Scientific Facts in the Quran (Part 2)
Scientific Facts in the Quran (Part 2)
Scientific Facts in the Quran (Part 2)
Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu. Welcome to the proof that Islam is the Truth. Where in these articles we've been discussing some of the amazing scientific miracles of the Quran. Information in a book 1400 years old & every Muslim believes is the uncreated word of Allah the creator of the heavens & the Earth revealed for the benefit & the guidance of all humanity. But it's not just the claim that we make. It's something that we can back up with evidence & we believe that for any rational human being, any thinking person who takes the time & takes the energy & takes the effort to look at these evidences & examine them dispassionately will come to know that truly Islam is what it claims to be: the religion that has been revealed by God, the Creator for the guidance & the benefit of all the mankind.
And in our last article we were talking about some amazing facts in the Quran concerning the Universe, how the Quran had described the Universe as expanding, that the Universe has a common origin & that the Universe that we know it a as today was formed out of a gaseous mass. And how all of this information was only discovered recently. Lets look at some more verses of the Quran concerning cosmology. One of the verses we want to mention is that Allah is the one who created the night & the day, the Sun & Moon. Each one is travelling in an orbit with its own motion. Now it's interesting that the Arabic word referring to movement with self-propelled motion is the verb "sabaha" & "yeswaboona" is what the actual text mentions.
Now this implies the motion that comes from body in question itself. So if it takes place in water it means to swim, if it means on land it means to walk. So the implication is the movement is coming from the body itself. So if it was talking about something in space it would mean to rotate, it would itself rotate. Now this is amazing. The Quran is talking 1400 years ago about the Earth & the Moon & the Sun rotating. If you are perhaps thinking that the Sun is static - it's not. The Sun as does the Earth, as does the Moon they all rotate. Of course the Earth however rotates around the Sun, the Sun rotates around its own axes. So it is quite correct a saying & of course the Earth is in orbit round the Sun, & also by the way the Sun is also in orbit. But it is in orbit round the centre of the galaxy.
In fact it is believed that ultimately if the Sun keeps going in its orbit it would ultimately end in what is known as the solar apex, a sort of position that it would end up in the centre of the galaxy. So what we find here is that the Quran is talking about things that no one could really know this information 1400 years ago, it is scientifically accurate. the idea of the alternation of the night & the day, & of the spherical nature of the Earth is actually implied in the 31st sura & the 29th ayat of the Quran: "How you not seen how Allah merges the night into the day & the day into the night?" And in another verse the 39th chapter in the 5th ayat or the 5th verse the Quran mentions: "He coils the night upon the day & he coils the day upon the night. And this word is used in the Quran, in the original Arabic is "kowarra". Kowarra in its original meaning means the action of coiling a turban around your head. Coiling a turban, so it describes kowarra, how the night & the day coils one round the other. And you can find that description of coiling a turban around your head. Turning a turban, so it describes kowarra how the night & the day coils one round the other.
And you can find that description of the interpenetration of one sector by another is expressed in the Quran just as if the concept of the Earth's roundness had already been conceived at the time. Which is except for a few, there were a few philosophers who had theorised that the Earth was round but it was not really a generally accepted idea. But it is something that is implied in the Quran, & certainly we can gather this today from our present day knowledge. It's a very another interesting aspect that in one place in the Quran the word that is used to describe the shape of the Earth is the same word that is used to describe the egg of the ostrich. Now looking at this globe for example you may imagine that the Earth is completely spherical.
But in reality that is not the case. The Earth is slightly misshaped, it is not a perfect sphere, & in fact slightly elongated, rather like an ostrich egg. So that it is incredible also that the Quran is describing that shape of the Earth. At least this is a possible interpretation of those verses. Certainly we can say that none of these things actually contradict present modern scientific knowledge. In fact if you think about it, if we were only to bring a book 1400 years old & you were to find absolutely no contradictions, & I don't mean here to say that the Quran affirms anything. Let's say it doesn't affirm any scientific knowledge, let's say it didn't even pre-empt any scientific knowledge. Lets say there was nothing special in the Quran, which of course is not the case because I have spent a couple of articles showing you exactly how amazing the Quran is when it talks about aspects of the Universe & the world in which we live.
But let's just say those things were not there. Let's just say there was nothing that contradicted present day knowledge. That itself alone would be remarkable. Because the superstitions & the beliefs that people had 1400 years ago were remarkable. For example the ancient Greeks believed that the Milky Way, the Milky Way is the band of stars that you can see in the sky, in fact it constitutes our Galaxy. They believed that the Milky Way was produced when a particular Greek Goddess was breastfeeding her child, & the child bit her breast & the milk spilled out & that's how the Milky Way got to be in the Universe. That's their legend of how the Milky Way came to be there. Of course today you'll probably will have a good laugh at that & how totally ridiculous it is. How come the Quran does not have any stories like that? How come the Quran does not have any fantastical descriptions of the origin of the Universe & the Earth? We find it doesn't. We find that what it says can be perfectly, easily & sensibly reconciled with modern scientific knowledge. No. Indeed many of the verses pre-empt what scientists have discovered today.
