27 Undeniable Miracles of Quran
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00:00Animals and birds live in communities.
00:08There is not an animal that lives on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but forms
00:13part of communities like you.
00:15Al-Qur'an, chapter 6, verse 38.
00:19Research has shown that animals and birds live in communities, i.e. they organize and
00:24live and work together.
00:27Being made in pairs.
00:30And of everything, we have created pairs.
00:32Al-Qur'an, chapter 51, verse 49.
00:36This refers to things other than humans, animals, plants, and fruits.
00:40It may also be referring to a phenomenon like electricity, in which the atoms consist of
00:44negatively and positively charged electrons and protons.
00:48Glory to Allah, who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as their
00:53own human kind and other things of which they have no knowledge.
00:57Al-Qur'an, chapter 36, verse 36.
01:01The Qur'an here states that everything is created in pairs, including things that the
01:06humans do not know at the present and may discover later.
01:10Lifestyle and communication of ants.
01:13Consider the following Qur'anic verse.
01:16And before Sulayman were marshaled his hosts of jinn and men and birds, and they were all
01:21kept in order and ranks.
01:23At length, when they came to a lowly valley of ants, one of the ants said, O ye ants,
01:29get into your habitations, lest Sulayman and his hosts crush you underfoot, without knowing
01:34it.
01:35Al-Qur'an, chapter 27, verses 17 and 18.
01:39In the past, some people would have probably mocked the Qur'an, taking it to be a fairytale
01:43book in which ants talk to each other and communicate sophisticated messages.
01:48In recent times, research has shown us several facts about the lifestyle of ants, which were
01:52not known earlier to mankind.
01:55Research has shown that the animals or insects whose lifestyle is closest in resemblance
01:59to the lifestyle of human beings are, in fact, the ants.
02:03This can be seen from the following findings regarding ants.
02:07a.
02:08The ants bury their dead in a manner similar to humans.
02:11b.
02:12They have a sophisticated system of division of labor, whereby they have managers, supervisors,
02:17foremen, workers, etc.
02:20c.
02:21Once in a while, they meet amongst themselves to have a chat.
02:25d.
02:26They have an advanced method of communication amongst themselves.
02:29e.
02:30They hold regular markets wherein they exchange goods.
02:34f.
02:35They store grains for long periods in winter, and if the grain begins to bud, they cut the
02:39roots, as if they understand that if they leave it to grow, it will rot.
02:43If the grains stored by them get wet due to rain, they take these grains out into the
02:47sunlight to dry, and once these grains are dry, they take them back inside, as though
02:52they know that humidity will cause development of root systems and thereafter rotting of
02:56the grain.
02:59Barrier between sweet and salt waters Consider the following Qur'anic verse.
03:04He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together.
03:09Between them is a barrier which they do not transgress.
03:11Al-Qur'an, Chapter 55, Verses 19 and 20.
03:16In the Arabic text, the word barzakh means a barrier or a partition.
03:20This barrier is not a physical partition.
03:23The Arabic word maraja literally means they both meet and mix with each other.
03:28Early commentators of the Qur'an were unable to explain the two opposite meanings for the
03:32two bodies of water, i.e. they meet and mix, and at the same time, there is a barrier between
03:37them.
03:39Modern science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there
03:42is a barrier between them.
03:44This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity,
03:49and density.
03:51Oceanologists are now in a better position to explain this verse.
03:54There is a slanted unseen water barrier between the two seas through which water from one
03:59sea passes to the other.
04:01But when the water from one sea enters the other sea, it loses its distinctive characteristic
04:07and becomes homogenized with the other water.
04:10In a way, this barrier serves as a transitional homogenizing area for the two waters.
04:15This scientific phenomenon mentioned in the Qur'an was also confirmed by Dr. William
04:19Hay who was a well-known marine scientist and professor of geological sciences at the
04:24University of Colorado.
04:26The Qur'an mentions this phenomenon also in the following verse.
04:30And made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water, Al-Qur'an 27.61.
04:38This phenomenon occurs in several places, including the divider between the Mediterranean
04:42and the Atlantic Ocean at Gibraltar.
04:46But when the Qur'an speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions
04:50the existence of a forbidding partition with the barrier.
04:54It is He who has let free the two bodies of flowing water, one palatable and sweet, and
04:59the other salty and bitter, yet He has made a barrier between them, and a partition that
05:04is forbidden to be passed, Al-Qur'an 25.53.
05:11Modern science has discovered that in estuaries where fresh, sweet, and salt water meet, the
05:16situation is somewhat different from that found in places where two seas meet.
05:20It has been discovered that what distinguishes fresh water from salt-watered estuaries is
05:25a pinocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers.
05:31This partition, or zone of separation, has salinity different from both the fresh water
05:36and the salt water.
