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welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and here over these series
we've been trying to show you the
evidences through which by which a
rational intelligent human being could
know that Islam truly is the Revelation
from Allah the creator of the heavens
and the Earth for the benefit and for
the mercy of all of humanity and today
we're going to be talking about some of
the amazing historical facts that we can
find in the Quran let's remind ourselves
of course that the Quran is a book 1,400
years old Muslims believe it was
revealed by God the creator of the
heavens and the Earth Allah is the
Arabic name for God the one God the
Creator the all knowing the all wise so
it's not surprising to us as Muslims
that the Quran should be accurate and
should be consistent because it is
revealed by the one who is the most all-
knowing who is the all- knowing and who
is the wise so of course it's natural
it's normal for us we'd expect it to be
accurate and be consistent but of course
for people today and many people are
claiming they don't believe that there's
a God or they don't believe that God
sends us guidance and Revelation it
remains a challenge to you and it
remains a sign a great sign a proof and
evidence that every Muslim through it
and by it gets more certainty and gets
more sure that the Quran is indeed what
it claims to be the Revelation from the
Mighty the wise and so let's talk about
some of those historical facts in the
Quran now first of
all um there is a story in the Quran
about a great prophet of God called Noah
and this Prophet is also of course
mentioned in the Bible and I'm sure you
all know the story of Noah how God sent
Noah to his people and the people of
Noah refused to believe in him and
because of that God sent upon them a
flood now before that flood God told
Noah to build an
ark now there's a few things about the
story of Noah in the
Quran one of the things that's worth
mentioning is in the 11th
Surah or 11th chapter of the Quran in
the 44th Ayah the Quran mentions that
the ark that's the bat that Noah built
came to rest upon Mount Judi Judi came
to rest upon the mountain of Judi now
the Quran is mentioning a specific name
of the mountain where the Ark of Noah
came to rest and it's very interesting
that recent AR iological
research around the area of Mount Judy
in fact there is a Mount Judy in Turkey
in present day Turkey and on this Mount
Judy there is a bolt-shaped object with
exactly the same dimensions as the Ark
of Noah now the Bible claims that the
ark came to rest on Mount Ararat which
is in fact 20 miles away from Mount Judy
and there's a few problems with the
biblical description the first problem
is that the Mountains of Ararat or the
Mount Ararat itself is a relatively
recent geological formation if we look
at the time
scale when the Ark of Noah was supposed
to be around the Mount Ararat did not
actually exist at that time it is very
recent geological formation so that's
one problem
and also the dates and the times offered
in the Bible flood and also the claim
that in the Bible that the flood was a
universal
cataclysm they don't fit the present day
archaological and scientific findings
first of all of course in scientific
terms the idea that it could rain for 40
days and 40 nights constantly upon the
earth's surface is scientific ific Al
not viable of course anyone could
explain that by saying it was a miracle
of God it was an exception of course we
cannot argue that God has the ability
and the power to do that but what we are
saying is that in scientific terms for
it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights
it's not possible as anybody who knows
how the water cycle works the sun heats
up the Earth's surface heats up the Sea
and the vapor from the sea is what is
transformed into clouds and the clouds
are then transformed into rain now of
course if it is cloudy all over the
Earth surface because of the rain then
how can the sun heat up the sea in order
to produce more rain all I'm pointing
out here is that scientifically it's not
viable also there is simply not water
enough water on this planet in order to
raise the sea level so high that as
according to the Bible every single
Mountain mountain peak was covered since
Everest is the highest mountain peak
today and it still was then uh the
amount of water that would be needed in
order to raise the sea level above the
level of Mount Everest is more than
there is water on this planet in order
to do that again we're not denying that
God could do it if he wants to all we're
saying is that in scientific terms it's
very difficult to verify such a claim
that the Bible makes
however the Quran does not claim that
the flood of Noah was a universal
worldwide cataclysm in fact the Quran
clearly refers to the punishment that is
bestowed upon Noah and his people as
being something that is specific to Noah
and his people uh and so although we
don't have any geological evidence for a
universal cataclysm we do of course have
plenty of geological evidence for local
cataclysmic
floods so this is very interesting that
the Quran first of all accurately points
out that the ark came to rest on Mount
Judy and it seems that there is a very
very high probability that the
bolt-shaped object and surveys have been
done of it is the remnants of a massive
bolt and where is it found on Mount Judi
as the Quran says as for looking for the
Ark on Mount Ararat people have searched
in vain for years and years years and
found
nothing Bible describes a cataclysmic
Universal worldwide event whereas the
Quran describes it as a local event
again what we find here is that the
Quran is in agreement with archaological
and scientific data it's perfectly
acceptable and it's viable and
verifiable according to that let's go to
Egypt and look for some more amazing
historical facts the Quran
mentions the
story of Joseph and Noah and the Ben
Isel the children of Israel of course
Muslims believe that Joseph or Yousef as
he has mentioned in the Quran was a
prophet of God Muslims also believe that
Musa or Moses may peace God's peace and
