Assalamo alikom dear brothers and sisters,
This thread is specified for all scientific facts mentioned in the Qur'an that have been proved till now.
The aim of this thread is to help those who faithfully seek for the truth to find it. Allah says in the Holy Quran what means:
"Soon will 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. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things? "
I need your help in collecting as many scientific facts as we can. We should be very strict in giving very authentic scientific evidence.
I will start with a very interesting one that led so many people to embrace Islam:
1-splitting the moon event:
There is a verse in the Qur'an in which Allah the Almighty says what can be translated as:
"The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon).
And if they see a sign, they turn away, and say: "This is continuous magic."
(Chapter #54, Verse 1&2)
The event of the moon splitting has been reported in a number of authentically reported Hadith narrations, through more than three different chains of narration (that is, almost mutawatir):
Narrated `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud: “During the lifetime of the Prophet, the moon was split into two parts and on that the Prophet said, ‘Bear witness [to this]’” (Al-Bukhari).
Narrated Anas ibn Malik: ”The Makkan people requested Allah’s Messenger to show them a miracle, and so he showed them the splitting of the moon” (Al-Bukhari).
Narrated `Abdullah ibn `Abbas: “The moon was split into two parts during the lifetime of the Prophet” (Al-Bukhari).
Scientific evidence:
There are some recently related observations made during exploration of the lunar surface. Enormously long (hundreds of kilometers) and deep (ranging hundreds of meters to tens of kilometers) ruptures, straight and curved, were detected. These ruptures are traversed with huge depressions such as Mare Orientalis, which is 1,000 km in diameter 9 km deep. It has been argued that such phenomena cannot be explained by the impact of asteroid-size objects or as being lunar rills induced by tensional cracks. One suggested explanation was that these could result from a splitting and reassembling event. (Reported by Dr. Zaghlul An-Naggar, Al-Ahram newspaper, Cairo, Sept. 23, 2002; Signs of Scientific Inimitability of the Noble Qur’an, 4th ed., (International Shorouq Bookshop, 2002) pp .49-52.
In the same work, Dr. Zaghloul also cited an Indian historical manuscript (India Office Library, London, manuscript #2807/152-173), which says that this incident —observed by the Indian king of Malibar, Chakrawati Farmas—was the starting point of Islam spreading to India. When he heard that this was a miracle seen by Makkan pagans to support the Prophet, he and all his people embraced Islam.
www.metacafe.com/watch/303737/moon_split_from_nasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwTR1MavN8&feature=related
This thread is specified for all scientific facts mentioned in the Qur'an that have been proved till now.
The aim of this thread is to help those who faithfully seek for the truth to find it. Allah says in the Holy Quran what means:
"Soon will 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. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things? "
I need your help in collecting as many scientific facts as we can. We should be very strict in giving very authentic scientific evidence.
I will start with a very interesting one that led so many people to embrace Islam:
1-splitting the moon event:
There is a verse in the Qur'an in which Allah the Almighty says what can be translated as:
"The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder (the people of Makkah requested Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to show them a miracle, so he showed them the splitting of the moon).
And if they see a sign, they turn away, and say: "This is continuous magic."
(Chapter #54, Verse 1&2)
The event of the moon splitting has been reported in a number of authentically reported Hadith narrations, through more than three different chains of narration (that is, almost mutawatir):
Narrated `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud: “During the lifetime of the Prophet, the moon was split into two parts and on that the Prophet said, ‘Bear witness [to this]’” (Al-Bukhari).
Narrated Anas ibn Malik: ”The Makkan people requested Allah’s Messenger to show them a miracle, and so he showed them the splitting of the moon” (Al-Bukhari).
Narrated `Abdullah ibn `Abbas: “The moon was split into two parts during the lifetime of the Prophet” (Al-Bukhari).
Scientific evidence:
There are some recently related observations made during exploration of the lunar surface. Enormously long (hundreds of kilometers) and deep (ranging hundreds of meters to tens of kilometers) ruptures, straight and curved, were detected. These ruptures are traversed with huge depressions such as Mare Orientalis, which is 1,000 km in diameter 9 km deep. It has been argued that such phenomena cannot be explained by the impact of asteroid-size objects or as being lunar rills induced by tensional cracks. One suggested explanation was that these could result from a splitting and reassembling event. (Reported by Dr. Zaghlul An-Naggar, Al-Ahram newspaper, Cairo, Sept. 23, 2002; Signs of Scientific Inimitability of the Noble Qur’an, 4th ed., (International Shorouq Bookshop, 2002) pp .49-52.
In the same work, Dr. Zaghloul also cited an Indian historical manuscript (India Office Library, London, manuscript #2807/152-173), which says that this incident —observed by the Indian king of Malibar, Chakrawati Farmas—was the starting point of Islam spreading to India. When he heard that this was a miracle seen by Makkan pagans to support the Prophet, he and all his people embraced Islam.
www.metacafe.com/watch/303737/moon_split_from_nasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwTR1MavN8&feature=related