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		<title>Are You Sick of Religion?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Brown discusses the phenomenon of people conning/cheating in the name of God. Religion and how it got corrupted and how you can still find the truth amongst all the false man-made religions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXS6pZrFcPs Dr. Laurence B. Brown, a graduate of Cornell University, Brown Medical School, and George Washington University Hospital residency program, is an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dr. Brown discusses the phenomenon of people conning/cheating in the name of God. Religion and how it got corrupted and how you can still find the truth amongst all the false man-made religions.</strong></p>
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<p>Dr. Laurence B. Brown, a graduate of Cornell University, Brown Medical School, and George Washington University Hospital residency program, is an ophthalmic surgeon, specializing in cataract and refractive surgery.</p>
<p>Dr. Brown served as a respected ophthalmologist in the U.S. Air Force for a period of eight years. Following a personal ordeal involving his daughter, Dr. Brown redirected his focus to religious study, including his conversion to Islam in April of 1994. The results of his study are outlined in his non-fiction books.</p>
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		<title>The Quran on the Cerebrum</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="ADS"><strong>Description:</strong> The Quran and science in total conformity in regards to the ‘anatomy of a lie’.</span></p>
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<p>God has said in <strong>the Quran</strong> about one of the evil unbelievers who forbade the Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, from praying at the Kaaba:</p>
<p>“No! If he does not stop, We will take him by the <em>naseyah</em> (front of the head), a lying, sinful <em>naseyah</em> (front of the head)!” (<strong>Quran 96:15-16</strong>)</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_the_Cerebrum_001.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" width="280" height="218" align="right" />Why did <strong>the Quran</strong> describe the front of the head as being lying and sinful? Why didn’t the Quran say that the person was lying and sinful? What is the relationship between the front of the head and lying and sinfulness?</p>
<p>If we look into the skull at the front of the head, we will find the prefrontal area of the cerebrum (see figure 1). What does physiology tell us about the function of this area? A book entitled <em>Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology</em> says about this area, “The motivation and the foresight to plan and initiate movements occur in the anterior portion of the frontal lobes, the prefrontal area. This is a region of association cortex&#8230;”<a id="_ftnref10349" title=" Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology, Seeley and others, p. 211. Also see The Human Nervous System, Noback and others, pp. 410-411." name="_ftnref10349" href="#_ftn10349"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> Also the book says, “In relation to its involvement in motivation, the prefrontal area is also thought to be the functional center for aggression&#8230;.”<a id="_ftnref10350" title=" Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology, Seeley and others, p. 211." name="_ftnref10350" href="#_ftn10350"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a> <span id="more-508"></span><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_the_Cerebrum_002.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="249" /></p>
<p>Figure 1: Functional regions of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. The prefrontal area is located at the front of the cerebral cortex. (<em>Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology,</em> Seeley and others, p. 210.)</p>
<p>So, this area of the cerebrum is responsible for planning, motivating, and initiating good and sinful behavior and is responsible for the telling of lies and the speaking of truth. Thus, it is proper to describe the front of the head as lying and sinful when someone lies or commits a sin, as the Quran has said, <strong>“&#8230;A lying, sinful <em>naseyah</em> (front of the head)!”</strong></p>
<p>Scientists have only discovered these functions of the prefrontal area in the last sixty years, according to Professor Keith L. Moore.<a id="_ftnref10351" title="Al-E’jaz al-Elmy fee al-Naseyah (The Scientific Miracles in the Front of the Head), Moore and others, p. 41." name="_ftnref10351" href="#_ftn10351"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="ltr"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10349" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10349" href="#_ftnref10349"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> <em>Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology</em>, Seeley and others, p. 211. Also see <em>The Human Nervous System</em>, Noback and others, pp. 410-411.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10350" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10350" href="#_ftnref10350"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a> <em>Essentials of Anatomy &amp; Physiology</em>, Seeley and others, p. 211.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10351" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10351" href="#_ftnref10351"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a><em>Al-E</em>’<em>jaz al-Elmy fee al-Naseyah</em> (The Scientific Miracles in the Front of the Head), Moore and others, p. 41.</p>
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		<title>Women Rights Compared: Bible and Quran (The Koran, Kuran)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Women Rights Compared: Bible and Quran</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Eve&#8217;s fault?</strong><br />
In the Bible: The serpent seduced Eve to eat from it and Eve, in turn, seduced Adam to eat with her. When God rebuked Adam for what he did, he put all the blame on Eve, &#8220;The woman you put here with me &#8211;she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.&#8221; Consequently, God said to Eve: &#8220;I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Eve in the Quran is no temptress, no seducer, and no deceiver. Moreover, Eve is not to be blamed for the pains of childbearing. God, according to the Quran, punishes no one for another&#8217;s faults. Both Adam and Eve committed a sin and then asked God for forgiveness and He forgave them both.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>2. Eve&#8217;s legacy<br />
&#8220;No wickedness comes anywhere near the wickedness of a woman&#8230;..Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die&#8221;</strong> {Ecclesiasticus 25:19,24}</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I don&#8217;t permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner&#8221;</strong> {I Timothy 2:11-14}</p>
<p><span id="more-501"></span><strong>&#8220;I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare&#8230;.while I was still searching but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among them all&#8221;</strong> {Ecclesiastes 7:26-28}</p>
<p>Check: {Noble Quran 33:35 / 9:71 / 3:195 / 40:40 / 16:97}. It is clear that the Quranic view of women is no different than that of men. They, both, are God&#8217;s creatures whose sublime goal on earth is to worship their Lord, do righteous deeds, and avoid evil and they, both, will be assessed accordingly. The Quran never mentions that the woman is the devil&#8217;s gateway or that she is a deceiver by nature.</p>
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<p><strong>3. Shameful daughters?<br />
The Bible states that the period of the mother&#8217;s ritual impurity is twice as long if a girl is born than if a boy is (Lev. 12:2-5). The Catholic Bible states explicitly that: &#8220;The birth of a daughter is a loss&#8221;</strong> (Ecclesiasticus 22:3).</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Your daughter is headstrong? Keep a sharp look-out that she does not make you the laughing stock of your enemies, the talk of the town, the object of common gossip, and put you to public shame&#8221;</strong> (Ecclesiasticus 42:11).</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Keep a headstrong daughter under firm control, or she will abuse any indulgence she receives. Keep a strict watch on her shameless eye, do not be surprised if she disgraces you&#8221;</strong> (Ecclesiasticus 26:10-11).</p>
<p>Prophet Muhammad (p):<br />
<strong> &#8220;He who is involved in bringing up daughters, and accords benevolent treatment towards them, they will be protection for him against Hell-Fire&#8221;</strong> (Bukhari and Muslim).<br />
<strong> &#8220;Whoever maintains two girls till they attain maturity, he and I will come on the Resurrection Day like this; and he joined his fingers&#8221;</strong> (Muslim).</p>
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<p><strong>4. Female education<br />
&#8220;As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.&#8221;</strong> (I Corinthians 14:34-35)</p>
<p>Check: {Noble Quran 58:1}. <strong>A woman in the Quranic conception has the right to argue even with the Prophet of Islam himself. No one has the right to instruct her to be silent. She is under no obligation to consider her husband the one and only reference in matters of law and religion.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>5. Unclean, impure women?</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening&#8221;</strong> (Lev. 15:19-23).</p>
<p>Islam does not consider a menstruating woman to possess any kind of &#8220;contagious uncleanness&#8221;. She is neither &#8220;untouchable&#8221; nor &#8220;cursed.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>6. Bearing witness?</strong></p>
<p>If a man accuses his wife of unchastity, her testimony will not be considered at all according to the Bible. The accused wife has to be subjected to a trial by ordeal.<br />
In this trial, the wife faces a complex and humiliating ritual which was supposed to prove her guilt or innocence (Num. 5:11-31).<br />
If she is found guilty after this ordeal, she will be sentenced to death. If she is found not guilty, her husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing.</p>
<p>Besides, if a man takes a woman as a wife and then accuses her of not being a virgin, her own testimony will not count. Her parents had to bring evidence of her virginity before the elders of the town. If the parents could not prove the innocence of their daughter, she would be stoned to death on her father&#8217;s doorsteps. If the parents were able to prove her innocence, the husband would only be fined one hundred shekels of silver and he could not divorce his wife as long as he lived:</p>
