rasha
December 2nd 2004, 07:55 PM
Asalamo Alykoum (Peace and mercy from God be upon you)
There are many different openions about Islam whether it is a true religion or not and whether Quran is words of God or not.
I will point directlly to the answer in a very scientific way which every body can easily balance the truth of Islam and Quran by his/her logic.
It is well known that when God sends any prophet, He supports him with many miracles to prove that he is a real prophet and that he is sent by God. The evidence that God has suported prophet Muhammed peace be upon him with
was the Qur'an.
How can Quran be the miracle of Islam?
-------------------------The big challange in the past------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quran was revealed in the Arabic language and arabs by that time were very very strong in their arabic language, they fully mastered it and they used to compose beautiful and excellent poetry, still read and appreciated today, so the arabic language itself was their area of strength and consequently God had chosen it as the area of challange to prove that Muhammed is a real prophet.
God has said in the Quran: (The following is transaltion of (Quran, 2:23-25)")
" And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed (the Quran) to Our worshiper (Muhammad ), then produce a chapter like it, and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides God if you are truthful. And if you do not do it, and you can never do it, then fear the Fire (Hell) ....."
Did the arabic disblievers meet this challange?
No. they have never never been able to meet this challange taking into consideration that the samallest chapter in Quran (Chapter 108) is only ten words, and this chanllange is valid till our current time for any body who wants to meet it but as God said "and you can never do it", no body had never done it and will never do it.
-------------------------The big challange in the present time----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quran is not revealed to arabs only instead it is revealed to the whole world and to all human beings so a question now comes up: if the arabic language of Quran is used as an evidence for arabic-speaking people what about non arabic-speaking people and here comes the most powerfull and clearest evidence that Quran which was revealed FOURTEEN CENTURIES ago is the literal word of God.
The notion that religion is at odds with scientific development is alien to Islam. We are in an age where religion and science can embarce, the true religion and the true science with no contradiction. That is there is no possibility that a proven scientific fact could contradict a divinely revealed truth which has been clearly understood.
Read the following translation of verse number 53 in chapter no. 41:
"Soon will We show them Our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?"
I will now put infront of you some of the quranic verses that have been revealed from 14 centuries ago and I will show you how recently science (real facts and not theories) has perfecly fits the revealtion stated in the Quran and please take into consideration that most of the scinteific discoveries nowadays are discovered by non muslim scientists.
====First example: The Quran on Mountains: -----------------------
A book entitled Earth is a basic reference textbook in many universities around the world. One of its two authors is Professor Emeritus Frank Press. He was the Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter, and for 12 years was the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
First fact about mountains
His book says that mountains have underlying roots. (Eart press and Siever, p 435. also see Earth science , Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 157)
These roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg
This is how the Quran has described mountains.
God has said in the Quran:
" Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?" (Quran, 78:6-7)
Modern earth sciences have proven that mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground and that these roots can reach several times their elevations above the surface of the ground.
So the most suitable word to describe mountains on the basis of this information is the word ‘peg,’ since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the surface of the ground.
The history of science tells us that the theory of mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Second fact about mountains
Mountains also play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth.
They hinder the shaking of the earth.
God has said in the Quran:
" And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake with you... " (Quran, 16:15)
Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth.
This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s.
--------- Point of Logic ---------
Could anyone during the time of the Prophet Muhammad have known of the true shape of mountains?
Could anyone imagine that the solid massive mountain which he sees before him actually extends deep into the earth and has a root, as scientists assert? A large number of books of geology, when discussing
mountains, only describe that part which is above the surface of the earth. This is because these books were not written by specialists in geology. However, modern geology has confirmed the truth of the Quranic verses.
====Second example: The Quran on Seas and Rivers: ----------------------
First fact about seas
Modern Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density.
For example, Mediterranean sea water is warm, saline, and less dense, compared to Atlantic ocean water. When Mediterranean sea water enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1000 meters with its own warm, saline, and less dense characteristics. The Mediterranean water stabilizes at this depth. Although there are large waves, strong currents, and tides in these seas, they do not mix or transgress this barrier.
The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress.
God has said:
" He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. "
(Quran, 55:19-20)
Second fact about seas
But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier.
God has said in the Quran:
" He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. "
(Quran, 25:53)
One may ask, why did the Quran mention the partition when speaking about the divider between fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the divider between the two seas?
Modern science has discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet. It has been discovered that what
distinguishes fresh water from salt water in estuaries is a “pycnocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers. This partition (zone of separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water
and from the salt water.
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation).
--------- Point of Logic ---------
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation).
--------- Conclusion ---------
The only reasonable conclusion is : Quran was revealed to Muhammed from God. He could not have known such details because he was an illitrate man with absolutely no scientific training and originally these pieces of information were not known at his time by anybody.
