HISTORY OF QURAN

In this Book, the Holy Prophet's life, the history of the Arabs and
the events which occurred during the period of the revelation of the
Quran have not been mingled with the Divine Verses, as is the case
with the Bible. The Quran is the pure word of God. Not a single word
therein is not divine. Not a single word has been deleted from its
text. The Book has been handed down to our age in its complete and
original form since the time of Prophet Muhammad. From the time the
Book began to be revealed, the Holy Prophet had dictated its text to
the scribes. Whenever some Divine Message was revealed, the Holy
Prophet would call a scribe and dictate its words to him. The written
text was then read out to the Holy Prophet, who, having satisfied
himself that the scribe has committed no error of recording, would put
the manuscript in safe custody. The Holy Prophet used to instruct the
scribe about the sequence in which a revealed message was to be placed
in a particular Surah (chapter). In this manner, the Holy Prophet
continued to arrange the text of the Quran in systematic order till
the end of the chain of revelations. Again, it was ordained from the
beginning of Islam that a recitation of the Holy Quran must be an
integral part of worship. Hence the illustrious Companions would
commit the Divine verses to memory as soon as they were revealed. Many
of them learned the whole text and a far larger number had memorized
different portions of it.

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Islam, Qur’an&Science

Introduction
•"Do they not consider the Qur'an? Had it been from any other than
God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. [Qur'an
4:82]"
• Do they not carefully consider (investigate) the Qur'an or are there
locks upon their hearts. [Qur'an 47:24]
• A scientific approach has been encouraged in the Qur'an with the
objective of ascertaining its truthfulness. It provides man with a
chance to verify it authenticity.

The Origin of Universe&Life
• Do the unbelievers not realize that the heavens and the earth used
to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water
we made all living things. Would they believe? [Qur'an 21:30]
• Say: The (Qur'an) was sent sent down by Him who knows the secrets
(that is) in the heavens and the earth... [Qur'an 25:6]
• " Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400
years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his
own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same
origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed here.
"Professor of Geology Dr. Albert Kroner".

The Origin of Life (Cont.)
• "... this very information is exactly what they awarded the 1973
Noble Prize for ... The Qur'an reveals the origin of the universe -
how it began from one piece - and mankind continues to verify this
revelation, even up to now. Additionally, the fact that all life
originated from water would not have been an easy thing to convince
people of fourteen centuries ago. "Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Gary
Miller

Cosmology
• Then he turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke (dukhaan): He
said to it and to the earth: come you together, willingly or
unwillingly. They said: we do come (together) in willing obedience.
[Qur'an 41:11]
• Scientists now can observe new stars forming up out of that smoke,
which is the origin of our universe, as we see on these pictures.

Expansion of the Universe
• The following verse of the Qur'an where God is speaking may perhaps
be compared with modern ideas:"The heaven, we have built it with
power. Verily, we are expanding it. [Qur'an 51:47]
• The expansion of the Universe is the most imposing discovery of modern
science. Today it is a firmly established concept and the only debate
centers around the way this is taking place. It was first suggested by
the general theory of relativity and is backed up by physics in the
examination of the galactic spectrum; the regular movement towards the
red section of their spectrum may be explained by the distancing of
one galaxy from another. Thus the size of the Universe is probably
constantly increasing and this increase will become bigger the further
away the galaxies are from us.

Evolution
• Is it not a fact that there was a time when the human being was
nothing to be mentioned? We created the human from a liquid mixture,
from two parents, in order to test him. Thus, we made him a hearer and
a seer. [Qur'an 76:1-2]
• And God created every living creature from water. Some of them walk
on their bellies, some walk on two legs, and some walk on four. God
creates whatever He wills. God is Omnipotent. [Qur'an 24:45]

Embryology
• What is the matter with you, that you are not conscious of God's
Majesty. Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
[Qur'an 71:13-14]

• He creates you in the wombs of your mother, in stages, one after
another, in three veils of darkness. [Qur'an 39:6]
• ... Subsequently, we reproduced him from a tiny drop, that is placed
into a well protected repository. Then we developed the drop into a
hanging (embryo), then developed the hanging (embryo) into a bite-
..size (fetus), then created the bite-size (fetus) into bones, then
covered the bones with flesh. We thus produce a new creature. Most
blessed is God, the best Creator. Then, later on, you die. Then, on
the Day of Resurrection, you will be resurrected. [Qur'an 23:12-16]

Embryology (Cont.)
• It was not until the middle of the 19th century when the scientists
began to discover that the human embryonic development took place in
several successive stages.
• A noted embryologist Keith L. Moore and expert in his field, upon
being presented with the statements made in the Qur'an 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'an about
Human Development. It is clear to me that these statements must have
come to Muhammad from God or Allah because almost all of this
knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later."

Embryology (Cont.)
• A famous French physician Maurice Bucaille addressed the French
Academy of Medicine in 1976 and expressed the complete agreement of
the Qur'an and established findings of modern science. He presented
his study on the existence in the Qur'an of certain statements
concerning physiology and reproduction. His reason for doing that was
that"our knowledge of these disciplines is such, which it is
impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'an
could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern
times".