<p>&#8220;If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, &#8216;I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,&#8217; then the girl&#8217;s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. The girl&#8217;s father will say to the elders, &#8216;I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. Now he has slandered her and said I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But here is the proof of my daughter&#8217;s virginity.&#8217; Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl&#8217;s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl&#8217;s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father&#8217;s house and there the men of the town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father&#8217;s house. You must purge the evil from among you.&#8221; (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)</p>
<p>Quran instructs the believers dealing in financial transactions to get two male witnesses or one male and two females (2:282). This was for a particular reason. Women for the most part at the time, were not familiar with any types of financial dealings and as such, might not be accepted as a witness. However, if there were three witnesses, regardless of gender, it would be difficult to make false claims in the face of so many saying exactly the same thing.</p>
<p>However, in other matters not related to finance, it is also true the Quran does accept the testimony of a woman as equal to that of a man.</p>
<p>The fact is the Quran makes it clear, a woman&#8217;s testimony can even invalidate the man&#8217;s. If a man accuses his wife of unchastity, he is required by the Quran to solemnly swear five times as evidence of the wife&#8217;s guilt. If the wife denies and swears similarly five times, she is not considered guilty and in either case the marriage is dissolved (24:6-11).</p>
<p>On the other hand, women were not allowed to bear witness in early Jewish society. The Rabbis counted women&#8217;s not being able to bear witness among the nine curses inflicted upon all women because of the Fall (see the &#8220;Eve&#8217;s Legacy&#8221; section).</p>
<p>Women in today&#8217;s Israel are not allowed to give evidence in Rabbinical courts. The Rabbis justify why women cannot bear witness by citing Genesis 18:9-16, where it is stated that Sara, Abraham&#8217;s wife had lied.<br />
The Rabbis use this incident as evidence that women are unqualified to bear witness. It should be noted here that this story narrated in Genesis 18:9-16 has been mentioned more than once in the Quran without any hint of any lies by Sara (11:69-74, 51:24-30).</p>
<p>In the Christian West, both ecclesiastical and civil law debarred women from giving testimony until late last century.</p>
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<p><strong>7. Adultery</strong></p>
<p>Adultery and fornication are considered sins in all religions. The Bible decrees the death sentence for both the adulterer and the adulteress (Lev. 20:10).<br />
Islam also equally punishes both the adulterer and the adulteress (24:2).<br />
However, the Quranic definition of adultery is very different from the Biblical definition.<br />
Adultery, according to the Quran, is the involvement of a married man or a married woman in an extramarital affair. The Bible only considers the extramarital affair of a married woman as adultery (Leviticus 20:10, Deuteronomy 22:22, Proverbs 6:20-7:27).</p>
<p>&#8220;If a man is found sleeping with another man&#8217;s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel&#8221; (Deut. 22:22). &#8220;If a man commits adultery with another man&#8217;s wife both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death&#8221; (Lev. 20:10).</p>
<p>According to the Biblical definition, if a married man sleeps with an unmarried woman, this is not considered a crime at all.</p>
<p>The married man who has extramarital affairs with unmarried women is not an adulterer and the unmarried women involved with him are not adulteresses. The crime of adultery is committed only when a man, whether married or single, sleeps with a married woman. In this case the man is considered adulterer, even if he is not married, and the woman is considered adulteress. In short, adultery is any illicit sexual intercourse involving a married woman.</p>
<p>The extramarital affair of a married man is not per se a crime in the Bible. Why is the dual moral standard?</p>
<p>According to Encyclopedia Judaica, the wife was considered to be the husband&#8217;s possession and adultery constituted a violation of the husband&#8217;s exclusive right to her; the wife as the husband&#8217;s possession had no such right to him.</p>
<p>That is, if a man had sexual intercourse with a married woman, he would be violating the property of another man and, thus, he should be punished.</p>
<p>To the present day in Israel, if a married man indulges in an extramarital affair with an unmarried woman, his children by that woman are considered legitimate. But, if a married woman has an affair with another man, whether married or not married, her children by that man are not only illegitimate but they are considered ******** and are forbidden to marry any other Jews except converts and other ********.</p>
<p>This ban is handed down to the children&#8217;s descendants for 10 generations until the taint of adultery is presumably weakened.</p>
<p>The Quran, on the other hand, never considers any woman to be the possession of any man. The Quran eloquently describes the relationship between the spouses by saying:</p>
<p>&#8220;And among His signs is that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that you may dwell in tranquility with them and He has put love and mercy between your hearts: verily in that are signs for those who reflect&#8221; (30:21).</p>
<p>This is the Quranic conception of marriage: love, mercy, and tranquillity, not possession and double standards.</p>
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<p><strong>8. Vows</strong></p>
<p>According to the Bible, a man must fulfill any vows he might make to God. He must not break his word. On the other hand, a woman&#8217;s vow is not necessarily binding on her.</p>
<p>It has to be approved by her father, if she is living in his house, or by her husband, if she is married. If a father/husband does not endorse his daughter&#8217;s/wife&#8217;s vows, all pledges made by her become null and void:</p>
<p>&#8220;But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand &#8230;Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself&#8221; (Num. 30:2-15)</p>
<p>Why is it that a woman&#8217;s word is not binding per se?</p>
<p>The answer is simple: because she is owned by her father, before marriage, or by her husband after marriage. The father&#8217;s control over his daughter was absolute to the extent that, should he wish, he could sell her!</p>
<p>It is indicated in the writings of the Rabbis that: &#8220;The man may sell his daughter, but the woman may not sell her daughter; the man may betroth his daughter, but the woman may not betroth her daughter.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Rabbinic literature also indicates that marriage represents the transfer of control from the father to the husband: &#8220;betrothal, making a woman the sacrosanct possession&#8211;the inviolable property&#8211; of the husband&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously, if the woman is considered to be the property of someone else, she cannot make any pledges that her owner does not approve of.</p>
<p>It is of interest to note that this Biblical instruction concerning women&#8217;s vows has had negative repercussions on Judaeo-Christian women till early in this century. A married woman in the Western world had no legal status. No act of hers was of any legal value. Her husband could repudiate any contract, bargain, or deal she had made. Women in the West (the largest heir of the Judaeo-Christian legacy) were held unable to make a binding contract because they were practically owned by someone else. Western women had suffered for almost two thousand years because of the Biblical attitude towards women&#8217;s position vis-a-vis their fathers and husbands.</p>
<p>In Islam, the vow of every Muslim, male or female, is binding on him/her. No one has the power to repudiate the pledges of anyone else. Failure to keep a solemn oath, made by a man or a woman, has to be expiated as indicated in the Quran:</p>
<p>&#8220;He [God] will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; Or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths you have sworn. But keep your oaths&#8221; (5:89).</p>
<p>Companions of the Prophet Muhammad, men and women, used to present their oath of allegiance to him personally. Women, as well as men, would independently come to him and pledge their oaths:</p>
<p>&#8220;O Prophet, When believing women come to you to make a covenant with you that they will not associate in worship anything with God, nor steal, nor fornicate, nor kill their own children, nor slander anyone, nor disobey you in any just matter, then make a covenant with them and pray to God for the forgiveness of their sins. Indeed God is Forgiving and most Merciful&#8221; (60:12).</p>
<p>A man could not swear the oath on behalf of his daughter or his wife. Nor could a man repudiate the oath made by any of his female relatives.</p>
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<p><strong>9. Wife&#8217;s property?</strong></p>
<p>The three religions share an unshakeable belief in the importance of marriage and family life. They also agree on the leadership of the husband over the family. Nevertheless, blatant differences do exist among the three religions with respect to the limits of this leadership. The Judaeo-Christian tradition, unlike Islam, virtually extends the headship of the husband into ownership of his wife.</p>
<p>The Jewish tradition regarding the husband&#8217;s role towards his wife stems from the conception that he owns her as he owns his slave. This conception has been the reason behind the double standard in the laws of adultery and behind the husband&#8217;s ability to annul his wife&#8217;s vows. This conception has also been responsible for denying the wife any control over her property or her earnings. As soon as a Jewish woman got married, she completely lost any control over her property and earnings to her husband. Jewish Rabbis asserted the husband&#8217;s right to his wife&#8217;s property as a corollary of his possession of her: &#8220;Since one has come into the possession of the woman does it not follow that he should come into the possession of her property too?&#8221;, and &#8220;Since he has acquired the woman should he not acquire also her property?&#8221; Thus, marriage caused the richest woman to become practically penniless. The Talmud describes the financial situation of a wife as follows:</p>