Refrence of above examples
Book Name:A brief illustrated guide to understanding Islam
Url: http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1-a.htm
====Third example: The Quran on Fly and Future challange for scientific age: -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fly, what a little small insect but can the whole world meet the challange announced by God in Quran???
"O' people! A parable is set forth (unto you) so listen unto it! Verily, those whom you call upon besides God can never create (even) a fly, even though they gather for it, and should the fly carry away any thing from them, they can not take it back from it; (how) weak the invoker and the invoked."
(22: 73)
God in this verse does not only announce a challange but clears another scientific fact that proves the triuth of Quran which was revealed by Him to Muhammed
Please refer to the following link to know the whole story
http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/quran/the-fly/the-fly.htm
but here is its point:
God talks to us in this verse of our inability to extract from the fly what it has taken away (by feeding). why wouldn't it be possible to take back from the fly what it had taken away, one may think that with the available tools nowadays can dissect what is even smaller than a fly?
Scientific fact
When a fly needed to eat, it would extent its mouth to the surface of the desired food , creating a tube. If you would examine the tube closely you would see that the end that touches the surface of the food was wider, making it look like a vacuum cleaner's tube's end. After the fly had extended it's mouth, it would excrete enzymes that allowed it to break the food and convert it into liquid. That helped the fly draw the food into the its body.
What does this all mean? And what does the digestion process of the fly have to do with the parable mentioned in the verse? Notice carefully how the verse discusses this eternal disability. The problem with extracting the food does not come from the limitations of the tools, but rather in what is being extracted. Remember that the food that went into the body of the fly is not the same anymore. The food was broken down into molecules that makes it not longer what it was, and even it was taken back it would not be the same. Therefore it cannot be obtained again.
Notice also that even if we were to take back the food at the first point when it was just entering the mouth of the fly, it would still not help, because the food was digested even before that. Therefore, "they can not take it back from it" ever.
====More examples: ----------------------
I have just metioned three examples but there are many others, you can view these examples (by figures) and more on the following url
Url: http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1-a.htm
Finally I will provide translations of 2 verses in Quran
"Say: O ye men now truth hath reached you from your Lord those who receive guidance, do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray, do so to their own loss: and I am not (set) over you to arrange your affairs."
chapter no. 10 verse no. 108
====================
"Do they not reflect in their own minds? not but for just ends and for a term appointed, did Allah create the heavens and the earth, and all between them: yet are there truly many among men who deny the meeting with their Lord (At the Resurrection)!"
chapter no. 30 verse no. 8
Thank you for reading this post
There are many different openions about Islam whether it is a true religion or not and whether Quran is words of God or not.
I will point directlly to the answer in a very scientific way which every body can easily balance the truth of Islam and Quran by his/her logic.
It is well known that when God sends any prophet, He supports him with many miracles to prove that he is a real prophet and that he is sent by God. The evidence that God has suported prophet Muhammed peace be upon him with
was the Qur'an.
How can Quran be the miracle of Islam?
-------------------------The big challange in the past------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quran was revealed in the Arabic language and arabs by that time were very very strong in their arabic language, they fully mastered it and they used to compose beautiful and excellent poetry, still read and appreciated today, so the arabic language itself was their area of strength and consequently God had chosen it as the area of challange to prove that Muhammed is a real prophet.
God has said in the Quran: (The following is transaltion of (Quran, 2:23-25)")
" And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed (the Quran) to Our worshiper (Muhammad ), then produce a chapter like it, and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides God if you are truthful. And if you do not do it, and you can never do it, then fear the Fire (Hell) ....."
Did the arabic disblievers meet this challange?
No. they have never never been able to meet this challange taking into consideration that the samallest chapter in Quran (Chapter 108) is only ten words, and this chanllange is valid till our current time for any body who wants to meet it but as God said "and you can never do it", no body had never done it and will never do it.
-------------------------The big challange in the present time----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quran is not revealed to arabs only instead it is revealed to the whole world and to all human beings so a question now comes up: if the arabic language of Quran is used as an evidence for arabic-speaking people what about non arabic-speaking people and here comes the most powerfull and clearest evidence that Quran which was revealed FOURTEEN CENTURIES ago is the literal word of God.
The notion that religion is at odds with scientific development is alien to Islam. We are in an age where religion and science can embarce, the true religion and the true science with no contradiction. That is there is no possibility that a proven scientific fact could contradict a divinely revealed truth which has been clearly understood.
Read the following translation of verse number 53 in chapter no. 41:
"Soon will We show them Our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?"
I will now put infront of you some of the quranic verses that have been revealed from 14 centuries ago and I will show you how recently science (real facts and not theories) has perfecly fits the revealtion stated in the Quran and please take into consideration that most of the scinteific discoveries nowadays are discovered by non muslim scientists.
