Questions & Some Scientific Facts

Q. What is the Islamic perception of God or Allah as the Muslims call Him?
A. The Quran answers thus: “Say: He is Allah the One and only, Allah, the Eternally besought of all, He begetteth not, nor is He begotten, And there is none like unto Him.” [Quran 112:1-4].
“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth…” [Quran 24:35].

Q. What are the Islamic criteria for anyone to enter paradise?
A. The Quran answers: “By time, Verily man is at a loss Except such as have faith (to believe in the Quran) And do righteous deeds, and (join together) in mutual enjoining of Truth, and of patience and constancy.” [Quran 103:1-3].

Q. What does the Quran say about the reason for the creation of humankind?
A. The Quran answers: (Allah says) “I have not created jinn and humankind, except for My worship.” [Quran 51:56].

Q. What is the daily prayer of a Muslim?
A. The opening chapter of the Quran, Surah Fatihah: “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of all the Worlds, Most Gracious, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment; Thee alone do we worship, and Thine aid we seek; Show us the straight way; The way of those on whom Thou has bestowed Thy Grace; Those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.” [Quran 1:1-7].

Q. How would you describe the life of this world?
A. Quran answers: “Know that the life of this world is only sport (play), and idle talk, and pageantry, and boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is pleasing to the cultivator, but afterwards it dries up and thou sees it turning yellow, then it becomes straw. And in the hereafter there is grievous punishment, and also forgiveness from ALLAH and HIS good pleasure, whereas the life of this world is but a matter of illusion.” [Quran 57:20]
(Look to how beautifully ALLAH the Majestic, sums up the explanation of this temporary life in just one verse).

Q. What is recorded in the Quran regarding the claim of divinity of Jesus by his followers?
A. And when Allah will say on the Day of Judgment: “O’ Jesus, son of Mary! Did thou say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah?” Jesus will reply: “Be Thou Glorified! It was not mine to utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, then Thou knewest it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy mind. Lo! Thou only! Thou art the Knower of all things hidden. I spoke unto them only that which Thou did command me: (saying) Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. I was a witness of them while I dwelt among them, and when Thou raised me up, Thou was the Watcher over them. Thou art witness over all things. If Thou punish them, lo! they are Thy slaves, and if Thou forgive them, (lo! they are Thy slaves). Lo! Thou, only Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.”
“Allah will say: This is a day in which their truthfulness profited the truthful, for theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they are secure for ever, Allah taking pleasure in them and they in Him. That is the supreme triumph” [Quran 5:116-119].

Q. How sure are you of your belief, that Islam is the true religion, the ultimate truth, and how would you explain and try and convince someone that what you believe in is logical and reasonable?
A. This is a very important question, and the explanation has to stand up to the scrutiny of the skeptics, atheists, pagans and the materialists, etc. Al-Humdulilah, (all praise belongs to Allah) that he has given the answers to every question in His Final Message to the humankind. i.e. The Glorious Quran.
One has to read the Glorious Quran personally to understand the message. Remember that the Quran is explicit in stating: “There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error…” Quran: 2:256.
Revelations originating from one source have to be consistent and not change over whatever time span it took to reveal. That is exactly what the Quran states. Firstly, that a portion of the message were given to various prophets over thousands of years; and specifically names four revelations by name, as well as the names of the prophets that it was revealed to. The Quran embodies the full and complete message, as no other prophet and revelation is to follow. That is what Jesus (PBUH) meant when he said that he would pray to the father for another comforter who will abide for all time. The four most important revelations are:
1. The Taurah, (Old Testament) Law: revealed to Prophet Musa, (Moses) (PBUH).
2. Zaboor, or the Psalms: revealed to Prophet Dawood, (David) (PBUH).
3. The Injeel, (Good News) (New Testament) revealed to Prophet Esa (Jesus) (PBUH).
4. The Quran, also known as the Fur’qaan, (Criterion) revealed to Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH). The Quran embodies all of the above. Viz: The Law, The Praises of the Almighty, and The Good News of the Hereafter for the believers.
Any book, which claims to be from God Almighty, has to be perfect in all respects. Some of the criteria are: There should be no contradictions whatsoever, the message should be consistent in whatever it states, whether it is of a scientific nature, or otherwise, and should be able to be proved to be true at ALL TIMES, The Laws governing society should be the best for the people at all times and under all conditions, and so forth. The Quran contains all of the above and more. By reading the Quran can one understand the uniqueness and perfectness of the Quran.
THE QURAN WAS REVEALED MORE THAN 1425 YEARS AGO WHEN THERE WAS NO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AS WE KNOW TODAY.
The Quran has approximately six thousand verses. Of the six thousand verses there are approx 1,000 verses pertaining to science. The majority of these verses pertaining to science were largely UNDISCOVERED until the 1960’s to 1990’s. In other words most of them were conclusively proven by scientists only recently when science advanced to the extent it has. The following are just a few examples:
Let us begin with our own creation. ie. Of human beings.

