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   Why Islam is the true religion of God.   
      
   Ever since the dawn of mankind, we have sought to understand nature and our   
   place in it.  In this quest for the purpose of life many people have turned to   
   religion.  Most religions are based on books claimed by their followers to be   
   divinely inspired,    
   without any proof.  Islam is different because it is based upon reason and   
   proof.   
   There are clear signs that the book of Islam, the Quran, is the word of God   
   and we have many reasons to support this claim:   
   ·       There are scientific and historical facts found in the Quran which   
   were unknown to the people at the time, and have only been discovered recently   
   by contemporary science.    
   ·       The Quran is in a unique style of language that cannot be replicated,   
   this is known as the 'Inimitability of the Quran.'   
   ·       There are prophecies made in the Quran and by the Prophet Muhammad,   
   may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, which have come to be pass.    
   This article lays out and explains the scientific facts that are found in the   
   Quran, centuries before they were 'discovered' in contemporary science.  It is   
   important to note that the Quran is not a book of science but a book of   
   'signs'.  These signs are    
   there for people to recognise God's existence and affirm His revelation.  As   
   we know, science sometimes takes a 'U-turn' where what once scientifically   
   correct is false a few years later.  In this article only established   
   scientific facts are considered,    
   not just theories or hypothesis.   
      
   Scientific Facts in the Quran   
      
   The Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.   
   Science at the time was primitive, there were no telescopes, microscopes or   
   anything even close to the technology we have today.  People believed that the   
   sun orbited the earth and that the sky was held up by big pillars at the   
   corners of a flat earth.     
   Within this backdrop the Quran was revealed, and it contains many scientific   
   facts on topics ranging from astronomy to biology, geology to sociology.   
   Some people may claim that the Quran was changed as new scientific facts were   
   discovered but this cannot be the case because it is a historically documented   
   fact that the Quran is preserved in its original language[1].  The Quran was   
   written down and    
   memorised by people during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad.  One of the   
   copies of the Quran which was written a few years after the death of the   
   Prophet Muhammad is preserved in a museum in Uzbekistan.  This copy is over   
   1400 years old and is    
   exactly the same as the Arabic Quran that we have today[2].   
   The following are nine scientific facts found in the Quran:   
      
   1.  Origin of Life   
      
   Water is essential for all living things.  We all know that water is vital to   
   life but the Quran makes a very unusual claim:   
   We made every living thing from water? Will they not believe? (Quran 21:30)   
   In this verse water is pointed out as the origin of all life.  All living   
   things are made of cells.  We now know that cells are mostly made up of   
   water[3].  For example, 80% of the cytoplasm (basic cell material) of a   
   standard animal cell is described as    
   water in biology textbooks.   
   The fact that living things consist mostly of water was discovered only after   
   the invention of the microscope.  In the deserts of Arabia, the last thing   
   someone would have guessed is that all life came from water.   
      
   2.  Iron   
      
   Iron is not natural to the earth.  It did not form on the earth but came down   
   to earth from outer space.  This may sound strange but it's true.  Scientists   
   have found that billions of years ago the earth was stuck by meteorites.    
   These meteorites were    
   carrying Iron from distant stars which had exploded[4].   
   The Quran says the following on the origin of Iron:   
   "We sent down Iron with its great inherent strength and its many benefits for   
   humankind." (Quran 57:25)   
   God uses the words 'sent down' for Iron.  It is clear from the verse that Iron   
   is not an earthly material, but was sent down for the benefit of humanity.    
   The fact that Iron came down to earth from outer space is something which   
   could not be known by the    
   primitive science of the 7th century.   
      
   3.  Sky's Protection   
      
   The sky plays a crucial role in protecting the earth.  The sky protects the   
   earth from the lethal rays of the sun.  If the sky did not exist then the   
   sun's radiation would have killed off all life on earth.  It also acts like a   
   blanket wrapped around the    
   earth, to protect it from the freezing cold of space.  The temperature just   
   above the sky is approximately -270oC.  If this temperature was to reach earth   
   then the planet would freeze over instantly.  The sky also protects life on   
   earth by warming the    
   surface through heat retention (greenhouse effect), and reducing temperature   
   extremes between day and night[5].  These are some of the many protective   
   functions of the sky.   
   The Quran asks us to consider the sky in the following verse:   
   "We made the sky a protective ceiling.  And yet they are turning away from Our   
   signs!" (Quran 21:32)   
   The Quran points to the sky's protection as a sign of God.  The protective   
   properties of the sky were discovered by scientific research conducted in the   
   20th century.   
      
   4.  Mountains   
      
   The Quran draws our attention to a very important characteristic of mountains:   
   "Did We not make the earth a resting place? And the mountains as stakes?"   
   (Quran 78:6-7)   
   The Quran indicates that mountains have deep roots by using the word stakes to   
   describe them.  In fact mountains do have deep roots, and the word stakes is   
   an accurate description for them.  A book titled 'Earth' by Geophysicist Frank   
   Press explains that    
   mountains are like stakes, and are buried deep under the surface of the earth.   
   Mount Everest (pictured below), the height of which is approximately 9 km   
   above ground, has a root deeper than 125 km.   
   The fact that mountains have deep 'stake' like roots was not known, until   
   after the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the beginning of the   
   20th century.[6]   
      
   5.  Expansion of the Universe   
      
   At a time when the science of Astronomy was still primitive, the expansion of   
   the universe was described in Quran:   
   "And it is We who have built the Universe with [Our creative] power and keep   
   expanding it." (Quran 51:47)   
   The fact that the universe is expanding was discovered in the last century.    
   The physicist Stephen Hawking in his book 'A Brief History of Time' writes,   
   "The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great   
   intellectual revolutions of the    
   20th century.".   
      
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