blessings be upon both of them was also
a prophet of God and their stories are
mentioned in the Quran by way of a
reminder by way of a teaching to us and
that is of course the main purpose of
the Quran is to be a moral guideline
it's to show us how we should live and
how we should behave in our life but yet
when the Quran is talking about
historical data what we find again and
again that it proves to be accurate and
there are some accuracies telling little
accuracies that actually if one thinks
about it are truly
remarkable and it stands as a challenge
to the human intellect how does this
information come to be so remarkably
accurate in the Quran from where was the
prophet Muhammad gathering this
information a man who was himself a
literate who could not read who could
not write he didn't go to university
they didn't have egyptology as a field
of study at that time the knowledge of
hieroglyphs was lost hundreds and
hundreds of years before the time of the
Prophet muhammmad so how come when the
Quran mentions about
Joseph Joseph refers to the leader of
the Egyptian people at the time as king
the term Pharaoh or far is not mentioned
in relation to Joseph and the ruler of
Egypt it is mentioned in relation to
Moses and the ruler of Egypt and Moses
calls the ruler of Egypt far but Joseph
does not call the ruler with whom he is
inter acting and who he acts as an
advisor and a guide he doesn't call him
Fon he calls him King and we're going to
talk about why and how that is a
remarkable historical accuracy after the
break don't go away join us for the next
part of the proof that Islam is the
truth amazing historical statements in
the Quran
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welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and we're talking about
amazing historical facts in the Quran we
were mentioning before the break how
Joseph or Prophet Yousef as he has
mentioned in the Quran may God's peace
and blessings be upon him he talks to
the ruler of Egypt and uses the term
King he never uses the term Pharaoh now
if we examine the date timeline of when
Joseph for Prophet Yousef was in Egypt
we find that the dynasty ruling Egypt at
the time was in fact a dynasty called
the hos now the hos dynasty was actually
a citic dynasty and they did not use the
normal native Egyptian terms in other
words they did not think of themselves
or refer to themselves as
pharaohs however the hos Dynasty by the
time of Moses was replaced but so by the
time it came to the time of Moses the
Semite hos dynasty was removed and was
replaced by a native Egyptian ruler and
the native Egyptians called their rulers
Pharaoh or far as it mentioned in the
Quran now this is a very very telling
but amazing
detailed
accuracy it's amazing because you will
not find the Bible making such a
distinction now in terms of a historical
document or sort of diary of events of
you know your ancestors who lived
thousands of years ago and writing down
what they did of course it it might be
perfectly acceptable in those type of
terms to become confused between King
and Pharaoh for example however for it
to be the word of God we should expect
it to be accurate and that's exactly
what we find and it also by the way
belies any claim that the Quran was
copied from the Bible if the Quran was
copied from the Bible and if the prophet
Muhammad made God's peace and blessings
be upon Him took his information from
the Bible how come he didn't copy that
mistake how come Joseph does not refer
to the ruler of Egypt as
pharaoh and how come he refers to him as
king historically accurate but not
according to the Bible
so this shows us two things number one
it begs the question again how did the
prophet Muhammad get this information so
accurate number two there is no way he
could have copied from the Bible because
he would have copied the mistakes of the
Bible and let's move on now to the time
of Moses for another amazing historical
accuracy in the confrontation between
the great prophet of God Moses and
pharaoh
when Moses comes to pharaoh and he shows
him the Miracles and the signs that God
has given him the staff which when Moses
throws it it turns into a snake and he
draws his hand out and it comes shining
white in the dialogue and the discussion
and the debate we could say between
Moses and
Pharaoh one of the things that Pharaoh
says very arrogantly he says oh
ham build me a lofty Tower
that I may look upon this God of Moses
now let's examine this it's very
interesting Pharaoh is saying oh ham
he's talking to somebody a particular
individual ham and he says to this ham
man that I want you to build me a lofty
building and the reason is so he claims
I can look upon this God of Moses he he
understood that God was the most high
God was above the heavens and in his
arrogance he thought and how arrogant
that is in respect to Modern knowledge
that we have that he could build a tower
and look upon the god of
Moses now some Christians and some
Christian orientalists had pointed out
that the word Haman or the term ham is a
name that is given to a Persian ruler or
a Persian courtier in the Bible some
1,200 years after the time of Moses so
they said that look Muhammad couldn't
even copy the Bible properly he took
some name from some later time in the
Bible and then plunked it in the time of
Moses well I mean there's a problem with
that first of all and one of the big
problems is there was no Bible in Arabic
in the time of the Prophet Muhammad may
God's peace and blessings be upon him
the prophet Muhammad May Allah's peace
and blessings be upon him also was
illiterate he couldn't read and write
from where was he receiving the
knowledge who was the rabbi or the
priest that was feeding him all of this
information it's very hard to explain
such a thing in rational terms and
certainly from all the accounts that we
have of the life of the prophet and all
the information that we have with us we
don't find any such individual who could
have been supplying such detailed
information and then this individual how
come he managed to get this information
wrong again these are not really viable
