The Amazing Quran By Gary Miller
Qur'an is SIMPLY
AMAZING. Quoted by Dr
Gary Miller former Christian missionary
A Mathematician and ex Christian missionary who Challenged The Quran
Dr.
Gary Miller was a Mathematician, a theologian and an ex Christian
Missionary Using Critical Thinking based on clear proof, he shows how we
can establish true faith by setting standards of truth.
Dr. Gary
Miller thought to guide Muslims towards Christianity on the basis of his
knowledge and challenged the Quran on the basis of Mathematics......
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Take a look at What Dr
Gary Miller former Christian missionary has mentioned in his book The ‘
Amazing Quran’.
"No
writer in the world has the courage to write a book and say that it's
empty of mistakes, but the Qur'an, on the contrary, tells you that it
has no mistakes and asks you to try to find one and you won't find any."
Dr. Gary Miller
If Quran was written by the Prophet (peace be on
him) himself, he would have mentioned atleast once about the grief he
suffered due to the loss of his beloved wife, our mother, Hazrat Khadija
(may Allah be pleased with her).
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Introduction
The
Quran is the last revealed Word of God.
It is a record of the exact
words revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
through the Angel Gabriel.
It was then dictated to his Companions who memorized it, and it was written down by scribes.
The
Quran is in every detail the unique and miraculous text which was
revealed to Muhammad fourteen centuries ago. Not one word of its 114
chapters has been changed over the centuries.
The Quran deals with
all subjects which concern us as human beings: wisdom, doctrine,
worship, and law, but its basic theme is the relationship between God
and His creatures.
There are also many verses in the Quran
concerned with natural phenomena that are astounding. It is impossible
to explain their presence in humans terms, given the state of knowledge
at the time the Quran was revealed.
In the West, such statements had never before formed the subject of a scientific communication until recent times.
On
9th November 1976, an unusual lecture was given at the French Academy
of Medicine. Its title was ‘Physiological and Embryological data in the
Quran’ and was delivered by the famous French physician Dr. Maurice
Bucaille.
His reason for doing this was that “our knowledge of
these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text
produced at the time of the Quran could have contained ideas that have
only been discovered in modern times.
The citations included in this pamphlet appeared in the Quran during the 7th century C.E.
The Prophet Muhammad was himself illiterate and was living among illiterate people.
The Arabs at that time worshipped idols and believed in horoscope and magic and were superstitious.
The Arabs very actively opposed the teachings advanced by the Prophet through his revelations.
This
short article is for you to read and to consider. Because the subject
matter is so vast, we have space to mention only a few brief facts from
the Amazing Qur’an.
THE AMAZING QUR'AN
is an intellectual Reflections on Qur'an and Islam
By An Ex Christian missionary Dr. Gary Miller
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BOOK CONTENTS
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01. Dilemma of Applying Reason
02. Setting Standards
03. Sign of God
04. The Big Bang Theory
05. Taking a Stand
06. The Expanding Heavens
07. The City of Iram
08. The Smallest Matter
09. Forgiveness
10. Predictions
11. Evidence of Divine Origin
12. The Two Phenomena
13. Use and Mention of Words
14. Jesus and Adam
15. Good and Evil
16. Occurrence of Words
17. Perfect Balance of Words
18. Best Explanation
19. Origin of the Qur'an
20. The Challenge
21. Attributing it to the Devil
22. A Different Story
23. House Cleaning
24. A Prophet like Moses
25. Paraclete
26. Followers of Jesus
27 The Creation of the Universe
28 The Origins of Life
29 The Expansion of the Universe
30 The Mountains
31 The Developing Human Embryo
32 Lost Civilizations
33 What happened to the body of Pharaoh of the Exodus?
34 The resting place of Noah’s Ark
35 The Glorious Quran :- God’s final Guidance to Mankind
36 The message of ISLAM is simple:
37 NOTES:
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01 Dilemma of Applying Reason
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Almost all of us have been faced with the questioning of a child by repeating one word over and over.
He can be very frustrating to us as he asks Why?
If you put a h1ife beyond his reach, he wants to know, Why?
When you explain it is sharp, he asks "Why?" And so you explain, in order to cut fruit, and he asks, Why? And so it goes
It illustrates the dilemma of applying reason.
What we have to do when we apply reason is first to set standards of
proof. We decide for ourselves, "What will I be satisfied with if I find
such and such and so and so that constitutes for me a final proof?"
We have to decide on that first.
What happens though, is that on the really important issues, the
philosophical matters, thinkers set standards and eventually they may
arrive at their standards.
They may arrive at the point which they say would constitute a proof. But then they ask for a proof of the proof.
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02 Setting Standards
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The key to avoiding this endless dissatisfaction is to satisfy
ourselves about standards first; to satisfy ourselves that such and such
are a list of criteria that constitute proof, satisfying proof, and
then we test the subjects that we examine.
In particular I will apply this to the Qur'an.
Ask a thoughtful Christian why he is Christian, and he will usually reply, "The miracle of Resurrection."
The
basis for his belief being that about two thousand years ago a man died
and he was raised from the dead. That is his miracle, his 'touchstone',
because all else depends on that.
Ask a Muslim, "Well, what is your
miracle? Why are you a Muslim? Where is your miracle?" and the Muslim
can go over and take his miracle off the shelf and hand it over to you
because his miracle is still with us today. It is the Qur'an; it is his
'touchstone'.
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03 Sign of God
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While all the prophets have their signs, Moses had the competition with
the magicians and the Pharaoh, Jesus healed the sick and raised the
dead and so on, one sign was given to the last of the prophets.
According to the Muslims, this is the Qur'an. And this one Sign is still
with us.
Does not that after all seem fair, that if prophethood is
to end that the last prophet should bring something that stays with us
so that, in fact, a Muslim who takes his religion seriously suffers no
disadvantage to Muslims who lived fourteen centuries ago?
Those
people who kept company with the Prophet had access to no more of the
necessary information than we have today. They had the Qur'an. That was
the sign for them. It is still a sign to us today, the same miracle.
