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Reli­gion and the Sci­ent­ist (in English)

And there they were, on a flight from Cape Town to
Durban, seated side by side, two gen­tle­men from two dif­fer­ent
worlds…….After the form­al­it­ies were covered, the con­ver­sa­tion
continued……..

Bob: I don’t believe in God, but
rather in sci­ence and tech­no­logy, some­thing tan­gible you see, but if you
can prove to me sci­en­tific­ally that God does exist then I would
con­sider such a thought.

Yunus: Okay, you being inter­ested
in tech­no­logy, please answer this question……with regard to an advanced
machine or elec­tronic device, who would be the one to know the most
about its mech­an­ism or functioning?

Bob: Well, per­haps the per­son who has inven­ted or man­u­fac­tured such a machine.

Yunus: Can we agree that it is the maker or cre­ator of the product who would know every-thing there is to know about the product.

Bob: I don’t see why not, it sounds reasonable.

Yunus: Being know­ledge­able in these
mat­ters, the next ques­tion I’d like to ask you is, Just how did the
world or the uni­verse come into existence?

Bob: Accord­ing to recent sci­entific
research, the whole uni­verse was one gigantic mass, which sci­ent­ists
call the primary Neb­ula, they tell us that it was a cos­mic explo­sion or a
sec­ond­ary explo­sion that gave rise to the sun, the stars, the plan­ets
and even the Earth we live on.

Yunus: Is this what you believe?

Bob: Yes of course, these are
estab­lished facts based on sci­entific proofs. In fact, this idea was
real­ised in 1973 and termed the ‘BIG BANG’ theory.

Yunus: I see, well I have a
sur­prise for you….In the Holy Qur­aan, chapter 21, verse 30 says. “Do the
dis­be­liev­ers not see that the heav­ens and the earth were joined
together, then I split them apart”. Here we can see that the Holy Qur­aan
is speak­ing about this ‘BIG BANG’ the­ory and let me tell you that the
Holy Qur­aan was revealed over 1400 years ago.

Bob: I have heard about the Qur­aan, but can you refresh my memory.

Yunus: Sure, the Muslim believes
the Qur­aan to be the word of God, pure and unadul­ter­ated which was
revealed verbally to the Prophet _____ of Islam, Mohammed, Peace be upon
him, through the agency of the Angel Gab­riel. The Holy Qur­aan was
com­pleted over a period of 23 years, that is over the proph­etic life of
the Prophet _____________ of Islam.

Bob: Are you sure that the Qur­aan is over 14 cen­tur­ies old and secondly, that the Qur­aan has not been changed.

Yunus: Abso­lutely, it is a his­tor­ical fact that the
Holy Qur­aan was com­pleted in the sev­enth cen­tury and has remained
unchanged ever since. His­tor­i­ans, whether friends or foes to Islam,
testify to this.

Bob: Well then, per­haps it’s a guess.

Yunus:…..What does sci­ence say about the shape of the Earth ?

Bob: Pre­vi­ously, Man thought that
the Earth was flat, until Sir Frances Drake in 1607 finally proved it to
be spher­ical. Today, the term Geoid is used to describe this spher­ical
shape.

Yunus: Amaz­ingly the Holy Qur­aan in
chapter 31, verse 29 says, “Have you not seen how God merges the night
into the day and merges the day into the night.” The use of the word
merges emphas­izes a slow gradual change, and this is not pos­sible if the
earth is flat.

Bob: Go on.

Yunus: Fur­ther in chapter 39, verse
5, it says, “He coils the night upon the day and he coils the day upon
the night.” The word used in the ori­ginal arabic text is “Kaw’wara”
which means coils or winds, the sig­ni­fic­ance of this verb is that you
usu­ally coil some­thing around a rather spher­ical object. You say that
this fact was dis­covered recently, well rel­at­ively recently, who could
have men­tioned this in the Holy Qur­aan over 1400 years ago ?

Bob: I’m not convinced.

Yunus: Fine, tell me where the light of the Moon comes from?

Bob: Cen­tur­ies ago people thought
that the Moon was a mini­ature ver­sion of the Sun and that both emit­ted
their own light, but recently stud­ies con­firmed that the Moon reflec­ted
the Sun’s light.

