Literature and
poetry have been instruments of human expression and creativity, in all
cultures. The world also witnessed an age when literature and poetry occupied
pride of position, similar to that now enjoyed by science and technology.
Muslims as well as non-Muslims agree that Al-Qur’aan is Arabic literature par
excellence - that it is the best Arabic literature on the face of the earth.
The Qur’aan, challenges mankind in the following verses:
“And
if ye are in doubt As to what We have revealed From time to time
to
Our Servant, then produce a Soorah Like thereunto; And call your
witnesses
or helpers (If there are any) besides Allah, If your (doubts) are
true.
But if ye cannot –And of a surety you cannot. hen fear the Fire
Whose
fuel is Men and Stones – Which is prepared for those Who reject
Faith.”
[Al-Qur’aan
2:23-24] [1]
The same
notation is followed throughout the book. References and translation of the
Qur’aan are from the translation of the Qur’aan by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, new
revised edition, 1989, published by Amana Corporation, Maryland, USA.
The challenge of
the Qur’aan, is to produce a single Soorah (chapter) like the Soorahs
it contains. The same challenge is repeated in the Qur’aan several times.
The challenge to produce a Soorah, which, in beauty, eloquence, depth
and meaning is at least somewhat similar to a Qur’aanic Soorah remains
unmet to this day. A modern rational man, however, would never accept a
religious scripture, which says, in the best possible poetic language, that the
world is flat. This is because we live in an age, where human reason, logic and
science are given primacy. Not many would accept the Qur’aan’s extraordinarily
beautiful language, as proof of its Divine origin. Any scripture claiming to be
a divine revelation must also be acceptable on the strength of its own reason
and logic.
According to the
famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein,
“Science without
religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” Let us therefore study
the Qur’aan, and analyze whether The Qur’aan and Modern Science are
compatible or incompatible? The Qur’aan is not a book of science but a book
of ‘signs’, i.e. ayats. There are more than six thousand ‘signs’ in the
Qur’aan of which more than a thousand deal with science. We all know that many
a times Science takes a ‘U-turn’. In this book I have considered only established
scientific facts and not mere hypotheses and theories that are based on
assumptions and are not backed by proof.
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