hypotheses however it is only recently
that we have been able to discover a
truly amazing
fact when Napoleon
bonapart invaded Egypt he sent out
various scholars in order to do research
and one of them came across a truly
remarkable thing it is called the
Rosetta Stone
the Rosetta Stone allowed for the first
time in thousands of years hieroglyphs
to be deciphered and the reason is is
because the Rosetta Stone had a
particular inscription a quite lengthy
inscription in hieroglyphs a more modern
form of hieroglyphs and then in Greek so
by comparing the inscriptions they were
able to begin to translate and to
decipher the hieroglyphs
now Scholars have been working of course
on translating the hieroglyphs and I
myself remember personally when a group
of students in Cambridge University who
were trying to go through some of the
claims of the
orientalist that the Quran had been
copied from the Bible and their
intention of course was to refute that
and so they went to one of these
dictionary of high hieroglyphical terms
in order to try and find out if there
was such a person as ham in ancient
Egypt now although there was a lack of
information in English they did find a
book in German and looking through this
book they came across a truly remarkable
Discovery surely enough there was indeed
a particular title of a person
and this title was exactly that
ham now when we look at who was Haman
what was this title what did this Haman
do in other words it was a position it
wasn't the name of a particular
individual necessarily it was the name
of a position in Egyptian society and
what was this position ham is the master
of the
Quarry of those people who build with
stone Now isn't that truly
remarkable that Pharaoh is saying oh
Master of the Quarry oh Master of the
people who build the stone build for me
a lofty tower that I may look upon this
God of pharaoh you will not find this
anywhere in the
Bible you will only find this in the
Quran the knowledge of reading
hieroglyphs as I have mentioned was
lost hundreds of years before the time
of prophet Muhammad may God's peace and
blessings be upon him yet in the Quran
Pharaoh is using an exactly accurate
historical
term the question you have to answer is
from where did the prophet Muhammad may
God's peace and blessings be upon him
get this information from where did he
get such amazing
knowledge I think you know by now surely
the penny must be starting to drop
surely the cogs must be starting to line
up in place surely the realization must
be Dawning upon you if it is not already
that indeed the Quran is the Revelation
from Allah the creator of the heavens
and the Earth for the benefit and the
mercy of all of mankind now the next
subject that we want to deal with is a
truly fascinating subject and it will
take a couple of episodes for us to go
through it and that is called the
witness ing of the people of the book
that's what I've called it and it's also
dealing with the Prophecies of the
Prophet Muhammad May Allah's peace and
blessings be upon him in the Bible now
who are the people of the book the
people of the book according to the
Quran as they call it is as they are
called means essentially the Jews and
the Christians first and formost it
means the Jews and the Christians they
are why because they have a scripture
the Jews have the Torah the Christians
have the injil or combined together it's
what we know as the Bible now there are
some other scriptures of course for
example the Jews do have other
scriptures called the talmud and for the
Jews that is a very important collection
of documents and ancient Christians
before the time of the Council of NAA
which is was held about 345 years after
the time of Jesus Jus when the gospels
we know today as Matthew Mark Luke and
John were canonized and formalized as
being part of the Bible in fact it's
important to understand what does the
Quran teach about the Bible the Quran
teaches us that the Jews and Christians
have scripture with them and they have
enough scripture with them in order for
them to be able to know the truth
however the scriptures they have have
been altered and corrupted either things
have been added or things have been
deleted or things have been adjusted in
one way or another so this is what the
Quran says for example in the second
chapter of the Quran the Quran tells us
woe to those who write the book with
their own hands and they say this is
from Allah and it is not from Allah and
they know that well so the Quran says
that there are people who are saying our
book is is from God our Bible is from
God but it is a book that they have
changed and they have changed it with
their hands and in by the way they are
doing that until this day and they claim
it is from God and they know perfectly
well that it is not from God so woe to
them for what their hands right and woe
to them for the small gain that they get
thereby however that doesn't mean that
we can't find information in the Bible
it doesn't mean that we can't gleam some
information out there we believe as
Muslims that there is enough truth left
in those scriptures through which and by
which a sincere and honest Christian or
a sincere and honest Jew could come to
know the truth of monotheism that indeed
there is only one God and this is what
we believe was the message of Jesus we
do not believe that Jesus called people
to worship himself no he called people
to worship the creator of the heavens
and the Earth just like Moses called
people to worship the creator of the
heavens and the Earth alone and to
submit themselves to his divinely
revealed guidance this is what we call
Islam sincere submission to the will of
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
so we're going to be talking about some
of those people in the past from the
people of the book Jews and Christians
who themselves have recognized the
prophethood of prophet Muhammad and
testified to that so join us for the
next exciting episode of the proof that
Islam is the truth until
then May the peace and blessings of God
and his guidance be with all of you
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