EMBRYOLOGY
In the early 1980’s Muslim scholars, under the direction of an eminent Yemani scholar, Sheikh Abdul Majid Azzindani, collated information concerning embryology and other sciences from the Quran and the hadiths of the prophet and translated them into English. He then followed the Quranic advice of finding out from those who know. These verses of the Quran were presented to Prof. Keith Moore, Professor Of Embryology and Chairman of Anatomy at the University of Toronto, in Canada. Presently he is one of the highest authorities in the world in the field of Embryology. He was asked to give his opinion regarding the material of the Quran that was presented to him.
After carefully examining the verses, Dr. Moore said that most of the information concerning embryology mentioned in the Quran and the hadiths is in PERFECT conformity with modern discoveries in the field of embryology. However, he said that there were certain verses of the Quran that he could not comment on, as he himself was unaware of the scientific validity of them, as well as the fact that there was NO MENTION of this in the latest studies of embryology. One such verse is:
“Proclaim! (Or read) In the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created – Created man, out of a (mere) clot of (a leech like) congealed blood”. [Quran 96:1-2].
Dr. Moore had no knowledge whether an embryo in the initial stage appears like a leech. To verify this he studied the initial stage of the embryo under a very powerful microscope and compared what he observed with the diagram of a leech. He was ASTONISHED at the striking resemblance between the two. In the same manner he acquired more information on embryology, which was hitherto not known to him from the Quran. Dr. Moore then answered about eighty questions dealing with embryological data mentioned in the Quran and hadith. Noting that the information contained in the Quran and hadith was in full agreement with the LATEST DISCOVERIES in the field of embryology. Prof. Moore stated: “If I was asked these questions thirty years ago (ie: 1950’s), I would not have been able to answer half of them for lack of scientific information”.
Dr. Moore authored the book called “The Developing Human” after acquiring new knowledge from the Quran and the hadiths. This book was the recipient of an award for the best medical book written by a single author. It has been translated into several major languages and is now used a textbook of embryology in the first year of medical studies. In the forward to the book Dr. Moore acknowledges the source of information as the Glorious Quran and the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). A few other verses pertaining to the creation of the human being are: “Now let man but think from what he is created! He is created from a drop emitted – Proceeding from between the back bone and the ribs”. [Quran 86:5-7].
In the embryonic stages, the reproductive organs of the male and female, i.e. the testicles and the ovaries, begin their development near the kidney between the spinal column and the eleventh and twelfth ribs.“ And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised.” [Quran 32:8].
The Arabic word Sulaalah means quintessence, or the best part of a whole. Science has recently discovered that only one single spermatozoon that penetrates the ovum is required for fertilization, out of the several million produced by man. That one spermatozoon out of the several millions is referred to in the Quran as sulaalah.
“Verily We created man from a drop of mingled sperm.” AlQuran: 76:v2.
The Arabic word “nutfatin amshaajin” means mingled liquids of the male and female secretions. “We created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed that We may manifest (Our power) to you.” [Quran 22:5].
At the Mudgah stage, if an incision is made in the embryo and the internal organ is dissected, it will be seen that most of them are formed while the remaining are not yet completely formed.
“Man We did create from a quintessence; then We placed him as (a drop of sperm) in a place of rest, firmly fixed; then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature. So blessed be Allah, the best to create.” [Quran 23:12-14]
“And He created for you (the faculties) of hearing and sight and feeling and understanding, little thanks it is you give.” [Quran 23:78].
“He makes you in the wombs of your mothers, in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness.” [Quran 39:6].
According to Prof. Moore, these three veils of darkness refer to: (i) the anterior wall of the mother. (ii) The uterine wall. (iii) The amino-chorionic membrane. The above are the exact stages of the creation of man, which was discovered by Dr. Moore only after the Quranic verses were made known to him.
In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Damman, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Moore said: “It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come from God, or Allah as the Muslims call Him, because almost all this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah or God.”
Prof. Marshall Johnson who is one of the leading scientists in the USA, and is the head of the Dept. of Anatomy and Director of the Daniel Institute at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, was asked to comment on the verses dealing with embryology.
He said: “I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that Divine intervention was involved when Muhammad (PBUH) recited the Quran.”
The following comments have been made by Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, who is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
Formerly, he was Prof. Of Ob-gyn and the Chairman of the Obgyn at the University of Tennessee, USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility Society. He has received many awards, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Recognition Award in 1992.
Professor Simpson studied the following two Hadiths, (sayings of the Prophet of Islam).
1. “In every one of you, all components of your creation are collected in your mother’s womb by forty days.”
2. “If forty days have passed over the embryo, Allah sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones…”
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of embryogenesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet. He concluded that this information could not have been obtained on the basis of scientific knowledge that was available at the time of the writer (in the 7th century). “It follows that not only is there no conflict between genetics and Islam, but in fact Islam may guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific approaches…. there exists statements in the Quran shown centuries later to be valid which support the fact that knowledge in the Quran having been derived from God. (Allah).”
He went on to say that the point regarding the accuracy of the sayings by the Prophet as noted by other speakers at the conference leads all of the eminent Professors to one conclusion, and that is that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had got the knowledge from God, and he was definitely a messenger of God.
There are many more ayaat in the Quran relating to the creation of man in much detail. Please refer to the Quran.
Dr. T.V.N. Persaud is a Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy for 16 years. He is the author / editor of 22 text books and has published over 181 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.
When he was asked about the scientific miracles of the Quran that he researched, he commented as follows:
“The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could neither read nor write. In fact he was unlearned in the sense we understand. And we are talking about 14 hundred years ago. Here you have an illiterate person making profound pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I personally cannot see how this could be a mere chance! There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Keith Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind that this is a divine inspiration of revelation which led him to these statements.”
Professor Persaud has included some Quranic verses and sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in some of his books, as well as presenting them at several conferences.
There are dozens of scientists like Dr. Persaud, Dr. Moore & Dr. Simpson who have reached the same conclusion. In the face of such overwhelming proof of acceptance by these eminent scientists in their respective fields, it is impossible for any person or for that matter any court of law not to accept the evidence of the Prophethood of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and that the Quran is the word of Allah.

