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Worship none but God: Treat with kindness Your parents and children, And orphans and those in need; Speak kindly to mankind; Be steadfast in prayer; And practise regular charity. (Qurn 2; 83)
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I apply myself to our Almighty Creator, against the accursed Satan, and I begin this writing in the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. Only with Your kind permission, O Lord Almighty, can this research, ultimately, be revealed. We thank You, O Lord, for this generous permission, and we beg You for Your mercy and forgiveness, should this research cause any person, in the process, any grievance, or wilfully harm them in any way, because truly, O Almighty Lord, the real purpose, according to Your Word, is to educate, in the example of Your Messengers (may God bless them), as guidance, and with all due respect to the qualified experts, to whom I am so truly grateful for their generous help and encouragement. I want to thank our Creator, for the health and endurance which was required, in order to finish this massive task, successfully. My task is definitely not to seek confrontation or converts to my faith, but rather to open the eyes of certain individuals about the wrong indoctrination, into which they have been brainwashed and to show them the true way to divine peace and satisfaction as God Almighty properly appropriated for all of us. We grow up with various habits, and may ultimately not be able to differentiate between true faith and blind superstition or cultural customs. My research has, indeed, shown me the difference between superstition, cults and divine religion, and sometimes we conservatively cling to certain uses and abuses, which, unfortunately, are not always beneficial to us. Just like I was firstly disillusioned, the reader of this script may also be disillusioned about certain uses, practices and customs, which we have accepted and adopted, over so many years. The purpose of my writing, therefore, is not to raise criticism about any faith, but only to distinguish between certain accepted uses, which we find in any society, and on the other hand, true faith. Remember it is better to query and to seek the truth, than to accept without question. Even the great prophets of old, such as Abraham, also queried until they arrived at the truth, according to the Scriptures. We, who inherited the Final Testament, are, consequently, duty bound to inform our friends, neighbours and family members, who lack the knowledge about the Final Testament and of the true state of affairs. It is a duty which we accept every time we state our declaration of faith, because we bear true testimony to the Oneness of God. In many places of our Holy Scriptures, the word Say is oft-repeated, but we always fear to utter the truth or perhaps, we are, either, not fully enlightened or we are scared to speak the truth. Yet the Creator of the universe explains that mankind is only one nation. How will our friends from other faiths and denominations ever gain proper knowledge of the wise words of our Scriptures, or the sayings of the Prophet (S), unless we, who are supposed to be knowledgeable, reveal such facts and wisdom to them. Subsequently, it remains our abundant duty to disclose certain true facts to the people. In our Holy Scriptures, Chapter 10, verse 19, God mentions the following: Mankind was but one nation, but differed later. Had it not been for a Word from your Lord, which preceded it their differences could have been solved amongst them.
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The tolerance that a certain Muslim religious leader showed in the past, during some credible conversations, was indeed a lesson to me. The goodwill, which he showed to church ministers, was always exemplary. It is unfortunate that any series of discussions with certain church leaders always reached an impasse. One could hardly blame the opposite party, because their income and status were at stake. Tangible benefits are always more appealing to some, because, after all, material benefits are often more important to human-beings. In 1969, a minister of an Anglican Church in Paarl East, after a very fruitful discussion, told me that my faith was something special, but he could not mention this to his congregational members, because he might, as a result, forfeit his employment. This kind of reasoning causes some church members to turn their backs on their own faith and to seek greener pastures elsewhere. Unfortunately, they sometimes end up in the company of cults such as Satanism, and ultimately turn their backs on true faith. A dear friend of mine, who, subsequently, passed away, visited me regularly, in Stellenbosch, to discuss poetry, and he also claimed that Islam was something special, but unfortunately he was too old (at 84), to changed his faith. The wise reply of a certain Muslim leader, when we addressed a Christian group at the Paarl Museum, one night in 1995, and when he was asked, whether Muslims also did missionary work, was that Muslims do missionary work, when we are invited, as in this particular case, where we were invited by a group of Christian ladies from Wellington. His words were: We do not knock on doors to spread our faith. The everyday life of a Muslim should serve as an example to spread our faith. Christianity is a missionary religion, while Jews do no missionary work. In Matthew 6, verses 5-6, the following words of Jesus are noted in the New Testament: And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. (I make use of the Revised Standard Version, 1971, of the Holy Bible, throughout my work). The famous work of Rev. Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, (S W Partridge Publishers), printed by The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton, fourth edition 1989, held me captivated, because in there I, actually, discovered certain facts, which matched with many of my other reference books. When I studied the book Diaboliese Sameswering (Diabolical Conspiracy) by Pastor Bennie Kleynhans, I was definitely amazed that so many of my reference work on Babylon, in the second chapter of his book, were reproduced. His criticism is unfortunately not consistent according to Matthew 7: verses 1-5: Judge not, lest ye be judged. Because with the judgment that you pronounce, ye will be judged: and the measure you give, will be the measure you get. And why do you see the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
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In the interesting book Islam to the Modern Mind by the late Professor Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari, we read on p. 227-232: With regard to the concept of evolution, the Holy Quran is the first book in known history that has brought out the concept of evolution and affirmed it in different dimensions of existence. According to the Quran, the human being is evolutionary; life on earthwhether plant or animalis evolutionary, and the entire universe itself is evolutionary. One of the excellent names of Allah (swt) is Rabb. According to the commentators of the Holy Qurn, for example Imm Rghib al-Isfahni, it is defined as: One who leads a thing by maintaining and nourishing it from one stage of growth to another and leads it to its goal.
The theory of evolution was worked out long before Darwin. Ibn Miskawayh, for example, wrote the book Kitb al-hayawn (The Book on Animal life), wherein he developed the theory of evolution scientifically. He was inspired by the Qurn and collected all the data and formulated the scientific theory. This book was translated into Latin and was taught in Latin for centuries. If one compares Ibn Miskawayhs book with that of Darwins Origin of Species, there are numerous passages which are literal translations of the book of Ibn Miskawayh. Darwin, like many other Western scholars, does not acknowledge this indebtedness to the Muslim scholars.
Darwins theory, the basis of which is the principle of the natural selection, transmutation of species, and the survival of the fittest, however, contains elements of subjective bias in it. At the time when Darwin appeared, great conflict arose between the leaders of the Church and the leaders of enlightenment. The leaders of Enlightenment who acquired their Muslim education in science, mathematics, etc, were burnt at the stake or cast into prisons and killed.
Consequently, antagonism developed between the church and the leaders of the Enlightenment. Finally, the Church could not suppress them, and their cause was taken up by
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He started with the theory of the amoeba, the unitary cell, and said that through fission, the cell multiplies, (this is a fact in biology) and turns itself into more complex organisms. Then he formulated the principles of mutation, and said that life on earth has emerged from simpler forms, starting from the amoeba with man at the apex, the mutation of the ape. It is here where people feel insulted.
Akbar Ilhabdhi reported: Mansur said, I am god and Darwin replied, I am an ape, and my friend said that everybody thinks according to his calibre or level of comprehension. Let me speak on the basis of scientific knowledge itself.
If Allah (swt) planned it in the manner that different species on this earth should come into existence in the way Darwin said, there is no harm. After all, the human body before it comes into the world is an embryo that takes on different forms. It is ugly, like a lizard, and it continues to transform form until it becomes a normal human baby. Every human being changes their forms like that then there is no insult here. Therefore, we should not take it from that point of view.
From the scientific point of view, the Darwinian theory of evolution is not the only theory. There are the vitalists, the fundamentalists, the creative evolutionists and the telefinalists. So, Darwins school of thought is not the only one. The people of the west tried to cling to it because of the atheistic content. Another reason to cling to the theory is that the main trend of the West has been to develop the materialistic outlook. There has been a tendency to support atheism emotionally because of Western antagonism against the church.
In the West, other theories have emerged. The great biologist, Gabius Haldane and others, who are alive, challenged Darwins theory outright. The modern scientist say: If we establish mutations in our experiments, we always find that mutations are harmful to the organisms (i.e. for it to develop through mutations.) On this basis that mutations that mutations are harmful to organisms could have evolved in nature? So, to them this principle is inconceivable and consequently, the theory of Darwin falls to the ground.
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There is a unitary tree of life, and as conditions evolved for the emergence of certain species, that species evolved as branches on the stem of that tree. There is no mutation. It is not that one branch changes into another each is an independent branch. Human beings came into existence as conditions on the earth evolved and matured, to an extent that the highest being, man, could emerge and come into existence and stay here.
Accordinhg to the Holy Qurn, the basis of existence of all animal life is one whether that animal is an amoeba, ape, cat or human being. The Holy Qurn says: I have created every animate thing from water. (Q. 21:30)
About the human species, the Qurn says: Allah has caused you to grow out of the earth as plants grow. (Q. 71:17)
Nabta, this spacio human personality has emerged from the earth, and this is also what Darwin and all the other evolutionists say. The Qurn says that the first man appeared from black stinking mud: Verily, I have created man from black (stinking) mud. (Q.15:26)
This is exactly what modern scientists say. Black mud is to be found on the shores of the sea, and the shore of that sea is probably that shore where figuratively or literally is the grave of of our grandmother Eve in Jeddah.
Regarding the human personality, here Islam differs from Darwinists and other evolutionists. According to modern scientists, they proclaim that they do not know what soul is, talk only in terms of the body. According to Islam, all human beings were created at the dawn of creation. Created in what form? He, Allah, created them in the form of al-rh the essential personality or the essential being. The Holy Qurn tells us:
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This essential being (personality) has been alive for billions of years and has passed through different stages of existence in its unfolding.
It comes into this world penetrates the soil, gathers around it a nucleas of all those earthly materials in the form of fundamental particles wherewith its body is to be built up. Then it starts manifesting itself.
Thus, it grows out of the earth, although it was created in Jannah (Heaven). Here the problem is resolved in this manner. Therefore, it can be clearly conceived that Adam (as) and Hawa (Eve as) were created in Jannah (Heaven), but were born on the earth. Recall the verse: O mankind, be careful of your duty to Allah in respect of your dealings with one another, who created you from a single entity. (Q. 4: 11)
This nafs-whida (one soul), is a conscious integrated entity which is the first unitary cell which came into being unitary cell of the human constitution. This unitary cell multiplied through fission, and when it divided, it became two cells. The one cellis always larger than the other as biologists know. The larger cell became Adam and the smaller cell became Eve. And created out of itself, its pair. (Q. 4:1)
This is possible if we consider the fission of cells. And then the male cell became a male baby and the female cell a female baby under the care of the angels of Allah (swt), in a grove which was like the womb of the mother.
In this manner, the concept of evolution is an established fact in the light of the Qurn. Darwins theory is unacceptable both on scientific and Islamic grounds. The only theory in modern science which can be acceptable in the light of the Qurn and hadth is the
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It is, therefore, only right that a celebrated an international writer, Harun Yahya published a book called The Evolution Deceit in 1997, to prove that Darwins theory of Evolution was wrong and an absolute farce, according to all scientific theories.
The Theory of Divine Creation Unlike scientific theories, each Scripture proclaims, without exception, that humanity, as well as plant life or animal life, was created by God. According to Genesis 1, verses 27-28, the first man was Adam (A) and Eve was the first woman. There were at that stage no laws, which forbid siblings to marry, so all indications are that the first descendants came from the sons and daughters of Adam (A) and Eve. In an Afrikaans book Wat s die Bybel (What does the Bible Say), Prof. Dr. H S Pienaar, in response to a question: "Who did Adam and Eve's children marry? answers: "The only scriptural answer is, with their own brothers and sisters, and later with the children of their brothers and sisters, because there were no other people besides Adam and Eve and their offspring. In Acts 17:26 we clearly read: God made all nations from the blood of men. Pienaar continues: "To this must be added that even in Abraham's days, the marriage between brother and sister was still not banned but only later in the Mosaic Law as the teachings of the Bible accepted that Adam and Eve were the only people whom God created. When men became evil, God destroyed them with the flood of 2370, prior to the Christian era, according to Genesis 7, verses 1-24, except Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives. The three basic races of mankind evolved from the three sons of Noah, according to page 166, Volume 1 of Tafrihul Askia Fil Ahwal Ul Ambia. The three sons were Sam, Japheth and Ham. Sam was light in colour, with light hair and light eyes. Japheth was yellow skinned with narrow eyes and dark hair. Ham was dark brown with woolly hair. Noah, a descendant of Adam, is subsequently the ancestor of the human race, after the flooding of the earth took place. While there is positive evidence for the origin of mankind in the Holy Scriptures, we find the following dubious assertion on page 168 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, published by Collier, New York, in 1962: As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? I will here only state that I BELIEVE the answer mainly lies in the record being incomparably less perfect than is
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Horus and Marduk Semiramis (or Ishtar or Astarte) and Nimrod owe their depth and complexity of knowledge, in such a short time, to the two angels, Harut (Horus) and Marut (Marduk or Merodach). According to legend, these two angels were hanged in an underground pit at Babylon, this is why their magical influence was so strong at that time. It was irresistible, and its effect, is still being experienced. The ceremony of baptism with water in the name of the Trinity has its roots in Nimrodism. The children or the descendants of such persons, who were baptised by Nimrodism, would automatically, from generation to generation, honour Nimrod's teachings and serve him as the begotten son of God, born of the great virgin mother. Despite all their efforts, people find it still extremely difficult to rid themselves of the foolish, wicked and blasphemous religion of Nimrod. If they are baptised in his name, they are so strongly influenced, even after more than four thousand years, that they feel helpless to rid themselves of it. Therefore, if they are under that influence, they naturally refuse to hear the truth. It is quite clear to us, as outsiders, to observe that those, who are under its charm, are completely blinded. They are totally dominated and hampered in their way of thinking. It does not help to only blame the Catholics for the belief. The millions of Gentiles, who came under the influence of Nimrod's faith, took that faith with them throughout the world, since God Almighty split the unity of humankind at the Tower of Babel and they spread them all over the earth. We read in Genesis 11, verse 1-9: "Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and settled there. And they said to one another,: Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said: Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole world. Then the LORD came down (symbolically) to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language! And this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that may not understand one anothers speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all
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Festivals Associated with Nimrod and Semiramis 1. 1. The celebration of the only begotten divine son born of a virgin mother on December 25, as previously explained with the "Magical Well of Perpetual Adoration and Life" in an earlier chapter.
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The Role of Emperor Constantine On pages 202-205 of The Two Babylons by Rev. Hislop it is reported, among others that Constantine the Great (in a dream) saw a flaming cross in the heavens under the "sun" (his sun god) with the words "In hoc signo vinces" (i.e. "With this sign you will triumph). This was before the Council of Necea. This occurred" during his campaign against his rival, Maxentius, in 312 AD, whom he ultimately defeated. Then Constantine had unlimited faith in
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Prince Ishmael ... The Firstborn of Prophet Abraham After the encounter with the angel Hagar returned home to Abraham. Sarah who had no children of her own, was delighted with the news that Hagar expected a boy. The Holy Qur'an also refers briefly to this news in Surah 37, 101: "So we gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear."
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The Family is quite possibly the most famous cult of all time. Developing during the last years of the hippie culture, The Family and their charismatic, yet psychotic leader Charles Manson, leapt to fame with a series of brutal murders set to aid in bringing about the end of the world, a time he called Helter Skelter. According to Charles Manson, a racial war would result in the end of civilisation and The Family would rise from the ashes to lead the
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Ralians The Ralian Church is based around the claims of Claude Vorilhon, now known as Ral, who said that one day, while driving to work, he was suddenly compelled to go for a nearby volcano where he met a member of the alien species, which created humankind. Ral claims that the aliens told him there was no God or soul and that everything in the world was physical. Based on this, the cult believes that some day they will be able to clone themselves and pass their mental states onto the newborn copy of themselves. With this in mind, the cult formed the company Clonaid, which claimed in 2002 that an American woman had undergone cloning and that the new child was called Eve. No proof was ever offered up and the scientific community largely rejects these claims. While Ralians do believe in a freer sexual society the interaction between children and adults is strictly prohibited. As mentioned before sexual freedom plays a major role in many of these cults, as a special attractions.
The Nation of Yahweh The sect of supposedly black Hebrew Israelites, the Nation of Yahweh, claimed that they were Gods real chosen race and preached a radical form of Christianity. At its height, the United Statesbased cult controlled a R64-million empire of properties, including a Miami headquarters known as the Temple of Love and temples in 22 states. Its leader, Hulon Mitchell Jr (or Yahweh Ben Yahweh as he later called himself), ordered the slayings of cult defectors to keep others in line, as well as the random murders of white people as part of an initation to a secret brotherhood within the cult.
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The Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyah This event occurred in Dhu'l Qi'dah 6 AH, because the Prophet (S) and his companions decided to visit Makkah for an Umra (minor pilgrimage). He saw in a dream that they could peacefully go on such a journey. For six years they were withheld from attending the sacred House of Allah. At a place called Dhu'l-Hulayfah, they donned the ihraam (pilgrims dress), to show their intent and that their visit was innocent. They were about fifteen hundred in number, without arms, except their sheathed swords. When the travellers reached Hudaybiyah, a place between Makkah and Jeddah, they were stopped and had to declare the purpose of their journey. The Prophet (S) informed them of their divine purpose. After much negotiation, it was finally agreed that the Muslims could travel to Makkah as from the following year for their sacred visit. There was also agreed on a peace treaty for the next ten years. They had to remove their ihraam and to return to Medina. While some saw this as a humiliation for the Prophet (S), it was actually a victory, because it ended in an agreement, without any bloodshed. The Battle of Hunayn
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What is Islam? I could quote so many books in connection with the topic, but I have wisely chosen the second edition of the author, I.A.Ibrahims: A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, which I personally regard as excellent material for my special study of the Origin. With kind permission of the author and the publishers Darussalaam, Houston, Texas, USA, I am quoting from Chapter 3: General Information on Islam, from page 45 onwards: The religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which is revealed to His last prophet. Some Basic Islamic Beliefs 1) Belief in God:
Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes(to be revealed in the final chapter). No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself: (Say: He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.] (Quran, 112:1-4) No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but
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God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all His affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (S), we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.
God is not Jesus and Jesus is not God. Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran:
[Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said: God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary. The Messiah said: Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers, there will be no helpers.] (Quran, 5:72)
God is not a trinity. God has said in the Quran: [Indeed, they disbelieve who say: God is the third of three (in a trinity), when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger] (Quran, 5:73-75)
Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does He sleep.
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2) Belief in Angels:
Muslims believe in the existence of the angels and that they are honored creatures. The angels worship God alone, obey Him, and act only by His command. Among the angels is Gabriel, who brought down the Quran to Mohammad (S).
Muslims believe that God revealed books to His messengers as proof for mankind and as guidance for them. Among these books is the Quran, which God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (S). God has guaranteed the Qurans protection from any corruption or distortion. God has said:
[Indeed, We have sent down the Quran, and surely We will guard it (from corruption).] (Quran, 15;9)
Muslims believe in the prophets and messengers of God, starting with Adam, including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them). But Gods final message to man, a reconfirmation of the eternal message, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (S). Muslims believe that Muhammad (S) is the last prophet sent by God, as God had said:
[Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men, but he is the Messenger of God and the last of the prophets] (Quran, 33:40)
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Muslims believe that all the prophets and messengers were created human beings who had none of the divine qualities of God.
Muslims believe in the Day of Judgment (the Day of Resurrection) when all people will be resurrected for Gods judgment according to their beliefs and deeds.
6. Belief in Al-Qadar:
Muslims believe in Al-Qadar, which is Divine Predestination, but this belief in Divine Predestination does not mean that human beings do not have free will. Rather, Muslims believe that they can choose right or wrong and that they are responsible for their choices.
The belief in Divine Predestination includes belief in four things: 1) God knows everything. He knows what has happened and what will happen. 2) God has recorded all that has happened and all that will happen. 3) Whatever God wills to happen happens, and whatever He wills not to happen does not happen. 4) God is the Creator of everything.
Yes . The sunnah (what the Prophet Muhammad (S) said, did, or approved of) is the second source in Islam. The sunnah is comprised of hadeeths, which are reliably transmitted reports by the Prophet Muhammads (S) companions of what he said, did, or approved of. Belief in the sunnah is a basic Islamic belief.
*{The believers, in their love, mercy, and kindness to one another are like a body: if any
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On page 50 of his book, I.A.Ibrahim, comments about What does Islam say about the Day of Judgment? as follows:
Like Christians, Muslims believe that the present life is only a trial preparation for the next realm of existence. This life is a test for each individual for the life after death. A day will come when the whole universe will be destroyed and the dead will be resurrected for judgment by God. This day will be the beginning of a life that will never end. This day is the Day of Judgment. On that day, all people will be rewarded by God according to their beliefs and deeds. Those who die while believing that There is no true god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of God and are Muslim will be rewarded on that day and will be admitted to Paradise forever, as God has said:
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But those who die while not believing that There no true god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of God or are not Muslim will lose Paradise forever and will be sent to Hellfire, as God had said:
[And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him and he will be one of the losers in the Hereafter.] (Quran, 3:85)
[Those who have disbelieved and died in disbelief, the earth full of gold would not be accepted from any of them if it were offered as a ransom. They will have a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers.] (Quran, 3:91)
On page 54 the author, A.I.Ibrahim discusses What the Quran is about, as follows:
The Quran, the last revealed word of God, is the primary source of every Muslims faith and practice. It deals with all the subjects which concern human beings: wisdom, doctrine, worship, transactions, law, etc., but its basic theme is the relationship between God and His creatures. At the same time, it provides guidelines and detailed teachings for a just society, proper human conduct, and an equitable economic system.
Note that the Quran was revealed to Muhammad (S) in Arabic only. So, any Quranic translation, either in English or any other language, is neither a Quran, nor a version of the Quran, but rather it is only a translation of the meaning of the Quran. The Quran exists only in the Arabic in which it was revealed.
Muhammad (S) was born in Makkah in the year 570. Since his father died before his birth and his mother died shortly thereafter, he was raised by his uncle who was from the
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At the age of forty, Mohammad (S) received his first revelation from God through the Angel Gabriel. The revelations continued for twenty-three years, and they are collectively known as the Quran.
As soon as he began to recite the Quran and to preach the truth which God had revealed to him, he and his small group of followers suffered persecution from unbelievers. The persecution grew so fierce that in the year 622 God gave them the command to emigrate. This emigration from Makkah to the city of Madinah, some 260 miles to the north, marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.
After several years, Muhammad (S) and his followers were able to return to Makkah, where they forgave their enemies. Before Muhammad (S) died, at the age of sixty-three, the greater part of the Arabian Peninsula had become Muslim, and within a century of his death, Islam spread to Spain in the West and as far as East as China. Among the reasons for the rapid and peaceful spread of Islam was the truth and clarity of its doctrine. Islam calls for faith in one God, Who is the only one worthy of worship.
The Prophet Muhammad (S) was a perfect example of an honest, just, merciful, compassionate, truthful, and brave human being. Though he was a man, he was far removed from all evil characteristics and strove solely for the sake of God and His reward in the Hereafter. Moreover, in all his actions and dealings, he was ever mindful and fearful of God.