05:37This phenomenon occurs in several places, including Egypt, where the River Nile flows
05:42into the Mediterranean Sea.
05:46The Presence of Interstellar Matter
05:51Space outside organized astronomical systems was earlier assumed to be a vacuum.
05:57Scientists later discovered the presence of bridges of matter in this interstellar space.
06:01These bridges of matter are called plasma, and consist of completely ionized gas containing
06:07equal number of free electrons and positive ions.
06:10Plasma is sometimes called the fourth state of matter, besides the three known states
06:14of solid, liquid, and gas.
06:16The Qur'an mentions the presence of this interstellar material in the following verse,
06:20He who created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between.
06:24Al-Qur'an 25, 59
06:28It would be ridiculous for anybody to even suggest that the presence of interstellar
06:32galactic material was known 1400 years ago.
06:42Fruits created in pairs, male and female.
06:46And fruit of every kind He made in pairs, two and two.
06:50Al-Qur'an 13, 3
06:53Fruit is the end product of reproduction of the superior plants.
06:58The stage preceding fruit is the flower, which has male and female organs, or stamens and ovules.
07:03Once pollen has been carried to the flower, they bear fruit, which in turn matures and
07:08frees its seed.
07:09All fruits therefore imply the existence of male and female organs, a fact that is mentioned
07:14in the Qur'an.
07:15In certain species, fruit can come from non-fertilized flowers, parthenocarpic fruit, like bananas,
07:22certain types of pineapple, fig, orange, vines, etc.
07:26They also have definite sexual characteristics.
07:32Blood Circulation and the Production of Milk
07:36Blood Circulation and the Production of Milk
07:38The Qur'an was revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafis described the
07:42circulation of blood, and 1000 years before William Harvey brought this understanding
07:46to the Western world.
07:48Roughly 13 centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs
07:52are nourished by the process of digestive absorption, a verse in the Qur'an described
07:57the source of the constituents of milk, in conformity with these notions.
08:01To understand the Qur'anic verse concerning the above concepts, it is important to know
08:05that chemical reactions occur in the intestines and that, from there, substances extracted
08:10from food pass into the bloodstream via a complex system, sometimes by way of the liver,
08:15depending on their chemical nature.
08:17The blood transports them to all organs of the body, among which are the milk-producing
08:21mammary glands.
08:22In simple terms, certain substances from the contents of the intestines enter into the
08:26vessels of the intestinal wall itself, and these substances are transported by the bloodstream
08:31to the various organs.
08:33This concept must be fully appreciated if we wish to understand the following verse
08:37in the Qur'an.
08:38And verily in cattle there is a lesson for you.
08:41We give you to drink of what is inside their bodies, coming from a conjunction between
08:45the contents of the intestine and the blood, a milk pure and pleasant for those who drink it.
08:50Al-Qur'an, chapter 16, verse 66.
08:53And in cattle, too, ye have an instructive example.
08:56From within their bodies we produce milk for you to drink.
08:59There are in them, besides, numerous other benefits for you, and of their meat you eat.
09:05Al-Qur'an, chapter 23, verse 21.
09:08The Qur'anic description of the production of milk in cattle is strikingly similar to
09:12what modern physiology has discovered.
09:16A few years ago, a group of Arabs collected all information concerning embryology from
09:20the Qur'an, and followed the instruction of the Qur'an which states,
09:24If you realize this not, ask of those who possess the message.
09:27Al-Qur'an, chapter 16, verse 43, and chapter 21, verse 7.
09:33All of the information from the Qur'an so gathered was translated into English and presented
09:37to Professor Keith Moore, who was a professor of embryology and chairman of the Department
09:41of Anatomy at the University of Toronto.
09:44At that time, he was one of the highest authorities in the field of embryology.
09:48He was asked to give his opinion regarding the information present in the Qur'an concerning
09:52the field of embryology.
09:54After carefully examining the translation of the Qur'anic verses presented to him,
09:57Dr. Moore said that most of the information concerning embryology mentioned in the Qur'an
10:01is in perfect conformity with modern discoveries in the field of embryology and does not conflict
10:06with them in any way.
10:08He added that there were, however, a few verses on whose scientific accuracy he could not
10:12comment.
10:13He could not say whether the statements were true or false, since he himself was not aware
10:17of the information contained therein.
10:20There was also no mention of this information in modern writings and studies on embryology.
10:24One such verse is,
10:25Proclaim, or read, in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, who created, created man out
10:30of a mere clot of congealed blood.
10:33Al-Qur'an 96, verses 1-2.
10:37The word alaq, besides meaning a congealed clot of blood, also means something that clings,
10:42or a leech-like substance.
10:43Dr. Keith Moore had no knowledge whether an embryo in the initial stages appears like
10:47a leech.
