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of Big Data within its concepts has marked by the Quran
knowledge approach, from more than 1400 years ago.
“If we take “Big Data” in the context of the Qur’an, it
would include data about everything that exists,
encompassing the whole universe and everything that
exists inside of it. The size of the “Big Data” that exists in
the form of digital data in our modern world would not
even add up to a fraction of the “Big Data” that the Qur’an
1
talks about.”
At this point, we are looking forward to increase
this kind of researches, by interpreting the fundamental
Quranic principles related to Data Science, as long as this
Science is the primary core in society development, where
the governments, companies and individuals depend on it.
Therefore, we are proposing a Quranic verse
interpretation, as a sample, which lead us to understand
the Big Data from the divine scale:

And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them
except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea.
Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there
within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing]
2
but that it is [written] in a clear record.
This verse indicates how the knowledgeable authority
controls our universe, and also shows us the ability to
recover any data sets for any specific thing, as seen on the
representation of leaf falling.

1. Qadri and Others, 2015.
2. Surah Al-An’am, 59.