Posted on 07/06/2014 2:56:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dr Hamid Al Naimi says many recent discoveries made by modern science are mentioned in the Quran, which was revealed over 1,400 years ago.
The universe is expanding, and will come to an end and die like all creatures. This was one of the many miraculous facts of our universe — mentioned in the Holy Quran — chronicled in the third lecture of the cultural programme of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award held on Tuesday night.
The lecture, which was attended by Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, traced the journey of the universe as mentioned in the Quran.
The audience listening to Prof Dr Hamid Al Naimi’s lecture held on Tuesday night as part of the cultural programme of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award. — Supplied photos
Eminent Iraqi scholar Professor Dr Hamid Al Naimi, Acting Provost of the Sharjah University, showed how the Holy Quran is far ahead of modern science in uncovering facts. Many recent discoveries made by modern science are mentioned in the Quran, which was revealed over 1,400 years ago.
Referring to the Big Bang theory, which was first proposed in 1927, Dr Al Naimi cited verse 21/30 of the Quran: “Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them?”
Elaborating the verse, Dr Al Naimi said: “Almighty Allah says the universe was ‘one entity’ of material and energy that ‘He separated’ into atoms and electrons — the big bang — then into nebulas of gas and dust, out of which the gravity formed galaxies with billions of stars in them, and our sun is just one of these stars.”
Dr Al Naimi, who is also the Dean of the College of Science, said the earth, which is considered a living creature by geologists, is the only livable planet that Allah has prepared for all species.
“The earth, (which is) not extremely hot or cold like other planets, is protected by 27 shields, including the atmosphere and a magnetic power, as (mentioned) in verse 16/81 (of the Quran): ‘And Allah has made for you, from that which He has created, shadows’,” he said.
Citing verse 51/7, he said: “‘(I swear) by the heaven, which comprises interwoven pathways.’ Science has proved that there is no single space in the universe and all objects are tightly woven. The so-called space is actually filled with gas and dust, and each object is swimming in a definite orbit giving balance to the universe, as affirmed in verse 36/40: ‘It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.’”
Dr Al Naimi said the observable universe comprises billions of galaxies, and the nearest of these to ours is 9.4 trillion km far. “Each galaxy contains 100 billion stars, and our sun, which was created five billion years ago, is one. How could such an enormous universe may be created from chaos?”
Dr Al Naimi said the universe is expanding as affirmed by the Quran in verse 51/47: ‘And We have built the heaven with (Our) Hands and surely We are indeed extending (it) wide.’ “This proves the first big bang. Indeed, the universe is extending.”
The universe, Dr Al Naimi said, will die an “undeniable death” and cited verse 53/1: ‘I swear by the star when it falls down.’
“These falling and dying stars turn into black holes, which prevent anything from escaping and sweep the universe with its gravity as mentioned in verse 81/15-16: ‘I swear by the fading stars, which run fast, disappear and sweeps (other objects)’.
“The universe, just like living beings, is growing old and ‘running’ towards its end as mentioned in verse 21/104: ‘The (Dooms) Day when We shall fold the heaven like a scroll rolled up for books. As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it, (That is) a promise binding upon Us. Indeed, We shall do it.”
Thanks.
I'm stealing that.
I'm always looking for more colorful ways to denigrate the qu'ran.
Yes, but their rugs can fly ... no easy feat.
Camel doots.
Shouldn’t Dr Hamid Al Naimi be off somewhere having relations with a goat or camel, instead of straining his brain to do “science”?
The Quran is???????? Really? On what planet?
We are supposed to believe that Islam is responsible for great advances in mathematics, sciences, architecture, culture and so on. Moooslims point to these achievments but never mention that other people made those advances before they were conquered by the sword. Islam is nothing more than a vile cult of death and its followers are damned to hell.
I was thinking of the IED’s They may have introduced some minor changes to the devices....
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
Get your point. But improvising new ways to use inventions made by others isn’t the greatest evidence of creativity.
Actually, science, as such, has nothing at all to say about either of those practices.
Yeah, you guys are so effin brilliant, modernity has escaped you
What in the name of Allah do you guys every invent, creat or manufacture that is of any use?
Your flying carpets don’t even work anymore.
Everything under Allah is so much drek.
your god is not one of love but, of a system to subjugate fellow humans.
sim, sim, sala bim....
see? Nothin....
Possible. The Muslim belief is that it was compiled in its present form about 20 years after Mo died. Modern skeptical scholars are (of course!) skeptical, with some claiming that it wasn't compiled for a century or even several.
To my mind, their claims sound a lot like the "higher criticism" of the Bible. Seems likely to me the Koran was assembled in basically its present form while many of those who had known Mo were still around.
It’s got to be the heat and the sun exposure. These people are proof positive that no one should drink from puddles.
But in the mind of a Muslim, the Quran and science are inseparable.
So in their mind, since the Quran flat out states that women are mentally inferior, it must be true.
I dunno, plenty of smart women doctors out there..
...and bowing to a pagan moon god doesn’t seem to do much civilisation and culture wise.
Where did they find this copy of the Quran in the Fiction. Section of the Ljbrary?
Galadari Printing and Publishing Co. L.L.C is the publishing house of one of the leading English Dailies in the UAE. Khaleej Times is the first English newspaper to be launched in the UAE in 1978.
Why are you so interested in what the UAE papers have to say??? It is not as if they are a reliable news source at all. Moreover why do you care what an idiot preacher of hatred thinks about modern science? It only proves the backwardness of this ‘religion’ in general
Revisionism!
King James has it as "the circle of the earth", and I put my trust in King James and his translators. "The Bible is a flat earth book through and through." ... read that somewhere ... "important safety tip."
Hmm.. Didn’t the Vikings and the Egyptians, The Greeks, Romans, Indians, Neanderthals, and all sorts of others make vague predictions and stuff about the world also?
Then why’re y’all so damn stupid?
Then why’re y’all so damn stupid?
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