10:48To check this out, he studied the initial stage of the embryo under a very powerful
10:52microscope in his lab and compared what he observed with a diagram of a leech, and he
10:56was astonished at the striking resemblance between the two.
11:00In the same manner, he acquired more information on embryology that was hitherto not known
11:04to him from the Qur'an.
11:05Dr. Keith Moore answered about 80 questions dealing with embryological data mentioned
11:09in the Qur'an and Hadith.
11:11Noting that the information contained in the Qur'an and Hadith was in full agreement with
11:15the latest discoveries in the field of embryology, Professor Moore said,
11:18If I was asked these questions 30 years ago, I would not have been able to answer half
11:23of them for lack of scientific information.
11:25Dr. Keith Moore had earlier authored the book, The Developing Human.
11:29In acquiring new knowledge from the Qur'an, he wrote, in 1982, the third edition of the
11:34same book, The Developing Human.
11:37The book was the recipient of an award for the best medical book written by a single
11:40author.
11:41This book has been translated into several major languages of the world and is used as
11:45a textbook of embryology in the first year of medical studies.
11:49In 1981, during the 7th Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Moore said,
11:55It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about human
11:59development.
12:00It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God or Allah because
12:05almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later.
12:09This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah.
12:12Dr. Joe Lee Simpson, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Baylor
12:18College of Medicine in Houston, proclaims,
12:21These hadiths, sayings of Muhammad, peace be upon him, could not have been obtained
12:25on the basis of scientific knowledge that was available at the time of the writer.
12:29It follows that not only is there no conflict between genetics and religion, but in fact
12:34religion, Islam, may guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific
12:39approaches.
12:40There exist statements in the Qur'an shown centuries later to be valid which support
12:44knowledge in the Qur'an having been derived from God.
12:49You know, people used to worship the sun.
12:52People used to worship the moon.
12:54People used to worship the stars.
12:56I'll tell you something so cool.
12:58It's totally not related to this lecture.
13:00It's a complete tangent, but I have to tell you because it's that cool.
13:06About five years ago, they did an excavation of the city of Ur.
13:10The city is spelled Ur, ancient Babylonia, some parts of Iraq, outskirts of Iraq near
13:15Turkey somewhere.
13:17And they found a city buried about 50 feet under the ground, an ancient city.
13:24And their Bible scholars actually now agree, Jewish study scholars agree, that was the
13:29village of Abraham, Babylonia.
13:33And they found in that village thousands of idols.
13:37Thousands, small, big, action figure size, you know, regular size, two liter bottle size,
13:43and then like, you know, mega size, and then you have the super mega size, etc.
13:47All size of idols.
13:48Every household different idols.
13:51The Bible says they worshipped many idols.
13:55The Bible says what?
13:56They worshipped many idols.
13:57The Bible never says, he saw the sun, he saw the moon, he saw the star.
14:03He doesn't, he doesn't, the Bible doesn't say that.
14:05By the way, kawkab, kawkab in Arabic is actually Jupiter.
14:11So the Quran mentions that the Ibrahim alayhi salam pointed to the sun, he pointed to the
14:16moon, and he pointed to Jupiter.
14:18Okay?
14:20When they dug these idols, how many idols did they find, what did I say?
14:24Thousands.
14:25Thousands.
14:26But they only found three idols that were bigger than everybody else.
14:29There were three guys, three giant men, idols.
14:33One guy, his head was shaped like Starbucks, like the sun.
14:37One guy, his head was a crescent moon.
14:41And one guy was a planet with rings around it.
14:44Which is what?
14:45Jupiter.
14:46So they now think that the three main gods of that society were the sun god, and the
14:51moon god, and Jupiter.
14:54The Bible never said anything about this.
14:57What did?
14:58Quran did.
14:59The Quran, Ibrahim alayhi salam, instead of attacking all the idols, when he demonstrated
15:06the sun, the moon, and Jupiter, he went after the biggest ones.
15:10SubhanAllah.
15:11Anyway, that was the cool thing I wanted to share with you on the side.
15:15Consider the following Quranic verse, Verily we created man from a drop of mingled sperm.
15:20Al-Quran, chapter 76, verse 2.
15:23The Arabic word, nutfatin amshajin, means mingled liquids.
15:28According to some commentators of the Quran, mingled liquids refers to the male or female
15:33agents or liquids.
15:34After mixture of male and female gamete, the zygote still remained nutfa.
15:39Mingled liquids can also refer to spermatic fluid that is formed of various secretions
15:43that come from various glands.
15:45Therefore, nutfatin amshaj, i.e. a minute quantity of mingled liquids, refers to the
15:51male and female gametes, or germinal fluids or cells, as part of the surrounding fluids.
