SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF QURANIC REVELATIONS
There are in the world today some nine hundred million Muslims who unhesitatingly
accept that Holy Quran is the "Word of God" and that it is a
"Miracle." Why should they not, when even avowed enemies are
paying unsolicited tributes regarding the Miraculous nature of this Book
of God. Rev.R Bosworth-Smith in his book "Mohamed and Mohammedanism"
opines about the Quran as "A MIRACLE OF PURITY OF STYLE, OF WISDOM
AND OF TRUTH." Another Englishman - A.J. Arberry in his preface to
his translation of the Holy Quran says "WHENEVER I HEAR THE QURAN
CHANTED, IT IS AS THOUGH I AM LISTENING TO MUSIC, UNDERNEATH THE FLOWING
MELODY THERE IS SOUNDING ALL THE TIME THE INSISTENT BEAT OF A DRUM, IT
IS LIKE THE BEATING OF MY HEART." From these words as well as from
the rest of his preface he sounds like a Muslim, but died a Christian.
And yet another Briton, Marmaduke Pickthall in the foreword to his translation
of the Holy Quran describes it as "THAT INIMITABLE SYMPHONY, THE
VERY SOUNDS OF WHICH MOVES MEN TO TEARS AND ECSTASY." This man embraced
Islam before translating the Quran, and we are not in a position to verify
whether he felt the above effect before or after his conversion to Islam.
Be that as it may, friends and foe alike pay ungrudging tributes to the
Last and Final Revelation of God, the Holy Quran. The contemporaries of
Muhummed saw in its Beauty and Majesty, the Nobility of its Call and the
Magnanimity of its Message the Sign and Miracle of God's Handiwork, and
accepted Islam. To all the tributes and testimonies; the unbeliever and
the sceptic will say that these are all subjective feelings, and further
he will seek refuge in the fact that he does not know Arabic. "I
do not see what you see, nor do I feel as you feel. How am I to know that
God exists and that it is He Who inspired His Messenger Muhummed with
that beautiful Message; the Quran? He continues, "I am not averse
to the beauty of its philosophy, its practical ethics and high morality.
I am prepared to concede that Muhummed was a sincere man and he gave many
beautiful precepts for human welfare. What I cannot subscribe to is what
you Muslims claim, 'a supernatural authority for his dictums.
To this kind of sympathetic yet sceptical mentality the Author of the
Book (Al-Quran) uses various types of arguments to resolve his doubts.
To the atheists and agnostics, to the cynics and the sceptics, who have
a super-abudance of scientific knowledge and who consider themselves to
be "intellectual giants," the point is driven home that in reality
they are like stunted "dwarfs." Like the dwarf who may have
acquired abnormal development in any one particular direction at the expence
of other parts of the faculty, like an oversized head on a puny body.
The Supreme Creator questions him . . .
But before we pose God's question to him, let me satisfy my own curiosity.
"You men of science who have studied astronony and who study our
Universe through your mighty telescopes as if scrutinising any object
in the palm of your hand; tell me how did this Universe come into being?"
This man of science though lacking in spiritual insight, is nevertheless
most generous in sharing his knowledge. He readly responds. "Well,"
he begins, "billions of years ago our Universe was a single piece
of matter, and there happened a 'big bang' in the centre of that
huge lump of matter and mighty chunks of matter began flying in all directions.
Out of that 'big bang' our solar system came into being as well as the
galaxies, and since there is no resistance in space to that primordial
momentum generated by the initial explosion, the stars and the planets
swim along in their orbits. Ours is an expanding universe. The galaxies
are receding away from us at a faster and faster rate, and once they reach
the speed of light, we will not be able to see them any more. We must
construct bigger and bigger telescopes as quickly as possible to study
the sights, if not we will miss the bus'. "
"When did you discover this fairy tale?" We ask. "No,
these are not fairy tales but scientific facts!" Our friend replies.