Well, let us test the Qur'an. Suppose that if I say to a man, "I know
your father." Probably he is going to examine the situation and see if
it seems likely that I have met his father.
If he is not convinced
he will start asking me questions like: "You know my father, you say,
is he a tall man? Does he have curly hair? Does he wear glasses?" and so
on.
If I keep giving him the right answers to all these questions,
pretty soon he is going to be convinced. "Well I guess this man did meet
my father like he said." You see the method
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04 The Big Bang Theory
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The Big Bang mentioned in the Qur'an 1400 years ago
Here in the Qur'an we have a book which claims that is author is one
who was present at the beginning of the universe, at the beginning of
life.
So, we have a right to address that author and say, "Well,
tell me something prove to me that you were there when the world began,
when life began."
The Qur'an gives us an interesting statement. It reads:
"Have not the disbelievers seen that the Heavens and the Earth were one
piece and we parted them? Will they not then believe?"(21:30)
There
are three key points here.
First of all it is the disbelievers who are
mentioned as being those who would see that the heavens and the earth
were one piece and then parted and would see that all life cam e to be
made from water.
As it happens the universally accepted theory of the origin of the universe is now the Big Bang theory.
It maintains that at one time all of the heavens and the earth were one piece, the 'monoblock' as it is called.
At a particular point in time, this 'monoblock' burst and it continues to expand. This gives us the universe we have today.
This was a recent discovery, a recent confirmation.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded only a few years ago to those who confirmed the Big Bang origin of the universe.
It
was only about two hundred years ago that Leeuwnhoek and others
perfected the microscope and discovered for the first time that living
cells are composed of about eighty percent water.
Those Nobel Prize
winners and the Dutchman who invented the microscope were not Muslims.
And yet they confirmed the vital statement that at one time the universe
was one piece, that life was made from water, just as this verse says"
"Have not the disbelievers seen that the Heavens and the Earth were one
piece and we parted them? Will they not then believe?"(21:30)
Well,
this sounds like an answer to the question we stated with when we ask
the author:
"Tell me something that shows me you were present when the
universe began when life began?"
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05 Taking a Stand
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Everyone must be committed to something.
You have to put your foot down some place.
It is impossible to be neutral all time.
There has to be a point of reference in the life of any thinking individual.
You have to take a stand somewhere. The question, of course, is to put your foot down in the right place.
Since
there is no such thing as a proof of a proof and so on, in order to
find the right place to put one's foot down, to take a stand, we have to
search and find that place and it is by a method that I hope to
illustrate here.
It is a question of finding a point of convergence.
You see, we search for truth in many places and we begin to know that
we are succeeding in finding the truth if all our different paths start
to converge; they start to come together at the same point.
If we are examining a book, looking for evidence of divine origin, and we are led to Islam, this is one path.
If at the same time we are examining the words of all those who were
called prophets and we find ourselves led to Islam, we have a firmly
grounded basis for belief.
We started looking for truth in two different places and ground ourselves going down the path headed for the same destination.
No one ever proves all things.
We have to stop at some point being satisfied with our standards as I have mentioned earlier.
The
point is, in order to take a stand and to be sure it is in the right
place we want to examine all the evidence around us and see where does
it lead us and anticipate this point of convergence; to say it looks
like all things are pointing to this place.
We go to that place
and then look at the data around us to see if it fits into place. Dos it
now make sense? Are we standing in the right place?
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06 The Expanding Heavens
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Let me first show more of our examination of the Qur'an, and then an
examination of some words of prophets to find this point of convergence.
In chapter fifty-one, verse forty seven, it is mentioned that the
heavens are expanding.
As I mentioned earlier, this is in
connection with the 'Big Bang' origin of the universe, as it is usually
called, and it was in 1973 that the Nobel Prize was awarded to three men
who were confirming that, after all, the universe is expanding.
The comments of Muslims over the centuries on this verse which speaks of the heavens doing exactly that are very interesting.
The
wisest among them had stated that the words are very clear, that the
heavens are expanding, but they could not imagine how that could be so.
But they were content to leave the words as they were, to say: "Allah
knows best"
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07 The City of Iram
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The Qur'an mentions a city by the name of Iram (89:7).
The
city of Iram has been unknown to history, so unknown that even some
Muslim commentators, out of embarrassment for feeling apologetic for
their religion, have commented on this mention of the city in the Qur'an
as being perhaps figurative, that Iram was possibly a man and not a
city.
In 1973 the excavation in Syria at the site of the ancient
city of Eblus uncovered the largest collection of cuneiform writings on
clay tablets ever assembles.
In fact, the library discovered in
Eblus contains more clay tablets that are more that four thousand years
old than all other tablets combined from all the other sites.
Interestingly enough, you will find the details in the National
Geographic of 1978 which confirms that in those tablets the city of Iram
is mentioned.
The people of Eblus used to do business with the people of Iram.
So here in these comes confirmation of the fact that, after all, there
really was an ancient city by that name, wherever it was. How did it
find its way into the Qur'an, we might ask?
Those Muslims who may
have offered their commentary trying to explain away this reference that
they were uncomfortable with, were outsmarted by the author of the
Qur'an. They would attempt it.
Primarily their actions would involve
trying to produce evidence that the author of this book had a primitive
understanding of the world around us.
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08 The Smallest Matter
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The Smallest Thing In The Universe Is So Tiny It Seems To Have No Size At All (VIDEO)
For example, there is a word which is translated to usually in Arabic as zarrah.
This is usually translated 'atom' and it is usually thought of in
Arabic as being smallest item available at one time. Perhaps the Arab
thought it was an ant or a grain of dust.
Today the word usually translated as 'atom'.
Those who would outsmart the author of the Qur'an have insisted that,
well, the atom is not after all the smallest piece of matter because in
this century it has been discovered that even the atom is made of still
smaller of matter.
Is it then possible to outsmart the author who
chose to use this word? Well, in chapter ten, there is an interesting
verse sixty one, which speaks of items the size of a zarrah, (atom) or
smaller.
There is no possibility in this subject someone is going to
say a new discovery has outdated the words of the Qur'an on the issue
of the size of matter or the ultimate particles.