====First example: The Quran on Mountains: -----------------------
A book entitled Earth is a basic reference textbook in many universities around the world. One of its two authors is Professor Emeritus Frank Press. He was the Science Advisor to former US President Jimmy Carter, and for 12 years was the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
First fact about mountains
His book says that mountains have underlying roots. (Eart press and Siever, p 435. also see Earth science , Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 157)
These roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg
This is how the Quran has described mountains.
God has said in the Quran:
" Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?" (Quran, 78:6-7)
Modern earth sciences have proven that mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground and that these roots can reach several times their elevations above the surface of the ground.
So the most suitable word to describe mountains on the basis of this information is the word ‘peg,’ since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the surface of the ground.
The history of science tells us that the theory of mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Second fact about mountains
Mountains also play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth.
They hinder the shaking of the earth.
God has said in the Quran:
" And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake with you... " (Quran, 16:15)
Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth.
This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s.
--------- Point of Logic ---------
Could anyone during the time of the Prophet Muhammad have known of the true shape of mountains?
Could anyone imagine that the solid massive mountain which he sees before him actually extends deep into the earth and has a root, as scientists assert? A large number of books of geology, when discussing
mountains, only describe that part which is above the surface of the earth. This is because these books were not written by specialists in geology. However, modern geology has confirmed the truth of the Quranic verses.
====Second example: The Quran on Seas and Rivers: ----------------------
First fact about seas
Modern Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density.
For example, Mediterranean sea water is warm, saline, and less dense, compared to Atlantic ocean water. When Mediterranean sea water enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1000 meters with its own warm, saline, and less dense characteristics. The Mediterranean water stabilizes at this depth. Although there are large waves, strong currents, and tides in these seas, they do not mix or transgress this barrier.
The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress.
God has said:
" He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. "
(Quran, 55:19-20)
Second fact about seas
But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier.
God has said in the Quran:
" He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. "
(Quran, 25:53)
One may ask, why did the Quran mention the partition when speaking about the divider between fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the divider between the two seas?
Modern science has discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet. It has been discovered that what
distinguishes fresh water from salt water in estuaries is a “pycnocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers. This partition (zone of separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water
and from the salt water.
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation).
--------- Point of Logic ---------
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation).
--------- Conclusion ---------
The only reasonable conclusion is : Quran was revealed to Muhammed from God. He could not have known such details because he was an illitrate man with absolutely no scientific training and originally these pieces of information were not known at his time by anybody.
Refrence of above examples
Book Name:A brief illustrated guide to understanding Islam
Url: http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1-a.htm
====Third example: The Quran on Fly and Future challange for scientific age: -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fly, what a little small insect but can the whole world meet the challange announced by God in Quran???
"O' people! A parable is set forth (unto you) so listen unto it! Verily, those whom you call upon besides God can never create (even) a fly, even though they gather for it, and should the fly carry away any thing from them, they can not take it back from it; (how) weak the invoker and the invoked."
(22: 73)
God in this verse does not only announce a challange but clears another scientific fact that proves the triuth of Quran which was revealed by Him to Muhammed
Please refer to the following link to know the whole story
http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/quran/the-fly/the-fly.htm
but here is its point:
God talks to us in this verse of our inability to extract from the fly what it has taken away (by feeding). why wouldn't it be possible to take back from the fly what it had taken away, one may think that with the available tools nowadays can dissect what is even smaller than a fly?
Scientific fact
When a fly needed to eat, it would extent its mouth to the surface of the desired food , creating a tube. If you would examine the tube closely you would see that the end that touches the surface of the food was wider, making it look like a vacuum cleaner's tube's end. After the fly had extended it's mouth, it would excrete enzymes that allowed it to break the food and convert it into liquid. That helped the fly draw the food into the its body.
What does this all mean? And what does the digestion process of the fly have to do with the parable mentioned in the verse? Notice carefully how the verse discusses this eternal disability. The problem with extracting the food does not come from the limitations of the tools, but rather in what is being extracted. Remember that the food that went into the body of the fly is not the same anymore. The food was broken down into molecules that makes it not longer what it was, and even it was taken back it would not be the same. Therefore it cannot be obtained again.
Notice also that even if we were to take back the food at the first point when it was just entering the mouth of the fly, it would still not help, because the food was digested even before that. Therefore, "they can not take it back from it" ever.
====More examples: ----------------------
I have just metioned three examples but there are many others, you can view these examples (by figures) and more on the following url
Url: http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1-a.htm
Finally I will provide translations of 2 verses in Quran
"Say: O ye men now truth hath reached you from your Lord those who receive guidance, do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray, do so to their own loss: and I am not (set) over you to arrange your affairs."
chapter no. 10 verse no. 108
====================
"Do they not reflect in their own minds? not but for just ends and for a term appointed, did Allah create the heavens and the earth, and all between them: yet are there truly many among men who deny the meeting with their Lord (At the Resurrection)!"
chapter no. 30 verse no. 8
Thank you for reading this post