<p>&#8220;How can a woman have anything; whatever is hers belongs to her husband? What is his is his and what is hers is also his&#8230;&#8230; Her earnings and what she may find in the streets are also his. The household articles, even the crumbs of bread on the table, are his. Should she invite a guest to her house and feed him, she would be stealing from her husband&#8230;&#8221; (San. 71a, Git. 62a)</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that the property of a Jewish female was meant to attract suitors. A Jewish family would assign their daughter a share of her father&#8217;s estate to be used as a dowry in case of marriage. It was this dowry that made Jewish daughters an unwelcome burden to their fathers. The father had to raise his daughter for years and then prepare for her marriage by providing a large dowry. Thus, a girl in a Jewish family was a liability and no asset. This liability explains why the birth of a daughter was not celebrated with joy in the old Jewish society (see the &#8220;Shameful Daughters?&#8221; section). The dowry was the wedding gift presented to the groom under terms of tenancy. The husband would act as the practical owner of the dowry but he could not sell it. The bride would lose any control over the dowry at the moment of marriage. Moreover, she was expected to work after marriage and all her earnings had to go to her husband in return for her maintenance which was his obligation. She could regain her property only in two cases: divorce or her husband&#8217;s death. Should she die first, he would inherit her property. In the case of the husband&#8217;s death, the wife could regain her pre-marital property but she was not entitled to inherit any share in her deceased husband&#8217;s own property. It has to be added that the groom also had to present a marriage gift to his bride, yet again he was the practical owner of this gift as long as they were married.</p>
<p>Christianity, until recently, has followed the same Jewish tradition. Both religious and civil authorities in the Christian Roman Empire (after Constantine) required a property agreement as a condition for recognizing the marriage. Families offered their daughters increasing dowries and, as a result, men tended to marry earlier while families postponed their daughters&#8217; marriages until later than had been customary. Under Canon law, a wife was entitled to restitution of her dowry if the marriage was annulled unless she was guilty of adultery. In this case, she forfeited her right to the dowry which remained in her husband&#8217;s hands. Under Canon and civil law a married woman in Christian Europe and America had lost her property rights until late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For example, women&#8217;s rights under English law were compiled and published in 1632. These &#8216;rights&#8217; included: &#8220;That which the husband hath is his own. That which the wife hath is the husband&#8217;s.&#8221; The wife not only lost her property upon marriage, she lost her personality as well. No act of her was of legal value. Her husband could repudiate any sale or gift made by her as being of no binding legal value. The person with whom she had any contract was held as a criminal for participating in a fraud. Moreover, she could not sue or be sued in her own name, nor could she sue her own husband. A married woman was practically treated as an infant in the eyes of the law. The wife simply belonged to her husband and therefore she lost her property, her legal personality, and her family name.</p>
<p>Islam, since the seventh century C.E., has granted married women the independent personality which the Judaeo-Christian West had deprived them until very recently. In Islam, the bride and her family are under no obligation whatsoever to present a gift to the groom. The girl in a Muslim family is no liability. A woman is so dignified by Islam that she does not need to present gifts in order to attract potential husbands. It is the groom who must present the bride with a marriage gift. This gift is considered her property and neither the groom nor the bride&#8217;s family have any share in or control over it. In some Muslim societies today, a marriage gift of a hundred thousand dollars in diamonds is not unusual [28]. The bride retains her marriage gifts even if she is later divorced. The husband is not allowed any share in his wife&#8217;s property except what she offers him with her free consent. The Quran has stated its position on this issue quite clearly:</p>
<p>&#8220;And give the women (on marriage) their dower as a free gift; but if they, Of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, take it and enjoy it with right good cheer&#8221; (4:4)</p>
<p>The wife&#8217;s property and earnings are under her full control and for her use alone since her, and the children&#8217;s, maintenance is her husband&#8217;s responsibility.</p>
<p>No matter how rich the wife might be, she is not obliged to act as a co-provider for the family unless she herself voluntarily chooses to do so. Spouses do inherit from one another. Moreover, a married woman in Islam retains her independent legal personality and her family name.</p>
<p><strong>An American judge once commented on the rights of Muslim women saying: &#8220;A Muslim girl may marry ten times, but her individuality is not absorbed by that of her various husbands. She is a solar planet with a name and legal personality of her own.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Source: <a title="Women Rights Compared: Bible vs Quran" href="http://islamnewsroom.com/news-we-need/335-womennorights" target="_blank">Women Rights Compared: Bible and Quran</a></p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;If they become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth, that&#8217;s why they are there.&#8221;</strong><br />
Martin Luther (Protestant)</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence.&#8221;<br />
</strong>St. Thomas Aquinas (Catholic)</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the Devil&#8217;s gateway: You are the unsealer of the forbidden tree: You are the first deserter of the divine law: You are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God&#8217;s image, man. On account of your desert even the Son of God had to die.&#8221;<br />
</strong>St. Tertullian (Catholic)</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman&#8230;&#8230;I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children.&#8221;<br />
</strong>St. Augustine (Catholic)</p>
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<p>God has said in <strong>The Koran</strong> (Quran, Kuran):</p>
<p><strong>“Or (the unbelievers’ state) is like the darkness in a deep sea. It is covered by waves, above which are waves, above which are clouds. Darknesses, one above another. If a man stretches out his hand, he cannot see it&#8230;.” (Quran 24:40)</strong></p>
<p><strong><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Deep_Seas_and_Internal_Waves_001.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" width="280" height="187" align="right" /></strong>This verse mentions the darkness found in deep seas and oceans, where if a man stretches out his hand, he cannot see it. The darkness in deep seas and oceans is found around a depth of 200 meters and below. At this depth, there is almost no light (see figure 1). Below a depth of 1000 meters there is no light at all.<a id="_ftnref10327" title=" Oceans, Elder and Pernetta, p. 27." name="_ftnref10327" href="#_ftn10327"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> Human beings are not able to dive more than forty meters without the aid of submarines or special equipment. Human beings cannot survive unaided in the deep dark part of the oceans, such as at a depth of 200 meters.</p>
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<p>Figure 1: Between 3 and 30 percent of the sunlight is reflected at the sea surface. Then almost all of the seven colors of the light spectrum are absorbed one after another in the first 200 meters, except the blue light. (<em>Oceans</em>, Elder and Pernetta, p. 27.)  <span id="more-491"></span></p>
<p>Scientists have recently discovered this darkness by means of special equipment and submarines that have enabled them to dive into the depths of the oceans.</p>
<p>We can also understand from the following sentences in the previous verse, <strong>“&#8230;in a deep sea. It is covered by waves, above which are waves, above which are clouds&#8230;.”</strong>, that the deep waters of seas and oceans are covered by waves, and above these waves are other waves. It is clear that the second set of waves are the surface waves that we see, because the verse mentions that above the second waves there are clouds. But what about the first waves? Scientists have recently discovered that there are internal waves which “occur on density interfaces between layers of different densities.”<a id="_ftnref10328" title=" Oceanography, Gross, p. 205." name="_ftnref10328" href="#_ftn10328"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a> (see figure 2).</p>
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<p>Figure 2: Internal waves at interface between two layers of water of different densities. One is dense (the lower one), the other one is less dense (the upper one). (<em>Oceanography</em>, Gross, p. 204.)</p>
<p><span class="w-footnote-number"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">The internal waves cover the deep waters of seas and oceans because the deep waters have a higher density than the waters above them. Internal waves act like surface waves. They can also break, just like surface waves. Internal waves cannot be seen by the human eye, but they can be detected by studying temperature or salinity changes at a given location.</span><a id="_ftnref10329" title=" Oceanography, Gross, p. 205." name="_ftnref10329" href="#_ftn10329"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></a></span></p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10327" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10327" href="#_ftnref10327"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> <em>Oceans</em>, Elder and Pernetta, p. 27.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Miracle_of_Iron_001.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" width="280" height="185" align="right" />Iron is one of the elements highlighted in the Koran (Quran, Kuran). In the chapter known <em>Al-Hadeed</em>, meaning Iron, we are informed:</p>
<p><strong>“And We also sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind…” (Quran 57:25)</strong></p>