15:59Sex determination.
16:01The sex of a fetus is determined by the nature of the sperm and not the ovum.
16:05The sex of the child, whether male or female, depends on whether the 23rd pair of chromosomes
16:09is XX or XY, respectively.
16:13Primarily, sex determination occurs at fertilization and depends upon the type of sex chromosome
16:17in the sperm that fertilizes an ovum.
16:20If it is an X-bearing sperm that fertilizes the ovum, the fetus is a female, and if it
16:25is a Y-bearing sperm, then the fetus is a male.
16:28That he did create in pairs, male and female, from a seed when lodged in its place.
16:33Al-Quran, chapter 53, verses 45 and 46.
16:37The Arabic word, nutfah, means a minute quantity of liquid, and tumna means ejaculated or planted.
16:44Therefore, nutfah specifically refers to a sperm because it is ejaculated.
16:49The Quran says, was he not a drop of sperm emitted in lowly form?
16:54Then did he become a clinging clot?
16:56Then did Allah make and fashion him in due proportion?
16:59And of him he made two sexes, male and female.
17:02Al-Quran, chapter 75, verses 37 through 39.
17:07Here again, it is mentioned that a small quantity or drop of sperm, indicated by the
17:11word, which comes from man, is responsible for the sex of the fetus.
17:17Mothers-in-law in the Indian subcontinent, by and large, prefer having male grandchildren
17:21and often blame their daughters-in-law if the child is not of the desired sex.
17:25If only they knew that the determining factor is the nature of the male sperm and not the
17:29female ovum.
17:30If they were to blame anybody, they should blame their sons and not their daughters-in-law
17:34since both the Quran and science hold that it is the male fluid that is responsible for
17:38the sex of a child.
17:40We start with the earth.
17:41أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ مِهَادًا وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا
17:46The mountains on top of it as pegs.
17:49The earth, Quran describes, shifts.
17:52And the mountain puts it in place, holds it together.
17:57Now, the earth in Arabic is feminine and the mountain is masculine.
18:02And the earth also gives birth.
18:07That's why it's called مِهَادًا too.
18:08مَهَد is the cradle of a mother.
18:11And men are described as supporters of family and stability and تَمْكِين and سَكِينة
18:18etc. etc.
18:19Right?
18:20First, Allah describes that the earth and mountain are married.
18:25And immediately He says, men and women are married.
18:28وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا
18:30Isn't that beautiful?
18:32Let's stick with that first one.
18:34The earth and the mountain are paired together.
18:37Think of it visually.
18:38A huge patch of land and the most prominent thing is what?
18:45The mountains.
18:46If you go to the end of this passage, you see a huge sky.
18:50And the most prominent thing in that sky is what?
18:53The sun.
18:54So He starts with the large landscape and then the thing that sticks out.
19:00And He ends with the large skyscape and the one thing that sticks out.
19:04That's how the passage begins and ends.
19:06Pair and pair.
19:08The second thing He mentioned was that He created men and women in pairs.
19:12If we go in reverse, backwards, He mentions,
19:15وَجَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا وَجَعَلْنَا النَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا
19:19He made the night a garment, a covering.
19:23And He made the day a means of earning a living.
19:26And by the way, on the one hand, He said men and women.
19:30And on the other hand, He compared them to night and day.
19:33Which is truly amazing.
19:35Other places in the Qur'an, Allah will say,
19:38وَالَّيْلِ إِذَا يَوْشَىٰ
19:39The night.
19:40وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّى
19:42The day.
19:43وَمَا خَلَقَ الذَّكَرَ وَالأُنثَىٰ
19:46And how marvelously He created the male and the female.
19:49Darkness in the depths of the ocean.
19:52Professor Durga Rao is an expert in the field of marine geology
19:55and was a professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.
19:59He was asked to comment on the following verse.
20:02Or the unbeliever's state is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean.
20:06Overwhelmed with billow topped by billow topped by dark clouds.
20:11Depths of darkness, one above another.
20:13If a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it.
20:16For any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light.
20:19Al-Qur'an, chapter 24, verse 40.
20:23Professor Rao said that scientists have only now been able to confirm with the help of
20:27modern equipment that there is darkness in the depths of the ocean.
20:31Humans aren't able to dive unaided underwater for more than 20 to 30 meters and cannot survive
20:36in the deep oceanic regions at a depth of more than 200 meters.
20:40This verse does not refer to all seas because not every sea can be described as having accumulated
20:45darkness layered over one another.
20:47It refers especially to a deep sea or deep ocean.
20:51As the Qur'an says, darkness in a vast deep ocean.
20:55This layered darkness is a deep ocean is a result of two causes.
20:59Number one, a light ray is composed of seven colors.
