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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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Muhammad had already spoken about many scientific truths 1400 years ago which came to light only in the twentieth century.
Contiguous Waters that do not mix up
« It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed »(Surah 25/53)
Jacques Cousteau, oceanographer, who made researches in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean saw that different fauna lived in the said environments. He dived with his submarine in the depths of the Gibraltar strait and found out that there was a sort of screen between the two seas, the result of a physical power called 'surface tension', a consequence of the difference of densities of the two seas. When Captain Coustau learned that this fact had already been told in the Qur'an centuries ago he declared in a magazine interview that he testified that the Quran was the word of God! The researches conducted afterwards showed that, for instance, at strait between Arabia (northeast) and Africa (southwest) that connects the Red Sea (northwest) with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean (southeast) and in other such contiguous waters which had different densities the waters did not mix.
The fact that this scientific truth established as a result of scientific researches in the twentieth century had already been stated 14 centuries ago shows that the word was not Muhammad's own word, but of God's.
Mysteries of creation
« Glory to Allah, Who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge. »(Surah 36/36)
This verse discloses the mystery lying behind the creation. Whatever exists upon the earth owe their being to the conjunction of pairs. The creation in pairs associates in our mind the Parity Theory of Paul Dirac, the 1933 English Nobel Prize winner, according to which every creature comes to the world with its opposite or similar pair. For instance, atom is formed by electrons with negative charges that rotate around a nucleus with positive charges. Likewise, the double stars and the nebulae, the galaxies and our world that rotate around its own axis are all governed by the same law. God Almighty has created all creatures alike with their opposite pairs. (See.Dr.Haluk Nurbaki, Kur'an Mucizeleri)
This knowledge provided by the Qur'an at a time when physics was unknown to humanity was certainly of divine origin.
The sun's movement around its orbit
« And the sun runs his course for a period determined for him: that is the decree of (Him), the Exalted in Might, the All-Knowing. »(Surah 36/38)
Astronomy, branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as PLANETS, STARS, and GALAXIES, discovered about 40 years ago that the Sun moved in an orbit. In fact, the sun completes its orbit every 250 years, tracing an ellipse. The sun and the world trace their paths smoothly without any hindrance through the galaxy.
This fact, mentioned in the Qur'an, is also an indication of the divine origin of the Holy Book. There are an infinite number of similar miraculous statements which we cannot mention here.
QUR'AN'S CONFIRMATION OF THE ORIGINAL OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS