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 Qur’an
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.”
Professor Persaud has included some Qur’anic verses and
sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in some of his books. He
has also presented these verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) 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 (pbuh):
( In every one of you, all components of your creation are
collected together in your mother’s womb by forty days... )
( 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.... )
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
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 (pbuh). Then, during one conference, he
gave the following opinion:
“So that the two hadeeths à (which means the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) 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 Qur’an shown centuries
later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Qur’an
having been derived from God.”
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 Qur’an 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.”
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 Qur’an. 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) 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 Qur’an’smention 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 Qur’an, 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 Qur’an, he replied:
“Well, I would think it must be the divine being.”
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 (Qur’anic 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.”
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] Qur’an, 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]
Qur’an and by answering to the questions, I think I can find my
future way for investigation of the universe.”
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 Qur’an .
. . . From my study and what I have learned from this conference, I
believe that everything that has been recorded in the Qur’an fourteen
hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the
scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) 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.”
After all these examples we have seen about the scientific
miracles in the Holy Qur’an 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 Qur’an, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago?
* Could this Qur’an have been authored by Muhammad (pbuh) or
by any other human being?
The only possible answer is that this Qur’anmust be the literal
word of God, revealed by Him.