<p>The word “<em>anzalna</em>,” translated as &#8220;sent down&#8221; and used for iron in the verse, could be thought of having a metaphorical meaning to explain that iron has been given to benefit people. But, when we take into consideration the literal meaning of the word, which is, &#8220;being physically sent down from the sky, as this word usage had not been employed in the Quran except literally, like the descending of the rain or revelation, we realize that this verse implies a very significant scientific miracle. Because, modern astronomical findings have disclosed that the iron found in our world has come from giant stars in outer space.<a id="_ftnref10131" title=" Dr. Mazhar U. Kazi, 130 Evident Miracles in the Qur'an (New York, USA: Crescent Publishing House: 1998), 110-111; and www.wamy.co.uk/announcements3.html, from Prof. Zighloul Raghib El-Naggar’s speech." name="_ftnref10131" href="#_ftn10131"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> <span id="more-481"></span></p>
<p>Not only the iron on earth, but also the iron in the entire Solar System, comes from outer space, since the temperature in the Sun is inadequate for the formation of iron. The sun has a surface temperature of 6,000 degrees Celsius, and a core temperature of approximately 20 million degrees. Iron can only be produced in much larger stars than the Sun, where the temperature reaches a few hundred million degrees. When the amount of iron exceeds a certain level in a star, the star can no longer accommodate it, and it eventually explodes in what is called a &#8220;nova&#8221; or a &#8220;supernova.&#8221; These explosions make it possible for iron to be given off into space.<a id="_ftnref10132" title=" Ibid." name="_ftnref10132" href="#_ftn10132"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a></p>
<p>One scientific source provides the following information on this subject:</p>
<p>“There is also evidence for older supernova events: Enhanced levels of iron-60 in deep-sea sediments have been interpreted as indications that a supernova explosion occurred within 90 light-years of the sun about 5 million years ago. Iron-60 is a radioactive isotope of iron, formed in supernova explosions, which decays with a half life of 1.5 million years. An enhanced presence of this isotope in a geologic layer indicates the recent nucleosynthesis of elements nearby in space and their subsequent transport to the earth (perhaps as part of dust grains).”<a id="_ftnref10133" title=" Priscilla Frisch, “The Galactic Environment of the Sun,” American Scientist, January-February 2000, www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/21173?fulltext=true." name="_ftnref10133" href="#_ftn10133"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a></p>
<p>All this shows that iron did not form on the Earth, but was carried from Supernovas, and was &#8220;sent down,&#8221; as stated in the verse. It is clear that this fact could not have been known in the 7<sup>th</sup> century, when the Quran was revealed. Nevertheless, this fact is related in the Quran, the Word of God, Who encompasses all things in His infinite knowledge.</p>
<p>The fact that the verse specifically mentions iron is quite astounding, considering that these discoveries were made at the end of the 20th century. In his book Nature’s Destiny, the well-known microbiologist Michael Denton emphasizes the importance of iron:</p>
<p>“Of all the metals there is none more essential to life than iron. It is the accumulation of iron in the center of a star which triggers a supernova explosion and the subsequent scattering of the vital atoms of life throughout the cosmos. It was the drawing by gravity of iron atoms to the center of the primeval earth that generated the heat which caused the initial chemical differentiation of the earth, the outgassing of the early atmosphere, and ultimately the formation of the hydrosphere. It is molten iron in the center of the earth which, acting like a gigantic dynamo, generates the earth’s magnetic field, which in turn creates the Van Allen radiation belts that shield the earth’s surface from destructive high-energy-penetrating cosmic radiation and preserve the crucial ozone layer from cosmic ray destruction…</p>
<p>“Without the iron atom, there would be no carbon-based life in the cosmos; no supernovae, no heating of the primitive earth, no atmosphere or hydrosphere. There would be no protective magnetic field, no Van Allen radiation belts, no ozone layer, no metal to make hemoglobin [in human blood], no metal to tame the reactivity of oxygen, and no oxidative metabolism.</p>
<p>“The intriguing and intimate relationship between life and iron, between the red color of blood and the dying of some distant star, not only indicates the relevance of metals to biology but also the biocentricity of the cosmos…”<a id="_ftnref10134" title=" Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny (The Free Press: 1998), 198." name="_ftnref10134" href="#_ftn10134"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></span></a></p>
<p>This account clearly indicates the importance of the iron atom. The fact that particular attention is drawn to iron in the Quran also emphasizes the importance of the element.</p>
<p>Moreover, iron oxide particles were used in a cancer treatment in recent months and positive developments were observed. A team led by Dr. Andreas Jordan, at the world famous Charité Hospital in Germany, succeeded in destroying cancer cells with this new technique developed for the treatment of cancer—magnetic fluid hyperthermia (high temperature magnetic liquid). As a result of this technique, first performed on the 26-year-old Nikolaus H., no new cancer cells were observed in the patient in the following three months.</p>
<p>This method of treatment can be summarized as follows:</p>
<p>1. A liquid containing iron oxide particles is injected into the tumour by means of a special syringe. These particles spread throughout the tumour cells. This liquid consists of thousands of millions of particles, 1,000 times smaller than the red blood corpuscles, of iron oxide in 1 cm3 that can easily flow through all blood vessels. <a id="_ftnref10135" title=" www.inm-gmbh.de/cgi-bin/frame/frameloader.pl?sprache=en&amp;url=http://www.inm-gmbh.de/htdocs/technologien/highlights/highlights_en.htm." name="_ftnref10135" href="#_ftn10135"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></span></a></p>
<p>2. The patient is then placed in a machine with a powerful magnetic field.</p>
<p>3. This magnetic field, applied externally, begins to set the iron particles in the tumour in motion. During this time the temperature in the tumour containing the iron oxide particles rises by up to 45 degrees.</p>
<p>4. In a few minutes the cancer cells, unable to protect themselves from the heat, are either weakened or destroyed. The tumour may then be completely eradicated with subsequent chemotherapy.<a id="_ftnref10136" title=" &quot;Nanotechnology successfully helps cancer therapies,&quot; IIC Fast Track, Nanotech News from Eastern Germany, Industrial Investment Council, October 2003; www.iic.de/uploads/media/NANO_FT_Nov2003_01.pdf" name="_ftnref10136" href="#_ftn10136"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[6]</span></span></a></p>
<p>In this treatment it is only the cancer cells that are affected by the magnetic field, since only they contain the iron oxide particles. The spread of this technique is a major development in the treatment of this potentially lethal disease. Iron has also been found to be a cure for people suffering from anemia. In the treatment of such a widespread diseases, the use of the expression <strong>“iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind” (Quran, 57:25)</strong> in <strong>the Koran (Quran, Kuran)</strong> is particularly noteworthy. Indeed, in that verse, the Quran may be indicating the benefits of iron even for human health. (God knows best.)</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10131" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10131" href="#_ftnref10131"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> Dr. Mazhar U. Kazi, 130 Evident Miracles in the Qur&#8217;an (New York, USA: Crescent Publishing House: 1998), 110-111; and www.wamy.co.uk/announcements3.html, from Prof. Zighloul Raghib El-Naggar’s speech.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10132" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10132" href="#_ftnref10132"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a> Ibid.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10133" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10133" href="#_ftnref10133"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a> Priscilla Frisch, “The Galactic Environment of the Sun,” American Scientist, January-February 2000, www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/21173?fulltext=true.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10134" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10134" href="#_ftnref10134"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></span></a> Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny (The Free Press: 1998), 198.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10135" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10135" href="#_ftnref10135"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></span></a> www.inm-gmbh.de/cgi-bin/frame/frameloader.pl?sprache=en&amp;url=http://www.inm-gmbh.de/htdocs/technologien/highlights/highlights_en.htm.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10136" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10136" href="#_ftnref10136"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[6]</span></span></a> &#8220;Nanotechnology successfully helps cancer therapies,&#8221; IIC Fast Track, Nanotech News from Eastern Germany, Industrial Investment Council, October 2003; www.iic.de/uploads/media/NANO_FT_Nov2003_01.pdf</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_the_Origin_of_the_Universe_001.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" width="280" height="210" align="right" />The science of modern cosmology, observational and theoretical, clearly indicates that, at one point in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of ‘smoke’ (i.e. an opaque highly dense and hot gaseous composition).<a id="_ftnref10352" title=" The First Three Minutes, a Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Weinberg, pp. 94-105." name="_ftnref10352" href="#_ftn10352"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> This is one of the undisputed principles of standard modern cosmology. Scientists now can observe new stars forming out of the remnants of that ‘smoke’ (see figures 1 and 2).</p>
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<p>Figure 1: A new star forming out of a cloud of gas and dust (nebula), which is one of the remnants of the ‘smoke’ that was the origin of the whole universe. (The Space Atlas, Heather and Henbest, p. 50.)  <span id="more-470"></span></p>