The verse talks about items the size of a zarrah (atom) or smaller.
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09 Forgiveness
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Speaking of outsmarting the author of the Qur'an, the Islamic point of
view is that when a man embraces Islam, his past is forgiven from the
very beginning.
This has been the invitation to Islam: come to Islam and all is forgiven from the past.
But consider this. There is only one enemy of Muhammad, peace be upon
him, who is mentioned by name in the Qur'an: one Abu Lahab. In a short
chapter of this book, he is condemned to punishment for his sins.
As it happens, the man himself was alive for many years after this revelation.
He could therefore have finished Islam very easily.
He needed only to go to the Muslims to announce his conversion.
They had in their hands the revelation which said that this man is
doomed to punishment. He could have gone to Muslims and say: "I accept
Islam, am I forgiven or not?"
He could have confused them so much as
to finish this small movement because he would have been pointing out
to them that they were now in confusion.
The policy was instant
forgiveness of the past, but their own revealed scripture announced that
he was not forgiven. As it was, Abu Lahab died without accepting Islam.
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10 Predictions
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In fact, the Qur'an confidently predicted a number of things only a few
years before they came to pass.
The fall of the Persian Empire, for
example, was predicted in spite of the fact that it had just suffered a
serious military victory.
The evidence was all to the contrary. But
in the chapter entitled Rom, the fall of the Persian Empire, who were
recently victors over the Romans, was predicted.
When all the
Muslims in the world could meet in one room (meaning, Muslims initially
were very few in number), the revelations were already discussing their
future successes.
In confidence, they were planning for the day
when they would be in charge of the city (Mecca) where they were forced
at that time to hide for their very lives.
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11 Evidence of Divine Origin
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Islam: The Religion Of Truth
Some people may like to find any number of things in the Qur'an. But an
honest method in examining this book, looking for evidence of the
Divine origin, is to take things at their value, to look for things that
are clear and to look in those places where we are invited to look.
Remember the passage that I quoted earlier:
"Have not the disbelievers seen..." This a common phrase of the Qur'an: "O Man, Have you not seen."
The invitation is to examine the evidence in these places.
We
are doing the sensible thing if we examine the words used to look for
the doubted meaning and to find evidence of the Divine origin.
Each
one of us is an expert on something. One does not have to have a degree
in a particular subject to decide that now, "I can take my expertise to
the Qur'an and see what I can find."
We all know something from our own experience and life.
I heard a story, several years ago in Toronto, of man who was given the Qur'an to read.
The
man was a member of the merchant marines who spent his life on the sea.
When he read a verse in the Qur'an describing the wave on the ocean,
"waves within waves and the darkness between,"
he was surprised
because the description was just what he knew the situation to be.
When
he returned the Qur'an to the man who gave it to him to read, he asked
him (because he was completely ignorant of the origins of Islam):
"This Muhammad, was he a sailor?"
Well,
of course, he was quite surprised to know that the man spent his life
in the desert. So he had to ask himself: "From where did he get this
knowledge of what looks like on a stormy sea?"
We all know something
that we can be confident of and if we can turn to the Qur'an to read
what it says about that subject, we are asking for confirmation of our
belief in the Divine origin of the book.
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12 The Two Phenomena
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A friend of mine from the University of Toronto, had experience of
dealing with a man who was doing his doctorate in psychology. He chose
as his subject: "The Efficiency of Group Discussion."
He suggested a number of criteria as to what constituted an efficient discussion.
He
graphed the process; that is achieved a measure of the efficiency of
all groups in the discussions according to an index by his system, on
his graph he indicated the progress made by the discussion groups of
various sizes.
The interesting thing that happened which he did not
expect to find when he began his project was that, while there were some
difference between the size of an given group and how well they did in
discussions, he was surprised to find that groups of two were completely
off his scale.
In other words, when two people sit down to discuss
something, they were so much more efficient than any other size of group
that it went completely off his scale of measurement.
When my
friend heard about this, something went on at the back of his mind. My
friend, being a Muslim, thought there was something familiar here about
this idea. The psychology researcher was not a Muslim.
He was
debating with himself on changing the topic of his thesis. Should he
call it 'The Phenomenon of Two' or 'The Two Phenomena'? He was so
surprised at his discovery.
Meanwhile, my friend found that there is
a verse in the Qur'an, and he found it for himself on the same night,
which speaks on discussions and the size of groups and how efficient
they are.
And maybe we should not be surprised to find that it is
the groups that are two in numbers that do the best in achieving
results.
The verse in the Qur'an reads, concerning discussion
groups, that when discussing the Qur'an, one should sit alone and
reflect on its meaning or discuss it in groups of two.
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13 Use and Mention of Words
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For myself, as I said everyone knows something for sure or has an
interest and experience in life; my interest is in mathematics and
logic.
There is a verse in the Qur'an which says:
"This a scripture whose verses are perfected and then expounded."(11:1)
Which tells me that there are no wasted words in the Qur'an; that each verse is perfected and then it is explained.
It could not be in a better form.
One could not use fewer words to say the same thing or if one uses more words one would only be adding superfluous information.
This directed my attention to a particular mathematical subject, a
logical subject, and I examined the Qur'an to see if I could find
something of what I knew to be the case.
A revolution in logic has
occurred in the last one hundred years, primarily over the difference
between use and mention of words.
A structure of logic seemed to be
in danger of collapsing about a hundred years ago because it came to the
attention of the people who studied these matters that the structure
was not quite sound.
The issue involved 'self-reference' and the use and the mention of words which I will explain briefly.
Aristotle's law of the 'excluded middle' was the statement that every
statement is either true false. About a hundred years ago, somebody
pointed out that the law of the excluded middle is a statement and is
therefore not a law after all.
It could just as well be false as well as true.
This was a tangled knot for the logicians to untie until they came to
understand the difference between the use and the mention of a word.
When we use a word, we consider its meaning. When we mention a word, we
are discussing the word itself. If I said Toronto is a large city, I
mean Toronto, that place, is a large city.
