After a study which lasted ten years, the famous French physician
Maurice Bucaille addressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976 and
expressed the complete agreement of the Qur'aan and established
findings of modern science. He presented his study on the existence in
the Qur'aan of certain statements concerning physiology and
reproduction. His reason for doing that was that

"our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to
explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'aan could have
contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times".

Decades later a noted embryologist Keith L. Moore and expert in his
field, upon being presented with the statements made in the Qur'aan
regarding the stages of the formation of the embryo from the mixing of
the male and female gametes up to the embryo's full development
remarked

"It has been a pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the
Qur'aan about Human Development. It is clear to me that these
statements must have come to Muhammad from God or Allaah because
almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries
later."

RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by
Islam

RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by
Islam

RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by
Islam

RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by
Islam and today at a time when science has taken great strides, they
still continue to be associated. Furthermore, certain scientific data
are used for a better understanding of the Qur'anic text. In a century
where, for many, scientific truth has dealt a deathblow to religious
belief, it is precisely the discoveries of science that, in an
objective examination of the Islamic Revelation, have highlighted the
supernatural character of various aspects of the Revelation.

After a study which lasted ten years, the famous French physician
Maurice Bucaille addressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976 and
expressed the complete agreement of the Qur'aan and established
findings of modern science. He presented his study on the existence in
the Qur'aan of certain statements concerning physiology and
reproduction. His reason for doing that was that

"our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to
explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'aan could have
contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times".

Decades later a noted embryologist Keith L. Moore and expert in his
field, upon being presented with the statements made in the Qur'aan
regarding the stages of the formation of the embryo from the mixing of
the male and female gametes up to the embryo's full development
remarked

"It has been a pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the
Qur'aan about Human Development. It is clear to me that these
statements must have come to Muhammad from God or Allaah because
almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries
later."

Professor Moore presented his findings to scientists at several
conferences. Several Canadian periodicals published many of Moore's
statements and in addition he presented three television programmes in
which he highlighted the compatibility of modern science with what has
been revealed in the Qur'aan 1400 years ago. Consequently, he was
asked: "Does this mean that you believe that the Qur'aan is the word
of God?" to which he replied "I find no difficulty in accepting
this."

In fact Professor Moore was so amazed at the accuracy of the
descriptions and the terminology used for the various stages of the
development of the embryo that he modified his own textbook on the
subject. He incorporated all the relevant Qur'anic passages and
authentic statements of the Prophet Muhammad into his book, The
Developing Human: Clinically oriented embryology with Islamic
additions, which was published by WB Saunders in 1987 and was a
standard university textbook in the United States. The book now
contains passages of the Qur'aan and the Hadeeth (verified statements
of the Prophet Muhammad) for every stage of development and Professor
Moore has also adopted the classification used in the above two
sources.

Consider also the statement of Tejatet Tejasen (Professor at the Dept.
of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mei University, Thailand)
after his study on the Qur'aan passages dealing with embryology:

"From my studies and what I have learnt at this conference I believe
that everything that has been recorded in the Qur'aan 1400 years ago
must be true. That can be proved the scientific way".

Also the statement of E. Marshal Johnson (Professor and Chairman,
Dept. of Anatomy, Daniel Bough Institute, Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, USA) when he became aware of such statements in the
Qur'aan and investigated them:

"The Qur'aan describes not only the development of external form but
emphasises also the internal stages - the stages inside the embryo of
its creation and development, emphasising major events recognised by
contemporary science... If I was to transpose myself into that era,
knowing what I do today and describing things, I could not describe
the things that were described... I see no evidence to refute the
concept that this individual Muhammad had to be developing this
information from some place... so I see nothing in conflict with the
concept that divine intervention was involved..."

Upon being presented with hadeeths (verified statements of the Prophet
Muhammad) concerning dominant and recessive characteristics Joe Leigh
Simpson (Professor of Obstretics and Gynaecology, Northwestern
University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA) said:

"... these Hadeeths could not have been obtained on the basis of the
scientific knowledge that was available at the time of the'writer'...
It follows that not only is there no conflict between genetics and
religion (Islam) but in fact religion (Islam) may guide science by
adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific approaches...
There exist statements in the Qur'aan shown centuries later to be
valid which support knowledge in the Qur'aan having been derived from
God".