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<p>Figure 2: The Lagoon nebula is a cloud of gas and dust, about 60 light years in diameter. It is excited by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot stars that have recently formed within its bulk. (Horizons, Exploring the Universe, Seeds, plate 9, from Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.)</p>
<p>The illuminating stars we see at night were, just as was the whole universe, in that ‘smoke’ material. God has said in the Quran:</p>
<p><strong>“Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke&#8230;” (Quran 41:11)</strong></p>
<p>Because the earth and the heavens above (the sun, the moon, stars, planets, galaxies, etc.) have been formed from this same ‘smoke,’ we conclude that the earth and the heavens were one connected entity. Then out of this homogeneous ‘smoke,’ they formed and separated from each other. God has said in the Quran:</p>
<p><strong>“Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then We separated them?&#8230;” (Quran 21:30)</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Alfred Kroner is one of the world’s renowned geologists. He is Professor of Geology and the Chairman of the Department of Geology at the Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He said: “Thinking where Muhammad came from . . . I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years, with very complicated and advanced technological methods, that this is the case.”<a id="_ftnref10353" title=" The reference for this saying is This is the Truth (videotape). For a copy of this videotape, please visit this page." name="_ftnref10353" href="#_ftn10353"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a>. Also he said: “Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics fourteen hundred 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.”<a id="_ftnref10354" title=" This is the Truth (videotape)." name="_ftnref10354" href="#_ftn10354"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a>.</p>
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<h2 style="font-size: 12pt;">Hubble’s Law</h2>
<p>For thousands of years, astronomers wrestled with basic questions concerning the universe. Until the early 1920’s, it was believed that the universe had always been in existence; also, that the size of the universe was fixed and not changing. However, in 1912, the American astronomer, Vesto Slipher, made a discovery that would soon change astronomers’ beliefs about the universe. Slipher, noticed that the galaxies were moving away from earth at huge velocities. These observations provided the first evidence supporting the expanding-universe theory.<a id="_ednref1" name="_ednref1" href="#_edn1"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a></p>
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<p>Before the invention of the telescope in 1608, man could do little more than wonder about the origin of the universe. (Courtesy: NASA)  <span id="more-453"></span>In 1916, Albert Einstein formulated his General Theory of Relativity that indicated that the universe must be either expanding or contracting. Confirmation of the expanding-universe theory finally came in 1929 in the hands of the well known American astronomer Edwin Hubble.</p>
<p>By observing redshifts<a id="_ednref2" name="_ednref2" href="index.html#_edn2"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[2]</span></span></a> in the light wavelengths emitted by galaxies, Hubble found that galaxies were not fixed in their position; instead, they were actually moving away from us with speeds proportional to their distance from earth (Hubble&#8217;s Law). The only explanation for this observation was that the universe had to be expanding. Hubble’s discovery is regarded as one of the greatest in the history of astronomy. In 1929, he published the velocity-time relation which is the basis of modern cosmology. In the years to come, with further observations, the expanding-universe theory was accepted by scientists and astronomers alike.</p>
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<p>With the Hooker Telescope, Hubble discovered that the galaxies were moving away us. Above are photos of known galaxies. (Courtesy: NASA)</p>
<p>Yet, astonishingly well before telescopes were even invented and well before Hubble published his Law, Prophet Muhammad used to recite a verse of the Quran to his companions that ultimately stated that the universe is expanding.</p>
<p><strong>“And the heaven We created with might, and indeed We are (its) expander.” (Quran 51:47)</strong></p>
<p>At the time of the revelation of the Quran, the word “space” was not known, and people used the word “heaven” to refer to what lies above the Earth. In the above verse, the word “heaven” is referring to space and the known universe. The verse points out that space, and thus the universe, happens to be expanding, just as Hubble’s Law states.</p>
<p>That the Quran mentioned such a fact centuries before the invention of the first telescope, at a time when there was primitive knowledge in science, is considered remarkable. This is more so considering that, like many people in his time, Prophet Muhammad happened to be illiterate and simply could not have been aware of such facts by himself. Could it be that he had truly received divine revelation from the Creator and Originator of the universe?</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 12pt;">The Big Bang Theory</h2>
<p><span style="color: black;">Soon after Hubble</span> published his theory, he went on to discover that not only were galaxies moving away from the Earth, but were also moving away from one another. This meant that the universe happened to be expanding in every direction, in the same way a balloon expands when filled with air. Hubble’s new findings placed the foundations for the Big Bang theory.</p>
<p>The Big Bang theory states that around 12-15 billion years ago the universe came into existence from one single extremely hot and dense point, and that something triggered the explosion of this point that brought about the beginning of the universe. The universe, since then, has been expanding from this single point.</p>
<p>Later, in 1965, <span style="color: #222222;">radio astronomers</span> Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made a Noble Prize winning discovery that confirmed the Bing Bang theory. Prior to their discovery, the theory implied that if the single point from which the universe came into existence was initially extremely hot, then remnants of this heat should be found. This remnant heat is exactly what Penzias and Wilson found. In 1965, Penzias and Wilson discovered a 2.725 degree Kelvin Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) that spreads through the universe. Thus, it was understood that the radiation found was a remnant of the initial stages of the Big Bang. Presently, the Big Bang theory is accepted by the vast majority of scientists and astronomers.</p>
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<p>A microwave map of the leftover from the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe. (Courtesy: NASA)</p>
<p>It is mentioned in the Quran:</p>
<p><strong>“He (God) is the Originator of the heavens and the earth…” (Quran 6:101)</strong></p>
<p><strong><span>“Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes; and He is the Knowing Creator. His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” (Quran 36:81-82)</span></strong></p>
<p>The above verses prove that the universe had a beginning, that God was behind its creation, and all that God needs to do inorder to create is to say “Be,” and it is. Could this be an explanation as to what triggered off the explosion that brought about the beginning of the universe?</p>
<p>The Quran also mentions:</p>
<p><strong>“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)</strong></p>
<p>Muslim scholars who have explained the previous verse mention that the heavens and earth were once one, and then God caused them to separate and form into the seven heavens and Earth. Yet, due to the limitations of science and technology at the time of the revelation of the Quran (and for centuries to follow), no scholar was able to give much detail about how exactly the heavens and earth were created. What the scholars could explain was the precise meaning of each word in Arabic in the verse, as well as the overall meaning of the verse.</p>
<p>In the previous verse, the Arabic words <em>ratq</em> and <em>fataq</em> are used<em>.</em> The word <em>ratq</em> can be translated into “<strong><span style="color: black;">entity</span></strong>” “<strong><span style="color: black;">sewn to</span></strong>” “<strong><span style="color: black;">joined together</span></strong>” or “<strong><span style="color: black;">closed up</span></strong>”. The meaning of these translations all circulate around something that is mixed and that has a separate and distinct existence. The verb <em><span style="color: black;">fataq</span></em> is translated into “<strong><span style="color: black;">We unstitched</span></strong>” “<strong><span style="color: black;">We clove them asunder</span></strong>” “<strong><span style="color: black;">We separated</span></strong>” or “<strong><span style="color: black;">We have opened them</span></strong>”. These meanings imply that something comes into being by an action of splitting or tearing apart. The sprouting of a seed from the soil is a good example of a similar illustration of the meaning of the verb <em>fataq</em>.</p>
<p>With the introduction of the Big Bang theory, it soon became clear to Muslim scholars that the details mentioned with regards to the theory go identically hand in hand with the description of the creation of the universe in verse 30 of chapter 21 of the Quran. The theory states that all the matter in the universe came into existence from one single extremely hot and dense point; that exploded and brought about the beginning of the universe, matches what is mentioned in the verse that the heaven and Earth (thus the universe) where once joined together, and then split apart. Once again, the only possible explanation is that Prophet Muhammad had truly received divine revelation from God, The Creator and Originator of the universe.</p>
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<p><a id="_edn1" name="_edn1" href="index.html#_ednref1"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> The First Three Minutes, a Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Weinberg.</p>
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<p><a id="_edn2" name="_edn2" href="index.html#_ednref2"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[2]</span></span></a> When the light an object emits is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum. (http://bjp.org.cn/apod/glossary.htm)</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="ADS"><strong>Description:</strong> The miracle of embryonic development is mentioned in the Quran in such minute detail, much of which was unknown to scientists until only recently. It mentions the first stages of life after conception, the second stage of life after conception, and witnesses of scientists about these scientific facts of <strong>The Koran (The Quran, Kuran)</strong>.</span></p>