If I say Toronto has
seven letters, I am talking about the word 'Toronto'. In the first case I
used the word and in the second I mentioned the word. You see
distinction.
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14 Jesus and Adam
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Connecting these ideas and the idea that the Qur'an is composed of
verses that are perfected and then expounded for us, consider the verse
which says:
"The likeness of Jesus before Allah is as the likeness of Adam." (3:59)
It is very clear that what we have in the statement is an equation.
This
verse goes on to explain how that is true because they both came under
unusual circumstances rather than having a mother and a father in the
usual human reproductive way.But more than that, I got to consider the
use of the mention of words.
The words are used clearly enough.
Jesus is like Adam and by Jesus and Adam, we mean those two men. But
what about the mention of the words?
Was the author aware of the
fact that if we were considering the words as words themselves, this
sentence also read that 'Jesus' is something like 'Adam'.
Well, they
are not spelt with the same letters, how can they be alike in this
revelation?
The only answer came to me fairly quickly and I took a look
at the index of the Qur'an.
The index of the Qur'an has been made available only since 1945.
This
book was the result of years of work by a man and his students who
assembled a book which lists every word in the Qur'an and where it can
be found.
So, when we look up the word Isa (Jesus), we find it in
the Qur'an twenty-five times. When we look up Adam, we find it in the
Qur'an twenty-five times.
The point is that they are very much alike in this book.They are equated.
So,
following up on this idea, I continued to examine the index looking for
every case where something was set up as an equation, where the
likeness of something was said to be the likeness of some other thing.
And in every case, it works.
You have to example a verse which reads:
"The likeness of those who reject our signs is as the likeness of the dog." (7:176)
Well, the phrase is Arabic for 'the people who reject our signs' could be found in the Qur'an exactly five times.
And so is the Arabic word for 'the dog' (al-kalb). And there are several instances of exactly the same occurrence.
It was some months after I found this for myself that a friend of mine,
who is continuing this investigation with me, made a suggestion that
there are also some places in the Qur'an where one thing is said to be
not like another thing.
As soon as he mentioned this up to me, we
both went for the index and had a quick look at several places where on
thing is said to be not like another thing and counted their occurrence
in the Qur'an.
We were surprise, and maybe should not have been, to
find that, after all, they do not match up. But an interesting thing
does happen.
For example, the Qur'an makes it very clear in the verse
that “trade” is not like “interest (or usury)”.
The two words will be found six times for one and seven for the other. And so it is in every other case.
When one thing is said to be not like another, they are over for a
difference of one time. It would be five of one and four of the other,
or seven of one and eight of another.
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15 Good and Evil
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There is one interesting verse which, I felt, spoke directly to me from
right off the page.
It mentions two words in Arabic, al-khabeeth (the
evil), and al-taib (the good).
The verse reads:
"Say, the evil
and the good are not comparable, even though the abundance of evil will
surprise you. So be mindful of your duty to Allah, O Man of
understanding that you may succeed."(5:100)
Well, I had a look at
those two words in Arabic, the evil and the good, and found in the
Qur'an that they both occur seven times.
Yet the verse here is saying
that they are not comparable.
I should not expect to find that they occur the same number of times. But what does the rest of this verse say?
"The evil and the good are not comparable.
The abundance of the evil
will surprise you" and it did for there were too many of them.
But it
continues:
"So be mindful of your duty to Allah, O Man of understanding, that you may succeed."
So press on. Use your understanding and you will succeed.
That is what the verse said to me. Well, I found the answer in one verse further on where it reads:
"Allah separates the evil from the good.
The evil HE piles one on top of the other, heaping them all together."
Here is the solution to the difficulty.
While
we have several occurrences of al-taib (the good), according to the
principle of this verse, evil is separated from good and is piled one on
top of the other and heaped all together.
We can not count them as seven separate instances.
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16 Occurrences of Words
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A favorite difficulty, or supposed difficulty, which critics like to
cite or have cited in the past years concerning the Qur'an is that,
apparently to their thinking, the author of this book was ignorant
because he advised the Muslims to follow the lunar instead of the solar
year.
The critics say the author was unaware of the difference in
the length of years, that if one follows twelve lunar months, one loses
eleven days every year.
The author of the Qur'an was well aware of the distinction between the length of the solar year and the lunar year.
In
chapter eighteen, verse nine, it mentions three-hundred years and gives
their equivalent as three-hundred and nine years. As it happens, three
hundred solar years is equal to three -hundred and nine lunar years.
Let us go back to my original scheme of the occurrence of words in the
Qur'an. The Arabic word for 'month', “shahr”, will be found twelve times
in the Qur'an.
There are twelve months in a year.
If we find twelve
months, how many days should we expect to find? The word in Arabic is
“yawm”, and as it happens you will find that the word occurs
three-hundred and sixty five times in the Qur'an.
As a matter of
fact, the original issue which had me interested in looking up the
occurrence of months and days was this distinction between the solar
year and the lunar year.
Well, for twenty-five centuries, it has
been known that the relative positions of the sun, moon and earth
coincide every nineteen years.
This was discovered by a Greek by the
name of Meton, and it is called the 'Metonic' cycle. Knowing this, I
looked again to the index for the word 'year', sanah and found, sure
enough, that it occurs in the Qur'an nineteen times.
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17 Perfect balance of Words
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Now, what is the point of this perfect balance of words? For myself, it
shows the author was well aware of the distinction between using words
and mentioning words, a fine logical point. But more than that, it
indicates the preservation of this book.
After giving a lecture on
the subject of the Qur'an , I touched on some of these subjects and a
questionnaire from the audience afterwards said: "How do we know we
still have the original Qur'an.
Maybe pieces of it have been lost or
extra parts been added?"
I pointed out to him that we had pretty well
covered that point because since these items, the perfect balance of
words in the Qur'an, have come to light only in this generation, anybody
who would have lost the portion of this book, hidden some of it, or
added some of their own would have been unaware of this carefully hidden
code in the book. They would have destroyed this perfect balance.
