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   [PLEASE READ]  Islam is the true and an unique religion. And it is the only religion acceptable to Allah the most high. Okay, lets think Islam is not the right religion and Muhammad (SAW) is not the true Prophet. Then, how did he know that he will be the last prophet ? It's something impossible to know. Can any assure that he will be the last person to be the teacher of this school ? Absolutely no. But Muhammad (SAW) assured us that he is the last prophet and no other prophet will come After him. Okay if Muhammad (SAW) is not the last prophet, then why still there is no advent of a new religion with a new prophet ? We know whenever the teaching of one prophet ended other prophet came within few years with new teachings. But 1400 years have past still the teachings of Muhammad (SAW) is prevailing and will prevail till the Day of Judgement. And not only this the biography of Muhammad (SAW) is fully preserved by Allah. This didn't happen in terms of other prophets. Do we know the full Biography of Hazrat Isa, Hazrat Dawood, Hazrat Musa, Hazrat Ibrahim? No. Again many scriptures predicted the coming of Muhammad (SAW). This proves that Muhammad (SAW) is the true prophet. Again, you will find lots of differences of Islam with other religions. For example. there are millions of Muslims who have memorized the entire Quran. But you will hardly find any hindu or christen who have memorized their entire book. Again just differenciate between their praying method and ours. Which one do you think is more beneficial. Ofcourse ours. This is because in their prayers they don't get the opportunity to exercise their body, but we get. And our prayer is also like meditation. So all these proves that Islam is the true religion. Just notice one thing everyone is after us. You will find hundreds of Anti Islamic sites on the web We have the highest number of enemies. Only we are branded as terrorists, not the people of other religions. And when any Muslim country falls in trouble there is none for help. Example no one has come forward to help countries like Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. We are alone. Only Allah is with us. But I think due to lack of unity we are not also getting much help from Allah the most high. So, we have to work in order to change our own lot. We have to correct ourselves before the Major signs of Qiyamah starts to take place. Because after that no ones repentance will be accepted. This world is like a M.C.Q. Test for us. In a M.C.Q test we get 3 or 4 options. And we have to choose the right one. In same way, in this world the first question for a person is,

  WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE TRUE RELIGION?

  a.Christanity               b.Islam

  c.Judism                     d.Hinduism


Correct answer is:  b.Islam     


This is the most important Question. If anybody fails to answer, he will get 0 in the Exam. Because the answers to rest of the Questions is hidden in this answer. If anyone successfully answers the first Question, then if he is attentive he will be able answer rest of the Questions very easily. And his reward will be Jannat. Everyone should know in order to attain a magnificent reward, he or she has to give a difficult test.



 That's all I wanted to say. If the readers think I'm not right they are welcome to oppose my views they can criticize it. 

ASSALAMUALYKUM,  Brother, often the atheists and non-believers claim that, we Muslims are forcefully translating and have translated some of the verses of the Quran as scientific verses. They say, if our Quran contains everything then why we couldn't tell the world about black holes, egg shaped earth, supernovas, big bang theory, expansion of the universe etc before the christens or the greeks?  They claim that many Arabic words which are today used today for some specific things, were used for some other things at the time of PROPHET(S.A.W.)  .They say that use of word changes with the change of time.They also say Arabic words without dilact marks on them can be spelled in any way,thus meaning can be changed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE CYRSTALIZE THE MATTER FORM ME.I MEAN MAKE IT AS CLEAR AS CRYSTAL.PLEASE EXPALIN THE MATTER IN DETAIL I AM SOON GOING ON A DEBATE WITH SOME NON BELIEVERS

The Planets

It is difficult to say whether these are referred to in the Quran with the same exact meaning that is given to the heavenly bodies in the present day.

The planets do not have their own light. They revolve around the Sun, Earth being one of them. While one may presume that others exist elsewhere, the only ones known are those in the solar system.

Five planets other than Earth were known to the ancients: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Three have been discovered in recent times: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

The Quran would seem to designate these by the word kaukab (plural kawakib) without stating their number. Joseph's dream (sum 12) refers to eleven of them, but the description is, by definition, an imaginary one.

