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welcome back
to the proof that Islam is the truth
where in these episodes we've been
discussing some of the amazing
scientific miracles of the Quran
information in a book 1,400 years old
that every Muslim believes is the
uncreated word of Allah the creator of
the heavens and the Earth revealed for
the benefit and the guidance of all of
humanity but it's not just a claim that
we make it's something that we can back
up with evidence and we believe that for
any rational human being any thinking
person who takes the time and takes the
energy and takes the effort to look at
these evidences and examine them
dispassionately will come to know that
truly Islam is what it claims to be the
religion that has been revealed by God
the Creator for the guidance and the
benefit of all of mankind and in our
last episode we were talking about some
amazing facts in the Quran concerning
the universe how the Quran had described
the universe is expanding that the
Universe has a common origin
and that the universe that we know it as
today was formed out of a gus mass and
how all of this information was only
discovered recently let's look at some
more verses of the Quran concerning
cosmology one of the verses we want to
mention is that Allah is the one who
created the night and the day the Sun
and Moon each one is traveling in an
orbit with its own motion now it's
interesting that the Arabic word
referring to movement with selfpropelled
motion is the
verb and yes is what the actual text
mentions now this implies a motion that
comes from the body in question itself
so if it takes place in water it means
to swim if it means on land it means to
walk so the the implication is the
movement is coming from the body itself
so if it was talking about something in
space it would mean to rotate it would
itself
rotate now this is amazing the Quran is
talking 1,400 years ago about the Earth
and the moon and the sun rotating if you
are perhaps thinking that the sun is
static it's not the Sun as does the
Earth as does the moon they all rotate
of course the Earth however rotates
around the sun the sun rotates around
its own axis so it is actually quite
correct is saying and of course the
Earth is in orbit around the Sun and
also by the way the sun is also in
orbits but it is an orbit round the
center of the Galaxy in fact it is
believe that ultimately if the Sun keeps
going in its orbit it would ultimately
end in what is known as the solar Apex a
sort of position that it will end up in
the center of the Galaxy so what we find
here is that the Quran is talking about
things that no one could really know
this information 1,400 years ago it is
scientifically accurate the idea of the
alternation of the night and the day and
of the spherical nature of the earth is
actually implied in the 31st Surah and
the 29th Ayah of the Quran have you not
seen how Allah merges the night into the
day and the day into the night and in
another verse the 39th chapter in the
fifth Ayah or the fifth
verse the Quran mentioned he coils the
night upon the day and he coils the day
upon the night and this word is used in
the Quan in the original Arabic is
kaar Kar in its original meaning means
the action of coiling a turban around
your head coiling a turban so it
describes Kar how the night and the day
coils one round the other and you can
find that description of the
interpenetration of one sector by
another is expressed in the Quran just
as if the concept of the Earth's
roundness had already been conceived at
the time which is except for a few there
were a few philosophers who had
theorized that the Earth was round but
it was not really a generally accepted
idea but it is something that is implied
in the Quran and certain ly we can
gather this today from our present day
knowledge it's a very another
interesting aspect that in one place in
the Quran the word that is used to
describe the shape of the earth is the
same word that is used to describe the
Egg of the
ostrich now looking at this globe for
example you may imagine that the Earth
is completely spherical
but in reality that is not the case the
Earth is slightly misshaped it is not a
perfect sphere and in fact slightly
elongated rather like an ostrich egg so
it is incredible also that the Quran is
describing that shape of the Earth at
least this is a possible interpretation
of those verses certainly we can say
that none of these things actually
contradict present modern scientific
knowledge in fact if you think about it
if we were only to bring a book 1,400
years old and you were to find
absolutely no contradictions and I don't
mean here to say that the Quran affirms
anything let's say it doesn't affirm any
scientific knowledge let's say it didn't
even preempt any scientific knowledge
let's say there was nothing special in
the Quran which of course is not the
case because I've spent a couple of
episodes showing you exactly how amazing
the Quran is when it talks about aspects
of the universe and the world in which
we live but let's just say those things
were not there let's just say there was
nothing that
contradicted present day
knowledge that itself alone would be
remarkable
because the superstitions and the
beliefs that people had 1,400 years ago
were remarkable for example the ancient
Greeks believed that the Milky Way the
Milky Way is the band of stars that you
can see in the sky in fact it
constitutes our galaxy they believe that
the Milky Way was produced when a
particular Greek goddess was
breastfeeding her child and the child
bit her breast and her milk Spilled Out
and that's how the Milky Way got to be
in the universe that's their Legend of
how the Milky Way came to be there of
course today we probably all had a good
laugh at that and how totally ridiculous
it is how come the Quran does not have
any stories like that how come the Quran
does not have any Fantastical
descriptions of the origin of the
