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May the peace and blessings and the
mercy of God be upon all of you welcome
back to the next episode of the proof
that Islam is the truth
and today we're going to be talking
about the scientific miracles of the
Quran those statements in the Quran and
the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad the
Hadith of the Prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam may God's peace and blessings
be upon him that are truly remarkable
that beg the question how could such
information be in a book 1,400 years old
you see scientific knowledge
depends upon the gradual advance ment of
information we can only know a certain
thing in scientific terms when something
has been studied and observed and
examined and of course the ability to
study and observe and examine something
depends largely upon what is available
to us in order to be able to do that so
for example how much can we know about
the stars and cosmology if we don't have
access to powerful telescopes and
different ways of interpreting and
Gathering and then interpreting data
from the universe around us how for
example can we know about the Earth the
Earth's crust the formation of the earth
without sophisticated instruments able
to measure it how could we know for
example about the details of human
embryonic development without the sophis
phisticated processes available to us
today in order to be able to acquire
that
information this is something concerning
how scientific knowledge comes to
us what if we were to come across a book
an ancient book
1,400 years old and this book was going
to give us information it was going to
reveal facts that we have only
discovered recently through our hard
earned scientific method of
investigation and that now after
continued observation and Gathering of
information now we know yes these are
facts these are things that are true but
no one knew those things 1,400 years ago
no one even had the
possibility of knowing those things
1,400 years ago then surely this begs
the question where could such
information come from where could a book
so
ancient have received such knowledge
that is so modern this is the question
we are going to be exploring in the next
few episodes of the proof that Islam is
the truth and what we want to remember
is that the Quran is a miracle for all
times it was not only a miracle for the
Arabs living in Arabia 1,400 years old
for them the language of the Quran its
structure its Rhythm its whole
meaning was a miracle for them they
would hear the Quran as we've shown and
they would Embrace Islam it was enough
for them they knew that no human being
could produce a work like this we are
not Arabs we may hear the Quran we may
find it beautiful we may not find it
beautiful so the linguistic miracle of
the Quran the miracle of the quran's
language it doesn't mean that much to us
but we do believe that the Quran is a
miracle for all times it is just as much
miraculous for you
today as it was for those people living
1,400 years ago but the way it is
Miracle the aspect in which it is
miraculous is obviously going to change
because the things that we consider to
be important today are not necessarily
the things that the Arabs considered to
be important 1,400 years ago and just as
poetry and language was what the Arabs
living in the time of the Prophet
Muhammad were so proud of they were so
proud of their linguistic abilities
today I think we could safely agree that
it is scientific knowledge that we are
proud of we are so proud of the ability
and the achievements of Science in fact
many people will hold up the
achievements of science as one of the
defining characteristics of the
superiority of Western
civilization in fact there is no doubt
that the achievements of science have by
and large in recent times been a product
of West western civilization and there's
no doubt for that reason that many
people today are in awe of the West and
the power and the ability of the West we
study in universities based upon the
patterns of Western institutions English
is the lingua franka the international
language that is spoken all over the
world and in which many different
studies are performed
and all this is really connected with
science and the advancement in science
and technology so the Quran is a miracle
to the scientist the Quran is a miracle
to the people of the 20th and the 21st
century just were as it was a miracle to
those people living in the desert
1,400 years ago now what we plan to do
over the next few episodes is to
introduce to you some of the statements
and explain some of the statements in
the Quran that are of a scientific
nature and that have proven to be in
accordance with modern scientific
knowledge now before we go into it I do
want to mention a very important matter
and that matter is that the Quran is not
a scientific
textbook the Quran is a book of
guidance in the Quran Allah
says this is the book without doubt in
it is guidance for the pious people so
the Quran is fundamentally essentially
before anything else it is a book of
guidance it is a book that teaches us
who is Allah who is the creator that
there is only one God that is worthy of
worship it tells us also that Muhammad
may God's peace and blessings be upon
Him is the messenger of God it teaches
us morals what is right and what is
wrong how we should behave with each
other how we should behave with the
world around us it teaches us the
stories of those Pious people who have
come before us so that their lives and
their examples could be an encouragement
