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7 Reasons to Read the Glorious Qur'an
1. Inimitable
It dares you to disprove it. How? It says that humans cannot write a
book like this even if they pooled all their resources together and got
help also from the spirits. The Qur'an said this fourteen hundred years
ago and yet no one has been able to disprove it.. Billions of books have
been written, but not another one like the Qur'an.
2. Incorruptible
It is the only religious sacred writing that has been in circulation for
such a long time and yet remains as pure as it was in the beginning. The
Qur'an was kept intact. Nothing was added to it, nothing was changed in
it, and nothing was taken away from it ever since its revelation was
completed 1400 hundred years ago.
3. Unsurpassable
The Qur'an is God's final revelation to humankind. God revealed the
Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David, the Gospel to Jesus, and finally
the Qur'an to Muhammad. Peace be upon Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad.
No other book will come from God to surpass His final revelation.
4. Indisputable
The Qur'an withstands the test of time and scrutiny. No one can dispute
the truth of this book. It speaks about past history and turns out
right. It speaks about the future in prophecies and it turns our right.
It mentions details of physical phenomena which were not known to people
at the time; yet later scientific discoveries prove that the Qur'an was
right all along. Every other book needs to be revised to accord with
modern knowledge. The Qur'an alone is never contradicted by a newly
discovered scientific fact.
5. Your Roadmap for Life and Afterlife
The Qur'an is the best guidebook on how to structure your life. No other
book presents such a comprehensive system involving all aspects of human
life and endeavor. The Qur'an also points out the way to secure
everlasting happiness in the afterlife. It is your roadmap showing how
to get to Paradise.
6. God's Gift of Guidance
God has not left alone. You were made for a reason. God tells you why he
made you, what he demands from you and what he has in store for you. If
you operate a machine contrary to it's manufacturer's specification you
will ruin that machine. What about you? Do you have an owner's manual
for yourself? The Qur'an is from your Maker. It is a gift for you to
make sure you function for success, lest you fail to function. It is a
healing from God. It satisfies the soul, and cleans the heart. It
removes doubts and brings peace.
7. Your Calling Card to Communicate with you Lord
Humans are social creatures. We love to communicate with other
intelligent life. The Qur'an tells us how to communicate with the source
of all intelligence and the source of all life, the One God. The Qur'an
tell us who God is, by what name we should address Him, and the way in
which to communicate with Him.
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The Holy Quran
consists of 114 Surahs (Chapters). The second chapter is
the largest, while the latter chapters are smaller in
size. The Quran has been preserved in its original form
in Arabic throughout the centuries. The Arabic
recitation you will hear in this audio is the same that
was revealed to Prophet Muhammad [peace be on him] more
than fourteen hundred years ago. The Arabic in this
Quran audio is recited by Shakir Qasmi, and the English
translation is recited by Aslam Azhar. This English
translation was written by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall.
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 Our Lord! Lay not upon us such a burden as You did lay upon those before us. (2:286) |
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 Introduction
to the Koranby A.J. Arberry. |
 Our Lord! Perfect our light for us and forgive us our sins, for verily You have power over all things. (66:8) |
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Ulum al Quran
- An Introduction to the Sciences of the Holy Qur'an |
Al-Mizan fee al-Tafsir al-Qur'an (Arabic). by Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Hussein al-Tabatabai. Majma' al-Bayan fee Tafsir al-Qur'an (Arabic). by Al-Fadhl bin al-Hussein al-Tabarsi. In the Shade of the Qur'an (Fi Zilal al-Qur'an) the well-known 20th Century tafsir written by Syed Qutb, the Egyptian Muslim activist and major figure of the Muslim Brotherhood. This online section consists of the commentary from Surah 78 until the end of the Qur'an. Altafsir.com A comprehensive Qur'anic resource (Arabic)
tafsir.com
The full English translation of Tafsir Ibn Kathir |
 Our Lord! Behold we have heard a voice calling us unto faith: "Believe in your Lord" and we have believed. (3:193) |
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Evolution Deceit Neither the laws of probability nor the laws of physics and chemistry offer any chance for the fortuitous formation of life. The Holy Qur'an on Astronomy. Any other seventh century book making statements about the physical universe would surely contain mistakes. The Koran, Interest and the Economy. Muhammed A. Asadi analyzes, using modern knowledge and objective standards, what the effect of interest is on the economy. Do we deserve the Quran? If we do not learn from the Quran we do not deserve it. |
 Our Lord! In You we have placed our trust, and to You do we turn in repentance, for unto You is the end of all journeys. (60:4) |
Scientists' Comments On The Qur'an
Extracts from the video This is the Truth by Sheikh Abdul-Majeed A. al-Zindani, Director, Project of Scientific Miracles in the Qur'an and Hadith, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Quran: Comments by Top Scientists
http://www.scienceislam.com/scientists_quran.php
Keith L. Moore
| Professor Emeritus, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto. Distinguished embryologist and the author of several medical textbooks, including Clinically Oriented Anatomy (3rd Edition) and The Developing Human (5th Edition, with T.V.N. Persaud). |