universe and the
Earth we find it doesn't we find that
what it says says can be perfectly
easily and sensibly reconciled with
modern scientific knowledge no indeed
many of the verses preempt what
scientists have discovered today don't
go away we've got more for you in the
next part of the proof that Islam is the
truth after the
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break asalam Alay welcome back to the
proof that Islam is the truth where
we're talking about some of the amazing
scientific facts in the Quran that have
been only discovered recently with
modern scientific knowledge yet these
things were mentioned in a book 1,400
years old let's look at some more of the
amazing statements in the Quran in the
10th Surah in the fifth Ayah the fifth
verse it says it is he meaning God Allah
who made the Sun a shining lamp and the
moon as a light and measured out their
stages now the Quran describes the Sun
as s now the word s means torch means
it's something that generates its own
heat and light whereas the the Moon is
described as an now anur means a light
that is originating from another source
and of course this is the correct
understanding the Moon reflects the
light of the sun it's common knowledge
today but not necessarily so in the time
of the Prophet Muhammad let's see
what one of the respected cosmologists
and scientists in the field of astronomy
had to say when he was shown some of the
statements in the Quran concerning his
field of expertise Professor yidi kusan
who's the director of the Tokyo
observatory in Tokyo in Japan and this
is what he said I say I am very much
impressed by finding true astronomical
facts in the Quran and for us modern
astronomers who have been studying a
very small piece of the universe we have
concentrated our efforts for
understanding that very small part
because by using telescopes we can only
see a very few parts of the sky without
thinking about the whole universe so by
reading the
Quran and by answering to questions I
think I can find my future way for
investigating the
universe what he's saying is that the
one who is writing the Quran the one who
is revealing the Quran the one who is
speaking the words of the Quran is
talking as if he is looking at the whole
universe
together as opposed to the scientist who
concentrates on observing this bit or
that bit of the universe which is what
most astronomers do who is it that sees
the whole universe
altoe who is it who sees all things in
all places in all times except Allah the
Mighty the wise so these are some of the
amazing scientific facts and we're going
to move on also to another area that
particularly interested me because when
I was at school one of the subjects that
I studied was geography and a subssub of
that was of course geology and I do
remember when I first read the Quran 20
years ago and it was reading the Quran
that motivated me to embrace Islam one
of the things that stuck in my head and
I remember it until today was coming
across the descriptions in the Quran of
mountains so let's go through some of
the things the Quran says about
mountains for example in the 78th Surah
in verses 6 to 7 Allah says have we not
made the Earth and expanse and the
mountains Stakes the word that is used
here
is meaning Stak is like the the peg of
the tent so the peg of the tent tent
goes into the ground it holds the rope
that holds the tent so you have a small
part of the peg sticking up from the
ground but the majority of the peg is
inside the ground the Quran also says in
the 31st Surah or the 31st chapter in
the 10th verse and Allah has cast into
the mountains standing firm so that it
does not shake with
you now today with modern Sona
technology they have been able to bounce
sound waves down through the Earth's
crust and according to the different
rates at which the sound waves are
reflected back and are measured they can
tell the different density of the
Earth's crust as opposed to what is hard
and what is soft what is from the crust
and what is from the Magna and what they
have discovered with this technology is
exactly what the Quran was saying 1,400
years ago that the mountains have Roots
the mountains like the peg of the tent
not only do they go go above the Earth's
surface the mountains go deeply into the
Earth core and they act it has been
theorized as stabilizers they help to
stabilize the Earth's surface and
there's two ways in which they do that
number one because the Earth is composed
of tectonic plates the crust of the the
Earth is actually made of different
plates and it is the movement of these
plates that causes earthquakes when
these plates move against each other the
friction of that movement causes
earthquakes and that's also what they
think how continental drift has happened
originally they believe all the
continents were one continent and then
because of plate tectonics it moved but
the Quran is saying as the mountains act
as stabilizers they help to stabilize
the Earth's crust and this is something
that has actually been theorized by
modern geologists there's another way in
which the mountains may act as a
stabilizing factor and that is to do
with the rotation maybe if you try and
spin something you will find that if it
is not
really spherical it will not it will
start to ro rotate and then it will
start to wobble out of shape and it is
possible that the mountains actually act
as a counterbalance to keep the Earth's
rotation smooth I do stress of course
that these are theories but it is very
interesting what the Quran is saying
1,400 years ago and that it seems to be
preempting the ideas and the knowledge
that is being produced by Modern Day
science certainly it is a fact that is
established that the mountains have
roots and the Quran is saying that the
mountains are are like alter the pegs of
a tent so this is a remarkable
scientific fact it's one I remember
sticking in my mind when I first read
the Quran about 20 years