Yunus: The Holy Qur­aan in chapter
25, verse 61 men­tions, “Blessed is the one who placed the con­stel­la­tions
in the Heaven and placed therein a lamp and a Moon reflect­ing light.”
Here the Sun is referred to as a lamp for it has its own illu­min­a­tion,
while the Moon is said to have reflec­ted light or bor­rowed light,
mean­ing not its own.

Bob: Its prob­ably conjecture…guesswork.

Yunus: For the sake of a dis­cus­sion
I won’t argue. Any­way, let us pro­ceed……. When I was in school in the
80′s, my teacher told me that the Sun remains sta­tion­ary whilst the
plan­ets although rotat­ing around their axes do revolve around the Sun as
well.

Bob: Is that what your Qur­aan says, that the Sun is stationary….Ha!

Yunus: No, the Holy Qur­aan does not say this. This is what I learned in school.

Bob: Today, sci­ence has advanced.
We have come to know that the Sun does in fact revolve around its own
axis. You see, the Sun if observed with the apppro­pri­ate sci­entific
appar­atus reveals to pos­sess the “Black spots”. Con­tinu­ous obser­va­tion
shows that these black spots take 25 days to com­plete a revolu­tion.
There­fore we con­clude that the Sun rotates and that it takes
approx­im­ately 25 days to com­plete one full rota­tion around its axis.

Yunus: Well, this is noth­ing new to
the muslim for it is revealed in the Holy Qur­aan in chapter 21, verse
33, “(God is) the One who cre­ated the night, the day, the Sun and the
Moon, each one spin­ning around its own axis (trav­el­ling in an orbit)”.
Here it is evid­ent that the Sun and the Moon both rotate and fur­ther the
celes­tial law of orbital move­ment is made men­tion of. You tell me who
could have men­tioned these sci­entific facts in the Holy Qur­aan which you
say was dis­covered recently by your sci­ent­ists ? Before you answer that
ques­tion, tell me……is there a dif­fer­ence between a star and a planet?

Bob: Yes, today we know that stars
are heav­enly bod­ies like the Sun in that they pro­duce their own light,
while plan­ets on the other hand, do not pro­duce their own light….like
the earth on which we live.

Yunus: The Holy Qur­aan men­tions sci­entific facts not only in the field of astronomy.

Bob: I’m listening.

Yunus: In sev­eral verses of the
Holy Qur­aan the details of the water cycle is men­tioned. It explains
that the water from the earth and ground rises up and forms clouds
………….. these clouds con­dense, there is light­ning and rain falls from the
clouds. This is evid­ent from the fol­low­ing quo­ta­tions ………..chapter 39,
verse 21, “Have you not seen that Allah sent rain down from the sky and
caused it to pen­et­rate the ground, and come forth as springs…….”, In
chapter 23, verse 18, “We sent down water from the sky meas­ure and
lodged it in the ground and we cer­tainly are able to with­draw it”, and
also in chapter 24, verse 43, “Have you not seen that God makes the
clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them a heap.
And you see rain drops fall­ing from the midst of it ……..”

Bob: Accord­ing to my know­ledge, the first coher­ent account of the water cycle was
presen­ted by Bern­ard Pal­issy in 1580.

Yunus: This is the exact
dis­tinc­tion that the Holy Qur­aan makes between stars and plan­ets. In
chapter 86, verse 1–3, “By the sky and the night vis­itor, who will tell
you what the night vis­itor is, the star of pier­cing bright­ness”, which
obvi­ously refer to the stars. The plan­ets are described as orna­ments in
chapter 37, verse 6, as it reads, “We have indeed adorned the low­est
heaven with orna­ments, the planets”.

Bob: ………………………….
Hmmmmmm…………………….It is no secret that the Arabs were advanced in the
field of astro­nomy, and per­haps it was these learned astro­nomers that
passed their find­ings to the Prophet _____________.

Yunus: I do agree that the Arabs were advanced in astro­nomy, but I’m afraid that you have the order or sequence of events incorrect.

Bob: What do you mean?!