Consider also the statement of T.V.N. Persaud (Professor and Head,
Dept. of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of
Manitoba, Canada):

"Muhammad was a very ordinary man, he couldn't read, didn't know how
to write, in fact he was an illiterate... were talking about 1400
years ago, you have some illiterate person making profound statements
that are amazingly accurate, of a scientific nature... I personally
can't see how this could be mere chance, there are too many accuracies
and like Dr. Moore I have no difficulty in my mind reconciling that
this is a divine inspiration or revelation which lead him to these
statements".

These are just a number of quotes from the "Scientific Community"
regarding the nature and the origins of the Qur'aan. In fact the
Qur'aan and Hadeeth do not just talk about embryology but hundreds of
other phenomenon including the earth and sun being round, spinning
around their own axis and following their own orbits, the origin and
formation of the universe, the two types of seas between which is a
barrier, the role of mountains in stabilising the earth's crust, the
formation of milk in cows, the cause of sexual diseases, the location
of pain receptors within the body, the expansion of the universe, the
precise nature of the water cycle, the change in atmospheric pressure
at high altitudes, the gender of the bee which is responsible for
producing honey (female), the stars consuming themselves via the
combustion of their gases and this being the source of their light and
many more.

Explaining all these statements by chance alone is something which has
been resorted to, surprisingly by those deemed to be possessors of
intellect and erudition. However, this is not tenable, as the
following demonstration will show. When you make a guess regarding the
true nature of something (in an accurate and precise manner that is)
there are only two possibilities. Either you are right or wrong. If
you make another guess then you only have one chance in four of being
correct both times. If you make a third guess then you have one chance
in eight of being correct all three times and so on. The chances of
correctly describing, lets say, ten phenomena are 1 in 1024. Another
point to bear in mind is that the greater the number of things you
describe, the chance of being wrong is greater and thus the risk you
are taking of being discredited gets bigger and bigger.

The Qur'aan and the Sunnah (Authentic sayings of the Prophet (sas))
make statements on literally hundreds of phenomenon and at the same
time openly calls the scientific community to verify them. If one from
the scientific community was to make hundreds of new claims regarding
his particular field and was then to call all his fellow specialists
to prove him wrong he would know without doubt that he is standing on
an undermined sand cliff which is ready to crumble with him. How then
for the one who makes statements about the specialities of others?

One will be surprised to learn that such a scientific approach has
been commanded in the Qur'aan with the objective of ascertaining its
truthfulness.

Do they not carefully consider (investigate) the Qur'aan or are there
locks upon their hearts.
(Surah Muhammad 47:24)

Do they not carefully analyse the Quran. If it had been from other
than Allaah then surely they would have found many discrepancies
therein
(Surah An-Nisa' 4:82)

So religious (that is Islamic) beliefs are not based upon blind
acceptance as many have generalised to all religions and thus falsely
attributed to the Qur'aan and Islam. This has been the experience of
Europe in the past 3-400 years in which scientific advancement and its
findings were seen as heretical, its proponents ridiculed and often
exiled and tortured. Islam has never had that experience. It is true
that people's academic capabilities differ and thus some will be
unable to ascertain the truth of it and therefore may accept it
blindly. But again they have the opportunity to ask the people of
knowledge, those who are in a position to make such a judgement, like
those quoted above. It is from the principles of wisdom and justice
that when you don't know you don't make a judgement yourself but
rather consult one who is in a position to do so. In fact, this is
something Allaah has also commanded:

So ask the People of Knowledge if you do not know
(Surah Al-Anbiya 21:7)

and He has also said

And those who have been given Knowledge know that that which has been
revealed to you from your Lord is the Truth
(Surah Saba 34:6)

This is a clear proof of the lack of the dependence upon dogma,
superstition and personal experience and an indication of the
obligation to research, ascertain and to verify in a scientific manner
the credibility of religious (Islamic) belief. Fortunately there are
those who have done exactly that like Keith Moore and his scientific
colleagues but there are others who have invented lies and slanders in
order to discredit the Qur'aan and the Prophet. However when these
lies and slanders are put to the test scientifically they fail
miserably and their irrationality and bias ...

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RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by
Islam and today at a time when science has taken great strides, they
still continue to be associated. Furthermore, certain scientific data
are used for a better understanding of the Qur'anic text. In a century
where, for many, scientific truth has dealt a deathblow to religious
belief, it is precisely the discoveries of science that, in an
objective examination of the Islamic Revelation, have highlighted the
supernatural character of various aspects of the Revelation.


After a study which lasted ten years, the famous French physician
Maurice Bucaille addressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976 and
expressed the complete agreement of the Qur'aan and established
findings of modern science.