Islam instructs man to use his powers of intelligence and observation. Within a few years of the spread of Islam, great civilizations and universities were flourishing. The synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas, and of new thought with old, brought about great advances in medicine, mathematics, physics, astronomy, geography, architecture, art, literature, and history. Many crucial systems, such as algebra, the Arabic numerals, and the concept of the zero (vital to the advancement of mathematics), were transmitted to medieval Europe from the Muslim world. Sophisticated instruments which were to make possible the European
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When it comes to the Quran and science then I have to rely on the I.A.Ibrahims chapter on Some Evidence for the Truth of Islam, which I recommend as excellent reading matter, with the following statement:
God has supported His last Prophet Muhammad (S) with many miracles and much evidence which proves that he is a true Prophet sent by God. Also, God has supported His last revealed book, the Holy Quran, with many miracles that prove that this Quran is the literal word of God, revealed by Him and that it was not authored by any human being. This chapter discusses some of this evidence.
The Quran is the literal word of God, which He revealed to His Prophet Muhammad (S) through the Angel Gabriel. It was memorized by Muhammad (S), who then dictated it to his Companions. They, in turn, memorized it, wrote it down, and reviewed it with the Prophet Muhammad (S). Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad (S) reviewed the Quran with Angel Gabriel once each year and twice in the last year of his life. From the time the Quran was revealed, until this day, there has always been a huge number of Muslims who have memorized all of the Quran, letter by letter. Some of them have even been able to memorize all of the Quran by the age of ten. Not one letter of the Quran has been changed over the centuries.
The Quran which was revealed fourteen centuries ago mentioned facts only recently discovered or proven by scientists. This proves without doubt that the Quran must be the literal word of God, revealed by Him to the Prophet Muhammad (S), and that the Quran was not authored by Muhammad (S) or by any other human being. This also proves that Muhammad (S) is truly a prophet sent by God. It is beyond reason that anyone fourteen hundred years ago would have known these facts discovered or proven only recently with advanced equipment and sophisticated scientific methods. Some examples follow:
In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of mans embryonic development:
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[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 alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then WE made the alaqah into a mudghah (chewed susstance)] (Quran, 23: 12-14)
Literally, the Arabic word alaqah has three meanings: (1) leech, (2) suspended thing, and (3) blood clot. In comparison a leech to an embryo in the alaqah stage, we find similarity between the two, ... 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.
The second meaning of the word alaqah is suspended thing. This is what we can see in the suspension of the embryo, during the alaqah stage, in the womb of the mother.
The third meaning of the word alaqah is blood clot. We find that the external appearance of the embryo and its sacs during the alaqah 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. Also during this stage, the blood in the embryo does not circulate until the end of the third week. Thus, the embryo at this stage is like a clot of blood.
So the three meanings of the word alaqah correspond accurately to the descriptions of the embryo at the alaqah stage.
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 is similar in appearance to a chewed substance. This is because of the somites at the back of the embryo that somewhat resemble teeth marks in a chewed substance.
How could Muhammad (S) have possibly known all this about fourteen hundred 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
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Professor Emeritus Keith L. Moore is one of the worlds 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. 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.
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.
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.
During one conference, Professor Moore stated: 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 (S) 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 Muhammads (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, realised that chick embryos developed in stages from his study of hens eggs in the fourth century B.C., he did not give details about these stages. As far as it 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 description 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.
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A book entitled Earth is a basis reference textbook in many universities around the world. One of its authors is Professor Emeritus Frank Press. He was the Science Adviser to former US President Jimmy Crater, and for 12 years was the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. His book says that mountains have underlying roots. These roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg.
This is how the Quran has described mountains. God has said in the Quran:
[Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs?] (Quran, 78: 6-7)
Modern earth sciences have proven that mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground and that these roots can reach several times their elevations above the surface of the ground. So the most suitable word to describe mountains on its basis of this information is the word peg, since most of a properly set peg is hidden under the surface of the ground.
The history of science tells us that the theory of mountains having deep roots was introduced only in 1865 by the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy.
Mountains also play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth. They hinder the shaking of the earth. God has said in the Quran:
[And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake with you] (Quran, 16:15)
Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth. This knowledge about the role of mountains as stabilizers for the earth has just begun to be understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960s.
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The science of modern cosmology, observational and theoretical, clearly indicates that, at any one point in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of smoke (i.e. an opaque highly dense and hot gaseous composition). This is one of the undisputed principles of standard modern cosmology. Scientist can now observe new stars forming out of the remnants of that smoke. The illuminating stars we see at night were, just as was the whole universe, in that smoke material. God said in the Holy Quran:
Because the earth and the heavens above (the sun, the moon, stars, planets, galaxies, etc.) have been formed from the 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 had said in the Quran: [Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then We separated them?...] (Quran, 21:30)
Dr.Alfred Kroner is one of the worlds 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 complicated and advanced technological methods, that this is the case. 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.