Yunus: Let me remind you that the
Holy Qur­aan was revealed cen­tur­ies before the Arabs became advanced in
this field of astro­nomy, so it was the Arabs who learnt about astro­nomy
from the Qur­aan and most def­in­itely not vice versa.

The Holy Qur­aan in chapter 30, verse 48 men­tions
that, “God is the one who sends forth the winds which raised up the
clouds. He spreads them in the sky as he wills and breaks them into
frag­ments. Then you see rain drops issu­ing from within them…..”. While
on the topic of Geo­graphy, I am sure you under­stand what is meant by the
term “Folding”.

Bob: Yes, you see…. the crust of
the earth is rel­at­ively thin and moun­tain ranges due to the phe­nomenon
of fold­ing provides sta­bil­ity for the earth.

Yunus: The Holy Qur­aan in chapter
78, verse 6–7 gives us an indic­a­tion of the very same phe­nomenon as it
says, “Have we not made the earth an expanse and the moun­tains stakes”.

Here the word “stakes” is syn­onym­ous with the word
pegs as in hold­ing the earth in place. Fur­ther the first part of this
verse shows us that the earth is not flat for it is an expanse …..
mean­ing that you can walk and walk without fall­ing off.

The former idea is cla­ri­fied in chapter 21, verse
31…..”We placed the ground (moun­tains) stand­ing firm so that it does not
shake with them”. Here we are told that moun­tains allow for the
main­ten­ance of the earths sta­bil­ity by pre­vent­ing the earth’s shape to
change in such a way so as to cause it to move out of its orbit. Per­mit
me to go on ……..sci­ent­ists poin­ted out recently that salt water and
fresh water do not mix…….is that correct ?

Bob: That is correct…..this
phe­nomenon is observed at vari­ous locations……for example the region
where the Nile river meets with the Medi­ter­ranean sea and more
espe­cially in the Gulf stream where these two bod­ies of water flow
together for thou­sands of kilometres.

Yunus: In chapter 25, verse 53 it
reads, ……. “God is the one that has let free two seas, one is sweet and
pal­at­able and the other is salty and bit­ter. He placed an unseen bar­rier
between them, a par­ti­tion that is for­bid­den to pass”. A sim­ilar mes­sage
is given in chapter 55, verses 19 and 20, “He has loosed the two seas.
They meet together. Between them there is an unseen bar­rier which they
do not transgress……..”

Bob: Maybe some Arabs whist diving or swim­ming made such an observation.

Yunus: Unlikely, what you fail to
real­ize is that the Holy Qur­aan too test­i­fies that it is an unseen
bar­rier and there­fore it could not and still can­not be observed.

Bob: I see….. accord­ing to
Dar­win­ism and the the­ory of evol­u­tion, it is claimed that all life began
in the sea or oceans………can you tell me what does your Qur­aan say about
this…..if any­thing at all.

Yunus: Yes, but first tell me just why does this the­ory have such a conclusion…..that life began in the Oceans….

Bob: Well, one of the reas­ons is
that the chem­ical make-up or com­pos­i­tion of human and animal life shows
that water is the chief con­stitu­ent. In fact between 50 and 90 %.

Yunus: In chapter 21, verse 30, it
also says…………..”And We made every liv­ing thing from water. Will they
still not believe”. Can you ima­gine that in the deserts of Ara­bia, where
there is obvi­ously a scarcity of water, who would have guessed that not
only man but every liv­ing thing is made from
water.

Bob: I am aware that Cyto­plasm, the
main con­stitu­ent of the cell is com­posed of approx­im­ately eighty
per­cent water and that every liv­ing creature is of fifty or ninety
per­cent water.

Yunus: Who could have men­tioned
these facts in the Qur­aan over 1400 years ago ?…there are over hun­dreds
of facts in the Holy Qur­aan that mod­ern sci­ence can­not find fault with
today. On the topic of the­or­ies …….Can you explain to me just what is
meant by the the­ory of drift­ing continents.

