In his response to the Article "Letter of Debate: Religion
vs. Modern Science." brother Ahmad Ullah brought the same old wine
into a new bottle. He claims ‘Quran is not a book of science’ but on the
contrary he still advocated us to believe that Quran is full of scientific
indications only if we do understand right! Let me examine brother
Ahmad Ullah’s comments point by point:
Brother A. Ullah said:
"First of all Qur’an is not a book of science, it is book of
guidance for the humanity. This book has taught the humanity that every human
being is born sinless…"
My comments:
I agree with brother Ullah that, Quran is not a book of science, because I
could not find anything that could be taken as science. In the past, I have
written several articles in NFB about scientific flaws in Quran in which I had
proved fallacies of so called scientific verses with ample logic and rational.
Now, brother Ullah claims about "guidance of humanity" in the Quran
which really surprise me! May I learn from brother ullah which Islamic country
or countries have developed ‘humanity guidance’ from Quran? When no
other religions can be practiced in Saudi Arabia the birth place of Islam,
then where lies the humanity of Quran? Was the historical massacre of the Jews
tribes of Banu qurayza by the prophet’s Army a humane practice prescribed by
Holy Quran??? Is the Quranic decree of booty (Gani Matter Maal) taking from
the conquered/captured people a humane system which people of the whole world
should follow/practice? Did the Afghan Talibans learn humanity from Quran? Are
Afghan Talibans a true sample of perfect Muslim? If
not, could you give reasons why not?
Brother Ullah said:
"I understand that Mr. Roy is a research scientist on software
engineering and not a classical linguist to understand and interpret the
Qur’anic Arabic. Most of his scriptural
criticism were on the Muslim Holy Book, yet personally he does not have
any understanding of the ancient Arabic language."
My comments:
So, brother ullah thinks, anybody who is not master/Ph.D. in Arabic can not
understand Quran! Questions are why then Merciful Allah repeatedly told in the
Quran (54:17, 22, 44:58, etc..) at least in a dozen of verses that, " I
(Allah) gave Quran in simple Arabic so that common Arabs can understand
well"??? What was the sole purpose of giving such a difficult book of
guidance to poor mankind which nobody but a Ph.D. should understand??? Why
then non-Arabs are dancing with the Quran which they will never understand?
Why then non-Latin people should read Bible, or non-Sanskrit people should
ever read Gita/Uponishod?
Brother Ullah said:
"When it is mentioned in the Qur’an about the wide expanse of the
earth, it doesnot mean that the earth is flat. If it was true then in another
verse Qur’an would not say that the earth and sun swim on its own
orbit."
My comments:
To my knowledge no where in Quran said—"the earth and sun swim on
it’s orbit"! Rather lots of verses said, "Sun and Moon swim on
it’s own appointed course". In all religious books (Quran, Bible,
Uponishod etc) certainly and clearly claimed earth fixed, flat and
wide, expanse, spread, and never said earth is round, swimming or moving,
period. The earth was considered by all religions the center of the universe. Brother
Ullah could you give us the Verse # where Quran says "earth swims’ or
"earth is round"???
Brother Ullah said:
"I would ask Mr. Roy to read an article appeared in the
"Scientific American " sometime during early 80’s and he would
learn about the contribution early Muslim astronomer made to the science of
astronomy. This was possible because those astronomer got their inspiration
from the Qur’an to explore the heaven to understand the greatness of the
creator."
My comments:
Early Muslim astronomers certainly may have contributed in the science of
astronomy which they inherited from other civilizations (Egyptian, Assyrian,
Greeks, Chinese, Indian etc) but they never claimed that Arabs got the
inspiration of science of astronomy from Quran or from religion Islam. Many
advanced civilizations came to this area of middle east and left many
scientific clues behind which Arab intellectuals/philosophers absorbed them.
History tells us that—in those golden days of Arab/Islamic civilization,
many Jews and Christians intellectuals worked as secretaries, translators and
financial officials to the Muslim rulers. Many Christian and Jewish scholars
played an important role in the translation/transmission of Greek scientific
and Philosophical thought into Arabic. Jews in Spain came to use Arabic for
philosophy, science, and poetry.
It was also possible that Arabs also developed/improved those theories by
their research and later they brought them to the Spain from where exchange of
ideas gone through with the west. Most of all no Arab scientists ever claimed
that they got it from Quran. Quranic astronomy was nothing but the then
prevailing knowledge (of the 7th century) of astronomy in the
world—which of course later proved to be wrong by the modern standard of
understanding of astronomical science. Quranic astronomy was the direct
reflections of the Tolemic (erroneous) astronomical theories already prevailed
at the period of 6/7 century.
Brother Ullah said:
"Professional expert like Professor Keith Moore, a renowned human
embryology expert and french surgeon Maurice Bucaille just to name a few
westerner have supported the Qur’anic indications of scientific phenomena
and who is a soft ware engineer to refute those findings."
My comments:
Anybody who read the Quran unbiased can refute those hypocritical wish full
bogus sciences described by Professor Keith moore and maurice Bucaille. I
myself read their assertion of Quranic science but could not agree with even
one single thing they have claimed. Both of them had their vested purpose (Bucalle
got millions from Saudi King and Keith Moore sold his embryology book in the
Islamic world like a hot cake), hence they were totally biased in their
scientific assertion in Quran. They always made a big science out of nothing
or from a silly verse which I have refuted many times in the past in NFB
forum. In fact, these silly claims of science in Quran has completely
destroyed the integrity of the divinity of the Holy Quran. In search of
science I myself had to read Quran thoroughly and repeatedly and only then I
discovered very well that—the Quran was written by man with all the
knowledge of 7th century period. As per I am concern, there are
no embryological/astronomical sciences in Quran which can be taken as
authentic by today’s knowledge of science. May be brother Ahmad Ullah can
show us where is the science in Quran!