A good definition of the meaning of the word kaukab in the Quran Seems to have been given in a very famous verse. The eminently spiritual nature of its deeper meaning stands forth, and is moreover the subject of much debate among experts in exegesis. It is nevertheless of great interest to offer an account of the comparison it contains on the subject of the word that would seem to designate a 'planet'.

Here is the text in question: (sura 24, verse 35)

"God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a luminary. The luminary is in a glass. The glass is as if it were a planet glittering like a pearl."

Here the subject is the projection of light onto a body that reflects it (glass) and gives it the glitter of a pearl, like a planet that is lit by the sun. This is the only explanatory detail referring to this word to be found in the Quran.

The word is quoted in other verses. In some of them it is difficult to distinguish which heavenly bodies are meant (sura 6, verse 76; sura 82, verses 1-2).

In one verse however, when seen in the light of modern science, it would seem very much that these can only be the heavenly bodies that we know to be planets. In sura 37, verse 6, we see the following:

"We have indeed adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets."


(SOURCE:http://www.islam-guide.com/bqs/17astronomy.htm)

KAFIRS claim that Quran's scientific miracles are derived from the Greeks. How should we answer them in order to shut their mouth ??

BROTHER, Does Mi'raj mean tortuous ascending?? The following portion of the article says it is. But google translate says Mutraaj means tortuous rising. I am confused.Following is a portion of Brother Kaheel's article. Please some explain the matter, wether Mi'raj means tortuous ascending or not with proof from a dictionary. Please help me I want to strengthen my base in Islam.
 

http://kaheel7.com/eng/index.php/astronomu-a-space/366-traveling-to-the-past-between-science-and-quran

[The miracle of Mi’raj (the tortuous rising)

Here, too, we remember the incident of Mi'raj, when the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, ascended the sky and saw the fire torturing its companions, he saw them in reality, but unbelievers denied this idea, because their limited minds didn't imagine it.

Therefore, Allah Almighty said about this miracle: ((His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong! * For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!) (Sûrat An-Najm verses 17-18). And this indicates that the Holy Prophet had seen ,really seen, the miracles in the sky at the night of Mi'raj, in contrary to what some claim that he has seen it in a dream!

It is strange that there is a scientific miracle in the word (Mi'raj), it was unnamed "ascend" or flight "or otherwise, but the Holy Prophet called this miracle Mi'raj (i.e. the tortuous rising), because the movement of objects in space can never be straight, but they have to be tortuous, because of the dense gravitational fields around galaxies and its groupings.

I have in mind in this attempt by some skeptics of the Book of Allah, in this attempt they wanted to write a book like the Qur'an, but the errors appeared directly even in the title of this book! Because they called it: "The True Criterion", according to language dictionaries, the word (Criterion) means "that which distinguishes between right and wrong, and therefore we may not say: “True Criterion” or “False Criterion” because the word “Criterion” by itself is to distinguish between true and false!

Look, dear reader, how these people made a mistake in the title of the book, and they have the techniques of the twenty first century, scientists, money and digital computers. And the question is: How could an illiterate man in the seventh century compose a big book (as claimed by atheists) like the Qur'an without committing any scientific or linguistic error, if he wasn't the Messenger of Allah?

Clarification
the information contained in this article absolutely doesn’t mean that scientists will be able to see the future. No one knows the unseen except Allah who says: (With Him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that no one knows but Him. He knows whatever there is on the earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge: there is not a grain in the darkness (or depths) of the earth, nor anything fresh or dry (green or withered), but is (inscribed) in a record clear (to those who can read)) (Sûrat Al-An'am verse 59)

But scientists can imagine that the knowledge of the unseen is possible, but reaching this knowledge is not necessary, just as they can imagine that the vision of the past is scientifically possible, they don't have to see it, therefore this research is an evidence that the Qur'an does not talk about things that are not logical , but the Qur'an's speech is within scientific logic, and this is an evidence of the sincerity of Allah's saying about his book: (Had it been from other Than Allah, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy) (Sûrat An-Nisa' verse 82).

Here we have to pause

If the Holy Prophet had brought things from himself, then he could have made mistakes in naming the Mi'raj miracle, why did he call it "Mi'raj" (i.e. the tortuous rising) in line with the universal truth, that is, the tortuous movement of the objects in space?