As earlier mention today,we were talking about some of the amazing scientific facts in the Quran that have been only discovered recently with modern scientific knowledge. Yet these things were mentioned in a book 1400 years old. Let's look at some more of the amazing statements in the Quran. In the tenth sura in the fifth ayat, the fifth verse it's said: "It is He", meaning God, Allah, "who made the Sun a shining lamp & the moon as a light & measured out their stages." Now the Quran describes the Sun as "siradge". Now the word "siradge " means torch, means, it's something that generates its own heat & light, whereas the Moon is described as "anoor". Now "anoor" means a light that is originating from another source. And of course this is the correct understanding. The Moon reflects the light of the Sun.
It's common knowledge today but not necessarily so in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Let's see what one of the respected cosmologists & scientists in the field of astronomy had to say when he was shown some of the statements in the Quran concerning his field of expertise. Yushidi Kusa who is a director of the Tokyo observatory in Tokyo in Japan. And this is what he said: "I say, I am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in the Quran, and for us modern astronomers who have been studying a very small piece of the universe. We have concentrated our efforts for understanding that very small part.Because by using telescopes, we can only see a very few parts of the sky without thinking about the whole universe.
So by reading the Quran and by answering to questions, I think I can find my future way for investigating of the universe." What he is saying is that the one who is writing the Quran, the one who is revealing the Quran, the one who is speaking the words of the Quran is talking as if he is looking at the whole Universe together. as opposed to the scientists who concentrate on observing this bit or that bit of the Universe which is what most astronomers do. Who is it that sees the whole Universe altogether? Who is it who sees all things in all places in all times except Allah, the mighty, the wise? So these are some of the amazing scientific facts & we are going to move on also to another area that particularly interested me, because when I was at school one of the subjects that I studied was geography & a sub subject of that was of course geology.
And I do remember when I first read the Quran twenty years ago, and it was reading the Quran that motivated me to embrace Islam, one of the things that stuck in my head & I remember it until today was coming across the descriptions in the Quran of mountains. So let's go through some of the things the Quran says about mountains. For example in the 78th sura in verses six to seven Allah says: "Have We not made the Earth an expanse & the mountains stakes?" The word that is used here is "otad", "otad" meaning stake is like the peg of the tent. So the peg of the tent goes into the ground, it holds the rope that holds the tent, so you have a small part of the peg sticking up from the ground but the majority of the peg is inside the ground. The Quran also says in the 31st sura or the 31st chapter in the 10th verse: "And Allah has cast into the mountains standing firm so that it does not shake with you." Now today with modern sonar technology they have been able to bounce sound waves down through the Earth's crust. And according to different rates according to which the sound waves are reflected back & are measured they can tell the different density in the Earth's crust as supposed to what is hard & what is soft.
What is from the crust & what is from the magna? And what they have discovered with this technology is exactly what the Quran was saying 1400 years ago. That the mountains have roots, the mountains like the peg of the tent, not only do they go up, go above the Earth surface, the mountains go deeply into the Earth core. And they act it has been theorised as stabilisers; they help to stabilise the Earth surface. And there are two ways in which they do that. Number one because the Earth is composed of tectonic plates. The crust of the Earth is actually made of different plates. And it is the movement of these plates that causes earthquakes. When these plates move against each other the friction of that movement causes earthquakes.
And that's also what they think how continental drift has happened; originally they believe all the continents were one continent & that because of plate tectonics it moved. But the Quran is saying is that mountains act as stabilisers, they help to stabilise the Earth's crust & this is something that has actually been theorised by modern geologists. There is another way in which the mountains may act as a stabilising factor. That is to do with the rotation. May be if you try & spin something you will find that if it is not really spherical it will not, it will start to rotate & then it will start to wobble out of shape. And it is possible that the mountains actually act as a counterbalance to keep the Earth's rotation smooth. i do stress of course that these are theories but it is very interesting what the Quran is saying 1400 years ago & that it seems to be pre-empting the ideas & the knowledge that is being produced by modern day science. Certainly it is a fact that is established that the mountains have roots & the Quran is saying that mountains are like "otad", the pegs of a tent. So this is a remarkable scientific fact. It's one I remember sticking in my mind when I first read the Quran about 20 years ago. So these are one of the remarkable things.