Bob: Sure, all our con­tin­ents were
at one time parts of one con­sol­id­ated land mass, then fol­low­ing an
explo­sion, they were scattered or rather pushed away all over the
sur­face of the earth. There­fore if you look care­fully at the world map,
you would see for example that the East coast of South Amer­ica would fit
neatly against the West coast of Africa.

Yunus: A sim­ilar idea is reflec­ted
in the Holy Qur­aan in the chapter 79, verse 30, “and the earth He
exten­ded after that and then drew from it water and pas­tures”. It says
that the Earth passed through a stage when God had caused the land
masses to drift apart.

Bob: Are you using sci­entific know­ledge to prove the Quraan ?

Yunus: No, the Qur­aan is not a book
of sci­ence but rather a book of signs. In fact, it has over 6000 signs
(verses) out of which 1000 of these deal with sci­entific know­ledge. I am
not using sci­ence to prove some­thing cor­rect, you need a yard­stick or
know­ledge that is abso­lute, some­thing ultimate…..

Yunus: To the edu­cated men like
your­self, those that do not believe in God, sci­ence is gen­er­ally your
yardstick…..but to the Muslim, the Holy Qur­aan is our ulti­mate
yardstick….the Qur­aan is also referred to as the “Fur­qaan” which is the
arabic word mean­ing, the cri­terion between that which is right and that
which is wrong. There­fore I am using your yard­stick ‘sci­ence’ to prove
to you what is said in the Holy Qur­aan. What your yard­stick has said in
rel­at­ively recent times …… mine has said 14 cen­tur­ies ago. Can we agree,
there­fore, that the Qur­aan is super­ior to sci­ence and that the Qur­aan
is the ulti­mate yardstick.

Bob: Tell me more.

Yunus: The Qur­aan says in chapter
20, verse 53, “(God is the one) who sent down rain from the sky and with
it brought forth a vari­ety of plants in pairs”. Here the Holy Qur­aan
men­tions a sci­entific fact which was dis­covered much later in his­tory
….. that is …….the plant king­dom too has male and female types. This is
also echoed in chapter 13, verse 3, “………..and of all fruits (God) placed
on the earth two pairs …….”

Yunus: A branch of the field of Zoology has recently
poin­ted out that there exists vari­ous social dynam­ics in the animal
world. The Holy Qur­aan tells us the same, that the anim­als and birds
live in com­munit­ies in chapter 6, verse 38, “There is no animal on
earth, no bird which flies on wings, that (does not belong to)
com­munit­ies like you …..”.

Yunus: If I tell you that the Holy Qur­aan tells us of
ants talk­ing to one another, you will prob­ably laugh, but the branch of
Zoology that I am telling you about, has found the animal or insect
which closely resembles the dynam­ics of the human, is the ant ……. for
apart from an extremely ‘advanced’ sys­tem of com­mu­nic­a­tion (as is
men­tioned in the Holy Qur­aan, chapter 27, verse 18), They ….. the ants
bury the dead and can have what can be said to be an equi­val­ent of a
mar­ket place.

Bob: Per­haps your Prophet _____________ was a very obser­v­ant man who made notes of them.

Yunus: First I would like to inform
you that his­tory years wit­ness that the Prophet _____________ of Islam
was an illit­er­ate man in that he had no formal school­ing and there­fore
could not read nor write. In fact at that time a great major­ity of Arabs
were illit­er­ate with only a neg­li­gible num­ber who were lit­er­ate.
Non­ethe­less, it is also men­tioned that it is the female bee that
col­lects honey …….. Do you think that any­body could be so obser­v­ant as
to pick this up? You have just reminded me about some­thing even more
sig­ni­fic­ant; in chapter 16, verse 69, it reads, “…… from their (bees)
bod­ies comes a liquor of dif­fer­ent col­ours wherein is a rem­edy for men.”
Today the med­ical sci­ent­ist tell us that there are anti­sep­tic qual­it­ies
and applic­a­tions of honey. Fur­ther­more, I believe that it is used in
the treat­ment of vari­ous allergies.

Bob: No won­der the Rus­sian sol­diers
used to apply honey on their wounds. Yes, and as a res­ult, the wounds
left very little scar tissue.