GENERAL SCIENCE
FINGERPRINTS
“Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers.” [Quran 75:3-4].
Unbelievers deny the resurrection-taking place after death. Allah, the Almighty answers that He will not only assemble our bones, but will also reconstruct perfectly our very fingertips. In 1880, fingerprinting became the scientific method of identification, after research by Sir Francis Golt. No two persons fingerprints are alike, not even identical twins. One thousand four hundred years ago when no one knew this, the Quran stated this fact. Can this knowledge be human or divine?

ASTRONOMY (Big Bang Theory).
“ Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before WE clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? [Quran 21:30].
Regarding the joining of the heavens and earth and its cleaving asunder, it was verified conclusively fairly recently. With regard to every living thing made with water has also been verified. We know that cytoplasm, which is the basic substance of the cell is made up of 80% of water. Is it possible for a person to make this perfect pronouncement living in the desert of Arabia, where there is a shortage of water to state unequivocally that every living thing is made with water?
“And the earth, moreover, hath HE made egg-shaped.” [Quran 79:30].
The Arabic word for egg in this verse is “Dahaahaa,” which means an ostrich egg, and the ostrich egg resembles the geospherical shape of the earth. Thus the Quran correctly describes the shape of the earth, though the notion at the time the Quran was revealed was that the earth was flat.
The following verse also alludes to the earth being spherical:
“ He created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions): He merges the Night into day, and the Day to over lap the Night.” [Quran 39:5].
Merging here means that the night slowly and gradually changes to day and vice versa. This phenomenon can only take place if the earth is spherical. If the earth were flat there would have been a sudden change from night to day, and from day to night.
Regarding the earth and the planets and other bodies have a set orbit. (Discovered over the past century or so.)
“ It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the sun and the moon: All (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course.” i.e. an orbit. [Quran 21:33].
OCEANOLOGY
“And made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water.” [Quran 27:61]. (Also in Quran 25:53 & Quran 55:19).
German scientists have proved this in the 1960’s that the waters in the oceans that meet (like the Indian and Atlantic oceans) do not mix as each ocean keeps its own salinity and density. It is as if there is an invisible bar keeping the water separated. Glory is to ALLAH alone. HE has power over all things. It has taken man more than 1400 years after the Quran was revealed to discover these scientific facts.