If the Prophet wanted to invent falsehood against Allah as some skeptics claim, why does he attribute everything in this Qur'an to Allah? Why is he talking about the future in the past tense? And how did he make sure that people will accept from him this new uncommon style?

If Muhammad, peace be upon him, wanted to lie to people, how would he be aware of that he will be last of the prophets? How did he assure that no prophet will come after him, if he wasn't truly the prophet of Allah? And how did he assure that Islam will spread to all parts of the world: (It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may proclaim it over all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it)) (Sûrat As-Saff verse 9).

Finally

We ask Allah to give the best reward to all who contribute in providing a new idea through which we can provide useful and helpful article, and one of those people, dear brother "Mohammed Lujain zein" which drew our attention to this idea, and we would like to ask all readers to contemplate the Qur'an thoroughly and try to write articles about the wonders of the Quran, or at least provide useful ideas, in order to receive reward from Allah. Because it’s him who said: (And whatever good ye send forth for your souls before you, ye shall find it with Allah) (Sûrat Al-Baqara verse 110).]

Is this evil Dajjal in the Bermuda Triangle??? And is he controlling the world politics from there??I think it is. As you know no ship even an aero plane can't pass over the Bermuda triangle. You can't even know what's happening there by using satellites. Satellites fail to give the coverage of that place. VERY MYSTERIOUS PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE HOME OF DAJJAL I THINK!!!!!!!!!

 Whatever, ALLAH THE MOST HIGH KNOWS THE BEST

A stupid anti-Islamic site claims that A person named Amar khan has exposed the miracles of the Quran. That stupid's article really confused me a lot. Please brothers help me to remove my confusion.I beg of you

Speed of Light in the Qur'an?


 Muslims are hard at work trying to find miracles in the Qur'an and each day they "find" something new. They gloat about it and pump themselves, spread the glad tiding across the Internet, publish it in their newspapers, and challenge others to disprove that miracle, until someone shows their error and deflates them like a punctured balloon. This does not slow them. Since they are eager to find miracles, and since there is no end to human gullibility, especially when one WANTS to believe, they find a new miracle every day.



The Claim


In an article published in Islamicity.com, Dr. Mansour Hassab-Elnaby claims the verse 32.5 reveals that light in one day travels a distance equal to 12,000 lunar orbits, and upon calculating that distance we find the exact speed of light.


Here is verse 32:5 translated by Shakir:


“He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then shall it ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count..”


According to Dr. Hassab-Elnaby, "affairs" mentioned in this verse is "light." So this verse reveals that light can travel in one day the distance that will take the Moon, 1000 years to span.


It takes a Muslim's imagination to think this verse has anything to do with the speed of light. There is no mention of moon, light or even distance in this verse. However, let us agree with this assumed interpretation for now and see whether Dr. Hassab-Elnaby has his math right.


Rebuttal


The rebuttal is divided into 7 parts.


1. Wrong Calculation


The average center-to-center distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km.

The orbit of the Moon is nearly circular. (That is why we see the Moon always with the same size)


This means for the Moon to go a full circle around the Earth it must travel a distance of 2,415,273 km (Circumference of the lunar orbit = 2r π = 2 x 384,403 x 3.14159)


To orbit the earth 12,000 times the Moon must travel 28,983,278,898 km (2.415,273 x 12,000). This is how much the moon travels in 1000 lunar years.


Light travels at a constant speed of 299,792.458 km. per second


There are 86,400 seconds in one day (60x60x24)


In 24 hours, light travels a distance of 25,902,068,371 km (299,792.458 x 86,400).


These two numbers are not the same. They are not even close. There is a difference of 3,081,210,527 km (28,983,278,898 - 25,902,068,371) between the distance traveled by the Moon in 1000 lunar years and the distance traveled by light in one day.


This difference is over twenty times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. So clearly Dr. Hassab-Elnaby got it wrong. The two numbers do not match.


That is not all. There is a difference between lunar month (phases) and lunar orbit. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 days, (siderial month) while the periodic variations in the geometry of the Earth–Moon–Sun system are responsible for the lunar phases that repeat every 29.5 days (synodic month). There is a difference of 2.2 days between the lunar month and the lunar orbit. (Wikipedia)


In one lunar year the Moon revolves around the Earth 12.967 times (29.5 x 12 / 27.3) and not 12 times. So the distance that the Moon travels in 1000 lunar years is actually 32, 045,078,461 km (12,967 x 2,4715,273).


