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of the Almighty, and The Good News of the Hereafter
for the believers.
Any book, which claims to be from God Almighty, has to be
perfect in all respects. Some of the criteria are: There should be
no contradictions whatsoever, the message should be consistent
in whatever it states, whether it is of a scientific nature, or
otherwise, and should be able to be proved to be true at ALL
TIMES, The Laws governing society should be the best for the
people at all times and under all conditions, and so forth. The
Qur’an contains all of the above and more. By reading the
Qur’an can one understand the uniqueness and perfectness of
the Qur’an.
THE QUR’AN WAS REVEALED MORE THAN 1425 YEARS
AGO WHEN THERE WAS NO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
AS WE KNOW TODAY.
The Qur’an has approximately six thousand verses. Of the six
thousand verses there are approx 1,000 verses pertaining to
science. The majority of these verses pertaining to science were
largely UNDISCOVERED until the 1960’s to 1990’s. In other
words most of them were conclusively proven by scientists only
recently when science advanced to the extent it has. The
following are just a few examples:
Let us begin with our own creation.
ie. Of human beings
.
EMBRYOLOGY
In the early 1980’s Muslim scholars, under the direction of an
eminent Yemani scholar, Sheikh Abdul Majid Azzindani,
collated information concerning embryology and other sciences
from the Qur’an and the hadiths of the prophet and translated
them into English. He then followed the Qur’anic advice of
finding out from those who know. These verses of the Qur’an
were presented to Prof. Keith Moore, Professor Of Embryology
and Chairman of Anatomy at the University of Toronto, in
Canada. Presently he is one of the highest authorities in the