BOTANY
“Glory to ALLAH, Who has created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge.” [Quran 36:36].
“And of everything WE have created (sexual) pairs.” [Quran 51:49].
How can it be possible for any human being to know that there is male and female gender in the vegetable kingdom unless this knowledge is from the ALL-KNOWER, WHO CREATED
THEM? This also is a fairly recent discovery by the scientists during the twentieth century 1400 years after the revelation of the Quran.

MEDICAL DISCOVERIES
Honey has Healing Properties.
“There issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men.” [Quran 16:69].
Not too long ago it was discovered that honey comes from the belly of the FEMALE BEE. It was originally thought that it was the male bee that collected honey in its mouth. The fact that it was the female bee that collected the honey in its belly was mentioned in the Quran 1,400 years ago. We now also know that honey has healing properties when taken orally, or when applied, it acts as an antiseptic as is mentioned in the Quran.
Thus the knowledge contained in the Quran regarding honey, its origin and properties, was far ahead of the time it was revealed.

PAIN RECEPTORS IN THE SKIN
In the past it was thought that the sense of feeling and pain was only dependent on the brain. Recent discoveries prove that there are pain receptors present in the skin itself, without which a person would not be able to feel pain.
Prof. Tagatat Tejasen, Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, has spent a great amount of time on research of pain receptors. Initially he could not believe that the Quran mentioned this scientific fact over 1,400 years ago. In fact at first he refused to accept it. He later verified the translation of this particular Quranic verse.
Prof. Tejasen was so impressed by the scientific accuracy of the Quranic verse, that at the 8th Saudi Medical Conference held in Riyadh about the 1980’s on the Scientific Signs of the Quran and Sunnah he proclaimed in public:
“LA ILAHA ILLAL-LAH, MUHAMMADUR RASULLULAH.”
“There is no God except ALLAH, and Muhammad (PBUH) is His servant and Messenger.”
The above scientific verses are just a few of those that are mentioned in the Quran. But any unbiased reader will not fail to realise the truth of the Quran and the Prophethood of the final messenger, Muhammad (PBUH) by reading these few.
ALLAH has made the Quran easy to remember. That is a fact, as any Muslim will verify.
Millions of Muslims have memorized the ENTIRE Quran from as young as FIVE YEARS old and even as old as EIGHTY YEARS. No other religious scripture can boast of this. In the year 2004, at a rough guess, at least two per cent out of a total population of 1.2 billion Muslims are Huffaz. (i.e. Persons who have memorized the entire Quran.) That is approx 2,000,000. If one considers this over the period of 1.400 years, then the figure could easily be more that 25,000,000 persons who have/had memorized the entire Glorious Quran in Arabic. The rest of the over ONE BILLION Muslims have memorized many chapters of the Quran, as it is a requirement to read verses of the Quran in the five daily prayers. The majority of the Huffaz are non-Arabs whose mother tongue is not Arabic. They are Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Turks, Uzbeks, and Malaysians, French, Italians, Bosnians, Chechnya’s etc yet they all are so easily memorizing the Quran in Arabic.
Question: Are there even FIVE Christians in the whole world today, that can say that they have memorized the ENTIRE BIBLE? OR EVEN HALF OF THE BIBLE in any of their own languages, SINCE THE FIRST COPIES OF THE BIBLE WERE PRINTED?? Definitely not!! The reason for that is very simple. The original Bible in the words of Jesus (PBUH) who spoke ARAMAIC never existed! Jesus never gave permission for it to be written down. The Bibles of today are Gospels of the followers of Jesus. i.e. Matthew, Mark, John, Luke and others. Paul, who corrupted the pure teachings of Jesus by introducing paganism into his teachings, never saw Jesus with his own eyes or even met him! Also the Bible has been revised, re-revised, rere-revised dozens of times. Any person reading the forwards to the many different VERSIONS will attest to this fact. Some Bibles have 73 books; some have 67 books and so forth. Some Churches do not accept the Bibles of other Churches. Yet they all claim to follow Jesus. How can that be possible I ask? The quotations in this book have been taken from FIVE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF BIBLES.
ALLAH warns in the Quran: “Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say: This is from God, to traffic with it for a miserable price! Woe to them for what their hands do write, and woe to them for the gain they make thereby.” [Quran 2:79].
“HE created Adam from dust, then HE said unto him, BE! And he was. [Quran 3:59].
“Lo! The likeness of Jesus with ALLAH is as the likeness of Adam. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.” [Quran 5:73].
Fact! The Quran is the most read book on the face of this planet.
Muslims read the Quran daily throughout the world,
individually and in congregation during the obligatory prayers.
IT IS THE ONLY BOOK THAT ONE NEVER GETS TIRED OF READING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ASK ANY
MUSLIM. Nowadays thousands of non-Muslims are reading the Quran and are finding it so powerful and enlightening that even if they do not accept Islam, they nonetheless read it for inspiration. Prime Minister Blair of Britain and President Clinton of the USA and Clinton’s daughter are just some examples.
MOST CHRISTIANS HAVE NEVER READ THE ENTIRE BIBLE EVEN ONCE IN THEIR LIVES. They have read only selected verses in churches and most of them hardly ever read the Bible at home.

Some Selected Verses From the Quran Pertaining to Jesus (PBUH).
“They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! ALLAH (GOD) is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah (himself) said: O’ Children of Israel, worship my LORD and your LORD. Lo! Whosoever ascribeth partners to ALLAH, for him ALLAH has forbidden paradise; his abode is the fire. For evildoers there will be no helpers. They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! ALLAH (GOD) is the third of the three; when there is no god save the ONE GOD. If they desist not from so saying, a painful doom will fall on those who disbelieve. Will they not rather turn to ALLAH and seek forgiveness of HIM? For ALLAH is Forgiving and Merciful.” [Quran 5:72-74].
“And when Jesus, son of Mary said: “O’ Children of Israel! Lo! I am the messenger of ALLAH unto you, confirming that which was (revealed) before me in the Torah, and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmed. Yet when he had come to them with clear proofs, they said: This is mere magic. And who does greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie against ALLAH when he is summoned unto Islam? And ALLAH guides not wrong doing folk!” [Quran 61:6-7].“And mention in the book (Quran) the story of Mary, when she withdrew from her people to a place in the east. And she placed a screen to screen herself from them; then WE sent unto OUR Spirit that appeared to her as a man in all respects. She said: I take refuge in the ALL-MERCIFUL from you. If you fear ALLAH…” He said, I am but a messenger come from your LORD, to announce to you the gift of a holy son. She said: How can I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste? He said: even so your LORD has said: Easy is that for ME, and that we may appoint him as a sign unto men and a mercy from US; it is a thing decreed. So she conceived him, and withdrew with him to a distant place.” [Quran 19:16-22].
Some facts pertaining to the teachings of Jesus and Moses (PBUT) that Muslims follow still up to today that Christians don’t follow: (The following are a few of them.)

• Muslims wash their face, hands, and feet before praying, as Moses and Jesus (PBUT) did. Christians don’t.
• Muslims remove shoes, cover their heads and enter the place of worship. Christians worship with their shoes on and men remove their hats.
• Muslims prostrate (on their faces) and pray as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane when he beseeched God to save him. Christians don’t. They sit on seats in Churches.
• Muslims never eat pork as Jesus also never ate pork. Christians do. It is one of their favorite dishes.
• Muslims don’t indulge in usury. Christians live on usury.
• Muslims commemorate the sacrifice of Prophet Abraham annually. Christians never do.
• Muslim males all circumcise. Jesus was circumcised. Christian males don’t circumcise.
• Muslims fast a whole lunar month each year. Jesus also fasted. Christians don’t.
• Muslims eat with their right hands as Jesus did. Christians eat with their left hands and use knives and fork.
• Muslim Mosques (In Arabic: Masjid; places of worship) don’t have “Graven Images” as was the case in Synagogues where Jesus prayed. Christian Churches are full of them, as well as paintings of faces etc.

The Christians do not practice all of the above. This also proves that Muslims are more Christian than the Christians themselves, as they obey Jesus (PBUH) more than them! It is true that one imitates the one whom one loves. Muslims love and revere Jesus (PBUH) more than Christians as we follow all his commandants.