21:03These seven colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violent or rojibif.
21:11The light ray undergoes refraction when it hits water.
21:14The upper 10 to 15 meters of water absorb the red color.
21:17Therefore, if a diver is 25 meters underwater and gets wounded, he would not be able to
21:22see the red color of his blood because the red color does not reach this depth.
21:26Similarly, orange rays are absorbed at 30 to 50 meters, yellow at 50 to 100 meters,
21:32green at 100 to 200 meters, and finally, blue beyond 200 meters and violent indigo above
21:39200 meters.
21:41Due to successive disappearance of color, one layer after another, the ocean progressively
21:46becomes darker, i.e., darkness takes place in layers of light.
21:50Below a depth of 1,000 meters, there is complete darkness.
21:54Number two, the sun's rays are absorbed by clouds, which in turn scatter light rays,
21:59thus causing a layer of darkness under the clouds.
22:03This is the first layer of darkness.
22:05When light rays reach the surface of the ocean, they are reflected by the wave surface, giving
22:09it a shiny appearance.
22:11Therefore, it is the waves which reflect light and cause darkness.
22:15The unreflected light penetrates into the depths of the ocean.
22:18Therefore, the ocean has two parts, the surface characterized by light and warmth and the
22:23depth characterized by darkness.
22:25The surface is further separated from the deep part of the ocean by waves.
22:30The internal waves cover the deep waters of seas and oceans because the deep waters have
22:34a higher density than the waters above them.
22:37The darkness begins below the internal waves.
22:40Even the fish in the depths of the ocean cannot see, their only source of light is from their
22:44own bodies.
22:46The Qur'an rightly mentions, darkness in a vast deep ocean overwhelmed with waves looped
22:52by waves.
22:53In other words, above these waves are more types of waves, i.e. those found on the surface
22:58of the ocean.
22:59The Qur'anic verse continues to say, topped by dark clouds, depths of darkness one above
23:05another.
23:06These clouds, as explained, are barriers one over the other that further causes darkness
23:11by absorption of colors at different levels.
23:13Professor Durga Rao concluded by saying, 1400 years ago a normal human being could
23:18not even explain this phenomenon in so much detail, thus the information must have come
23:23from a supernatural source.
23:27Mountains are like pegs.
23:29In geology, the phenomenon of folding is a recently discovered fact.
23:34Folding is responsible for the formation of mountain ranges.
23:37The earth's crust, on which we live, is like a solid shell, while the deeper layers are
23:42hot and fluid, and thus inhospitable to any form of life.
23:47It is also known that the stability of the mountains is linked to the phenomenon of folding,
23:51for it was the folds that were to provide the foundations for the reliefs that constitute
23:55the mountains.
23:57Geologists tell us that the radius of the earth is about 3,750 miles, and the crust
24:02on which we live is very thin, ranging between 1 and 30 miles.
24:07Since the crust is thin, it has a high possibility of shaking.
24:11Mountains act like stakes or tent pegs that hold the earth's crust and give it stability.
24:16The Qur'an contains exactly such a description in the following verse.
24:21Have we not made the earth as a wide expanse, and the mountains as pegs?
24:25Al-Qur'an, chapter 78, verses 6 and 7.
24:30The word awtaad means stakes or pegs, like those used to anchor a tent, and they are
24:36the deep foundations of geological folds.
24:39A book named Earth is considered as a basic reference textbook on geology in many universities
24:44around the world.
24:46One of the authors of this book is Frank Press, who was the president of the Academy of Sciences
24:51in the USA for 12 years and was a science advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
24:56In this book he illustrates the mountain in a wedge shape, and the mountain itself as
25:00a small part of the whole, whose root is deeply entrenched in the ground.
25:06According to Dr. Press, the mountains play an important role in stabilizing the crust
25:09of the earth.
25:11The Qur'an clearly mentions the function of the mountains in preventing the earth from
25:15shaking.
25:16And we have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them.
25:21Al-Qur'an, chapter 21, verse 31.
25:25The Qur'anic descriptions are perfect agreement with modern geological data.
25:34Mountains firmly fixed
25:36The surface of the earth is broken into many rigid plates that are about 100 km in thickness.
25:42These plates flow on a partially molten region called asthenosphere.
25:46Mountain formations occur at the boundary of the plates.
25:49The earth's crust is 5 km thick below oceans, about 35 km thick below flat continental surfaces,
25:56and almost 80 km thick below great mountain ranges.
26:00These are the strong foundations on which mountains stand.
26:04The Qur'an also speaks about the strong mountain foundations in the following verse.
26:09And the mountains hath he firmly fixed.
26:11Al-Qur'an, chapter 79, verse 32.