Yunus: In chapter 16, verse 66, the
Holy Qur­aan described blood cir­cu­la­tion with regard to the pro­duc­tion
of milk in the cow ……. a thou­sand years before Wil­liam Har­vey made it
fam­ous to the west­ern world. Let us exam­ine the above men­tioned
ref­er­ence, “Ver­ily, in cattle too is a les­son for you, we give to you to
drink of what is in their bod­ies, com­ing from a con­jug­a­tion between the
con­tents of the intest­ine and the blood, a milk, pure and pleas­ant for
those who drink it.”

Bob: Tell me …… what does the Qur­aan say about human beings?

Yunus: This ques­tion calls for a
dis­ser­ta­tion, for the Qur­aan deals with humans from before the time of
con­cep­tion until after death. …..But will you accept a brief expos­i­tion
on some of the human embryo logical data or proofs presen­ted in the
Quraan?

Bob: Please go on. This is interesting.

Yunus: We know that after
fer­til­iz­a­tion, the egg or ovum des­cends from the fal­lopian tube to lodge
itself inside the uterus for gest­a­tion. This is described in chapter
22, verse 5, “…. We cause whom we will to rest in the womb for an
appoin­ted term……”. As you know, there are struc­tures or elong­a­tions from
the egg which devel­ops to draw nour­ish­ment from the uterus which is
neces­sary for growth. These struc­tural form­a­tions make the egg or rather
the zygote seem to be lit­er­ally cling­ing to the uterus ……. this,
doubtedly, is a sci­entific dis­cov­ery of mod­ern times for the west­ern
world.

Did you know this appear­ance of cling­ing is described
five times in the Holy Qur­aan. For example, in chapter 96, verses 1
& 2, “Read, in the name of your Lord who fash­ioned man from
some­thing which clings”. Sim­ilar ideas are found in chapter 22, verse 5 –
chapter 23, verse 14 and chapters 40 & 75. Fur­ther­more, foetal
growth is described in great detail in chapter 23, verse 14, with regard
to the devel­op­ment of the skel­eton. “Then We made the sperm into a clot
of con­gealed blood; Then made that clot into a lump (foetus); then We
made out of that lump Bones and clothed the bones with flesh …………” ……..
the verse goes on fur­ther in this man­ner of description.

Also with regard to the order or sequence of the
senses, the Holy Qur­aan in chapter 32, verse 9 says, “……… He gave you
(the fac­ulties of) hear­ing and of sight……..”. Today, med­ical cience
can­not argue with this sequence devel­op­ment of the senses in the foetus
for it con­firms that the devel­op­ment of hear­ing is com­pleted by five
months of preg­nancy and that the eye is split open by the sev­enth month
of pregnancy.

These facts and more have been brought to light by
the west­ern world as late as 1940. Fur­ther­more, Pro­fessor Keith More, an
embry­olo­gist at the uni­ver­sity of Toronto in Canada, was asked to make a
com­par­at­ive study of the Embryo logical data in the Holy Qur­aan with
that of mod­ern sci­entific know­ledge and he respon­ded as fol­lows, “The
1300 year old Qur­aan con­tains mes­sages so accur­ate about embryonic
devel­op­ment that muslims can reas­on­ably believe them to be from God.”

Bob: If this is true then how come it has not been recor­ded in the media?

Yunus: But it was ……. check the
archives ……for example ……. the cit­izen, a Cana­dian News­pa­per dated 22
Novem­ber 1984, under the head­ing “Ancient Holy Book 1300 years ahead of
its time”. Or the times of India, New Delhi …… dated 10 Decem­ber 1984
under the cap­tion “Koran scores over mod­ern sciences.”

Bob: This is really fascinating……don’t stop……….continue….

Yunus: At this point I am
reminded of a very power­ful verse of the Holy Qur­aan which appears in
chapter 41, verse 53, “Soon shall we show them our signs in the
(fur­thest) regions of the earth , and in their own souls, until it
becomes mani­fest to them that this is the truth……”.

Yunus: The holy Qur­aan even speaks about diabetics.

Bob: What do you mean?

Yunus: You see, cer­tain food­stuffs are declared unfit for human con­sump­tion and are there­fore prohibited.

