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Dear Friend
When a book is said to be from God, then the book itself should contain the explicit claim that it is from God. This is the first and the foremost thing. It is not like there was/is a book and after some time some people started saying that it is from God.
Quran was revealed by prophet Mohammad. He was an illiterate. Prophet Mohammad was neither capable of reading nor writing. This is one of the fundamental point that should be kept in mind, always.
Test - 1
The first test is whether the book itself claims that it is from God or not.
It is He Who has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what came before it. And He sent down the Tawrah (Gospel of Moses) and the Injil (Gospel of Jesus Christ), Aforetime, as a guidance to mankind. And He sent down the Criterion (Quran, as a book for distinguishing Truth and False). Quran 3:3-4
- Quran unequivocally states that it is from God.
- Quran unequivocally states that it is God who sent down all previous scriptures.
You can inspect any existing scriptures whether they explicitly claim that they are from God and that they explicitly recognizes all previous scriptures or not. Quran, being the final revelation, makes these two things very explicit in numerous verses.
Test - 2
Measuring Quran with the yardstick of science
Even though Quran is not a book of science, it does mention numerous branches of science. Some examples include -
1. Astronomy
Quran has at several places, mentioned astronomical facts. One of the important reference is about the Origin and The Creation of The Universe.
Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them! Quran 21:30
14 hundred years ago an illiterate man named Mohammad was able to tell this. From a scientific point of view, it quite impossible thing for a man in 6th century to tell about this.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
2. Creation of Human beings
Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)? “Then did he become a clinging clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him) in due proportion. “And of him He made two sexes, male and female.” Quran 75:37-39
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that it is the sperm emitted by a male and not the female ovum that determines the sex i.e. male or female.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
3. Hydrology
And We send the winds fertilizing, then We cause the water to descend from the sky, and We give it to you to drink, and it is not you who are the owners of its supply. Quran 15:22
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that it is the winds that fertilizes the clouds that cause the water to descend from the sky.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
4. Oceanology
And it is He Who has let free the two seas, this is palatable and sweet, and that is salty and bitter; and He has set a barrier and a complete partition between them. Quran 25:53
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that there exists a barrier between a sea of drinking water and a sea of salty water. When water from either sea flows to the other, there is a transitional barrier that homogenizes the water from the source sea to that of the target sea.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
These are only a few scientific references from Quran. I don't say that Quran is the only scripture that contains scientific facts. Other scriptures too contain such references because it was from the same source. The point is that Quran, being the final revelation, clearly mentions that all those previous scriptures were from One God and that those scriptures were subjected to the intervention by corrupted followers and thus their message, today, cannot be trusted as if it is fully from God.
Test - 3
Quran being a Literary and a Poetic Masterpiece
Quran was revealed to prophet Mohammad who was an illiterate at the time when the growth of Arabic literature and especially, poetry was in full-swing, 14 hundred years ago. To those people, Quran made an explicit challenge to produce a similar chapter as in Quran.
And if you are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e. the Qur'an) to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides Allah, if you are truthful. Quran 2:23
Quran contains 114 chapters. This is a very open challenge that anybody can try with the help of anyone else. But for the last 1400 years this challenge is intact.
With above facts -
- I am trying to establish the authenticity of Quran being the final revelation.
- I am trying to establish the authenticity of Quran in its information on previous scriptures.
will be continued ...
Dear Friend
When a book is said to be from God, then the book itself should contain the explicit claim that it is from God. This is the first and the foremost thing. It is not like there was/is a book and after some time some people started saying that it is from God.
Quran was revealed by prophet Mohammad. He was an illiterate. Prophet Mohammad was neither capable of reading nor writing. This is one of the fundamental point that should be kept in mind, always.
Test - 1
The first test is whether the book itself claims that it is from God or not.
It is He Who has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what came before it. And He sent down the Tawrah (Gospel of Moses) and the Injil (Gospel of Jesus Christ), Aforetime, as a guidance to mankind. And He sent down the Criterion (Quran, as a book for distinguishing Truth and False). Quran 3:3-4
- Quran unequivocally states that it is from God.
- Quran unequivocally states that it is God who sent down all previous scriptures.
You can inspect any existing scriptures whether they explicitly claim that they are from God and that they explicitly recognizes all previous scriptures or not. Quran, being the final revelation, makes these two things very explicit in numerous verses.
Test - 2
Measuring Quran with the yardstick of science
Even though Quran is not a book of science, it does mention numerous branches of science. Some examples include -
1. Astronomy
Quran has at several places, mentioned astronomical facts. One of the important reference is about the Origin and The Creation of The Universe.
Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them! Quran 21:30
14 hundred years ago an illiterate man named Mohammad was able to tell this. From a scientific point of view, it quite impossible thing for a man in 6th century to tell about this.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
2. Creation of Human beings
Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)? “Then did he become a clinging clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him) in due proportion. “And of him He made two sexes, male and female.” Quran 75:37-39
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that it is the sperm emitted by a male and not the female ovum that determines the sex i.e. male or female.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
3. Hydrology
And We send the winds fertilizing, then We cause the water to descend from the sky, and We give it to you to drink, and it is not you who are the owners of its supply. Quran 15:22
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that it is the winds that fertilizes the clouds that cause the water to descend from the sky.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
4. Oceanology
And it is He Who has let free the two seas, this is palatable and sweet, and that is salty and bitter; and He has set a barrier and a complete partition between them. Quran 25:53
Precisely speaking, 14 hundred years ago, Quran taught this mankind that there exists a barrier between a sea of drinking water and a sea of salty water. When water from either sea flows to the other, there is a transitional barrier that homogenizes the water from the source sea to that of the target sea.
- Please check, when did this mankind found this scientific fact.
These are only a few scientific references from Quran. I don't say that Quran is the only scripture that contains scientific facts. Other scriptures too contain such references because it was from the same source. The point is that Quran, being the final revelation, clearly mentions that all those previous scriptures were from One God and that those scriptures were subjected to the intervention by corrupted followers and thus their message, today, cannot be trusted as if it is fully from God.
Test - 3
Quran being a Literary and a Poetic Masterpiece
Quran was revealed to prophet Mohammad who was an illiterate at the time when the growth of Arabic literature and especially, poetry was in full-swing, 14 hundred years ago. To those people, Quran made an explicit challenge to produce a similar chapter as in Quran.
And if you are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e. the Qur'an) to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides Allah, if you are truthful. Quran 2:23
Quran contains 114 chapters. This is a very open challenge that anybody can try with the help of anyone else. But for the last 1400 years this challenge is intact.
With above facts -
- I am trying to establish the authenticity of Quran being the final revelation.
- I am trying to establish the authenticity of Quran in its information on previous scriptures.
will be continued ...
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