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"For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King cAbdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them to interpret the many statements in the Qur'an and Sunnah referring to human reproduction and prenatal development. At first I was astonished by the accuracy of the statements that were recorded in the 7th century AD, before the science of embryology was established. Although I was aware of the glorious history of Muslim scientists in the 10th century AD, and some of their contributions to Medicine, I knew nothing about the religious facts and beliefs contained in the Qur'an and Sunnah."[2] At a conference in Cairo he presented a research paper and stated: "It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah." [1] Professor Moore also stated that: "...Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah. The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge. "The intensive studies of the Qur'an and Hadith in the last four years have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D... the descriptions in the Qur'an cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century..."[1] |
E. Marshall Johnson
| Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, and Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. |
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"...in summary, the Qur'an describes not only the development of external form, but emphasises also the internal stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its creation and development, emphasising major events recognised by contemporary science." "As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand the words that are translated to me from the Qur'an. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I do today and describing things, I could not describe the things that were described... I see no evidence to refute the concept that this individual Muhammad had to be developing this information from some place... so I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was able to write..." [1] |
T.V.N. Persaud
| Professor of Anatomy, and Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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"It seems to me that Muhammad was a very ordinary man, he couldn't read, didn't know how to write, in fact he was an illiterate... We're talking about 1400 years ago, you have some illiterate person making profound statements that are amazingly accurate, of a scientific nature... I personally can't see how this could be mere chance, there are too many accuracies and like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind reconciling that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which lead him to these statements." [1] |
Joe Leigh Simpson
| Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. |
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"... these Hadiths (sayings of Muhammad) could not have been obtained on the basis of the scientific knowledge that was available at the time of the 'writer'... It follows that not only is there no conflict between genetics and religion (Islam) but in fact religion (Islam) may guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific approaches... There exist statements in the Qur'an shown centuries later to be valid which support knowledge in the Qur'an having been derived from God." [1] |
Gerald C. Goeringer
| Professor and coordinator of Medical Embryology in the Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. |
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"...In a relatively few ayahs (Qur'anic verses) is contained a rather comprehensive description of human development from the time of commingling of the gametes through organogenesis. No such distinct and complete record of human development such as classification, terminology, and description existed previously. In most, if not all instances, this description antedates by many centuries the recording of the various stages of human embryonic and fetal development recorded in the traditional scientific literature." [1] |
Alfred Kroner
| Professor of the Department of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Germany. |
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"Thinking where Muhammad came from... I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case." "Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400 years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed here... If you combine all these and you combine all these statements that are being made in the Qur'an in terms that relate to the earth and the formation of the earth and science in general, you can basically say that statements made there in many ways are true, they can now be confirmed by scientific methods, and in a way, you can say that the Qur'an is a simple science text book for the simple man. And that many of the statements made in there at that time could not be proven, but that modern scientific methods are now in a position to prove what Muhammad said 1400 years ago." [1] |
Yushidi Kusan
| Director of the Tokyo Observatory, Tokyo, Japan. |
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"I say, I am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in Qur'an, and for us modern astronomers have been studying very small piece of the universe. We have concentrated our efforts for understanding of very small part. Because by using telescopes, we can see only very few parts of the sky without thinking about the whole universe. So by reading Qur'an and by answering to the questions, I think I can find my future way for investigation of the universe." [1] |
Professor Armstrong
| Professor Armstrong works for NASA and is also Professor of Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. |
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"That is a difficult question which I have been thinking about since our discussion here. I am impressed at how remarkably some of the ancient writings seem to correspond to modern and recent Astronomy. I am not a sufficient scholar of human history to project myself completely and reliably into the circumstances that 1400 years ago would have prevailed. Certainly, I would like to leave it at that, that what we have seen is remarkable, it may or may not admit of scientific explanation, there may well have to be something beyond what we understand as ordinary human experience to account for the writings that we have seen." [1] |
William Hay
| Professor of Oceanography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
