Islam and Evidence

One example of the harmony between the Qur'an and modern science is the subject of the age of the universe. Cosmologists estimate the age of the universe as 16-17 billion years. The Qur'an states that the entire universe was created in six days. These two time frames, which may seem contradictory, are actually surprisingly compatible.

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As revealed in a verse of the Qur'an, "… Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah and the Final Seal of the Prophets." (Surat al-Ahzab: 40), the Prophet Muhammad (saas) was sent to mankind as the last prophet. He was a living example of the sublime morality of Allah's last revelation. He was a friend of Allah and inspired humanity by his nearness to Him. He was His representative, noble in His Sight, and a friend to all believers.

As Allah has revealed in another verse, "We will impose a weighty Word upon you..." (Surat al-Muzammil: 5), he charged His last prophet, Muhammad (saas) with a heavy responsibility. Due to the Prophet's (saas) strong faith in Allah, he fulfilled that responsibility in the best possible way, called mankind to the path of Allah and Islam, and illuminated the way for all believers.

Although we have never seen the Prophet (saas), we can still do our very best to come to know his exemplary behaviour, his sayings and the pleasing morality he displayed, by means of the verses of the Qur'an and the hadiths (the sayings and teachings of the Prophet (saas). We can try to be like him, in order to be close to him in the hereafter. People today, and the young in particular, take many individuals as role models, imitate the way they behave, speak and dress, and try to be like them. Yet, since the great majority of these people are not on the right road themselves, they lack proper morality and attitudes. It is therefore a serious responsibility to lead people to the truth and the best morality and behaviour. A Muslim needs to try to emulate the behaviour and the morality of the Prophet Muhammad (saas). Allah confirms that in a verse: 

You have an excellent model in the Messenger of Allah, for all who put their hope in Allah and the Last Day and remember Allah much. (Surat al-Ahzab: 21)

Like the Prophet Muhammad (saas), the other prophets were also role models for believers, and enjoyed Allah's good pleasure. Allah says in one verse: 

There is instruction in their stories for people of intelligence. This [the Qur'an] is not a narration which has been invented but confirmation of all that came before, a clarification of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for people who believe. (Surah Yusuf: 111)

The aim in writing this book is to introduce various characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad (saas), by showing the superior features and qualities a society may enjoy when it adopts such a morality, thus encouraging others to adopt that same morality. As the Prophet (saas) has revealed in the hadith, "Verily, I have left amongst you the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Apostle which if you hold fast, you shall never go astray,"1 a Muslim's two truest guides are the Qur'an and Sunnah (the practice of the Prophet Muhammad (saas)). The Prophet Muhammad (saas) was an example to all humanity with his morality, to which he called on mankind to live by. It was the Prophet (saas) who said "I was sent to perfect good character"2 and "By One in whose hand there is my life: None shall enter Paradise except one who has got good conduct."3 

Those Muslims who follow the way of the Prophet (saas) need to be foremost in their morality and behaviour, and to invite others to adopt that same morality.

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The fact that the relativity of time is so definitely mentioned in the Qur'an, which began to be revealed in 610, is more evidence that it is a divine book.

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Iron is one of the elements highlighted in the Qur'an.

And We also sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind…(Qur'an, chapter 57 verse 25)

The word “anzalnaa,” translated as “We sent down” and used for iron in the verse, could be thought of having a metaphorical meaning to explain that iron has been given to benefit people.

But, when we take into consideration the literal meaning of the word, which is, “being physically sent down from the sky,” as in the case of rain and Sun rays, we realize that this verse implies a very significant scientific miracle. 

Not only the iron on Earth, but also the iron in the entire Solar System, comes from outer space, since the temperature in the Sun is inadequate for the formation of iron. The Sun has a surface temperature of 6,000 degrees Celsius (11,000oF), and a core temperature of approximately 20 million degrees (36 million degrees Fahrenheit). Iron can only be produced in much larger stars than the Sun, where the temperature reaches a few hundred million degrees.

All this shows that iron did not form on the Earth, but was carried from supernovas, and was “sent down,” as stated in the verse. 

In the expression “We also sent down iron” in the verse, the word “also” may well be referring to that idea. However, the fact that the verse specifically mentions iron is quite astounding, considering that these discoveries were made at the end of the 20th century.

There would be no protective magnetic field, no Van Allen radiation belts, no ozone layer, no metal to make hemoglobin , no metal to tame the reactivity of oxygen, and no oxidative metabolism.

Moreover, iron oxide particles were used in a cancer treatment in recent months and positive developments were observed.

As a result of this technique, first performed on the 26-year-old Nikolaus H., no new cancer cells were observed in the patient in the following three months.

A liquid containing iron oxide particles is injected into the tumour by means of a special syringe. These particles spread throughout the tumour cells. This liquid consists of thousands of millions of particles, 1,000 times smaller than the red blood corpuscles, of iron oxide in 1 cm3 that can easily flow through all blood vessels. 

The patient is then placed in a machine with a powerful magnetic field.

This magnetic field, applied externally, begins to set the iron particles in the tumour in motion. During this time the temperature in the tumour containing the iron oxide particles rises by up to 45 degrees Celsius .  

In a few minutes the cancer cells, unable to protect themselves from the heat, are either weakened or destroyed.

The spread of this technique is a major development in the treatment of this potentially lethal disease. In the treatment of such a widespread disease as cancer, the use of the expression “iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for humanity” in the Qur'an is particularly noteworthy. Indeed, in that verse, the Qur'an may be indicating the benefits of iron for human health.

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The Big Bang theory, which the scientific world unanimously accepted in the 20th century, proves that the universe came into being with a giant explosion. One verse of the Quran that reveals this fact 1400 years ago reads, Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the Earth were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We made from water every living thing? So will they not believe? (Surat Al-Anbiya':30).

The word ratq, translated as sewn together, means mixed in each blended in the Arabic vernacular. The phrase We unstitched is the verb fataqa. And in Arabic it implies the tearing apart of a structure of things that are sown to one another. A very important scientific fact is being described here the separation of the heavens and the Earth. Intriguingly, at the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire matter of the universe collected at one single point. The heavens and earth which were not created yet were within this single point. Then this point exploded violently, causing its matter to disunite. This is just as is described in the verse.

People 14 centuries ago, of course, possessed no scientific knowledge or technology by which to know that the Earth, the sun, the moon, the stars and everything they saw, or that which was invisible in the skies had initially been united in a single point.

A divine scripture was sent down to humanity 14 centuries ago. This sacred book is the Quran. From the day of its revelation to the day of judgment, it will remain as the last and sole guide for humanity. There are countless proofs that the Quran is the word of God. In the first film, scientific miracles of the Quran were examined and shown as proof. In this film, we shall continue to look at these scientific miracles that prove that the Quran is the revelation of God. We shall see that a great many scientific facts we have only recently been able to establish using modern day technology, from the layers of the earth to continental drift, and from the gender of a baby to atomic sub particles were revealed in our book 14 centuries ago. 

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