26:18Human beings created from nutfah, or minute quantity of liquid
26:23The glorious Qur'an mentions no less than 11 times that the human being is created from
26:27nutfah, which means a minute quantity of liquid or a trickle of liquid which remains after
26:32emptying a cup.
26:34This is mentioned in several verses of the Qur'an, including chapters 22, verse 5, and
26:39chapter 23, verse 13.
26:42Science has confirmed in recent times that only 1 out of an average of 3 million sperms
26:46is required for fertilizing the ovum.
26:49This means that only a 1 to 3 millionth part, or 0.00003% of the quantity of sperms that
26:56are emitted is required for fertilization.
27:01In 1925, an American astronomer by the name of Edwin Hubble provided observational evidence
27:06that all galaxies are receding from one another, which implies that the universe is expanding.
27:11The expansion of the universe is now an established scientific fact.
27:15This is what Al-Qur'an says regarding the nature of the universe.
27:19With the power and skill did we construct the firmament, for it is we who create the
27:23vastness of space.
27:24Al-Qur'an, 51, 47.
27:28The Arabic word موسعون is correctly translated as expanding it, and it refers to the creation
27:33of the expanding vastness of the universe.
27:36Stephen Hawking in his book A Brief History of Time says,
27:39The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions
27:43of the 20th century.
27:45The Qur'an mentioned the expansion of the universe before even man learned how to build
27:49a telescope.
27:51Honey has healing properties.
27:53The bee assimilates juices of various kinds of flowers and fruit and forms within its
27:58body the honey, which it stores in its cells of wax.
28:01Only a couple of centuries ago, man came to know that honey comes from the belly of the
28:05bee.
28:06This fact was mentioned in the Qur'an 1400 years ago in the following verse,
28:11There issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colors, wherein is healing for
28:15men.
28:16Al-Qur'an, chapter 16, verse 69.
28:20We are now aware that honey has a healing property and also a mild antiseptic property.
28:25The Russians used honey to cover their wounds in World War II.
28:28The wound would retain moisture and would leave very little scar tissue.
28:32Due to the density of honey, no fungus or bacteria would grow in the wound.
28:36A person suffering from an allergy of a particular plant may be given honey from that plant so
28:41that the person develops resistance to that allergy.
28:44Honey is rich in fructose and vitamin K. Thus the knowledge contained in the Qur'an regarding
28:49honey, its origin and properties was far ahead of the time it was revealed.
28:55Every living thing is made of water.
28:58Consider the following Qur'anic verse, Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens
29:02and the earth were joined together as one unit of creation before we clove them asunder?
29:07We made from water every living thing.
29:10Will they not then believe?
29:11Al-Qur'an, chapter 21, verse 30.
29:15Only after advances have been made in science do we now know that cytoplasm, the basic substance
29:20of the cell, is made up of 80% water.
29:23Modern research has also revealed that most organisms consist of 50-90% water and that
29:28every living entity requires water for its existence.
29:32Was it possible 14 centuries ago for any human being to guess that every living being was
29:36made of water?
29:38Moreover, would such a guess be conceivable by a human being in the deserts of Arabia
29:42where there has always been scarcity of water?
29:45The following verse refers to the creation of animals from water.
29:49And Allah has created every animal from water.
29:52Al-Qur'an, chapter 24, verse 45.
29:56The following verse refers to the creation of human beings from water.
30:00It is He who has created man from water.
30:03Then has He established relationships of lineage and marriage, for thy Lord has power over
30:08all things.
30:09Al-Qur'an, chapter 25, verse 54.
30:16Plants created in pairs, male and female.
30:19Previously humans did not know that plants too have male and female gender distinctions.
30:24Botany states that every plant has a male and female gender.
30:28Even the plants that are unisexual have distinct elements of both male and female.
30:33And He has sent down water from the sky, with it we have produced diverse pairs of plants,
30:38each separate from the others.
30:40Al-Qur'an, chapter 20, verse 53.
30:46Human beings created from sulala, or quintessence of liquid.
30:51And made His progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised.
30:55Al-Qur'an, chapter 32, verse 8.
30:58The Arabic word sulala means quintessence or the best part of a whole.
31:03We have come to know now that only one single spermatosome that penetrates the ovum is required
31:08for fertilization, out of the several millions produced by man.
31:12That one spermatosome out of several millions is referred in the Qur'an as sulala.
31:17Sulala also means gentle extraction from a fluid.
31:20The fluid refers to both male and female germinal fluids containing gametes.
31:25Both ovum and sperm are gently extracted from their environments in the process of fertilization.
31:32The bee.
31:35And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in men's habitations.
31:40Then to eat of all the produce of the earth, and find with skill the spacious paths of
31:44its Lord.
31:45Al-Qur'an, chapter 16, verses 68 through 69.