for us so that we could further better
ourselves and the Quran also warns us of
those people who have disobeyed God who
have sinned against God who have
transgressed the limits that God has
laid down and the Quran and warns us and
tells us about the fate of what has
happened to those people the Quran is a
book of law it teaches us the laws
through which and by which we should
govern
ourselves according to the wisdom and
the knowledge of the Mighty the wise
Allah subhah
waala so the Quran is not a book of
science but where without doubt we
believe we know that it is from Allah
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
and therefore it is not unreasonable to
expect that the information that is
contained in the Quran should reflect
the perfect and absolute wisdom and
knowledge that is from God we should
expect of course that a book that is
from God to be
consistent with the the reality of the
universe around us since God is the
creator of the universe and God is the
creator of all things and God is the one
who knows everything surely a book that
is from God should be consistent with
what we can observe to be facts now
importantly we are talking here about
facts and so what I have tried to
confine myself to are those aspects
that are very clear and that are very
obvious and that are not ambiguous we're
not talking here about so much
scientific theory although of course in
a philosophical sense every statement in
science is a theory everything is a
theory it's only in the eyes of
scientists a theory that is very very
strongly proven with very very strong
evidence as opposed to a theory that may
have very little evidence or perhaps
even no evidence at all and so
scientists put their faith as you could
say they put their faith in those
theories which simply offer the best
explanation and have the strongest
degree of evidence however we have
really only tried to select those
statements from the Quran that are
supported by by the strongest degree of
scientific evidence and again we only
say this because the Quran is not a
scientific textbook it's not a book of
science it's a book of guidance but we
should expect that it does not
contradict the reality of the world
around us so I have chosen some of those
statements in the Quran that have also
amazed and fascinated me personally and
I remember that when I first read the
Quran for myself one of the things that
astounded me about the Quran was that it
lacked the fables and the fairy tales
and the type of fantastic statements
that you would expect from a book that
was revealed 1,400 years ago in fact
what I discovered is that its statements
were truly amazing we will be talking
about some of those things after the
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truth welcome back to the proof that
Islam is the truth I'm ABD green and I'm
going to be talking today about some of
the amazing statements in the Quran
concerning the natural world some of the
amazing findings that we find in the
Quran that agree with present scientific
observations amongst most or amongst one
of the most remarkable of
them are without doubt the statements in
the Quran dealing with the development
of the human fetus now it's interesting
as a
comparison to see what was the state of
knowledge at the time of the Prophet
Muhammad may God's peace and blessings
be upon him because you would expect a
work that has been made by human beings
to reflect the ideas and the concepts
that were prevailing at the time if
Muhammad may God's peace and blessings
be upon him had invented the Quran had
authored the Quran himself most
certainly he would have picked up the
ideas that normal amongst the Arabs and
the Greeks and the Romans and the
Egyptians and so on and so forth
so one of the prevailing theories was of
course the aristotlean theory and
Aristotle was one of the people one of
the first people to really begin to make
scientific
investigations and theories as to the
origin of human life when I say one of
the first people certainly in the
western world he was one of the first
people and also he's one of the people
whose statements have been recorded and
preserved for posterity there may of
course have been others but his theory
was very very common and his idea was
that the male sperm acted as renit in
cheese to congeal the female menstrual
blood and from the congealing of the
female menstrual blood the human embryo
was formed now he based this upon his
observation that when women became
pregnant
their monthly periods ceased and so he
theorized that therefore something must
happened to that monthly period and what
happened to it was that it congealed in
order to form a human life now of course
we realize at this time that such a
theory is completely false even as late
as the 18th century a man called heart
SOA claimed to have seen through a
primitive microscope various sperms of
different
animals and so looking through this
primitive microscope he claimed that he
could see inside the actual sperm a
preformed human being a little child
crouched up similarly he claimed that in
the giraffe sperm for example he could
see a long neck and in the rabbit sperm
there was a big ears
and stuff like that and this was known
as the preformation theory of course
again today we know that that is false
and it's an example of course of those
type of theories that sometimes float
around in science that later show to be
false and even quite laughable and
that's the case with both Aristotle and
the ideas that were prevailing in the
18th century and it's not really until
the 19th century