"All right, I accept your facts for what you say, but when did you
really stumble upon these facts?" "Only yesterday!" He
replies. Fifty years is only "yesterday" in the history of man.
An illitrate Arab in the desert over 1400 years ago could never have had
your knowledge of the 'big bang' and of your 'expanding universe,' could
he?" we ask. "No, never!" He retorts in boast. "Well,
then listen to what he uttered under inspiration from God:
DO NOT THE UNBELIEVERS (the atheists and the agnostics)
SEE THAT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE JOINED TOGETHER (as one unit of
creation) BEFORE WE CLOVE THEM ASUNDER?
{Holy Quran 21:30}
and
AND IT IS HE (God Almighty) WHO CREATED THE NIGHT AND
THE DAY.
AND THE SUN AND THE MOON: ALL (the celestial bodies) SWIM ALONG, EACH
IN ITS ROUNDED COURSE
{Holy Quran 21:33}
"Can't you see that these words are specifically addressed to YOU
the men of science, the geographers, the astronomers, who after having
made amazing discoveries and conveying these discoveries to mankind, still
remain so 'BLIND' as not 'SEE' its Author?" "With our Sciences
and Cylopaedias, we are apt to forget the DIVINENESS, in those laboratories
of ours." Says Thomas Carlyle. "Where on earth, could a
camel driver in the desert have gleaned 'your fact' Fourteen hundred
years ago, except from the Maker of the 'BIG BANG' Himself?"
"And YOU biologists who seem to have your fingers on all organic
life, and yet you have the temerity to deny the existence of the Source
of the life, i.e. God: tell me, according to your vaunted research, whee
did life originate?" Like his 'unbelieving' astronomer companion
in science, he too begins - "Well, over billions of years ago primaeval
matter in the sea began to generate protoplasm out of which came the amoeba;
and out of that mire in the sea, i.e. WATER!"
"And when did you stumble accross this fact that all living things
came from water?" The answer is as same as his astronomer friend,
"Yesterday." "No man of learning, no philosopher or poet
could ever have guessed you discovery fourteen centuries back, could he?"
Our biologist is as emphatic as the astronomer. "No never!"
says he. "Well, you just listen to this unlettered son of the desert":
AND WE MADE FROM WATER EVERY LIVING THING. WILL THEY
(The unbelievers, the atheists and the agnostics) THEN NOT BELIEVE?
{Holy Quran 21:30}
It will not be difficult for you to note that these words of the Omnipotent,
Omniscient Creator of the Universe were addressed to YOU men of Knowledge
in answer to your scepticism TODAY, their real import was beyond the dwellers
of the desert fourteen centuries ago. The Author is reasoning with YOU,
you men of science; how can YOU not believe in God? You should be the
LAST to deny His existence and yet you are the FIRST! What sickness has
overtaken YOU?
A-N-D to the botanists, and the zoologists and the physicists who, despite
their amazing insight into the nature of things, refuse to acknowledge
a Master Creator. Let them then account for these utterances of Muhummed
the mouthpiece of God.
GLORY BE TO HIM (GOD ALMIGHTY) WHO CREATED IN PAIRS
ALL THINGS.
OF THAT WHICH THE EARTH PRODUCES, (the vegetable kingdom)
AS WELL AS THEIR OWN (Human) KIND (the animal kingdom)
AND (other) THINGS OF WHICH THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE
(like in physics)
{Holy Quran 36:36}
The Verses from this Book of God are self explanatory. Students of the
Quran saw the unmistakable Finger of God in every new discovery that man
made. These were the "Signs," the "Miracles" from
his Beneficent Lord and Cherisher to remove his doubes and strengthen
his faith.
.... IN THESE ARE SIGNS FOR A PEOPLE OF LEARNING
{Holy Quran 30:22}
What an irony! It is the 'people of learning' who are actually
rebellious! Their vast material knowledge has puffed them up with pride.
They lack the genuine humility which goes together with all true knowledge. |
