The following are some comments of scientists[1]
on the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran. All of these comments have been
taken from the videotape entitled This is the Truth. In this videotape,
you can see and hear the scientists while they are giving the following
comments. (To view the RealPlayer video of a comment, click on the link at the
end of that comment. For a copy of this videotape, please visit this page.)
1) Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is Professor of
Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics,
Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There, he was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy
for 16 years. He is well-known in his field. He is the author or editor of 22
textbooks and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received
the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. When he was
asked about the scientific miracles in the Quran which he has researched, he
stated the following:
“The way it was
explained to me is that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read,
didn’t know [how] to write. In fact, he was an illiterate. And we’re talking
about twelve [actually about fourteen] hundred years ago. You have someone
illiterate making profound pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly
accurate about scientific nature. And I personally can’t see how this could be
a mere chance. There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no
difficulty in my mind that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led
him to these statements.” (View
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Professor
Persaud has included some Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, may
the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, in some of his books. He has also
presented these verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad at several
conferences.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman
of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn and the
Chairman of the Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility Society. He
has received many awards, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics
and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992. Professor Simpson studied the
following two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad:
“In every one of you,
all components of your creation are collected together in your mother’s womb by
forty days...”[2]
“If forty-two nights
have passed over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who shapes it and
creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones....”[3]
He studied
these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively, noting that the first
forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He
was particularly impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those sayings
of the Prophet Muhammad. Then, during one conference, he gave the following
opinion:
“So that the two hadeeths
(the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) that have been noted provide us with a
specific time table for the main embryological development before forty days.
Again, the point has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this
morning: these hadeeths could not have been obtained on the basis of the
scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of their writing . . . .
It follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict between genetics and
religion but, in fact, religion can guide science by adding revelation to some
of the traditional scientific approaches, that there exist statements in the
Quran shown centuries later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Quran having
been derived from God.” (View the RealPlayer
video of this comment)
3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor
Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, for 22 years he was Professor of Anatomy,
the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, and the Director of the Daniel Baugh
Institute. He was also the President of the Teratology Society. He has
authored more than 200 publications. In 1981, during the Seventh Medical
Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Johnson said in the presentation
of his research paper:
“Summary: The Quran
describes not only the development of external form, but emphasizes also the internal
stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its creation and development,
emphasizing major events recognized by contemporary science.” (View the RealPlayer
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Also he said:
“As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I
can understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand the
words that are translated to me from the Quran. As I gave the example before,
if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and
describing things, I could not describe the things which were described. I see
no evidence for the fact to refute the concept that this individual, Muhammad,
had to be developing this information from some place. So I see nothing here
in conflict with the concept that divine intervention was involved in what he
was able to write.”[4] (View
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4) Dr. William W. Hay is a well-known
marine scientist. He is Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. He was formerly the Dean of the Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA. After a discussion with Professor Hay about the Quran’s mention of
recently discovered facts on seas, he said:
“I find it very
interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scriptures of the
Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from, but I
think it is extremely interesting that they are there and that this work is
going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the passages.” And when he was
asked about the source of the Quran, he replied: “Well, I would think it must
be the divine being.” (View the RealPlayer video of this comment)
5) Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer is Course
Director and Associate Professor of Medical Embryology at the Department of
Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. During the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor
Goeringer stated the following in the presentation of his research paper:
“In a relatively few aayahs
(Quranic verses) is contained a rather comprehensive description of human
development from the time of commingling of the gametes through organogenesis.
No such distinct and complete record of human development, such as
classification, terminology, and description, existed previously. In most, if
not all, instances, this description antedates by many centuries the recording
of the various stages of human embryonic and fetal development recorded in the
traditional scientific literature.” (View
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6) Dr. Yoshihide Kozai is Professor
Emeritus at Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, and was the Director of the National
Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. He said:
“I am very much
impressed by finding true astronomical facts in [the] Quran, and for us the
modern astronomers have been studying very small pieces of the universe. We’ve
concentrated our efforts for understanding of [a] very small part. Because by
using telescopes, we can see only very few parts [of] the sky without thinking
[about the] whole universe. So, by reading [the] Quran and by answering to the
questions, I think I can find my future way for investigation of the
universe.” (View the RealPlayer video of this comment)
7) Professor Tejatat Tejasen is the
Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Previously, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the same
university. During the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Tejasen stood up and said:
“During the last three
years, I became interested in the Quran . . . . From my study and what I have
learned from this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded
in the Quran fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved
by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor
write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth, which was revealed
to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible [as the] creator. This
creator must be God. Therefore, I think this is the time to say La ilaha
illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah (God), Muhammadur
rasoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger (Prophet) of Allah (God). Lastly, I
must congratulate for the excellent and highly successful arrangement for this
conference . . . . I have gained not only from the scientific point of view and
religious point of view but also the great chance of meeting many well-known
scientists and making many new friends among the participants. The most
precious thing of all that I have gained by coming to this place is La ilaha
illa Allah, Muhammadur rasoolu Allah, and to have become a Muslim.” (View
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After all these
examples we have seen about the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran and all
these scientists’ comments on this, let us ask ourselves these questions:
·
Could it be a coincidence that all this recently
discovered scientific information from different fields was mentioned in the
Quran, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago?
·
Could this Quran have been authored by Muhammad, may
the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, or by any other human being?
The only possible answer is that this Quran must
be the literal word of God, revealed by Him.
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