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Why did the Quran describe the front of the head as being lying and sinful? Why didnt the Quran say that the person was lying and sinful? What is the relationship between the front of the head and lying and sinfulness?
If we look into the skull at the front of the head, we will find the prefrontal area of the cerebrum. What does physiology tell us about the function of this area? A book entitled Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology 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 Also the book says: In relation to its involvement in motivation, the prefrontal area is also thought to be the functional center for aggression.
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 front of the head as lying and sinful when somewhat lies or commits a sin, as the Quran has said: A lying, sinful naseyah (front of the head)!
Scientists have only discovered these functions of the prefrontal area in the last sixty years, according to Professor Keith L. Moore.
Modern Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density. For example, Mediterranean sea water is warm, saline, and less dense, compared to Atlantic ocean water. When Mediterranean sea water enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1000 meters with its own warm, saline, and less dense characteristics. The Mediterranean water stabilizes at this depth.
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The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. God has said:
[He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress.] (Quran, 55:19-20)
But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of a forbidding partition with the barrier. God has said in the Quran:
[He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition.] (Quran, 25:53)
One may ask why did the Quran mention the partition when speaking about the divider between fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the divider between the two seas?
Modern science has discovered this in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet. It has been discovered that what distinguishes fresh water from salt water in estuaries is a pycnocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers. This partition (zone of separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water and from the salt.
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation).
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God has said in the Quran: [Or (the unbelievers state) is like the darkness in a deep sea. It is covered by waves, above which are clouds. Darknesses, one above another. If a man stretches out his hand, he cannot see it.] (Quran, 24:40)
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. Below a depth of 1000 meters there is no light at all. 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.
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. We can also understand from the following sentences in the previous verse, in a deep sea. It is covered by waves, above which are waves, above which are clouds, 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. The internal waves cover the deep waters of seas and oceans because the deep waters have 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.
Scientists have studied cloud types and have realized that rain clouds are formed and shaped according to definite systems and certain steps connected with certain types of wind and clouds.
One kind of rain cloud is the cumulonimbus cloud. Meteorologists have studied how cumulonimbus clouds are formed and how they produce rain, hail, and lightning.
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2) Joining: Then the small clouds join together forming a larger cloud.
3) Stacking: When the small clouds join together, updrafts within the larger cloud increase. The updrafts cause the cloudy body to grow vertically, so the cloud is stacked up. This vertical growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of the atmosphere, where drops of water and hail formulate and begin to grow larger and larger. When these drops of water and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them, they begin to fall from the cloud as rain, hail, etc.
God has said in the Quran: [Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it.] (Quran, 24:43)
Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced equipment like planes, satellites, computers, balloons, and other equipment, to study wind and its direction, to measure humidity and its variations, and to determine the levels and variations of atmospheric pressure. The preceding verse, after mentioning clouds and rain, speaks about hail and lightning: [.And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever He wills. The vivid flash of its lightning nearly blinds the sight.] (Quran, 24:43)
Meteorologists have found that these cumulonimbus clouds, that shower hail, reach a height of 25,000 to 30,000 ft (4.7 to 5.7 miles), like mountains, as the Quran said: And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky
This verse may raise a question. Why does the verse say its Lightning in a reference to the hail? Does this mean that hail is the major factor in producing lightning? Let us see what
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This information on lightning was discovered recently. Until 1600 AD, Aristotles ideas on meteorology were dominant. For example, he said that the atmosphere contains two kinds of exhalation, moist and dry. He also said that thunder is the sound of the collision of the dry exhalation with the neighbouring clouds, and lightning is the inflaming and burning of the dry exhalation with a thin and faint fire.
The following are some comments of scientists on the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran: 1) Dr. T.V.N. Persuad is Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read, didnt know (how) to write. In fact, he was an illiterate. And were talking about twelve (actually fourteen) hundred years ago. You have someone illiterate making profound pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I cant see how this could be a mere chance. There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Professor studied the following two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (S):
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{ In every one of you, all components of your creation are collected together in your mothers womb by forty days}
{ If forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones}
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (S) extensively, noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolutely precision and accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (S). Then, during one conference, he gave the following opinion:
So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (S)) that have been noted provide us with a specific time table for the main embryological development before forty days. Again, the point has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this morning: these hadeeths could not been obtained on the basis of scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of their writing . . . . It follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion can guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific approaches, that there exist statements in the Quran shown centuries later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Quran having been derived from God.
3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Damman, Saudi Arabia, Professor Johnson said in the presentation of his research paper:
Summary: The Quran describes not only the development of external form, but emphasizes also the international stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its creation and development, emphasizing major events recognized by contemporary science.
