Exploring the Qur’anic Chronology of Creation reveals a profound perspective on how our universe transformed from a single point into the complex world we live in today. While modern science focuses on the "how," the Qur’an describes creation in meaningful stages that highlight the purpose behind the heavens and the earth. This layered journey moves from the initial act of creation to the detailed shaping of the stars, planets, and life, finally culminating in the appearance of human beings. In this article, we break down these stages to show how the Qur’an presents a beautifully coherent and purposeful vision of the universe. 1. Chronology of Creation Allah Almighty says in Surah Fussilat: 9. قُلْ أَئِنَّكُمْ لَتَكْفُرُونَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَرْضَ فِي يَوْمَيْنِ وَتَجْعَلُونَ لَهُۥ أَندَادًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ 10. وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ مِنْ فَوْقِهَا وَبَارَكَ فِيهَا وَقَدَّرَ فِيهَا أَقْوَاتَهَا فِي أَرْبَعَةِ أَيَّامٍ سَوَىٰ لِلسَّائِلِينَ 11. ثُمَ...
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Sajid Mahmood Ansari
In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
Neurochemical Roots of Modern Marital Crises
Modern marital breakdown is often discussed in legal, social, or psychological terms, yet beneath these layers lies a neurochemical dysfunction. Many contemporary crises in marriage are not failures of intention, but failures of neural regulation caused by environments that overstimulate some neurotransmitters while starving others.
1. Dopamine Addiction to Novelty → Illegal Relationships
Dopamine’s Natural Role
Dopamine is designed to:
Motivate goal-directed behavior
Reinforce meaningful reward
Encourage effort toward valued outcomes
In marriage, dopamine should be contextualized by commitment, rewarding affection, cooperation, and shared growth.
Modern Hijacking of Dopamine
Contemporary culture:
Glorifies constant novelty
Normalizes impulsive gratification
Equates excitement with love
This conditions the brain to chase new stimuli, not deep bonds.
Neurological Consequence
Repeated novelty exposure causes:
Dopamine receptor downregulation
Reduced pleasure from familiar relationships
Increased craving for forbidden or secret interactions
The spouse, being familiar, no longer triggers strong dopamine spikes, while illegal relationships exploit novelty, secrecy, and risk—each a powerful dopaminergic trigger.
Moral Outcome
Adultery here is not merely ethical collapse; it is dopamine mismanagement. The brain mistakes novelty for meaning and stimulation for love.
2. Chronic Cortisol from Conflict → Divorce
Cortisol as a Survival Hormone
Cortisol prepares the body for:
Threat response
Fight or flight
Short-term crisis management
It is not designed for chronic exposure.
Marriage as a Stress System
In healthy marriage:
Conflict is episodic
Repair follows disagreement
Oxytocin and serotonin restore balance
In dysfunctional marriages:
Conflict becomes repetitive
Emotional repair is absent
The home becomes a persistent threat environment
Neurological Impact
Chronic cortisol:
Shrinks hippocampal neurons (memory and emotional regulation)
Hyperactivates the amygdala (fear and anger)
Suppresses prefrontal cortex (reasoning and patience)
Over time, the spouse becomes neurologically associated with danger, not safety.
Psychological Outcome
Emotional withdrawal
Loss of empathy
Decreased problem-solving capacity
Divorce, at this stage, is experienced by the brain as escape from threat, not rejection of love.
3. Oxytocin Deprivation Due to Porn Addiction
Oxytocin’s Role in Marriage
Oxytocin:
Creates emotional safety
Strengthens pair-bond exclusivity
Links sexual intimacy with trust and attachment
It requires real human presence, emotional reciprocity, and vulnerability.
Pornography as a Neurochemical Saboteur
Porn delivers:
Dopamine without effort
Sexual arousal without bonding
Orgasm without attachment
Repeated exposure:
Separates sexual reward from emotional connection
Reduces oxytocin release during real intimacy
Conditions arousal to artificial stimuli
Neural Rewiring
Over time:
Partner intimacy feels “flat”
Emotional closeness declines
The spouse is unconsciously devalued
This is not due to lack of love, but due to oxytocin starvation.
Relational Consequence
Reduced trust
Emotional coldness
Increased loneliness within marriage
Porn addiction thus creates sexual availability without marital bonding, a neurobiological contradiction.
Integrated Neurochemical Collapse
When these three processes operate together:
Dopamine is overstimulated by novelty
Cortisol is chronically elevated by conflict
Oxytocin is suppressed by artificial intimacy
Marriage loses its biological foundations of:
Tranquility (sukūn)
Affection (mawaddah)
Mercy (raḥmah)
The result is a relationship that feels:
Emotionally empty
Stressful
Unsustainable
Reframing the Crisis
Modern marital crises are not proof that marriage is outdated. There is evidence that marriage is being neurologically sabotaged by environments that violate its biological design.
Stable marriage requires:
Dopamine discipline
Cortisol regulation
Oxytocin nourishment
Vasopressin alignment
Without these, even sincere love struggles to survive.
References
Dopamine, Novelty, and Infidelity Risk
Fisher, H. E., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2006) Romantic love: A mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 361(1476), 2173–2186. Shows dopamine-driven reward circuits in romantic attraction.
Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E. (1998) What is the role of dopamine in reward? Brain Research Reviews, 28(3), 309–369. Clarifies dopamine’s role in craving and novelty-seeking.
Cortisol, Conflict, and Marital Breakdown
Gottman, J. M., & Levenson, R. W. (1992) Marital processes predictive of later dissolution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(2), 221–233. Demonstrates how chronic stress and conflict predict divorce.
McEwen, B. S. (2007) Physiology and neurobiology of stress and adaptation. Physiological Reviews, 87(3), 873–904. Explains how chronic cortisol damages emotional regulation.
Kühn, S., & Gallinat, J. (2014) Brain structure and functional connectivity associated with pornography consumption. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(7), 827–834. Shows altered reward circuitry linked to porn use.
Love, T. et al. (2015) Neuroscience of Internet pornography addiction. Behavioral Sciences, 5(3), 388–433. Explains separation of sexual reward from emotional bonding.
Exploring the Qur’anic Chronology of Creation reveals a profound perspective on how our universe transformed from a single point into the complex world we live in today. While modern science focuses on the "how," the Qur’an describes creation in meaningful stages that highlight the purpose behind the heavens and the earth. This layered journey moves from the initial act of creation to the detailed shaping of the stars, planets, and life, finally culminating in the appearance of human beings. In this article, we break down these stages to show how the Qur’an presents a beautifully coherent and purposeful vision of the universe. 1. Chronology of Creation Allah Almighty says in Surah Fussilat: 9. قُلْ أَئِنَّكُمْ لَتَكْفُرُونَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَرْضَ فِي يَوْمَيْنِ وَتَجْعَلُونَ لَهُۥ أَندَادًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ 10. وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ مِنْ فَوْقِهَا وَبَارَكَ فِيهَا وَقَدَّرَ فِيهَا أَقْوَاتَهَا فِي أَرْبَعَةِ أَيَّامٍ سَوَىٰ لِلسَّائِلِينَ 11. ثُمَ...
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