Geology
• When you look at the mountains, you think that they are standing
still. But they are moving, like the clouds. Such is the manufacture
of God, Who perfected everything. He is fully Cognizant of everything
you do. [Qur'an 27:88]
• And the mountains as pegs
..[Qur'an 78:7]
• And He has set up on the Earth Mountains standing firm, lest it
should shake with you. [Qur'an 16:15]
• And we sent down Iron, in which is great might, as well as many
benefits for mankind [Qur'an 57:25]

Conquest of Space
• O assembly of Jinns and Men, if you can penetrate regions of the
heavens and the earth, then penetrate them! You will not penetrate
them save with a Power. [Qur'an 55:33]
•"Even if We opened unto them a gate to Heaven and they were to
continue ascending therein, they would say: our sight is confused as
in drunkenness. Nay, we are people bewitched." [Qur'an 15:14-15]
• When talking of the conquest of space therefore, we have two
passages in the text of the Qur'an: one of them refers to what will
one day become a reality thanks to the powers of intelligence and
ingenuity God will give to man, and the other describes an event that
the unbelievers in Makka will never witness, hence its character of a
condition never to be realized.

Conquest of Space (Cont.)
• The event will however be seen by others, as intimated in the first
verse quoted above. It describes the human reactions to the unexpected
spectacle that travelers in space will see: their confused sight, as
in drunkenness, the feeling of being bewitched. This is exactly how
astronauts have experienced this remarkable adventure since the first
human space flight in 1961.
• It is known in actual fact how once one is above the Earth's
atmosphere, the Heavens no longer have the azure appearance we see
from Earth. The human observer in space above the Earth's atmosphere
sees a black sky and the Earth seems to be surrounded by a halo of
bluish color due to the same phenomena of absorption of light by the
Earth's atmosphere.

Other Facts
• In regards to Clouds, "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]
• Preservation of genetic data, "Does the human being think that We
will not reconstruct his bones? Yes indeed; We are able to recreate
even his fingerprint." [Qur'an 75:3-4]
• ... ...Lost City of Ubar, "Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with
the'Ad (people),- Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars, The like
of which were not produced in (all) the land?" [Qur'an 89:6-8]
• Currently, about 1,000 scientific signs have been identified in the
entire Qur'an.

Qur'an: A Reminder to the Worlds
• It must be stressed that the Qur'an is accurate about many things,
but accuracy does not necessarily mean that a book is a divine
revelation. In fact, accuracy is only one of the criteria for divine
revelations.
• The Qur'an states,"This book is a divine revelation; if you do not
believe that, then what is it?"In other words, the reader is
challenged to come up with some other explanation. Here is a book made
of paper and ink. Where did it come from? It says it is a divine
revelation; if it is not, then what is its source?
• … And they say,'Surely he [i.e. Prophet Muhammed] is possessed [by
jinn],' but it [i.e., the Qur'an] is not except a reminder to the
worlds."[Qur'an 68:51-52]

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Islam is a Game Changer

Islam is a game changer. Every other system, every human-made "ism" –
feudalism, tribalism, nationalism, monarchism,capitalism, communism,
fascism – treats human beings like commodities or less. Every other
system simply plays around with variables like distribution of wealth
and labor, or elevates one group of human beings based on lineage or
geography, while devaluing others toless-than-human status.
All these systems are fundamentally uncivilized, even barbaric.
Islam changes everything. Islam says, we're going to uphold the
fundamental dignity of all human beings.
"And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them
on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and
preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite]
preference." – Quran, 17:70
Allah has honored all the children of Adam. Not only Muslims, not only
men, not one race or nation, not only the wealthy or beautiful, but
all humans. As for the nature of man, Allah says, "[So mention] when
yourLord said to the angels, 'Indeed, I am going to create a human
being from clay. So when I haveproportioned him and breathed into him
of My [created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration.'" – Quran,
38:71-72
A being into whom Allah breathed cannot help butbe noble by nature.
Yes, we humans are corruptible and shortsighted, but we don't have to
be. Our nature is pure. We can, attimes, rise above our own
foolishness and become great.
When it comes to morality, Islam takes the approach of trusting human
beings to live by values like compassion, justice, fairness, help for
the poor, brotherhood and sisterhood, devotion to God, and
non-attachment to material luxuries.
That's what Islam is supposed to be!
This is why certain oppressive cultural practices found in parts of
the Muslim world are so abominable. I'm talking about so-called honor
killings, female genital mutilation, denialof education to women,
violence against religiousminorities, etc. These practices must be
abolished. They are anathema to everything Islam represents.
Islam came to promote an idea of human dignitybased on:
1- Our relationship with Allah;
2- The love and mercy weshow one another;
3- The utilization of our free will for a higher purpose.
All human beings are created in the best of molds ( You Are Perfectly
Created ). All human beings are born on the fitrah , the pure and
natural way, with an inborn inclination to recognize the Creator and
do good. Racism and nationalism are abhorredand abolished. Women are
recognized as intellectual and spiritual beings, not property,
objects, or vassals.
That's Islam as it should be. It's a revolutionary system. Rather than
a limited material or tribal system, it is for the first time in
history a human system. If we're practicing anything less then we're
not practicing Islam. If we look down on certain races, if we hate
people because of their nationality or religion, if we subjugate
women, then we're practicing a fraud, and shaming ourselves beforethe
world.
Islam rises above everything that came before. Islam came to change
the world, and toelevate the essential nobility all human beings, a
nobility not based on nation or tribe, but on our eternal souls.
That's the call of Islam. That's the path we must follow.

