Some Evidence For The Truth Of Islam
Scientists' Comments on
Scientific Miracles in the Quran:
The following are some comments of scientists (1) on the scientific
miracles in the Holy Quran. All of these comments have been taken
from the videotape entitled This is the Truth. In this videotape,
you can see and hear the scientists while they are giving the
following comments.
1) Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is
Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at
the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There, he
was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy for 16 years. He is
well-known in his field. He is the author or editor of 22 textbooks
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 in the
Quran which he has researched, he stated the following:
"The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very
ordinary man. He could not read, didn't know [how] to write. In
fact, he was an illiterate. And we're talking about twelve
[actually about fourteen] hundred years ago. You have someone
illiterate making profound pronouncements and statements and that
are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I personally
can't see how this could be a mere chance. There are too many
accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind
that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to
these statements."
Professor Persaud has included some Quranic verses and sayings of
the Prophet Muhammad in some of his books. He has also presented
these verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad at several
conferences.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the
Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human
Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn and the Chairman of the
Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis,
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 Public Recognition Award in
1992. Professor Simpson studied the following two sayings of the
Prophet Muhammad:
«In every one of you, all components
of your creation are collected together in your mother's womb by
forty days...» (2)
«إن أحدكم يجمع خلقه في بطن أمه أربعين
يوما»
«If forty-two nights have passed
over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who shapes it and
creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones....»
(3)
«إذا مر بالنطفة ثنتان وأربعون
ليلة، بعث الله إليها ملكا، فصورها وخلق سمعها وبصرها وجلدها ولحمها
وعظامها»
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively,
noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly
distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He was particularly
impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those sayings
of the Prophet Muhammad. Then, during one conference, he gave the
following opinion:
"So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad )
that have been noted provide us with a specific time table for the
main embryological development before forty days. Again, the point
has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this morning:
these hadeeths could not have been obtained on the basis of the
scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of their
writing... It follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict
between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion can guide
science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific
approaches, that there exist statements in the Quran shown
centuries later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Quran
having been derived from God".
3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is
Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Thomas
Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, for
22 years he was Professor of Anatomy, the Chairman of the
Department of Anatomy, and the Director of the Daniel Baugh
Institute. He was also the President of the Teratology Society. He
has authored more than 200 publications. In 1981, during the
Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor
Johnson said in the presentation of his research paper:
"Summary: The
Quran describes not only the development of external form, but
emphasizes also the internal stages, the stages inside the embryo,
of its creation and development, emphasizing major events
recognized by contemporary science".
Also he said: "As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I
can specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental
biology. I can understand the words that are translated to me from
the Quran. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose
myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and describing
things, I could not describe the things which were described. I see
no evidence for the fact to refute the concept that this
individual, Muhammad, had to be developing this information from
some place. So I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that
divine intervention was involved in what he was able to write."
(4)
4) Dr. William W. Hay is a
well-known marine scientist. He is Professor of Geological Sciences
at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. He was
formerly the Dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida,
USA. After a discussion with Professor Hay about the Quran's
mention of recently discovered facts on seas, he said:
"I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the
ancient scriptures of the Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing
where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting
that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it,
the meaning of some of the passages". And when he was asked about
the source of the Quran, he replied: "Well, I would think it must
be the divine being".
5) Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer is
Course Director and Associate Professor of Medical Embryology at
the Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, USA. During the Eighth Saudi Medical
Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Goeringer stated the
following in the presentation of his research paper:
"In a relatively few aayahs (Quranic verses) is contained a rather
comprehensive description of human development from the time of
commingling of the gametes through organogenesis. No such distinct
and complete record of human development, such as classification,
terminology, and description, existed previously. In most, if not
all, instances, this description antedates by many centuries the
recording of the various stages of human embryonic and fetal
development recorded in the traditional scientific
literature".
6) Dr. Yoshihide Kozai is
Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, and
was the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka,
Tokyo, Japan. He said:
"I am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in
[the] Quran, and for us the modern astronomers have been studying
very small pieces of the universe. We've concentrated our efforts
for understanding of [a] very small part. Because by using
telescopes, we can see only very few parts [of] the sky without
thinking [about the] whole universe. So, by reading [the] Quran and
by answering to the questions, I think I can find my future way for
investigation of the universe".
7) Professor Tejatat Tejasen is
the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University,
Chiang Mai, Thailand. Previously, he was the Dean of the Faculty of
Medicine at the same university. During the Eighth Saudi Medical
Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Tejasen stood up and
said:
"During the last three years, I became interested in the Quran...
From my study and what I have learned from this conference, I
believe that everything that has been recorded in the Quran
fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by
the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read
nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth,
which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is
eligible [as the] creator. This creator must be God. Therefore, I
think this is the time to say La ilaha illa Allah, there is no god
to worship except Allah (God), Muhammadur rasoolu Allah, Muhammad
is Messenger (Prophet) of Allah (God). Lastly, I must congratulate
for the excellent and highly successful arrangement for this
conference... I have gained not only from the scientific point of
view and religious point of view but also the great chance of
meeting many well-known scientists and making many new friends
among the participants. The most precious thing of all that I have
gained by coming to this place is La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadur
rasoolu Allah, and to have become a Muslim".
After all these examples we have
seen about the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran and all these
scientists' comments on this, let us ask ourselves these
questions:
Could it be a coincidence that all this recently discovered
scientific information from different fields was mentioned in the
Quran, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago?
Could this Quran have been authored by Muhammad or by any other
human being?
The only possible answer is that this Quran must be the literal
word of God, revealed by Him.
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Footnotes:
(1) Note: The occupations of
all the scientists mentioned in this web site were last updated in
1997.
(2) Narrated in Saheeh Muslim,
#2643, and Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #3208.
Note: What is between these special brackets «...» in this guide is
a translation of what the Prophet Muhammad said. Also note that
this symbol # used in the footnotes, indicates the number of the
hadeeth. A hadeeth is a reliably transmitted report by the Prophet
Muhammad's companions of what he said, did, or approved of.
(3) Narrated in Saheeh Muslim,
#2645.
(4) The Prophet Muhammad was
illiterate. He could not read nor write, but he dictated the Quran
to his Companions and commanded some of them to write it
down.
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