31:50Von Frisch received the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his research on the behavior and communication
31:55of bees.
31:57The bee, after discovering any new garden or flower, goes back and tells its fellow
32:01bees the exact direction and map to get there, which is known as bee dance.
32:06The meanings of this insect's movements that are intended to transmit information
32:09between worker bees have been discovered scientifically using photography and other methods.
32:14The Qur'an mentions in the above verse how the bee finds with skill the spacious paths
32:18of its Lord.
32:20The worker bee, or the soldier bee, is actually a female bee.
32:23In Surat al-Nahl, chapter 16, verses 68 through 69, the gender used for the bee is the female
32:29gender, fasluqi and quli, indicating that the bee that leaves its home for gathering
32:35food is a female bee.
32:37In other words, the soldier or worker bee is a female bee.
32:41In fact, in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, some of the characters speak about bees and
32:45mention that the bees are soldiers and that they have a king.
32:49That is what people thought in Shakespearean times.
32:51They thought that the worker bees are male bees and that they go home and are answerable
32:55to a king bee.
32:57This, however, is not true.
32:59The worker bees are females and they do not report to a king bee, but to a queen bee.
33:04But it took modern investigations in the last 300 years to discover this.
33:11Winds impregnate the clouds.
33:13And we send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith
33:18providing you with water in abundance.
33:21Al-Qur'an, chapter 15, verse 22.
33:25The Arabic word used here is lawaqih, which is the plural of laqih from laqaha, which
33:32means to impregnate or fecundate.
33:35In this context, impregnate means that the wind pushes the clouds together, increasing
33:39the condensation that causes lightning and thus rain.
33:43A similar description is found in the Qur'an.
33:46It is Allah who sends the winds, and they raise the clouds.
33:50Then does He spread them in the sky as He wills and break them into fragments, until
33:54thou seest raindrops issue from the midst thereof.
33:57Then when He has made them such of His servants as He wills, behold, they do rejoice.
34:02Al-Qur'an, chapter 30, verse 48.
34:06The Qur'anic descriptions are absolutely accurate and agree perfectly with modern data
34:11on hydrology.
34:12The sun will extinguish after a certain period.
34:15The light of the sun is due to a chemical process on its surface that has been taking
34:19place continuously for the past 5 billion years.
34:23It will come to an end at some point of time in the future when the sun will be totally
34:26extinguished, leading to the extinction of all life on earth.
34:31Regarding the impermanence of the sun's existence, the Qur'an says,
34:35And the sun runs its course for a period determined for it.
34:38That is the decree of Him, the Exalted in Might, the All-Knowing.
34:42Al-Qur'an, 36, 38.
34:45The Arabic word used here is mustaqar, which means a place of time that is determined.
34:51The mustaqar says that the sun runs towards a determined place and will do so only up
34:55to a predetermined period of time, meaning that it will end or extinguish.
35:03This is Iman Haggag recording Spider's Web or Home is Fragile.
35:08The Qur'an mentions in Surah Al-Ankabut,
35:11The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of the spider, who builds
35:16to itself a house.
35:18But truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider's house.
35:21If but they knew.
35:22Al-Qur'an, chapter 29, verse 41.
35:26Besides giving the physical description of the spider's web as being very flimsy, delicate
35:30and weak, the Qur'an also stresses on the flimsiness of the relationship in the spider's
35:34house, where the female spider many times kills its mate, the male spider.
35:39For a long time, European philosophers and scientists believed that the earth stood still
35:44in the center of the universe and every other body, including the sun, moved around it.
35:48In the West, this geocentric concept of the universe was prevalent right from the time
35:53of Ptolemy in the 2nd century BC.
35:56In 1512, Nicolaus Copernicus put forward his heliocentric theory of planetary motion, which
36:01asserted that the sun is motionless at the center of the solar system with the planets
36:05revolving around it.
36:07In 1609, the German scientist Johannes Kepler published the Astronomia Nova.
36:13In this piece, he concluded that not only do the planets move in elliptical orbits around
36:18the sun, they also rotate upon their axes at irregular speeds.
36:22With this knowledge, it became possible for European scientists to explain correctly many
36:26of the mechanisms of the solar system, including the sequence of night and day.
36:31After these discoveries, it was thought that the sun was stationary and did not rotate
36:35about its axis like the earth.
36:38I remember having studied this fallacy from geography books during my school days.
36:42Consider the following Qur'anic verse.
36:44It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon.
36:50All the celestial bodies swim along, each in its rounded course.
36:54Al-Qur'an 21.33
36:57The Arabic word used in the above verse is يصبحون.
37:02The word يصبحون is derived from the word صبح.
37:06It carries with it the idea of motion that comes from any moving body.
37:10If you use the word for a man on the ground, it would not mean that he is rolling, but
37:15would mean he is walking or running.