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<p>In the <strong>Holy Quran</strong>, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development:</p>
<p><strong>“We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an <em>alaqah</em> (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the <em>alaqah</em> into a <em>mudghah</em> (chewed substance)…”</strong> (<strong>The Koran</strong> 23:12-14)</p>
<p>Literally, the Arabic word <em>alaqah</em> has three meanings: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot.</p>
<p>In comparing a leech to an embryo in the <em>alaqah</em> stage, we find similarity between the two<a id="_ftnref10330" title=" The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 8." name="_ftnref10330" href="#_ftn10330"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> as we can see in figure 1. Also, the embryo at this stage obtains nourishment from the blood of the mother, similar to the leech, which feeds on the blood of others.<a id="_ftnref10331" title=" Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah, Moore and others, p. 36." name="_ftnref10331" href="#_ftn10331"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></span></a></p>
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<p>Figure 1: Drawings illustrating the similarities in appearance between a leech and a human embryo at the <em>alaqah</em> stage. (Leech drawing from Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah, Moore and others, p. 37, modified from Integrated Principles of Zoology, Hickman and others. Embryo drawing from The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 73.)  <span id="more-431"></span>The second meaning of the word <em>alaqah</em> is “suspended thing.” This is what we can see in figures 2 and 3, the suspension of the embryo, during the <em>alaqah</em> stage, in the womb of the mother.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Human_Embryonic_Development_002.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="238" /></p>
<p>Figure 2: We can see in this diagram the suspension of an embryo during the <em>alaqah</em> stage in the womb (uterus) of the mother. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 66.)</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Human_Embryonic_Development_003.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="217" /></p>
<p>Figure 3: In this photomicrograph, we can see the suspension of an embryo (marked B) during the <em>alaqah</em> stage (about 15 days old) in the womb of the mother. The actual size of the embryo is about 0.6 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore, 3rd ed., p. 66, from Histology, Leeson and Leeson.)</p>
<p>The third meaning of the word <em>alaqah</em> is “blood clot.” We find that the external appearance of the embryo and its sacs during the <em>alaqah</em> stage is similar to that of a blood clot. This is due to the presence of relatively large amounts of blood present in the embryo during this stage<a id="_ftnref10332" title=" Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah, Moore and others, pp. 37-38." name="_ftnref10332" href="#_ftn10332"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a> (see figure 4). Also during this stage, the blood in the embryo does not circulate until the end of the third week.<a id="_ftnref10333" title=" The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 65." name="_ftnref10333" href="#_ftn10333"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></span></a> Thus, the embryo at this stage is like a clot of blood.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Human_Embryonic_Development_004.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="227" /></p>
<p>Figure 4: Diagram of the primitive cardiovascular system in an embryo during the <em>alaqah</em> stage. The external appearance of the embryo and its sacs is similar to that of a blood clot, due to the presence of relatively large amounts of blood present in the embryo. (The Developing Human, Moore, 5th ed., p. 65.)</p>
<p>So the three meanings of the word <em>alaqah</em> correspond accurately to the descriptions of the embryo at the <em>alaqah</em> stage.</p>
<p>The next stage mentioned in the verse is the mudghah stage. The Arabic word mudghah means “chewed substance.” If one were to take a piece of gum and chew it in his or her mouth and then compare it with an embryo at the mudghah stage, we would conclude that the embryo at the mudghah stage acquires the appearance of a chewed substance. This is because of the somites at the back of the embryo that “somewhat resemble teethmarks in a chewed substance.”<a id="_ftnref10334" title=" The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 8." name="_ftnref10334" href="#_ftn10334"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></span></a> (see figures 5 and 6).</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Human_Embryonic_Development_005.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="283" /></p>
<p>Figure 5: Photograph of an embryo at the mudghah stage (28 days old). The embryo at this stage acquires the appearance of a chewed substance, because the somites at the back of the embryo somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed substance. The actual size of the embryo is 4 mm. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 82, from Professor Hideo Nishimura, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.)</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Quran_on_Human_Embryonic_Development_006.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="384" /></p>
<p>Figure 6: When comparing the appearance of an embryo at the mudghah stage with a piece of gum that has been chewed, we find similarity between the two.</p>
<p>A) Drawing of an embryo at the mudghah stage. We can see here the somites at the back of the embryo that look like teeth marks. (The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 79.)</p>
<p>B) Photograph of a piece of gum that has been chewed.</p>
<p>How could Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, have possibly known all this 1400 years ago, when scientists have only recently discovered this using advanced equipment and powerful microscopes which did not exist at that time? Hamm and Leeuwenhoek were the first scientists to observe human sperm cells (spermatozoa) using an improved microscope in 1677 (more than 1000 years after Muhammad). They mistakenly thought that the sperm cell contained a miniature preformed human being that grew when it was deposited in the female genital tract.<a id="_ftnref10335" title=" The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 9." name="_ftnref10335" href="#_ftn10335"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[6]</span></span></a></p>
<p>Professor Emeritus Keith L. Moore<a id="_ftnref10336" title=" Note: The occupations of all the scientists mentioned in this web site were last updated in 1997." name="_ftnref10336" href="#_ftn10336"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[7]</span></span></a> is one of the world’s most prominent scientists in the fields of anatomy and embryology and is the author of the book entitled The Developing Human, which has been translated into eight languages. This book is a scientific reference work and was chosen by a special committee in the United States as the best book authored by one person. Dr. Keith Moore is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. There, he was Associate Dean of Basic Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and for 8 years was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy. In 1984, 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. He has directed many international associations, such as the Canadian and American Association of Anatomists and the Council of the Union of Biological Sciences.</p>
<p>In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Moore said: “It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, because almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God.”<a id="_ftnref10337" title=" The reference for this saying is This is the Truth (videotape). For a copy of this videotape, please visit www.islam-guide.com/truth.htm" name="_ftnref10337" href="#_ftn10337"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[8]</span></span></a> (<a href="../../video/moore-1.ram" target="_blank">To view the RealPlayer video of this comment click here</a>).</p>
<p>Consequently, Professor Moore was asked the following question: “Does this mean that you believe that the Quran is the word of God?” He replied: “I find no difficulty in accepting this.”<a id="_ftnref10338" title=" This is the Truth (videotape)." name="_ftnref10338" href="#_ftn10338"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[9]</span></span></a></p>
<p>During one conference, Professor Moore stated: “&#8230;.Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah (what Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said, did, or approved of). The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge. The intensive studies of the Quran and hadeeth (reliably transmitted reports by the Prophet Muhammad’s companions of what he said, did, or approved of) in the last four years have revealed a system for classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D. Although Aristotle, the founder of the science of embryology, realized that chick embryos developed in stages from his studies of hen’s eggs in the fourth century B.C., he did not give any details about these stages. As far as it is known from the history of embryology, little was known about the staging and classification of human embryos until the twentieth century. For this reason, the descriptions of the human embryo in the Quran cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century. The only reasonable conclusion is: these descriptions were revealed to Muhammad from God. He could not have known such details because he was an illiterate man with absolutely no scientific training.”<a id="_ftnref10339" title=" This is the Truth (videotape). For a copy, see footnote no. 9." name="_ftnref10339" href="#_ftn10339"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[10]</span></span></a> (<a href="../../video/moore-2.ram" target="_blank">View the RealPlayer video of this comment</a>).</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10330" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10330" href="#_ftnref10330"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></span></a> <em>The Developing Human</em>, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 8.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10332" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10332" href="#_ftnref10332"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></span></a> <em>Human Development as Described in the Quran and Sunnah</em>, Moore and others, pp. 37-38.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10333" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10333" href="#_ftnref10333"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></span></a> <em>The Developing Human</em>, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 65.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10334" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10334" href="#_ftnref10334"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></span></a> <em>The Developing Human</em>, Moore and Persaud, 5th ed., p. 8.</p>
