Scientific Miracles of the Qur’an

Scientific Miracles of the Qur’an

In the 7th century, when the Quran was revealed to the illiterate Prophet Muhammad, the modern technology required for scientific research did not exist.

If the Quran had not been sent by God, who knows everything and is timeless, how could Prophet Muhammad have known about scientific findings that were proven by scientists centuries later?

Expansion of the Universe

Quran - 7th century

Adh-Dhariyat:47 ‘We built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it˺.’

Science-20th century

Russian physicist Alexander Fred and Belgian cosmologist George Lemaitre were the first to theoretically calculate that the universe is in constant motion and expanding.

Separation of Heavens and Earth

Quran - 7th century

Al-Anbiya:30 ‘Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?’

Science-20th century

Russian physicist Alexander Fred and Belgian cosmologist George Lemaitre were the first to argue for the big bang model that the universe was extremely dense and hot in this initial state before it expanded.So the universe was one piece before. Then it was separated from each other by a big explosion and took its current shape.

Reducing the Earth from the Ends

Quran - 7th century

Al-Anbiya:44 ‘Then do they not see that We set upon the land, reducing it from its borders?‘

Science-20th century

Swedish geophysicist, Hans Ahlmann, who suggested that a global warming might be underway that could eventually bring a "catastrophic" rise of sea level as glaciers melted. Even if sea level rises only 0.74 meters by 2100 as is conservatively predicted some 115 million people will likely be displaced and 420,000 km2 of land will be lost to the encroaching seas.

Drifting Mountains

Quran - 7th century

An-Naml:88‘Now you see the mountains, thinking they are firmly fixed, but they are travelling ˹just˺ like clouds. ‘

Science-20th century

Alfred Wegener discovered Continental drift.The Appalachian Mountains were just like mountain ranges in eastern Greenland, Ireland, Great Britain, and Norway. Wegener concluded that they formed as a single mountain range. This mountain range broke apart as the continents split up. The mountain range separated as the continents drifted

Preserved Ceiling

Quran - 7th century

Al-Anbiya:32 ‘And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs, are turning away.’

Science-20th century

Professor James Van Allen and his team at the University of Iowa found that The Earth's magnetosphere traps the high energy radiation particles and shields the Earth from the solar storms and the constantly streaming solar wind that can damage technology as well as people living on Earth.

Pulsar Star

Quran - 7th century

Al Tariq, a star mentioned in the Quran, means “the knocker” or “the one that knocks loudly” in Arabic language.

Science-20th century

The sound of the Pulsar star, discovered by Jocelyn Bell, is similar to the sound of knocking on a door.

Redshift

Quran - 7th century

Ar-Rahman:37 ‘How horrible will it be˺ when the heavens will split apart, becoming rose-red like ˹burnt˺ oil!’

Science-19th century

The first redshift was described by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848, who pointed to the shift in spectral lines seen in stars

Mission of the Mountains

Quran - 7th century

Al-Anbiya:31 ‘And We have placed firm mountains upon the earth so it does not shake with them, and made in it broad pathways so they may find their way.’

Science-20th century

Geophysicist Frank Press explains that mountains are like stakes, and are buried deep under the surface of the earth.

Formation of Groundwater

Quran - 7th century

Az-Zumar:21 ‘Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky — channelling it through streams in the earth — then produces with it crops of various colours, then they dry up and you see them wither, and then He reduces them to chaff?’

Science-16th century

The first clear discovery of the water cycle and the formation of groundwater belongs to Bernard Palissy in 1580. According to him, groundwater comes from the infiltration of rain into the soil.

No Mixing of the Seas

Quran - 7th century

Ar-Rahman: 19–20 ‘He released the two seas, meeting. Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.’

Science-20th century

French oceanographer Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered that the waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean differ in terms of their chemical and biological composition. During his research in the Strait of Gibraltar, he realized that these two waters do not mix with each other.

Couples in Creation

Quran - 7th century

Ya-Sin:36 ‘Exalted is He who created all pairs — from what the earth grows and from themselves and from that which they do not know.’

Science-20th century

British scientist Paul Dirac received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for discovering that matter has a counterpart called antimatter.