Bob: While we are on the topic of
food ……. tell me why is it that a muslim is very par­tic­u­lar about the
words Halaal and Har­aam …… What do they mean?

Yunus: That which is per­miss­ible is
termed Halaal and that which is not per­miss­ible is termed Har­aam and it
is the Qur­aan which draws the dis­tinc­tion between the two.

Bob: Can you give me an example ?

Yunus: Yes, Islam has
pro­hib­ited blood of any type. You will agree that a chem­ical ana­lysis of
blood shows that it con­tains an abund­ance of uric acid, a chem­ical
sub­stance which can be injur­i­ous to human health.

Bob: You’re right about the toxic
nature of uric acid, in the human being it is excreted as a waste
product……. in fact we are told that 98% of the bod­ies uric acid is
extrac­ted from the blood by the kid­neys and removed through urination.

Yunus: Now I think that you’ll appre­ci­ate the spe­cial pre­scribed method of animal slaughter in Islam.

Bob: What do you mean ?

Yunus: You see…..the wielder of the
knife, whilst tak­ing the name of the Almighty, makes an incision
through the jug­u­lar veins, leav­ing all other veins of the neck intact.

Bob: I see…..this causes the death of the animal by a total loss of blood from the body, rather than an injury to any vital organ.

Yunus: Yes, were the organs,
example the heart, the liver, or the brain crippled or dam­aged, the
animal could die imme­di­ately and its blood would con­geal in its veins
and would even­tu­ally per­meate (spread through­out) the flesh. This
implies that the animal flesh would be per­meated and con­tam­in­ated with
uric acid and there­fore very pois­on­ous …… only today did our dieti­tians
real­ise such a thing.

Bob: Again, while on the topic of food…….. Why do Muslims con­demn the eat­ing of pork or ham or any foods related to pigs or swine.

Yunus: Actu­ally, apart from the
Qur­aan pro­hib­it­ing the con­sump­tion of pig flesh, ……in fact the Bible too
in Levit­i­cus chapter 11, verse 8, …..regard­ing swine it says, “of their
flesh (of the swine) shall you not eat, and of their car­case you shall
not touch; they are unclean to you.” Fur­ther, did you know that a pig
can­not be slaughtered at the neck for it does not have a neck ……….that
is accord­ing to its nat­ural ana­tomy. A Muslim reas­ons that if the pig
was to be slaughtered and fit for human con­sump­tion the cre­ator would
have provided it with a neck. Non­ethe­less, ……..all that aside, I am sure
you are well informed about the harm­ful effects of the con­sump­tion of
pork, in any form, be it pork chops …… ham …… bacon…….

Bob: The med­ical sci­ences find that
there is a risk for vari­ous dis­eases as the pig is found to be a host
for many para­sites and poten­tial diseases.

Yunus: Yes, even apart from that
….as we talked about uric acid con­tent in the blood…..it is import­ant to
note that the pig’s bio­chem­istry excretes only 2% of its total uric
acid con­tent…… the remain­ing 98% remains as an integ­ral part of the
body. This explains the high rate of Rheum­at­ism found in those who
con­sume pork.

Bob: Let’s fasten our seat­belts ……I
think we are going to land shortly …. I guess its true – time does fly
when you’re hav­ing fun. I’ve never heard these argu­ments before and I’d
like to hear more…….just what is the basic theme of the Holy Qur­aan
anyway ?

Yunus: The basic theme is of
sal­va­tion, in this life and in the life here­after….. it does not fall
into the cat­egory of any known arts or sci­ences of the world, but since
it addresses itself to man­kind, it touches on almost all the dis­cip­lines
which con­cern Him. Thus the Qur­aan sur­pris­ingly encom­passed truths
which were to be dis­covered and con­firmed much later as our dis­cus­sion
has shown.

Yunus: This reminds me of the wise words of Sir
Fran­cis, who said, “It is a little know­ledge of sci­ence that makes you
an Athe­ist, and it is an in-depth study of sci­ence that makes you a
believer in God Almighty”.

There­after nobody said a word ……..they each sat back and looked for­ward wait­ing for touch down………

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