Deep sea currents: In the Qur’an we read: “Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covers it a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness.” The Qur’an, Al- Noor(24):40. Mankind began to build submersibles in the seventeenth century. The first crude craft known to have ventured underwater was built by Cornelis Drebbel, court engineer to James I of England, and was demonstrated on the Thames river in 1620. From then onwards, development of submarines continued until the twentieth century, or 1954 to be exact, when the first nuclear submarine became a reality. With mankind’s study of the sea came the realization that the waters lying underneath the surface waves were not the place of tranquil calmness they were previously envisioned to be. Rather, there were underwater currents called deep sea currents which could at times become such violent storms as to rearrange sediments in the ocean bottom. How did Muhammad (pbuh) know about these underwater currents centuries before mankind invented the tools necessary for underwater exploration? “Say: It was sent down by He who knows the secrets in the heavens and the earth.” The Qur’an, Al-Furqaan(25):6. It is worth mentioning here in connection with the above verse that some scientists have interpreted the “layer upon layer of darkness” to be the gradual separation of the light spectrum within the ocean, one color at a time until complete darkness is finally achieved. In other words, at one depth, the yellow bandwidth is erased and “yellow darkness” is achieved. At another depth, the red bandwidth is erased and “red darkness” is achieved, and so forth. However, this is a topic for another day. There are many other scientific statements made in the Qur’an which were only discovered to be scientifically accurate many centuries after Muhammad’s death. Many of them have only been discovered in this century. They range over many fields of science including Anatomy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Hydrology, and many other disciplines which are only beginning to be addressed by scientists today. For example, the Qur’an makes reference to the fact that a human’s pain receptors are located in the skin (Al-Nissa(4):56). That the frontal lobes of the brain are responsible for lying and sin (Al-Alak(96):16). That mountains have below them roots that extend deep into the earth’s surface (Al-Naba(78):7). That mountains pin the earth’s crust and prevent it from moving (Al-Nahil:15). That there exists a physical barrier between bodies of fresh and salt water (Al-Rahman (55):20). And on and on. So where was Muhammad (pbuh) getting all of these scientific facts if not from the creator of mankind and the universe? I believe Allah almighty phrased it best when He asked: “Is this sorcery or is it that you do not see?” The Qur’an, Al-Tur (52):15. Prof. Keith Moore is not the only world-renown scholar who has been presented with such verses of the Qur’an. Many other well known and respected professors from all over the world have been presented with similar statements from the Qur’an in their field of expertise. Only a few of these men are: 1) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, and the Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute. Author of over 200 publications. Former President of the Teratology Society among other accomplishments. 2) Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer. Professor and Coordinator of Medical Embryology in the Department of Cell Biology in the Georgetown University school of Medicine. Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles dealing mainly with the study of teratogenesis. 3) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor Collage of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is the President of the American Fertility Society, and has served in many other professional, national, and international organizations. He has received numerous awards including Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992. He has published more than 400 chapters and articles in journals and books. 4) Dr. T.V.N. Persaud. Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author and editor of 25 books, has contributed 31 chapters to publications, and has published over 180 scientific papers. In 1991 he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. The list goes on and on, including: 5) Dr. Tajatat Tajason, Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand. 6) Dr. Alfred Kroner, Professor of Geology, Germany. 7) Dr. Yoshiodi Kozan, Director of the observatory of Tokyo, Japan. Dr. William Hay, Professor of Oceanography, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado. 9) Dr. Pete Palmer, Professor of Geology, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado. 10) Dr. Sayawida, Professor of Marine Geology, Japan. 11) Dr. Armstrong, Professor of Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 12) Dr. Draga Persaud Rauw, Professor of Marine Geology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 13) Dr. Schroeder, Professor of Oceanography, Germany. The response of these men when presented with verses of the Qur’an in their field of specialization, varied. One thing however was always constant. They all confirmed the accuracy of the scientific statements made in the Qur’an, and they all could not explain how Muhammad (pbuh) could have known with such accuracy the scientific claims to be found in the Qur’an so many centuries before mankind discovered them to be scientific truths. Allah almighty tells us in the Qur’an: “Allah did not create (all) that except in truth. He details the signs for people of knowledge.” The Qur’an, Yunus(10):5 “And those who were given knowledge see that which was sent down upon you by your Lord is the truth and guides to the path of the ‘Exalted’ (in Might) the ‘worthy of all praise’.” The Qur’an, Saba(34):6. “..Thus, verily the ones who fear Allah from among His servants are the scholars. Verily!, Allah is Mighty, Forgiving” The Qur’an, Fatir(35):28. To obtain a more in-depth analysis of these matters including video tapes containing interviews with many of these pioneering Western scholars, contact one of the following: 1) Islamic Academy for Scientific Research. 8150 West 111 Street Palos Hills, IL 60465 U.S.A. Phone: (708) 974-9151 2) Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) P.O. Box 38 Plainfield, Indiana, 46168 U.S.A. Phone: (317) 839-8157 3) Academy for the Miracles of Science in the Qur’an and the Sunnah P.O. Box 5736 Makkah Al-Mukarramah Saudi Arabia Phone: (2) 545-1519 Also look for the book “The Bible, the Qur’an and science,” by Dr. Maurice Bucaille, of the French Academy of Medicine. This book is the result of a study which lasted ten years. In it, the author proves, with detailed examples, how the Bible contains serious conflictions with some very basic elementary-school concepts of scientific knowledge. This, of course, is the result of mankind’s continuous warping of the book of God over many centuries. On the other hand, Dr. Bucaille found absolutely no evidence of conflictions between the statements made in the Qur’an and established scientific knowledge.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:22:23 +0000
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