ARABS WERE
ILLITERATE
The Holy Prophet (salla' llaahu'alaihi wa sallam)
did not go to any school. Arabia did not even have a Primary school run by
Arabs. The Arabs were proud to be illiterate. They claimed they were born to
wield swords and to wield the pen was
the job of the merchant class. His uncle and grandfather, who were both
uneducated, brought up the Prophet (Salla ‘llahu’ alaihi wa sallam. There
was no contact with scholars of the time. Yet, the message that he delivered
i.e. the Holy Quraan remains relevant and scientifically correct for all ages.
The question is where did he get all the wisdom. Was he a genius?
COSMIC
STUDY
When he was born, the Greco-Roman
civilisation had its influence in
the Arabian Peninsula. The cosmogony of Greco-Romans is that the earth
is flat and the sky is in the form of a canopy, studded with lamps. This is
a myth. On the other side of Arabia, there is Iran
and India, the two great seats of culture and civilisation. Both held the same view. China had the same
view. The Holy Prophet (salla' llaahu'alaihi wa sallam) did not come to
teach Physical Science or Astronomy. But you will find in the Qur’aan,
references to different Natural Phenomena to different Scientific problems. In
these references you will find the Qur’aan absolutely modern, anti classical
and hostile to the ancient thoughts of Mankind in that age. In connection with
Cosmogony, the Qur’aan says:
THE SUN
MOVES
In modern history of Astronomy, unto Kepler, nobody knew that the
sun moves. Until recently students of science were thought that, "the
earth moves and the sun is stationary." Then science found, very recently,
out the sun is moving constantly in a
Horizontal line.
The Qur’aan says this:Yasin
Sura
36 Verse 38
PRINCIPLE OF
PARITY
Modern physics also, has the "Principle of Parity"
The Atom is the Fundamental
particle of all matter. In 1925 modern physics said that an atom is composed of
a pair, male and female i.e. electron and proton. The Neutron is known as the
"Marriage Officer", as a joke in scientific circles.
Another fact was that
electrical current was unknown in those days. Today we know that the male is
positive and the female is negative in electricity.
EMBRYOLOGY
Dr.
Keith L. Moore is a
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada. He is a world-renowned scientist and a distinguished researcher in the
fields of anatomy and embryology; he has published more than 150 research
articles, chapters and books in this field. A Muslim
scholar, Abdul-Majeed Azzindani contacted Dr. Moore. He was asked to
participate in a three-year study of around twenty-five verses of the Qur’aan
and the Sunnah (sayings of Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi wa sallam) which
speak about embryology, and to determine the their correspondence to modern scientific discoveries.
The Qur’aan and the Sunnah
of the Prophet Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi wa sallam) provide a very detailed
description of the microscopic development of the human embryo from a mere
sperm drop up to the stage of a completely formed human being. It is well known
that microscopes were not developed until the sixteenth century AD, and even at
that were very crude in design.
Zacharias
Janssen is
credited with having invented the compound
microscope in about 1590. With
it, remarkable scientific discoveries were made in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Dutch naturalist Anthony van
Leeuwenhoek produced lenses
powerful enough to prove that many tiny creatures are not spontaneously
generated but come from eggs.
Before this period, theories
on human reproduction ran rampant. Some scientist believed that the menstrual
blood developed into the foetus.
Later on, a new theory was
developed wherein the sperm drop was popularly believed to contain a completely
developed miniature human (homunculus) which later grew to the size of a baby.
The science of embryology as we know
it today did not discover many of the
detailed aspects of human development
which are taken for granted today until only about thirty years ago, or 1973 to be precise.
Now we must ask the question:
where did Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi
wa sallam) get such detailed knowledge of the microscopic
development of the human embryo in the 6th century AD without a microscope,
technical training, a laboratory of any kind, or even the ability to write his
own name? The only logical conclusion is that it came from exactly where he
claimed it did. From the one who
created mankind, God Almighty! Prof.
Moore has since given numerous lectures on the topic of embryology in the
Qur’aan. He is quoted in one of these lectures as saying:
“It is clear to me that
these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of
this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me
that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah.”
