كتاب This is the Truth Newly Discovered Scientific Facts Revealed in Qur

This is the Truth Newly Discovered Scientific Facts Revealed in Qur من Islamic Books Abdulla M. AlRehaili “In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are signs for people with intelligence”[Quran 3:190] INTRODUCTION Ever since the dawn of mankind, we have sought to understand nature and our place in it. In this quest for our purpose of life many people have turned to religion. Most religions are based on books claimed by their followers to be divinely inspired, without any proof. Islam is different because it is based upon reason and proof. There are clear signs that the book of Islam, the Quran, is the word of God. There are many reasons that support this claim: There are scientific and historical facts found in the Quran which were unknown to the people at the time, and have only been discovered recently. The Quran came in a unique style of language that cannot be replicated, this is known as the ‘Inimitability of the Quran.’ There are predictions made in the Quran and by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) which have come to pass. This booklet lays out and explains the scientific facts that are found in the Quran, centuries before they were discovered. It is important to note that the Quran is not a book of science, but a book of ‘signs’. These signs are there for people to recognise Allah’s existence and revelation. Science sometimes takes a ‘U-turn’, what is scientifically correct today is false a few years later. In this booklet only established scientific facts are considered, not just theories or hypothesis. Before we move onto the scientific facts found in the Quran, the next section is a quick introduction to the concept of God in Islam. CONCEPT OF GOD In Islam, God is nothing like a human being or like anything that we can imagine. The concept of God is summarised in the Quran as: “SAY, HE IS Allah, THE ONE, GOD, THE ABSOLUTE, HE DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH, NOR WAS HE BORN, AND THERE IS NOTHING LIKE HIM.”[112:1-4] Allah gave us intelligence so we could use it to recognise his existence and to follow his guidance. When we reflect upon the nature of our world, we see order everywhere from the water cycle to the movement of the earth around the sun. Commenting on the order found in the universe, the physicist Stephen Hawking explains that the overwhelming impression: “IS ONE OF ORDER, THE MORE WE DISCOVER ABOUT THE UNIVERSE, THE MORE WE FIND THAT IT IS GOVERNED BY RATIONAL LAWS.” This observation is shared by the vast majority of scientists. Since the universe has order and is governed by the ‘laws of science’, we should question how this order came about. The most effective way to answer this question is to reason to the best conclusion. Take your mobile phone for example: your phone is made of glass, plastic and metal. Glass comes from sand, plastic comes from oil and metal is extracted from the ground. Imagine you were walking in a desert (where there is lots of oil, sand and metals in the ground), and you found a mobile phone lying around. Would you believe that it came together by itself? That the Sun shone, the wind blew, lightning struck, the oil bubbled to the surface and mixed with the sand and metal, and over millions of years the mobile phone came together by chance? No one would believe such an explanation. A mobile phone is clearly something that was put together in an organised way, so it would be rational to believe that it must have an organiser. In the same way, when we see the order in the universe around us, isn’t it rational to say that the universe has an organiser? This ‘organiser’ is best explained by the existence of God. God is the one who bought about the order in the universe. Since Allah created the world, it makes sense that he would send a message to us about our purpose in life. Muslims believe this message is the Quran. Allah is not male or female, the word ‘Him’ when used for God does not refer to gender
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