ago so these are one of the remarkable
things also the Quran mentions some
aspects of animal and plant life for
example the 16th chapter of the Quran is
called Surah which means the Surah of
the be and one of the aspects of the
Quran
in this Surah it is talking about the
bee and it's very interesting that the
word that is used in the Quran for the
bee that flies around Gathering honey or
gathering the nectar for the honey it is
used in the female form the gender that
is used is feminine although until
recently it was believed that the bees
were actually soldiers they were males
and the ruler of the hive was was a king
but as it happens in fact we know that
the bees are indeed female and they are
owned or they are headed by a queen
that's why we say the queen be it's also
true that the Quran mentions that plants
have different genders and the winds are
a means of fertilization for the plants
so in the 15th chapter of the Quran in
the 22nd ver verse it says that we
meaning Allah the Creator this is the we
of nobility does not mean there is more
than one God of course it is we in the
sense that royalty uses the term we it's
a sense of honor and nobility so the
Royal we they call it we sent forth the
winds that fessant that means that the
fertiliz things these are all recently
discovered things also we find the Greek
philosopher democratus who lived from
460 to 361 BC he Advanced the theory
that matter was composed of tiny
indivisible particles called atoms and
they believe that this was the base upon
which all of things were made and there
was nothing smaller than the atom
however modern science has discovered
that atom is in fact divisible and the
atom has been split and the atom itself
is composed of smaller elements the
Quran says 1,400 years ago in the 34th
chapter and the third Ayah or the third
verse he is aware of an atom's weight in
the heavens and on the earth and even
anything smaller than that meaning there
is something smaller than atom and Allah
God is aware of it every single thing
there's another thing I want to mention
God mentions in the the Quran some
amazing things about the human beings
and one of the things is about our
nerves here is a very frightening and
terrifying passage of the Quran it's
mentioned in the 75th chapter in ay 3 to
4 does man kind think that we cannot
assemble his bones nay we are able to
put together in perfect order the very
tips of his fingers God is telling us he
can recreate us on this day this
terrifying day this frightening day the
day of judgment he is able to recreate
you even if you are dust even your are
bones to the very tip of your finger why
the very tip of your finger of course
you've all heard of fingerprinting
haven't you every single human being's
fingerprint is unique why did God
mention the fingerprint why did God
mention the tip of the finger this is
the uniqueness of the human being God is
telling us look I can recreate you even
to this fingertip that is the power that
I have even to your most unique
attribute I can create you to that be
mindful be careful I will create you
again on the day of judgment and I will
judge you and ask you about every single
thing that you have done this is not
common knowledge how did anyone 1,400
years ago know about fingerprinting and
Allah warns us in the fourth chapter of
the Quran in the 56th verse those who
reject our signs we shall soon cast them
into the Hellfire and as often as their
Skins are roasted through we shall
change them for fresh skins so they may
truly taste the penalty for Allah is
exalted in power the wise this is a very
frightening description of the Hellfire
God is going to burn the skin and
recreate the skin and burn the skin so
the people in the Hellfire will taste
the punishment why is the Quran saying
that it is only recently been known and
discovered
that when the skin is burnt a person
does not feel any pain that's why when a
person suffers severe burns a doctor
will prick the skin to see if the person
feels pain if he feels pain there are
still nerve receptors left if he does
not that means his skin has been so
badly burnt he cannot feel pain so if
God put people in the Hellfire and the
hell burnt their skins after that they
will not feel the pain so Allah is going
to recreate the skin again so they will
keep on tasting the punishment it is a
very severe warning from the one who has
created you he knows you better than you
know yourself and he is warning you in
his book of his knowledge and his
ability that if you do not believe in
him and follow his guidance see what is
waiting for those people who reject the
faith my dear
listeners we have only one more thing we
want to mention the tree of zakum which
will be the food of Sinners and it will
be like boiling oil that will boil in
their bellies like the boiling of
scolding water taste this Allah says in
the Quran verily you pretending to be
the Mighty the generous look at those
arrogant people pretending to be Mighty
pretending to be generous but trast the
Z tree of zakum that will boil in your
belly and it says they will drink a
water that cuts their bound to Pieces it
is very interesting that thermal
receptors are not present in the
intestines but it is in the bowels and
the contents and The receptors in the
bowels are highly sensitive it's a very
very sensitive area and that is where
pain is initiated it's not a common
knowledge 1,400 years ago but it is a
fact that is mentioned in the Quran as a
stark warning to all those people who
reject faith in God God has combine the
scientific facts with the severe
warnings of those who disbelieve in him
our invitation it to invite you to his
Mercy to his guidance and his
forgiveness by accepting these truths
the proof that Islam is the truth join
us in the next episode for some amazing
Prophecies of the Prophet Muhammad and
the Quran and until then may God's peace
and blessings and guidance be with you
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