Scientists’ Comments on the Scientific Miracles in the Holy Qur’an

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.

The Scientific Miracles in the Holy Qur’an (4)

G) The Qur’an on Clouds:

Scientists have studied cloud types and have realized that rain

clouds are formed and shaped according to definite systems and

certain steps connected with certain types of wind and clouds.

One kind of rain cloud is the cumulonimbus cloud. Meteorologists

have studied how cumulonimbus clouds are formed and

how they produce rain, hail, and lightning.

They have found that cumulonimbus clouds go through the

following steps to produce rain:

1) The clouds are pushed by the wind: Cumulonimbus clouds

begin to form when wind pushes some small pieces of clouds

(cumulus clouds) to an area where these clouds converge (see

figures 17 and 18).

  

Figure 17: Satellite

photo

showing the

clouds moving

towards the

convergence

areas B, C, and

D. The arrows

indicate the directions

of the wind. (The Use

of Satellite Pictures

in Weather Analysis

and Forecasting,

Anderson

and

others, p. 188.)

 Figure 18: Small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds) moving towards a convergence

zone near the horizon, where we can see a large cumulonimbus cloud. (Clouds and

Storms, Ludlam, plate 7.4.)

2) Joining: Then the small clouds join together forming a larger

cloud (see figures 18 and 19).

Figure 19: (A) Isolated small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds). (B) When the small

clouds join together, updrafts within the larger cloud increase, so the cloud is stacked

up. Water drops are indicated by. (The Atmosphere, Anthes and others, p. 269.)

3) Stacking: When the small clouds join together, updrafts

within the larger cloud increase. The updrafts near the center

of the cloud are stronger than those near the edges. These

updrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so the cloud

is stacked up (see figures 19 (B), 20, and 21). This vertical

growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of

the atmosphere, where drops of water and hail formulate and

begin to grow larger and larger. When these drops of water

and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them,

they begin to fall from the cloud as rain, hail, etc

 Figure 20: A cumulonimbus

 cloud.

After the

cloud is stacked up,

rain comes out of it.

(Weather and Climate,

Bodin, p.123.)

God has said in the Qur’an:

{ Have you not seen how God makes the

clouds move gently, then joins them together,

then makes them into a stack, and then you

see the rain come out of it....} (Qur’an, 24:43)

Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details

of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced

equipment like planes, satellites, computers, balloons, and other equipment, to study wind and its direction, to measure humidity

and its variations, and to determine the levels and variations of

atmospheric pressure.

The preceding verse, after mentioning clouds and rain, speaks

about hail and lightning:

{....And He sends down hail from mountains

(clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it

whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever

He wills. The vivid flash of its lightning

nearly blinds the sight. } (Qur’an, 24:43)

Meteorologists have found that these cumulonimbus clouds,

that shower hail, reach a height of 25,000 to 30,000 ft (4.7 to 5.7

miles), like mountains, as the Qur’an said: {And He sends

down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky} (see figure 21).

 Figure 21: A cumulonimbus cloud. (A Colour Guide to Clouds, Scorer and Wexler, p.23.)

This verse may raise a question. Why does the verse say “its

lightning” in a reference to the hail? Does this mean that hail is

the major factor in producing lightning? Let us see what the book

entitled Meteorology Today says about this. It says that a cloud

becomes electrified as hail falls through a region in the cloud of

supercooled droplets and ice crystals. As liquid droplets collide

with a hailstone, they freeze on contact and release latent heat.

This keeps the surface of the hailstone warmer than that of the

surrounding ice crystals. When the hailstone comes in contact

with an ice crystal, an important phenomenon occurs: electrons

flow from the colder object toward

the warmer object. Hence, the

hailstone becomes negatively

charged. The same effect

occurs when supercooled

droplets come in contact

with a hailstone and tiny

splinters of positively

charged ice break off.

These lighter positively

charged particles are then

carried to the upper part of

the cloud by updrafts. The

hail, left with a negative

charge, falls towards the

bottom of the cloud, thus the

lower part of the cloud becomes

negatively charged. These negative

charges are then discharged as lightning. We conclude from this

that hail is the major factor in producing lightning.

This information on lightning was discovered recently. Until

1600 AD, Aristotle’s ideas on meteorology were dominant. For

example, he said that the atmosphere contains two kinds of exhalation,

moist and dry. He also said that thunder is the sound of the

collision of the dry exhalation with the neighboring clouds, and

lightning is the inflaming and burning of the dry exhalation with a thin and faint fire. These are some of the ideas on meteorology

that were dominant at the time of the Qur’an’s revelation, fourteen

centuries ago.