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<p><a id="_ftn10337" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn10337" href="#_ftnref10337"><span class="w-footnote-number"><span class="w-footnote-number">[8]</span></span></a> The reference for this saying is <em>This is the Truth</em> (videotape). For a copy of this videotape, please visit <a href="http://www.islam-guide.com/truth.htm" target="_blank">www.islam-guide.com/truth.htm</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Modern science has discovered facts about the atmosphere mentioned in The Quran (The Koran, Kuran) over 1400 years ago. “By the sky which returns.” (The Koran 86:11) “[He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling…” (The Koran 2:22) In the first verse God swears by the [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>“By the sky which <em>returns</em>.”</strong> (<strong>The Koran</strong> 86:11)</p>
<p><strong>“[He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a <em>ceiling</em>…”</strong> (<strong>The Koran</strong> 2:22)</p>
<p>In the first verse God swears by the sky<a id="_ftnref9988" title=" Al-Samaa’, the Arabic word translated here as ‘sky’ includes earth’s atmosphere as indicated by the verse 2:164." name="_ftnref9988" href="#_ftn9988"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></a> and its function of ‘returning’ without specifying what it ‘returns.’ In Islamic doctrine, a divine oath signifies the magnitude of importance of a special relation to the Creator, and manifests His majesty and the supreme Truth in a special way.</p>
<p>The second verse describes the Divine Act that made the sky a ‘ceiling’ for the dwellers of earth.</p>
<p>Let us see what modern atmospheric science has to say about the role and function of the sky.</p>
<p>The atmosphere is a word which denotes all the air surrounding the earth, from the ground all the way up to the edge from which space starts. The atmosphere is composed of several layers, each defined because of the various phenomena which occur within the layer.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Earth_s_Atmosphere_001.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="467" /><br />
<span style="color: #000000; font-size: xx-small;">This image shows the average temperature profile through the Earth’s atmosphere. Temperatures in the thermosphere are very sensitive to solar activity and can vary from 500Â°C to 1500Â°C. </span></p>
<p><span id="more-390"></span>Rain, for one, is ‘returned’ to Earth by the clouds in the atmosphere. Explaining the hydrologic cycle, Encyclopedia Britannica writes:</p>
<p>“Water evaporates from both the aquatic and terrestrial environments as it is heated by the Sun’s energy. The rates of evaporation and precipitation depend on solar energy, as do the patterns of circulation of moisture in the air and currents in the ocean. Evaporation exceeds precipitation over the oceans, and this water vapor is transported by the wind over land, where it returns to the land through precipitation.”<a id="_ftnref9989" title=" ”Biosphere.” Encyclopedia Britannica from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=70872)" name="_ftnref9989" href="#_ftn9989"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></a></p>
<p>Not only does the atmosphere return what was on the surface back to the surface, but it reflects back into space that which might damage the flora and fauna the earth sustains, such as excessive radiant heat. In the 1990’s, collaborations between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan resulted in the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Science Initiative. Polar, Wind and Geotail are a part of this initiative, combining resources and scientific communities to obtain coordinated, simultaneous investigations of the Sun-Earth space environment over an extended period of time. They have an excellent explanation of how the atmosphere returns solar heat to space.<a id="_ftnref9990" title=" (http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sweather1.htm)" name="_ftnref9990" href="#_ftn9990"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></a></p>
<p>Besides ‘returning’ rain, heat and radio waves, the atmosphere protects us like a ceiling above our heads by filtering out deadly cosmic rays, powerful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun, and even meteorites on collision course with Earth.<a id="_ftnref9991" title=" Atmospheric, Climate &amp; Environment Information Programme of the Manchester Metropolitan University at (http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Atmosphere/atmosphere.html)" name="_ftnref9991" href="#_ftn9991"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></a></p>
<p>Pennsylvania State Public Broadcasting tells us:</p>
<p>“The sunlight that we can see represents one group of wavelengths, visible light. Other wavelengths emitted by the sun include x-rays and ultraviolet radiation. X-rays and some ultraviolet light waves are absorbed high in Earth’s atmosphere. They heat the thin layer of gas there to very high temperatures. Ultraviolet light waves are the rays that can cause sunburn. Most ultraviolet light waves are absorbed by a thicker layer of gas closer to Earth called the ozone layer. By soaking up the deadly ultraviolet and x-rays, the atmosphere acts as a protective shield around the planet. Like a giant thermal blanket, the atmosphere also keeps temperatures from getting too hot or too cold. In addition, the atmosphere also protects us from constant bombardment by meteoroids, bits of rock and dust that travel at high speeds throughout the solar system. The falling stars we see at night are not stars at all; they are actually meteoroids burning up in our atmosphere due to the extreme heating they undergo.”<a id="_ftnref9992" title=" (http://www.witn.psu.edu/articles/article.phtml?article_id=255&amp;show_id=44)" name="_ftnref9992" href="#_ftn9992"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Earth_s_Atmosphere_002.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="243" /><br />
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is an image of Earth’s polar stratospheric clouds. These clouds are involved in the creation of Earth’s ozone hole. Source: Windows to the Universe, (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).</span></span></strong></p>
<p>Encyclopedia Britannica, describing the role of Stratosphere, tells us about its protective role in absorbing dangerous ultraviolet radiation:</p>
<p>“In the upper stratospheric regions, absorption of ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down oxygen molecules; recombination of oxygen atoms with O2 molecules into ozone (O3) creates the ozone layer, which shields the lower ecosphere from harmful short-wavelength radiation…More disturbing, however, is the discovery of a growing depletion of ozone over temperate latitudes, where a large percentage of the world’s population resides, since the ozone layer serves as a shield against ultraviolet radiation, which has been found to cause skin cancer.”<a id="_ftnref9993" title=" “Earth.” Encyclopedia Britannica from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=54196)" name="_ftnref9993" href="#_ftn9993"><span class="w-footnote-number">[6]</span></a></p>
<p>The mesosphere is the layer in which many meteors burn up while entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Imagine a baseball zipping along at 30,000 miles per hour. That’s how big and fast many meteors are. When they plow through the atmosphere, meteors are heated to more than 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, and they glow. A meteor compresses air in front of it. The air heats up, in turn heating the meteor.<a id="_ftnref9994" title=" (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/meteors-ez.html)" name="_ftnref9994" href="#_ftn9994"><span class="w-footnote-number">[7]</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: garamond;"><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Earth_s_Atmosphere_003.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="246" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is an image which shows the Earth and its atmosphere. The mesosphere would be the dark blue edge located on the far top of the image underneath the back. </span><em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Image courtesy of NASA)</span></em></p>
<p>Earth is surrounded by a magnetic force field &#8211; a bubble in space called “the magnetosphere” tens of thousands of miles wide. The magnetosphere acts as a shield that protects us from solar storms. However, according to new observations from NASA’s IMAGE spacecraft and the joint NASA/European Space Agency Cluster satellites, immense cracks sometimes develop in Earth’s magnetosphere and remain open for hours. This allows the solar wind to gush through and power stormy space weather. Fortunately, these cracks do not expose Earth’s surface to the solar wind. Our atmosphere protects us, even when our magnetic field does not.<a id="_ftnref9995" title=" (http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/magnetosphere.asp)" name="_ftnref9995" href="#_ftn9995"><span class="w-footnote-number">[8]</span></a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.the-koran.com/images/The_Earth_s_Atmosphere_004.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="236" /><br />
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">An artist’s rendition of NASA’s IMAGE satellite flying through a ‘crack’ in Earth’s magnetic field.</span></span></strong></p>
<p>How would it be possible for a fourteenth century desert dweller to describe the sky in a manner so precise that only recent scientific discoveries have confirmed it? The only way is if he received revelation from the Creator of the sky.</p>
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<div id="ftn1"><a id="_ftn9988" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9988" href="#_ftnref9988"><span class="w-footnote-number">[1]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">Al-Samaa’, the Arabic word translated here as ‘sky’ includes earth’s atmosphere as indicated by the verse 2:164.</span></div>