It is interesting to note too that, well, such a thing might be possible
to organize today by the use of a computer to coordinate all words so
that whatever thought you might have as to a meaning of a sentence or
however you might construe an equation out of a sentence, you could
check for yourself and the book will always have the balance of words.
If that were possible today, if it were possible fourteen centuries
ago, why would it be done and then left hidden and never drawn to the
attention of those who first saw this book?
Why it would be left
with the hope of the author who contrived this, that maybe, in many
centuries, someone will discover it and have a nice surprise? It is a
scheme that does not make sense.
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18 Best Explanation
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We are told in the Qur'an that no questionnaire will come to the
Muslims with the question for which a good answer has not been provided,
and the best explanation for whatever his question.
This verse says:
"For everything they say, say we are given something to go back to them and reply." (25:33)
We looked again to the index of the Qur'an and we found the word, qalu
(they say), is found three hundred and thirty-two times. Now, what would
be the natural counterpart?
The Arabic word, qul, which is the
command 'say' and you will find at the index it also occurs three
hundred and thirty-two times.
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19 Origin of the Qur'an
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Compilation of the Quran
An interesting feature of the Qur'an is that it replies to critics as to its origin
That
is, no one has yet come up with suggestion as to where this book came
from which is not commented on within the book itself.
In fact, the
new Catholic Encyclopedia, under the heading Qur'an, mentions that over
the centuries, there has been many theories as to where this book came
from.
Their conclusion: today, no sensible person believes any of these theories.
This
leaves the Christians in some difficulty. You see, all the theories
suggested so far , according to this encyclopedia, are not really
acceptable to anyone sensible today.
Where did the book come from?
Those who have not really examined the Qur'an usually dismissed it as
being, they say, a collection of proverbs or aphorisms, saying that one
man used to announce from time to time.
They imagined that there was
a man who, from time to time during the day, will think of some witty
little saying and spit it out and those around him will quickly write it
down, and eventually these were all collected and became the Qur'an.
Those who read the Qur'an will find that it is not anything like that at all.
The
collection of things said by the Prophet is the subject and the content
of the Hadith. But the subjects and contents of the Qur'an are all in a
form of a composition and explanation.
I site as an example the
chapter, Yusuf, which is an entire story in great detail about one
particular episode of one portion of the life of one man. It is a
composition.
It is for this reason that virtually all those who have
actually examined the Qur'an usually refer to it as being the product
of the authorship as attributed to Muhammad and his 'co-adjudicators'.
These were supposed to be people who would sit with him and composed the Qur'an.
You see, they imagined that the Qur'an was composed by a committee.
They acknowledged that there was too much information and it was too well composed for one man to have assembled.
So, they imagined that a committee of men used to meet regularly,
brought their various sources of information, composed something and
then handed to this man and told him, "Go to the people tomorrow, this
is your revelation."
In other words, it was a fraud concocted by a
group of people. But what do we know about fraud?
The Qur'an reminds us
as it says:
"Saw, now the truth has come, and falsehood neither invents anything nor restores anything." (34:49).
It is hard to translate it into English precisely, but what this verse
is telling us is that falsehood is not the source of a new thing.
A new
and truthful thing cannot come from falsehood and falsehood does not
restore, to our minds, the facts.
Truth is in agreement with facts.
Falsehood is something else. So falsehood is empty.
If
something is born fraud, it will never bring us new information. It
will never endure; it will only collapse over a period of time.
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20 The Challenge
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Another interesting verse is a challenge which is addressed to those non-believers. It reads:
"Have they not considered the Qur'an, if it came, from other than
Allah, surely they will find in it many inconsistencies."(4:82)
Here is a challenge to the reader.
If
you think you have an explanation where this book came from, have
another look at the book. Surely, you will be able to uncover some
inconsistencies to support your case.
Imagine a student submitting a
term paper or a final exam and then writing at the bottom of the page a
not to his teacher: "You will find no mistakes in this paper.
There are no mistakes on this exam." Can you imagine the teacher letting that rest?
The teacher would probably not sleep until uncovering some
inconsistency after a challenge like that. It is not the way human
beings speak.
They do not offer challenges like that. But here we
have it in the Qur'an, a direct challenge saying: "If you have a better
idea as to where this book came from, here's all you need to do. Find
some inconsistencies."
There are critics who make the attempt, critics who try to say the Qur'an contains inconsistencies.
A
publication that came to my attention recently suggested that the
Qur'an was contradictory on the subject of marriage, because in one
place, it says: "don't marry more than one wife unless you can provide
for them all," and in another place it says:
"Don't marry more than four." They see this as a contradiction.
What they have is a counter-distinction. In one case, the qualification for marrying more than one has been given.
In the other case, a limitation on how many may be married is given. There is no contradiction.
Critics are too quick to grab hold of something, give it an
interpretation, and then offer it as an excuse to escape the reality of
this document.
For critics who would attack the Qur'an and insist it
contains mistakes, we can use the same method as in our reply to
Christians who claim that Jesus is on record as claiming to be equal to
God.
Remember the three categories of evidence offered.
The evidence offered was insufficient, ambiguous or impossible.
You see, if someone cites a verse from the Qur'an, trying to show that
it is a mistake, we only need to show that the verse cited is
insufficient to establish that there is a mistake or we need to show
that the verse cited cannot possibly have the interpretation which the
critic is giving it.
It will always fall into one of these three
categories.
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21 Attributing it to the Devil
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I had experience, on one occasion, describing some of the contents in
the Qur'an to a man who did not know the book I was talking about. He
sat next to me with the cover turned over.
I just told him about the
book, what it contained and told him it was not the Bible.
His
conclusion was, the book was miraculous.
This man was a minister in a
Christian Church.
He said, "Yes, that book could not possible have
originated with the man and therefore it must come from the devil,
because it's not the Bible."
The Qur'an comments on this suggestion in chapter twenty-six, verse
two-hundred and eleven, as to those who would suggest that the book came
from the devil.
It points out that it does not quite suit him, does it? Is this how the devil misleads people?
He
tells them, worship none but God, he insists that they fast, that they
practice charity. Is this how the devil misleads people?
Compare the attitude of someone like this, to the attitude of the Jews who knew Jesus and opposed him until the very end.