The difference between this distance and the distance traveled by light in one day is 6,143,010,090 km (32, 045,078,461 - 25,902,068,371). It would take light, another 5 hours 41 minutes to travel this extra distance.


Alternatively we can say that the Moon revolves around the Earth 10,724 times to cover the distance that the light travels in 24 hours. (Distance traveled by light in one day 25,902,068,371 km / The orbit of the Moon 2,415,273 km).


It takes only 827 lunar years for the Moon to go this distance and not 1000 lunar years. (10,724 revolutions of the Moon around the Earth x 27.3 days that takes for each revolution / 354 days that exist in each lunar year).


No matter how you look at it Dr. Hassab-Elnaby's calculations are wrong. The distance traveled by the Moon in 1000 years and the distance traveled by light in one day are NOT the same.


We are not even considering the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, which inevitably the Moon must also thread. Taking that into account Dr. Hassab-Elnabi's calculations are 36.6 times off.


2. Wrong Translation


Which part of this verse talks about light or its speed? Dr. Hassab-Elnany writes: "Thus we conclude that the cosmic affair, mentioned in the previous Quranic verse, is identical to LIGHT and all similar cosmic affairs travelling in vacuum with this maximum speed such as: all types of electro magnetic waves propagating between the heavens and the earth, the expected Gravitational waves spreading all over the universe, and all particles travelling in this cosmic greatest spead such as neutrinos."


What a load of nonsense! All Muhammad is saying in this verse is that a day of Allah is 1000 years long. This is his way of saying Allah is big, everything about him is big, and even his days are big. Muhammad repeated the same thing in the verse 22.47


“Verily a day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning.”

There is no mention of affairs going up and down, light, magnetic waves, particles and neutrinos in this verse.


The length of the day is determined by how fast a planet revolves around its axis and it has nothing to do with the size of its inhabitants. All we can understand from this verse is that the creator of the world lives in a very slow revolving planet.


Just to show the absurdity and the confusion in the Qur'an let us see the verse 70:4:



“The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years.”


This verse has a similar content of the verse 32:5, but here it says that the length of the day of God is 50,000 years. This is a clear contradiction. Is a day of God 1000 years or is it 50,000 years? Does it mean that it takes 50,000 years for angels and spirits to reach God? That is awfully slow. Then how could Angel Gabriel take Muhammad to heaven and back in one night? The Qur'an is replete with contradictions and absurdities. Muhammad had found a gullible audience who gobbled everything he told them uncritically. He never thought one day his words will be scrutinized by people smarter than his benighted followers and his lies will be exposed.



3. Wrong Parameters


I am not done yet! There is still more problem with this claim. The speed of light is constant while the rotation of the Earth, thanks to losing its kinetic energy, is slowing down. Therefore, the days of the Earth are becoming longer. Also the Moon is getting away from the Earth and its orbit is widening. To orbit the Earth, the Moon has to travel a little more each time. This means that the length of the lunar months are increasing. How can one measure something that is constant with things that are variable?


Scientists believe that when the Earth was young, it span ten times faster around its axes than it is spinning today. Since the speed of light has remained the same all along, 4.5 billion years ago, in one day light traveled one tenth of the distance that it travels today.


There are nearly 4.5 million thousand years since the Moon is orbiting the Earth. As the Moon distances from the Earth it is slowing down. Since each millennium the orbit of the Moon and the Length of the day change, in which one of these 4.5 million millennia the Moon traveled the same distance that the light travels in one day? The claim is wrong, but even if true, only one time out of 4.5 million times the two numbers could match. Then again even a broken watch is right twice every day.


The very notion of measuring the speed of light with the orbit of the Moon or the length of the day is a fallacy, that is because the yardstick is constantly changing. Such an error only reveals the lack of understanding of Dr. Hassab-Elnaby of the basic principles of science.



4. Wrong Interpretation


The verse talks about the “affairs of God” being sent to Earth and then ascending to Him in one day, the length of which is 1000 years. How on Earth this educated slave of Allah has determined that "affairs" means light? The word used in Arabic is Amr. It means commandment, order, cause, and affair. This is an allusion to God’s religion and not to light. Amrullah means the Cause of God. A more accurate translation of this verse is, God sends his Cause to Earth, which will return to Him, i.e. it will be revoked in one day, the length of which is equal to 1000 years.