Also he said: As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I can only understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand the words that are translated to me from the Quran. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and describing things, I could not describe the things which were described. I see no evidence for the fact to refute the concept that this individual, Muhammad, had to be developing this information from some place. So I see
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4) Dr. William W. Hay is a well-known marine scientist. He is Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. After a discussion with Professor Hay about the Qurans mention of recently discovered facts on seas, he said: I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scriptures of the Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some passages. And when he was asked about the source of the Quran, he replied: Well, I would think it must be the divine being.
5) Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer is Course Director and Associate Professor of Medical Embryological at the Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.. During the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Goeringer stated the following in the presentation of his research paper:
in a relatively few aayahs (Quranic verses) is contained a rather comprehensive description of human development from the time of commingling of the gametes through organogenesis. No such distinct and complete record of human development, such as classification, terminology, and description, existed previously. In most, if not all, instances, this description antedates by many centuries the recording of the various stages of the human embryonic and fetal development recorded in the traditional scientific literature.
6) Dr. Yoshihide Kozai is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, and was the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. He said:
I am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in (the) Quran, and for us the modern astronomers have been studying very small pieces of the universe. Weve concentrated our efforts for studying of (a) very small part. Because by using telescopes, we can see only very few parts (of) the sky without thinking (about the) whole universe. So, by reading (the) Quran and by answering to the questions, I think I can find my future way for investigation of the universe.
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During the last three years, I became interested in the Quran. From my study and what I have learned from this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Quran fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth, which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible {as the} creator. This creator must be God. Therefore, I think this is the time to say La ilaaha illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah (God), Muhammadur rassoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger (Prophet) of Allah (God). Lastly, I must congratulate for the excellent and highly successful arrangement for this conference. I have gained not only from the scientific point of view and religious point of view but also the great chance of meeting many well-known scientists and making new friends among the participants. The most precious thing of all that I have gained by coming to this place is La ilaaha illa Allah, Muhammadur resoola Allah, and to have become a Muslim.
After all these examples, we have seen about the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran and all these scientists comments on this, let us ask ourselves these questions:
Could it be a coincidence that all this recently discovered scientific information from different fields was mentioned in the Quran, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago? Could this Quran have been authored by Muhammad (S) or by any other human being?
The only possible answer is that this Quran must be the literal word of God, revealed by Him.
I would recommend that any interested person should read the book A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam by I.A.Ibrahim or visit www.islam-guide.com/science
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I suspect that the senseless events of the Crusades in history altered the view of local library authorities, because when I approached the local library in the year 2008, once again for the two volumes of Gibbon's: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, they could not be obtained. The valuable reference work of Gibbon was totally unavailable. After four weeks of patiently waiting, a single book called The Portable Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was issue to me. Apparently this is how Dero A. Sanders has shortened the work of Gibbon, to hide the shame of the Crusades from history. Believe it not, the whole history of the Crusades was completely omitted in this abridged version. The quotation from Gibbon's true work, which I kept, is now more precious. What would have happened if I did not obtain and carefully stored the original, so many years ago? I wonder how many other books, which I am quoting, have also mysteriously disappeared from the shelves of libraries? I leave it to the reader to find out more about this mystery. Faith with Anger We notice, nowadays, that those who actually recognise the Creator are regarded as the greatest enemies of each other and want to destroy each other. The hostility is not so bad against those who are anti-god. We have already mentioned the crusades against people who believe. After that it was the so-called civilised Western countries, who colonised third world countries and practised slavery. Many Muslims were kidnapped, under duress, from their native countries and sold as slaves in the European colonies. Ironically, Islam, thus, spread to various countries, such as South Africa. After slavery was abolished, the two world wars followed. The greedy German leader, Adolf Hitler, acted forcefully, and many Jews were killed by his army. After the Second World War, the Christian British regime played a major role, with the Balfour Declaration, to place the Jews in the midst of the Muslims, in order to
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36. Al-Mujeeb (The Responsive or The Answerer of Prayers) We are reminded in the Holy Qurn: And unto (the tribe of) Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih. He said O my people! Serve Allah. You have no other god save Him. He brought you forth from the earth and has made you husband it. So ask forgiveness of Him and turn unto Him repentant. Lo! My Lord is Nigh, responsive. (11; 116). In the above verse we are reminded that Allah is not only near, but He is also responsive. In other words He responds to our every need, providing that we firmly believe in Him as our Lord and Creator. We should have implicit faith in Him and never doubt Him as our God. We should also be obedient to His Commands, which should be our true Way of Life. Allah is so near to us and He can read our minds, which is why He knows when we have doubts about Him, and we cannot expect Him to respond to those who doubt Him. 37. Al-Waasi (The All-Embracing or The Lenient)
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