There is an episode reported in the Bible where Jesus raised a man from the dead, one Lazarus, who had been dead for four days.
When Lazarus came out of the tomb, alive again those Jews who were watching, what did they do?
Did they suddenly say that this man is a true prophet and become believers?
No, the Bible says they immediately discussed among themselves that
"since this man is working on his signs soon everyone will believe in
him.
We've got to find a way to kill him," and they attributed his
miraculous powers to the devil.
He raised that man by the power of the devil.
Now,
the Christians who read that episode will feel very sorry for those
Jews who had clear evidence right before their very eyes and attribute
the miracles to the devil.
Does it not appear that they may be
doing the same thing when we illustrate what we have in the Qur'an and
their final excuse is only: "It originated with the devil."
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22 A Different Story
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There are those who insist that the Qur'an was copied, that it originated in Christian and Jewish sources.
As a matter of fact, a book published in recent years called Worshiping
the Wrong God has stated, as though it were a fact, that after the
first revelation of the Qur'an came to Muhammad, peace be upon him, that
his wife died and so he quickly married a Jew and a Christian, and this
is where he drew the rest of his sources for his book.
It was ten
years after the first revelation of the Qur'an that his wife died, and
it was another ten years after that when the Qur'an was virtually
completed that he married a Jew and a Christian.
Did he copy from
Jewish and Christian sources?
In the Qur'an, the ruler of Egypt who
opposed Moses is known as Fir'aun, not Pharaoh.
The Jews and Christians
have always said 'Pharaoh'.
It is easy for an Arab to say 'Pharaoh'. But in the Qur'an, it is Fir'aun, with an 'n'. Why?
Surely
the Jews must have teased the Arabs about that and said: "You've got
the word wrong.
It's 'Pharaoh' and not Fir'aun." But they insisted on it
and it continues that way in the Qur'an, Fir'aun.
As it happens,
this historical writings of Herodotus, the Greek historian, exist to
this day, and Herodotus comments on the ruler of Egypt, being in his day
and in the centuries before him, one man who went by the title of
Fir'aun.
Did the book copy from the Christians sources?
The
Qur'an insists that Jesus was not crucified, that this was only an
illusion, but that the Jews who thought they crucified Jesus were
mistaken because it was not really so.
Christians would have no part of
that.
As it happens, the idea that Jesus was not really crucified is really very ancient and can be traced back to the first century.
But Christians who believed that were eliminated as heretics within the
first two-hundred years after the time of Jesus and they were not
teaching this doctrine anywhere around the Arabian Peninsula fourteen
centuries ago.
Could the author of the Qur'an have been copying from
Christian sources when he says that Jesus spoke to man as a baby (3:46)
and in later life?
The Arabic word used indicates that he was still speaking to man and teaching to them in his forties.
The Christians have always maintained that Jesus was gone by the time he was thirty-three.
It indicates that there could have been no copying.
In
fact, a man would have to be stubborn and insists on the points as
explained in the Qur'an in the face of Christian opposition who would
have said: "No! No! I wasn't like that. We tell the story differently."
Did the Quran copied from the Christians sources
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23 House Cleaning
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Now, we go to the words of the prophets themselves, which represent another path that leads to Islam.
In the Persian scriptures, which have been around for thousands of years, we read:
"When the Persians should sink so low in mortality, a man will be born
in Arabia whose followers will upset their throne, religion and
everything.
The mighty stiff-necked ones will be overpowered.
The
house which was built and in which many idols have been placed will
purged of idols and people will say their prayers facing towards it.
His followers will capture the towns of the Farsi, Entaus and Balkh,
and other big places round about. People will embroil with one another.
The wise men of Persia and others will join his followers." (Desature no.14)
The Muslims recognize this very quickly because the Ka'bah, the
building which all Muslims face in prayers everyday, was at one time
filled with idols and it was part of the mission of Muhammad , peace be
upon him, to purge the house of idols till today.
It was in the next generation, after the time of the Prophet that the wise men of Persia and others did join his followers.
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24 A Prophet Like Moses
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What the Bible says about Muhammad?
In the Bible, in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen, we have the words of
Moses who reports that God told him that there would raise up a prophet,
from among the brothers of the Israelites, like Moses.
Christians wish to apply this to Jesus, to say he was the prophet like Moses.
It
is uncomfortable for them to recognize, however that Jesus was not very
much like Moses and Jesus had no father, no wife, no children; he did
not die of old age, and he did not lead a nation; all these things Moses
had or did.
Prophet Mohammad saw prophesied
in various world religious scriptures
But they say, well, Jesus will return; he will return as a victorious person, and so he will be more like Moses.
Do they really expect he will return to also acquire a father and a
wife and children and then die of old age? Moreover, Jesus was an
Israelite.
Which Other Religion Say That Prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w) Will Come
The passage of scripture says that this prophet that was foretold would
be raised up among the brothers of the Israelites, not from the
Israelites.
In the third chapter of Acts, the disciple Peter speaks
to a crowd of people and explains that Jesus has been taken up and he is
in heaven.
100% Proof - Quran is The Word Of God
He will remain in Heaven and he cannot return until all the things that were promised by God come to pass.
Why do you claim Islam to be the true religion?
So what are we still waiting for, does he tell the crowd? He quotes this very saying of Moses saying:
"For God will raise up a prophet from among the brothers of the Israelites like Moses..."
The point is very clear.
Christians like to see this prophet as being Jesus. But read carefully
Acts chapter three, what it says is that Jesus awaits a return.
He cannot return until the fulfillment of this prophecy, that another prophet has to come.
Jesus spoke of it himself and the words survived, just barely, but they
survived in the bible.
Jesus spoke of God sending another 'Paraclete'.
Moses, Jesus, Muhammad... 3 Men, 1 Mission
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25 Paraclete
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Muhammad (pbuh) in the Various World Religious Scriptures
How will the Spirit of Truth abide with Us forever (John 14:16)
There is a lot of argument over the meaning of this word 'Paraclete'.
For now we can leave that aside. What is a 'Paraclete'? It does not
matter.
