Does the Quran provide modern scientific discoveries?

As I was growing up in the Islamic faith, I wanted evidence. I started to search. I needed a strong foundation. Many nights while I laid in bed, I would ask myself questions that I would not dare ask my teacher. Some of these questions demanded answers. But many times when we used to ask questions we got slapped, mocked, or yelled at. Only certain questions are allowed. Questions that involved topics and doctrines which supported the Islamic faith.

One day and on my own, I started looking in the Mosque Library, and what I found was the answer I was looking for. The book was called The Quran, A Modern View, by Mustafa Mahmud. It was about scientific miracles in the Quran. After reading it, I believed in the Quran as the word of God because it had modern scientific laws, and only a book with a divine origin can have scientific facts written over a thousand years before their discovery.

In recent years many times I researched using a computer program for scientific clues in the Bible. To my astonishment I found every correct "scientific miracle verse" in the Quran which led me and millions of Muslims to believe in the Quran. To my astonishment it was already in the Bible. I also found out more scientific errors than truth recorded in the Quran. It shattered my foundation.

The solid rock crumbled into sinking sand. I was living in a dark cloud of doubt. I realized I cannot just trust the so called "Muslim scholars." Why? Because they never attributed the credit where the credit was due. They dropped out God's truth inspired in the past. It was dishonest. I was like any Muslim "betrayed".

Mustafa Mahmud whom I respected more than any scholar, in his book The Quran, A Modern View, comments on several Quranic verses that contain modern science. On the surface, if one studies these materials, he will find little or no Biblical references mentioned by these writers. Why? It would be simple for Christian scholars to refute theses claims once these "miracle verses" are matched with Biblical equivalents.

All claims made by Muslim scholars that the Quran includes scientific miracles is easily refuted by a simple research on comparative verses. It is obvious why Muslim scholars ignore addressing the Bible and science. The accuracy of the Bible on matters of science cannot be matched by any of the ancient writings, especially the Quran. In this we shall include both Biblical as well as Quranic material on science.

After examining these materials one can easily see why Muslim scholars avoid addressing the science in the Bible. The simple answer to the Quranic "miracle verses" is that they were unintentionally borrowed from the Bible. No one can deny that the Bible existed before the Quran. In some cases we can find Quranic verses not mentioned in the Bible.

Although exaggerated as scientific, a simple and honest examination of such claims can prove that these verses are "scientific errors" and has nothing to do with science. In all cases we need to be open for refutation on both sides, since science as a study is based on evidence and research. It is fair to say that once we find an equal or better verse in the Bible for each Quranic verse, that we can dismiss the verse as a "miracle verse", and put aside all scientific commentary credited to the Quran, since it should only be fair to attribute them to the Bible first, and reference the Bible first.

Let us give credit to who deserves it. Also we need to stick with what the Quran or the Bible say exactly, and avoid additional things not mentioned in these verses, which most of the Muslim scholars do. Muslims claim that God inspired revelations to all prophets, and since it's the same God who inspired to all prophets, it would be obvious to find similarities between some. Christians would not disagree on this issue. Nevertheless the question that will arise is; since the Bible was first, then the argument that the Quranic verses are the original will not stand.

All Muslims believe that the Bible was inspired before the Quran. The other important question is; If the Quran is inspired by God, then it should have no scientific errors? If the Quran is more superior than the Bible as it claims "Wa-Muhayminan A'alayh" than all the supposed Quranic claims to science also should be superior to the science found in the Bible.

It is very simple to explain the play of words which these Muslim scholars do. To make an example of that, lets just say that my kid wrote in his school journal the following; "I then made a kite, flew it. Then we took a round piece of plastic and cut my own Frisbee. I took my younger brother and had a ball as we threw the Frisbee between us and watched the disk like object was spinning and flying back and forth between us." Now, I claim that my 6 year old by a miracle to be a scientist and a genius, I go and apply for a scholarship so he can go to Harvard. A board is formed to investigate my claim. I go to meet with them, while smiling at me I pull out a report I prepared to prove my case. The report have the statement my son wrote with my analysis as follows:

My son:                     I Made A Kite                                                                                            

Interpretation:           I Made a Flying Object with Wings                                                       

                                It must have Propellers since it was a Plane                                       

My reason:                 A  Kite in the dictionary is a "Flying Object ".                                     

 

My son:                   I made a Frisbee                                                                                    

Interpretation:         My son made the world's first Flying Saucer                                     

My reason:               A Frisbee is a disc like object that flies                                           

The board will immediately look at this as a joke, call security and ask them to escort me out.

Why? Because important missing elements needed to substantiate my claim, are missing in my child's letter.

_ First: To prove that the Word "Frisbee" is a flying saucer my child's document needed to include an "Electromagnetic Force-field-thermonuclear Engine".

_ Second: the fact that this object called Frisbee is tossed by hand between each other shows that no special engine called "The Electromagnetic Force-field Engine", is involved.

The amazing and sad thing is that millions of Muslims are reading into these so called miracles as they were reality. Books are being sold by the tons in Islamic countries with such bizarre claims. Any well educated person shall be able to refute these claims by simply looking up any interpretation of the Quran. Yet I have not met one Muslim who will refute these claims as false. Why?

One could ask; why would very educated people consult astrologers, mediums, palm readers, and fortune tellers. Regardless of there education. Mrs. Reagan the wife of Ronald Reagan did the very same thing. Sometimes and for some reason logical people will look into illogical matters as fact. My only conclusion is that the power of deception sometimes over powers us as human beings, and we fall into error. How week are we as people. We look into things just because we blindly believe they are true. By no means I am blaming the Quran of playing the word tricks, but I do hold responsible the scholars who claim this twisted interpretation as fact. It is a plain corruption in the interpretation of the Quran, and Muslims need to object to such things.

Abrahamic Faith