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"I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scriptures of the Holy Qur'an, and I have no way of knowing where they would have come from. But I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the passages." And when he was asked about the source of the Qur'an, he replied, "Well, I would think it must be the divine being." [1] |
Durja Rao
| Professor of Marine Geology teaching at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. |
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"It is difficult to imagine that this type of knowledge was existing at that time, around 1400 years back. May be some of the things they have simple idea about, but to describe those things in great detail is very difficult. So this is definitely not simple human knowledge. A normal human being cannot explain this phenomenon in that much detail. So, I thought the information must have come from a supernatural source." [1] |
Professor Siaveda
| Professor of Marine Geology, Japan. |
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"I think it seems to me very, very mysterious, almost unbelievable. I really think if what you have said is true, the book is really a very remarkable book, I agree." [1] |
Tejatat Tejasen
| Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and is the former Dean of the faculty of Medicine, University of Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand. |
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"In the last three years, I became interested in the Qur'an... From my studies and what I have learned throughout this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Qur'an fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible creator. This creator must be God, or Allah. I think this is the time to say La ilaha illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah (God), Muhammad rasoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger of Allah... The most precious thing I have gained from coming to this conference is La ilaha illa Allah, and to have become Muslim." [1] |
Dr. Maurice Bucaille
| Born in 1920, former chief of the Surgical Clinic, University of Paris, has for a long time deeply interested in the correspondences between the teachings of the Holy Scriptures and modern secular knowledge. |
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After a study which lasted ten years, Dr. Maurice Bucaille addressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976 concerning the existence in the Qur'an of certain statements concerning physiology and reproduction. His reason for doing that was that : "...our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'an could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times." "The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Qur'an untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human-being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?" |
Bibliography
[1] al-Zindani, Abdul-Majeed A, This is the Truth (video tape). Scientific Signs of the Qur'an and Sunnah containing interviews with various scientists. Available in Arabic, English, French, Urdu and Turkish. A full English transcript of this video with illustrations is also available: Al-Rehaili, Abdullah M., This is the Truth, Muslim World League, Makkah al-Mukarrammah, 1995. Also available on the web at:
[2] Moore, Keith L. and al-Zindani, Abdul-Majeed A., The Developing Human with Islamic Additions, Third Edition, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1982, with Dar Al-Qiblah for Islamic Literature, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1983, page viiic. Limited Edition.
[3] Moore, Keith L., al-Zindani, Abdul-Majeed A., Ahmed Mustafa A, The Qur'an and Modern Science - Correlation Studies, Islamic Academy for Scientific Research, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Reprinted by World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), USA., 1990, ISBN 0-9627236-0-6. Collection of papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Muslim Students Association, University of Illinois, May 1990.
[4] Moore, Keith L.; Johnson, E. Marshall; Persaud, T.V.N.; Goeringer, Gerald C.; Zindani, Abdul-Majeed A.; and Ahmed Mustafa A, Human Development as Described in the Qur'an and Sunnah, Commission on Scientific Signs of the Qur'an and Sunnah, Muslim World League, Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia, 1992, ISBN 0-9627236-1-4. Collection of papers that were originally presented in the First International Conference on Scientific Signs of the Qur'an and Sunnah, held in Islamabad, Pakistan, 1987, and after some modifications and development, presented in their present form in Dakar, Sengal in July 1991.
 Our Lord! Relieve us of the torment, for we do really believe. (44:12) |
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The Dotting of a Script and the Dating of an
Era: The Strange Neglect of PERF 558 It is usually assumed that the dotting of the Arabic script began with the advent of dotting of Qur'anic manuscripts. However, recent observation on a 70 year old Arabic papyri has shown conclusively that dotting was available as early as 22 AH, perhaps even earlier. Qur'ânic Orthography The Written Representation of the Recited Text of the Qur'ân by Professor M A S Abdel Haleem |
The Qur'ân As Literature. Professor Mustansir Mir introduces the often neglected aspect of the Qur'ân i.e., the Qur'ân as literature and illustrates this aspect with some interesting examples. The
Qur'ânic Story of Joseph: Plot, Themes, and Characters.This article deals with the literary aspects and themes of the Qur'ânic story of Joseph. The Qur'ânic story is neatly structured on the analogy of the literary-rhetorical device of al-laff wa 'l-nashr 'alâ 'l-'aks (involution and evolution in reverse). The Arab Academy. The world's first and only professional site for learning Arabic and the Holy Qur'an. |
 Our Lord! Lay open the truth between us and our people, for You are the best of all to lay open the truth. (7:89) |
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 Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire (2:201) |
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