The first letter of John shows that Jesus was a 'Paraclete'.
He is called a 'Paraclete' and we have Jesus promising another
'Paraclete' is going to be sent.
We lose a lot by this word 'another' in
English because it is ambiguous.
If someone's car breaks down, and
it is a Toyota, and I say, '" I'll go get you another car," maybe I
mean, "I'll go and get you another Toyota because this one you have is
broken," or maybe I mean, "Forget Toyota, they're no good; I'll go and
get you a Datsun."
MUST WATCH
JOHN 14:6
John
10:27-28
John
16:12-13
John 16:7
John
14:28
John
10:29
Matthew
12:28
Luke
11:20
John
5:30
Acts
2:22
Matthew
5:17-20
Leviticus: 11:7-8
Deuteronomy: 14-8
isaja: 65:4
lukas
2:21
MOHAMMED MENTIONED IN THE BIBILE:
Deutronomy
18:18-19
isaja:
29:12
Song of solomon:
5:16
john:
14:16
john:
15:26
john: 16:7
john:
16:12-14
It is an ambiguous word. But the Greeks had a
word for it. When they meant 'another' of the same kind, they said
“aloes”. When they meant another of a different kind, they said
“heteroes”.
The important thing there is that when Jesus, who was
himself a Paraclete, said "God will send you another Paraclete" he used
the word aloes, not heteroes.
Christians want to say that this other 'Paraclete' that has been sent was different from Jesus.
It was not a man, it was a spirit.
What Jesus said was: God will send you another one like me, another
man." Muslims believe that Muhammad is the fulfillment of this prophecy
by Jesus.
The Qur'an says that this man is mentioned in the scriptures of the Jews and the Christians (see7:157).
Christians came to expect that the return of Jesus because of a Jewish misunderstanding.
'Messiah'
and 'Son of Man' have been given special significance by the Jews, even
though many people were called by this same name as in the Bible.
The Jews came to expect a victorious leader.
When Jesus did not turn out
to be quite what many expected, they hatched the idea that he would
return some day and fulfill all these prophecies.
Christian Challenge
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26 Follower of Jesus
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Similarities Between Islam & Christianity
Suppose that someone observed Jesus two-thousand years ago, and he left
this planet, or he went to sleep for two-thousand years and returned
today to look for the followers of Jesus, who would he find? Who would
he recognize? Christians?
I conclude with just this food for
thought: the Bible says very clearly that Jesus used to fast. Do
Christians fast? Muslims fast; it is obligatory on month every year.
The Bible says that Jesus prayed by touching his forehead to the
ground. Do Christians pray in this manner? Muslims do. It is
characteristic of their prayer and no one on earth is probably ignorant
of that fact.
According to Jesus, he told his disciples to greet one
another with the expression, "Peace be with you." Do the Christians do
that? Muslims do, universally, whether they speak Arabic of not.
The greeting for one to another is Assalamu' alaikum (peace be with you).
The brother of Jesus in the Book of James, stated that no man should
suggest what he is about to do of highlight his plans for the next few
days in anyway without adding the phrase "if God wills."
Do not say "I will go here and there do this and that" without adding the phrase "if God wills."
Do Christians do that? Muslims do, whether they speak Arabic or not. If
they so much as suggest they are going downtown to pick up some
groceries, they will add Insha-Allah, which in Arabic means, "If God
wills."
These conclude my thoughts on this subject. May Allah guide us always closer to the truth.
Islam and Christianity -Symposium Gary Miller vs Ahmed Deedat
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27 The Creation of the Universe
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“Do
not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined
together, then We clove them asunder? And We made from water every
living thing.
Will they not then believe?”(21:30)
This verse is
specifically addressed to non-believers, and touches upon the creation
of the universe and the origins of all life.
The Quran mentions
the existence of a gaseous mass (41:11) which is unique and whose
elements, although at first fused together subsequently became separated
(fatq).
The separation process resulted in the formation of
multiple worlds, a notion which crops up dozens of times in the Quran
(1:1): “Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.” [1,2]
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28 The Origins of Life
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“And We made from water every living thing.Will they not then believe?” (21:30)
The building blocks of all living things are called cells. They are the basic units of life.
Protoplasm
(cytoplasm nucleus) is the substance of all living things. Cytoplasm is
a jelly-like material consisting of water and dissolved substances.
The constitution of protoplasm is about 80-85% water. Without water life is not possible. (2)
None of the myths on the origins of life that abounded at the time of the Quran are present in the text.
Furthermore,
the fact that all life originated from water would not have been a very
easy thing to convince people of 1400 years ago, especially in the
desert!
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29 The Expansion of the Universe
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Miracle of the Quran : The expansion of universe
The expansion of the universe is the most imposing discovery of modern science.
Today it is a firmly established concept and the only debate centres around the way this is taking place.
“The
heaven, We have built it with power. Verily, We are expanding it.”
(51:47)‘We are expanding it’ is the translation of the plural present
particle musi’una of the verb ausa’a meaning “to make wider, more
spacious, to extend, to expand.”
Some translators were unable to
grasp the meaning and provided mistaken translations. Others sense the
meaning, but were afraid to commit themselves eg.
Hamidullah talks
of the widening of the heavens and space, but he includes a question
mark. Zidan & Zidan, and The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs
refer to the expansion of the universe in totally unambiguous terms.
[1,2]
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30 The Mountains
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Mountains
have always been looked upon as conspicuous landforms, characterized by
lofty protrusions above their surroundings, high peaks and steep sides.
However,
the Quran accurately describes mountains as stabilizers for the Earth
that hold its outer surface firmly, lest it should shake with us, and as
pickets (or pegs) which hold that surface downwardly as a means of
fixation.
”Have we not made the earth an expanse, and the
mountains stakes (awtad)?” (78:6-7) and “And God cast into the ground
mountains standing so that it does not shake with you.” (31:10). [1,3]
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31 The Developing Human Embryo
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Embryology in the Qur'an lecture by Dr. Keith L. Moore (University of Illinois,
Statements
referring to human reproduction and development are scattered
throughout the Quran. It is only recently that the scientific meaning of
some of these verses has been fully appreciated.