<div id="ftn2"><a id="_ftn9989" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9989" href="#_ftnref9989"><span class="w-footnote-number">[2]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">”Biosphere.” Encyclopedia Britannica from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service.</span> (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=70872)</div>
<div id="ftn3"><a id="_ftn9990" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9990" href="#_ftnref9990"><span class="w-footnote-number">[3]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">(http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sweather1.htm)</span></div>
<div id="ftn4"><a id="_ftn9991" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9991" href="#_ftnref9991"><span class="w-footnote-number">[4]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">Atmospheric, Climate &amp; Environment Information Programme of the Manchester Metropolitan University at (http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Atmosphere/atmosphere.html)</span></div>
<div id="ftn6"><a id="_ftn9992" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9992" href="#_ftnref9992"><span class="w-footnote-number">[5]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">(http://www.witn.psu.edu/articles/article.phtml?article_id=255&amp;show_id=44)</span><a id="_ftn9993" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9993" href="#_ftnref9993"><span class="w-footnote-number"> </span></a></div>
<div><a id="_ftn9993" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9993" href="#_ftnref9993"><span class="w-footnote-number">[6]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">“Earth.” Encyclopedia Britannica from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service.</span> (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=54196)</div>
<div id="ftn7"><a id="_ftn9994" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9994" href="#_ftnref9994"><span class="w-footnote-number">[7]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">(http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/meteors-ez.html)</span></div>
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<p><a id="_ftn9995" title="Back to the refrence of this footnote" name="_ftn9995" href="#_ftnref9995"><span class="w-footnote-number">[8]</span></a> <span class="w-footnote-textChar">(<a href="http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/magnetosphere.asp">http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/magnetosphere.asp</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is The Qur&#8217;an (Quran, The Koran, Kuran)?</span></p>
<p><img src="http://answering-christianity.com/quran/noble_quran_mss1.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">These are images of the original Noble Quran&#8217;s entire compilation and entire original Manuscripts!</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quran is a Divine Miracle of Literature [Prophesy - Science - Warnings - Wisdom - Truths]&#8230;and it has been Preserved 100% In the Original Language &#8211; for over 1,400 years!</span></span></p>
<p>Humanity has received Divine Guidance only through two channels:<br />
- The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Word</span> of Almighty God (&#8220;Allah&#8221; [in Arabic]) [scriptures, Bible, Psalms, etc.]<br />
- The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Prophets</span> sent by the Allah to communicate His Will to mankind</p>
<p>These two things have always been going together, hand in hand.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">More important though, there were at that time, tens of thousands of his companions (&#8220;sahabi&#8221; in Arabic) who memorized the complete Quran from the instruction of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Even the prophet himself (peace be upon him) used to recite it with angel Gabriel once a year and in the last year of his life he recited it two times just before the month in which he died.   <span id="more-30"></span></span></span></p>
<p><a name="more"></a>Next, the leader who came after the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) (Abu Bakr) entrusted the collection of the Quran to be written in one volume by one of the Prophet&#8217;s scribe, Zaid Ibn Thabit. He kept it till his death. Then the next leader, Umar and after him to his daughter, Hafsa who had been one of the wives of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).</p>
<p>Then from the original text which now resides in Topkope Museum, in Istanbul, Turkey, the next leader, Uthman prepared several other exact duplications and sent them to various Muslim territories such as; Uzbekistan and Turkey and other places. These scriptures are still in museums there and one has found its way to a museum in England as well. All of them are exactly the same. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Today many of the Muslims from these areas are still memorizing the Quran.</span></span></p>
<p>The Quran was so meticulously preserved because it is the Book of Guidance for all of humanity for all times. That is why it does not address just the Arabs, in whose language it was revealed. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">In fact Arabs today<br />
do not comprise more than 13% of the Today of Muslims in the world today.</span></span><br />
&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/21euddl.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><br />
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/soth.html" target="_blank">Codex San a DAM 01-27.1 – A Qur&#8217;anic Manuscript From Mid-1st Century Of Hijra.</a></p>
<p>Allah Almighty Said:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">&#8220;We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly Guard it (from corruption).</span><br />
(The Noble Quran, 15:9)&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">&#8220;It is upon Us to collect and compile it (i.e., the Quran) and to promulgate it:</span><br />
(The Noble Quran, 75:17)&#8221;<br />
&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quran speaks to &#8220;mankind&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Quran speaks to all of mankind on a general basis without regard to race, tribe, color, social position, financial condition or genealogy.</p>
<p>Allah the Almighty says:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">&#8220;O Mankind! What has seduced you from your Lord so Generous?&#8221;</span><br />
[Noble Quran 82:6]<br />
&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><img src="http://answering-christianity.com/quran/noble_quran_mss2.JPG" alt="" width="100%" /><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">These are images of the original Noble Quran&#8217;s entire compilation and entire original Manuscripts!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Practical Teachings of the The Koran / Quran</span></p>
<p>Teachings of Quran are established by the example of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the good Muslims throughout the ages have endeavored to emulate his teachings both in thought and conduct.</p>
<p>The distinctive approach of the Quran is that its instructions are aimed at the general welfare of the mankind and are based on the possibilities within his reach.<br />
&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quran is Wisdom Conclusive.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- It neither condemns nor tortures the flesh nor does it neglect the soul.<br />
- It does not humanize God, nor does it deify man.<br />
- Everything is carefully placed where it belongs in the total scheme of creation.</span></span></p>
<p>Yet it obviously is not written in human style (chronological order). Those who would claim that the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the author of the Quran are claiming something that is <span style="font-style: italic;">humanly impossible</span>.</p>
<p>How could any person of the 7th century utter such scientific truths as those found in the Quran?<br />
Could he describe the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">evolution of the embryo inside the uterus</span> </span>so accurately as we find it now recorded in modern science? [See: Dr. Keith Moore's book - on embryology]</p>
<p>Secondly, is it logical to believe that Muhammad (peace be upon him) who up to the age of forty was marked only for his honesty and integrity, began all of a sudden the authorship of a book matchless in literary merit and the equivalent of which the whole legion of the Arab poets and orators of the highest caliber could not produce?</p>
<p><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/2ztbtb4.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><br />
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/yem1a.html" target="_blank">Codex S?an a DAM 01-25.1 – A Qur&#8217;anic Manuscript From 1st Century Of Hijra </a></p>
<p>And lastly, is it justified to say that Muhammad (peace be upon him) who was known as &#8220;Al-Ameen&#8221; (trustworthy) in his society and who is still admired by the non-Muslim scholars for his honesty, would lie about receiving the Quran (which forbids lying) from the Angel Gabriel and then still be able to establish the best human society on the face of the earth, <span style="font-style: italic;">based on truth?</span></p>
<p>Surely, any sincere and unbiased searcher of truth must come to the conclusion that the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Quran is the revealed Book of Almighty Allah.</span></span></p>
<p>Readers can easily see how the modern world is coming closer to reality regarding the truth of the Quran. We appeal to all open minded scholars to study the Quran in the light of the aforementioned points. We invite all to challenge the validity and accuracy of the sciences known to man today and keep in mind that this is the EXACT TEXT used by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) over one thousand four hundred years ago.</p>
<p>We are sure that any such attempt will convince the reader that the Quran could never have been written by any human being ever.<br />
&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes:</span><br />
- Allah (SWT), is the same as God Almighty for the Christians. In the arabic Bible, they use Allah to represent God Almighty, the Christian arabs use it as well.<br />
- Information taken from <a class="postlink" href="http://www.allahsquran.com/" target="_blank">Allah&#8217;s Quran</a><br />
- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples Of The Qur&#8217;anic Manuscripts</span> taken from <a class="postlink" href="http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/" target="_blank">The Qur&#8217;anic Manuscripts</a></p>
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