Also the Quran mentions some aspects of animal or plant life. For example the 16th chapter of the Quran is called sura an-Nahl which means the sura of the bee. And one of the aspects of the Quran, in this sura it is talking about the bee. And it's very interesting that the word that is used in the Quran for the bee that flies around gathering honey or gathering the nectar for the honey it is used in the female form. The gender that is used is feminine. Although until recently it was believed that the bees were actually soldiers, they were males, & the ruler of the hive was a king. But as it happens in fact we know that the bees are indeed female & they are owned or they are headed by a queen. That's why we are saying the queen bee.
It's also true that the Quran mentions that plants have different genders & the winds are a means of fertilisation for the plants. So in the 15th chapter of the Quran in the 22nd verse it says that "We", meaning the Allah, the Creator, this is the We of nobility, it does not mean that there is more than one God of course, it is We in the sense that Royalty uses the term "we" it's a sense of honour & nobility, so the "Royal We" they call it, "We sent forth the winds that fesantei" that means that they fertilise things. These are all recently discovered things. Also we find the Greek philosopher Democritus who lived from 460 to 361 BC. He advanced the theory that matter was composed of tiny indivisible particles called atoms.
And they believed that this was the base upon which all of things were made & there was nothing smaller than the atom. However modern science has discovered that atom is in fact devisable & the atom has been split & the atom itself is composed of smaller elements. The Quran says 1400 years ago in the 34th chapter & the 3rd ayat or the 3rd verse: "He is aware of an atoms weight in the Heavens & on the Earth & even anything smaller than that." Meaning there is something smaller than atom, & Allah, God is aware of it, every single thing. There is another thing I want to mention.
God mentions in the Quran some amazing things about the human beings, & one of the things is about our nerves. Here is a very frightening & teriffying passage of the Quran. It's mentioned of the 75th chapter in ayats 3 to 4: "Does not Mankind think that we can not assemble his bones. Nay we are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers." God is telling us he can recreate us on this day, this terrifying day, this frightening day the Day of Judgement. he is able to recreate you even if you are dust, even your bones to the very tip of your finger. Why "the very tip of your finger"? Of course you've all heard of fingerprinting, haven't you? Every single human being's fingerprint is unique. Why did God mention the fingerprint? Why did God mention the tip of the finger? This is the uniqueness of the human being. God is telling us: "Look! I can recreate you even to this fingertip, that is the power that I have. Even to your most unique attribute - I can create you to that. Be mindful, be careful. I will create you again on the Day of Judgement & I will judge you & ask you about every single thing that you have done.
This is not common knowledge. How did anyone 1400 years ago know about fingerprinting? And Allah warns us in the 4th chapter of the Quran in the 56th verse: "Those who reject our signs, We shall soon cast them into the hellfire & as often as their skin is roasted through We shall change them for fresh skins, so they may truly taste the penalty, for Allah is exalted in power, the Wise." This is a very frightening description of the Hellfire. God is going to burn the skin & recreate the skin & burn the skin, so that people in the hellfire will taste the punishment. Why is the Quran saying that? It's only recently been known & discovered that when the skin is burnt a person does not feel any pain. That's why when a person suffers severe burns a doctor will prick the skin to see if the person can feel the pain.
If he feels pain there are still nerve receptors left if he does not that means he skin has been so badly burnt he can not feel pain. So if God put people in the hellfire & the hell burnt their skins after that they will not feel the pain. so Allah is going to recreate the skin again so that they keep on tasting the punishment. It is a very severe warning from the One who has created you. He knows you better than you know yourself & He is warning you in His book of His knowledge & His ability that if you do not believe in Him & follow His guidance, see what is waiting for those people who reject the faith.
My dear listeners, we have only one more theme we want to mention. The tree of Zakoon which will be the food of sinners & it will be like boiling oil that will boil in their bellies like the boiling of scalding water. "Taste this" Allah says in the Quran, "verily you are pretending to be the Mighty, the generous." Look at those Arabic people pretending to be mighty, pretending to be generous, but taste the zee tree of Zakoon that will boil in your belly. And it says they will drink water that cuts their bowel to pieces. It is very interesting. The thermal receptors are not present in the intestines but it is in the bowels. And the contents & the receptors in the bowels are highly sensitive. It's a very-very sensitive area & that is where pain is initiated. It's not a common knowledge 1400 years ago but it is a fact that is mentioned in the Quran as a stark warning to all those people who reject faith in God.
God has combined the scientific facts with the severe warnings of those who disbelieve in Him. Our invitation is to invite you to His mercy, to His guidance & His forgiveness by accepting these truths, the proof that Islam is the Truth. Join us in the next episode for some amazing prophesies of the Prophet Muhammad in the Quran. Until then may God's peace & blessings & guidance be with you, Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu.
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