The Quran
determines that human development passes through stages (39:6). The
realization that the human embryo develops in stages was not discussed
and illustrated until the 15th century.
The staging of human
embryos was not described until the 20th century. Streeter (1941)
developed the first system of staging which has now been replaced by a
more accurate system proposed by O’Rahilly (1972).
However, the Quran was the first source to mention this (23:12-16).
The Quran and Hadith also state that both parents share in the origins of the offspring:
“O mankind! We created you from male and female.” (49:13)
and “We created mankind from a mixed drop (nutfah-amshaj).” (76:2)
The
mixed drop refers to the mixture and convergence of a small quantity of
sperms with the ovum (and its associated follicular fluid) to form the
zygote.
It has the form of a drop and consists of a mixture of
male and female secretions.”Then we made the drop into a leech-like
structure (‘alaqah).”
(23:14) ‘alaqah in Arabic means (i) to cling
and stick to a thing; (ii) a leech or bloodsucker; (iii) a suspended
thing; and (iv) a blood clot.
Amazingly, each of the meanings for
‘alaqah can be applied to human prenatal development.For example, taking
‘alaqah to mean a leech we find that the embryo is surrounded by
amniotic fluid just as a leech is surrounded by water.
The human embryo clings to the mothers womb, in the same way that a leech clings to the skin.
A
leech is a pear shaped organism and thrives on bloodsucking.
The
diagram above clearly indicates that the shape of the embryo does in
fact resemble a leech!
At this stage the cardiovascular system has
started appearing and the embryo is now defendant on the maternal blood
for its nutrition like a leech!
As there were no microscopes or
lenses available in the 7th century, people could not have known that
the embryo has this leech-like appearance.”
Then out of that leech-like structure We made a chewed lump (mudghah).
” This statement is from Surah 23:14. The Arabic word mudghah means “chewed substance or chewed lump.”
Towards the end of the 4th week, the human embryo looks somewhat like a chewed lump of flesh.
The chewed appearance results from the somites which resemble teeth marks.
The
somites represent the beginnings of the vertebrae (backbone). (For a
detailed discussion concerning the Quran and modern embryology see
1,2,4,5,6).
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32 Lost Civilizations
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In
the 89th chapter of the Quran, the city of “Iram” is mentioned: “Have
you not seen how your Lord dealt with Aad, of the city of Iram, with
lofty pillars the like of which was never created in any land?”
Iram
has been unknown to history, so much so that it apparently became an
embarrassment to some Muslim commentators of the Holy Quran.
In
1975, in North-Western Syria the ancient city of Ebla was excavated.
Ebla is over 4500 years old. In the ruins of the Palace Library they
found the largest collection of cuneiform clay tablets ever discovered –
around 15,000.
Written in the oldest Semitic language yet
identified, the tablets reveal that Ebla rivalled Egypt and Mesopotamia
as a major power of the ancient world.
They found in there a record of all the cities that Ebla used to do business with including one IRAM! [7,8,9]
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33 What happened to the body of Pharaoh of the Exodus?
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The Biblical version of Pharaoh’s story states that he was drowned in the pursuit of Prophet Moses (Exodus 14:28-29).
Unknown
to the world till only of late, the Holy Quran made a definite
prediction about the preservation of the body of that same Pharaoh of
Moses’ time 10:90-92: “This day We shall save you in your body so that
you may be a sign for those that come after you”.
The body was discovered in the tomb of Amenhotep II in 1898. [2,12]
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34 The resting place of Noah’s Ark
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Noah's Ark in the bible and the quran
The Bible states that “And the Ark rested… upon the mountains of Ararat.” Genesis 8:4.
According to the Holy Quran (11:44):
“The
Ark came to rest upon Al-Judi.” According to recent evidence from an
archaeological find in Eastern Turkey, experts believe they may have
discovered the remains of an ancient vessel whose dimensions mirror
those of Noah’s Ark as told in the Bible. However, the discovery was
made on Al-Judi! [10,11]
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35 The Glorious Quran :- God’s final Guidance to Mankind
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Quran and Modern Science | 3 People Converted after the lecture
“How
could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author in
terms of literary merits in the whole of Arabic literature?
How
could he the pronounce facts of a scientific nature that no other human
being could have possibly known at that time, and all this, without once
making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?” (Dr.
Maurice Bucaille).
You owe it to yourself to find out the TRUTH
about : ISLAM, the Holy Quran and the Life and teachings of God’s final
Messenger, Muhammad.
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36 The message of ISLAM is simple:
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There
is nothing worthy of worship except GOD alone, and Muhammad is his
messenger and servant. There are today, over one-thousand million
followers of ISLAM. Find out the truth!
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37 NOTES:
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[1] VIDEO TAPE: This is the TRUTH
[2] The Bible, the Qur’an & Science, by Dr. Maurice Bucaille, American Trust Publications.
[3] The Geological concept of Mountains in the Qur’an, by Prof. Z. R. El-Nagger, IIIE, USA.
[4]
“A scientist’s interpretation of references to embryology in the
Qur’an.”, Keith L. Moore, Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of
North America (18:15) 1986.
[5] The Developing Human: Clinically
oriented embryology with ISLAMIC ADDITIONS, Keith L. Moore and A. A.
Azzindani, 3rd Ed., Dar Al-Qiblah and WB Saunders, 1983.
[6] Human
Development as Described in the Qur’an and Sunnah, Various
contributors, Islamic Academy for Scientific Research, ISBN
0-9627234-1-4, 1992.
[7] The Amazing Qur’an, Gary Miller.
[8] National Geographic, December, 1978.
[9] Ebla – A revelation in archaeology, Chaim Bermant and Michael Weitzman, Time Books, 1979.
[10] VIDEO TAPE: Quest for the Ark, Channel 4 documentary.
[11] The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, D. Fasold, Wynwood Press, 1988.
[12] Moses and Pharaoh: The Hebrews in Egypt, Dr. Maurice Bucaille, NTT Mediascope Inc., Japan, 1994
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