Where Are the Answers?

"What am I going to do? Why is my life so messed up? Why can't I find
happiness? Why am I alone? Why do I feel stuck? Why do I have these
problems?'…
These questions only have meaning if we direct them to Allah. No one
else can answer them. Consider the wordsof the Prophet Ya'qub
(alayhis-salam, peace be upon him) when his son Yusuf (as) was
secretly thrown into a well by his brothers. They then reported to
their father that Yusuf had been killed by a wolf.
And he turned away fromthem and said, "Oh, my sorrow over Yusuf," and
his eyes became white from grief, and he fell into silent melancholy.
They said, "By Allah , you will not cease remembering Yusuf until you
become fatally ill or become of those who perish."
He said, " I only complain of my suffering and my grief to Allah , and
I knowfrom Allah that which you do not know.
- Quran, Surat Yusuf, 12:84-86
"I only complain of my suffering and my grief to Allah…"
When you feel stuck, when you feel that no one understands your
situation, when you're in pain and you can't even imagine a solution,
only Allah has the answers. You can't see a way forward, but He can.
You don't see your own worth, but He does. You can't figure out the
road to happiness, but He can show you.
I remember a night in Arizona when I was twenty six years old. I lay
on a cot in a small, frigid cell. There was snow outside and I had
only a thin blanket. As I often did, I put on all my clothing in
layers – three pants, three shirts, an army jacket and a pair of boots
– and still I kept waking up shivering and shaking. Yet, even more
than the physical discomfort, my spirit was tired. I had made mistakes
in my youth andhad been locked up for almost five years. I had become
hard mentally and physically, but my heart was full of sorrow. Ilay
there that night and I thought, "I have nothing in life. I have
accomplished nothing. I have no university degree, no wife, no
children, and not even my freedom."
That was a bad time. But I had my faith, and I usedto weep to Allah,
asking Him to have mercy on me. I think I gave up on myself for a
while, but I never gave up on Allah. Itwould not even have occurred to
me to do so. Idid cry to Him sometimes saying, "Why, Allah? Why? Why
am I here, suffering like this?" But itwasn't despair, only confusion.
In my heart I knew that He heard me and that an answer would come.
Shortly after that I received a letter from theparole board granting
me early release. I had previously been told veryclearly that I was
not eligible. It was entirely unexpected, and if you are familiar with
the American penal system, miraculous. But for Allah, nothing is
impossible or even difficult.
Within a few months I was free. I found a job a week after my
release, and I excelled. I began writing, sitting at my desk every
night after work and disciplining myself to work on poetry,stories and
articles. Eventually I went back to school and began a new career, got
married, bought a beautiful house, and one day had achild…
What can I say except Alhamdulillah! SubhanAllah! What can I do except
weep in gratitude for these blessings that I did nothing to earn, but
were given to me by my Lord who loves me and cares about me, and wants
good for me. I am so deeply touched and moved by the way Allah has
answered my prayersfrom the depths of darkness. If I did anything to
merit His blessings, perhaps it was only that I directed my pleas to
Him. I knew that no one else could help me.
This is a very emotional post for me to write. I want every Muslim to
have this sense of Allah astheir friend, as someone who cares for them
deeply. I want to put thatawareness into your heart like a gift.
When I was in that cell I used to pray the same dua' over and over,
begging Allah repeatedly.If I had made such pleas to a human being
they would have stopped hearing me long ago. When we're needy with
people it pushes them away, but when we're needy with Allah He comes
closer to us! He never tires of answering our need and forgiving us.
I know of many similar stories of people who have hit rock bottom
andhave called upon Allah – or , not even knowing "Allah" by that
name, have called to the Supreme Being, saying, "Iknow you hear me,
tell me what I need to do, show me the way!" – andthen, like a circle
of sunlight piercing a cloud,something or someone comes into their
lives to show them the way forward.
When we're out of ideas, surrounded by problems, and feeling totally
alone… we're not alone . Allah is with us. If we pray sincerely and
strive, He will put light in our hearts and help us from directions we
did not expect.
Ask Allah sincerely, open yourself to Him, and accept what He gives
youeven when it goes against your own desires.The answers to your
questions are there, with Allah, I promise you. All those terrible
questions that you ask yourself in the silence of your mind, the
answers are with Allah.

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