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ initially suggested stopping this practice (as it seemed superstitious), then advised continuing when crops failed - showing it was empirical observation, not revelation about the mechanism. 4. The Papaya Example: As Sheikh Ahmed Deedat noted, papaya trees are dioecious (separate male and female). You can plant 100 female papaya seeds, but without a male tree nearby, none will produce viable seeds. This was unknown in the 7th century. The Quran's declaration of universal pairs in plant life, made to an illiterate prophet in the desert, aligns perfectly with modern botanical science - discovered over a millennium later.