that we began to develop an accurate
description of the stages of human
embryonic
development now what we want to examine
is what does the Quran
say if the Quran was a forgery if the
Quran was invented and written by
Prophet Muhammad as people claim then
surely it would reflect the ignorant
beliefs of the time however it does not
let us read the 23rd chapter of the
quran: 12 to 16 the meaning of it is
this we created man from a quintessence
of clay this by the way is referring to
the creation of Adam Muslims believe
that God created Adam miraculously not
like the rest of the creation he took
clay Allah took clay from different
places of in the earth and he formed
from this clay the shape of a man and he
gave life to this form and thus Adam was
created and from the rib of Adam Eve was
created so this is what Muslims believe
and so when Allah says we created man
from a quintessence of clay this is
talking about the creation of Adam but
the Quran goes on to say we placed him
as a drop and the word in Arabic Arabic
is N N means a drop in a place of rest
firmly
fixed then we made the drop into an
Al and I will tell you what these words
mean in a moment so first we priced him
as a n then we made the drop into an
alak and then we changed the alak into a
mud and then we made out of that mud
bones and then we clothe the bones with
flesh then we caused him to grow and
come into being and attain definitive
form so Allah is mentioning the
stages okay so these are the stages and
then we begin to look like human beings
beings and Allah goes on to say Blessed
Be Allah the perfect
creator after that you will die again on
the day of judgment you will be raised
up it's very important my dear
listeners that Allah at the same time as
he is mentioning these amazing and
astounding facts that science has only
discovered recently immediately
afterwards Allah is reminding us that
that you will die and you will be raised
up on the day of judgment just as Allah
created you in stages from a thing that
clings
from and from from all of these things
Allah most certainly will create you
again on the day of
judgment now the prophet sallallah
wasallam means a small drop that is
emitted and the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam referred to This n as both
belonging to the male and the female in
fact he mentioned that these n are mixed
in the creation this is what he
mentioned in an authentic Hadith the
nuta the the drop from the man which is
the Seaman and the from the woman which
is of course the ovam their their nuta
the small drops they are mixed so this
is very important because the prophet is
mentioning that the human being comes
from both the man and from the woman
this already goes against the theories
that were prevalent at the time secondly
the word alak in Arabic what does it
mean it has three meanings a thing that
clings a blood clot and a leech like
object in fact all of these things
accurately describe the first stage of
human embryonic development after the
fertilization of the egg our blastos
syis develops which has on its exterior
Vos sites which literally cling to the
wall of the uterus so they little it's
rather like um velcro they cling to the
inside of the uterus in the womb this is
what happens to this Al thing that
clings and then it goes on to resemble
exactly a leech like object the
similarity is absolutely remarkable not
only in appearance but also in Behavior
because a leech also takes blood from
its h
similarly the alak stage also takes
nutrition and blood from inside the
mother so this is it goes on and it also
resembles at a later stage after that a
blood clot so this is the first thing
the word alak describes exactly the
first state of human embolic development
this is not something that could have
been known
1,400 years ago it is impossible because
because this stage of human embryonic
development is something that only can
be observed with powerful microscopes
yet description is accurately mentioned
in the Quran
1,400 years ago so it mentions then from
theak
stage it becomes a mud a mud means like
a chewed piece of Flesh and this is
exactly what it likes the Prophet
Muhammad
alai wasallam the Quran also said partly
formed and unformed so it has bits that
are slightly formed bits that are not
and if again you look at this stage it
looks exactly like a piece of meat that
has been chewed then the amazing thing
is that the bones preedee the
development of the flesh the bones come
and then on the bones the flesh grow
although the the time between the
growing of the bones and the flesh is
very very close and it's very
interesting that the word that is used
the term that is used in Arabic the word
is indicates speed one thing following
another very very closely even the
structure of the words in Arabic are
consistent with the development of the
human embryo and then the prophet
Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam said
when 42 nights have passed over the
conceptus Allah sends an angel to it who
shapes it and makes its ears and its
eyes and skin and Flesh and Bones and
then he says oh Lord is it a male or a
female and your lord decides what he
wishes and then the angel records it it
is also true that you cannot determine
the sex of the fetus until just after 42
nights how did this information come to
a man living in the desert
1,400 years ago most certainly this is
the evidence that the Quran is from
Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger
join us for the next episode of the
proof that Islam is the truth and until
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