37:18If you use the word for a man in water, it would not mean that he is floating, but would
37:22mean that he is swimming.
37:24Similarly, if you use the word يصبح for a celestial body such as the sun, it would
37:29not mean that it is only flying through space, but would rather mean that it is also rotating
37:34as it goes through space.
37:36Most of the school textbooks have incorporated the fact that the sun rotates about its axis.
37:41The rotation of the sun about its own axis can be proved with the help of an equipment
37:45that projects the image of the sun on the tabletop so that one can examine the image
37:50of the sun without being blinded.
37:52It is noticed that the sun has spots which complete a circular motion once every 25 days,
37:58i.e. the sun takes approximately 25 days to rotate around its axis.
38:03In fact, the sun travels through space at roughly 150 miles per second and takes about
38:08200 million years to complete one revolution around the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
38:14It is not permitted to the sun to catch up to the moon, nor can the night outstrip the
38:19day.
38:20Each just swims along in its own orbit, according to law.
38:24Al-Qur'an 3640
38:27The above verse mentions an essential fact discovered by modern astronomy, i.e. the existence
38:32of the individual orbits of the sun and the moon and their journey through space with
38:36their own motion.
38:38The fixed place towards which the sun travels, carrying with it the solar system, has been
38:43located exactly by modern astronomy.
38:46It has been given a name, the solar apex.
38:49The solar system is indeed moving in space towards a point situated in the constellation
38:53of Hercules, the alpha layer, whose exact location is firmly established.
38:58The moon rotates around its axis in the same duration that it takes to revolve around the
39:03Earth.
39:04It takes approximately 29.5 days to complete one rotation.
39:08One cannot help but be amazed at the scientific accuracy of the Qur'an.
39:15The existence of subatomic particles
39:18In ancient times, a well-known theory by the name of theory of atomism was widely accepted.
39:24This theory was originally proposed by the Greeks, in particular a man named Democritus,
39:28who lived about 23 centuries ago.
39:31Democritus and the people that came after him assumed that the smallest unit of matter
39:35was the atom.
39:36The Arabs used to believe the same.
39:38The Arabic word dharrah is most commonly meant an atom.
39:43In recent times, modern science has discovered that it is possible to split even an atom.
39:48That the atom can be split further is a development of the 20th century.
39:52Fourteen centuries ago, this concept would have appeared unusual even to an Arab.
39:57For him, the dharrah was the limit beyond one could not go.
40:01The following Qur'anic verse, however, refuses to acknowledge this limit.
40:05The unbelievers say,
40:07Never to us will come the hour, say, Nay, but most surely by my Lord it will come upon
40:13you by him who knows the unseen, from whom is not hidden the least little atom in the
40:18heavens or on earth, nor is there anything less than that or greater, but is in the record
40:24perspicuous.
40:26Al-Qur'an, chapter 34, verse 3.
40:30This verse refers to the omniscience of God, his knowledge of all things, hidden or apparent.
40:36It then goes further and says that God is aware of everything, including what is smaller
40:40or bigger than the atom.
40:42Thus the verse clearly shows that it is possible for something smaller than the atom to exist,
40:47a fact only discovered recently by modern science.
40:54The flight of the birds.
40:56Regarding the flight of birds, the Qur'an says,
40:58Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of the air and the sky?
41:02Nothing holds them up but the power of Allah.
41:05Verily in this are signs for those who believe.
41:07Al-Qur'an, chapter 16, verse 79.
41:11A similar message is repeated in the Qur'an in the verse,
41:14Do they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in?
41:18None can uphold them except Allah, Most Gracious.
41:21Truly it is He that watches over all things.
41:24Al-Qur'an, chapter 67, verse 19.
41:28The Arabic word amsaka literally means to put one's hand on, seize, hold, hold someone
41:35back, which expresses the idea that Allah holds the bird up in his power.
41:40These verses stress the extremely close dependence of the bird's behavior on divine order.
41:46Modern scientific data has shown the degree of perfection attained by certain species
41:50of birds with regard to the programming of their movements.
41:53It is only the existence of a migratory program in the genetic code of the birds that can
41:57explain the long and complicated journey that very young birds without any prior experience
42:03and without any guide are able to accomplish.
42:06They are also able to return to the departure point on a definite date.
42:10Professor Hamburger in his book Power and Fragility gives the example of a mutton bird
42:15that lives in the Pacific with its journey of over 15,000 miles in the shape of a figure
42:208.
42:21It makes this journey over a period of six months and comes back to its departure point
42:25with a maximum delay of one week.
42:28The highly complicated instructions for such a journey have to be contained in the bird's
42:32nervous cells.
42:33They are definitely programmed.
42:35Should we not reflect on the identity of this programmer?