This is how Sheikh Ahmad Ahsai (1753–1826), founder of Shiite Sheikhieh school and his disciple Seyyed Kazim-i-Rashti (1792–1843) interpreted this verse. They claimed Islam does no longer meet the needs of the time and since it does not allow reform, it must be abrogated. However, since no one can abrogate the word of God but God himself, this task rests on the shoulders of the awaited Mahdi, the Promised One of the Shiites. Ahsai and Rashti said the end of Islam and the appearance of Mahdi has already been foretold in the Hadith and the Qur'an, and verse 32:5 gives the exact date.


According to these eminent scholars, Amrullah, the cause of God, was completed when the last intermediary between God and Mankind, Imam Hassan Askari died. Hassan Askari died in the lunar year 260 Hijra. Ahsai believed that since, according to the verse 32:5, one thousand years after the communication between God and mankind is interrupted the cause of God (Islam) would be revoked:  يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ ,

Mahdi should manifest himself in the year 1260 Hijra (1844 EC)


Seyyed Kazem Rashti died one year before the expected year. He, was so sure that Mahdi would manifest himself in the coming year that he did not appoint any successor. He dissolved the Sheikhieh school ordering his disciples to scatter around Persia to find him. It was in this heightened atmosphere of expectation that the 26 year old Seyyed Ali Mohammad, native of Shiraz, claimed to be the Bab, the Gate to divine understanding, the Promised One. Thanks to his sincerity and Christ like innocence he attracted most of the students of Seyyed Kazem and in a short time the Babi movement became so popular that it took the country by storm. The amazing success of the Babis in converting the Iranians was seen as a threat by the clergy who instigated the young and inexperienced king, Nasereddin Shah to execute the Bab. They started a brutal campaign of persecution of Babis and subsequently Bahais that has lasted till this day.


I am not an apologist for Babism. I do not believe in Islam and do not think the Qur'an contains any prophecy. Anyone can interpret the Qur'an in anyway he pleases. I do not believe the Bab was a messenger of God. According to this author, that young man suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, the evidence of that is in his prolific, verbose, and incoherent writings. He certainly believed in his cause and refused to recant in order to save his life. In all fairness, one can see that Ahsai and Rashti have given a much more logical interpretation to the Quranic verse 32:5 than Dr. Hassab-Elnaby, with his ludicrous claim that the verse reveals the speed of light.



5. Stolen Miracle


The funny thing is that the verse 32:5 is plagiarized from the Bible. Here are the original Biblical verses:


For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. [Psalm 90:4]


But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.[2 Peter 3:8]


When the Psalmist says a thousand years for God is like a watch in the night, he means God is timeless. In those days people used sundials to measure the time. It only worked in sunshine. This is a beautiful poetic way to say time does not exist for God. This thousand years should be taken allegorically and not literally.


Peter understood that. He said with Lord not only a thousand years is like one day, also one day is like a thousand years. What that humble fisherman was saying is that Time is irrelevant for God. Compare that with the pathetic attempt of Muslim doctors and scholars who take this allegory literally and try to find scientific equations in it. Taken poetically, this example is beautiful; taken literally, it is asinine.


Assuming there is a miracle in this allegory, shouldn't the credit go to the Bible? Isn't it interesting that neither the Jews nor the Christians make the claim that these verses reveal scientific information, but Muslims make that claim even though the verse is stolen from the Bible? What this tells us about the state of the mind of Muslims? Doesn't this show they are insecure and desperate to validate their illogical faith by clinging to any straw?



6. Does the Qur'an distinguish synodic and siderial months?


Dr. Mansour Hassab-Elnaby claims, "Quranic verse (10:5) discriminates between the synodic period for knowing the number of years and the real sidereal period for reckoning in scientific calculations." Here is the verse in question:



It is He Who made the sun to be a shining glory and the moon to be a light [wrong. Moon is not a source of light], and measured out stages for her; that ye might know the number of years and the count. 10:5


This verse in no way discriminates between synodic and siderial months. Dr. Hassab-Elnaby is engaging in wishful thinking.