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From a Gaseous Mass totheHeavens and the Earth      »  The Qur’an was revealed in the seventh century. Many        statements pertaining to physical phenomena are dispersed        throughout the Qur’an. These are there in the        Qur’an to draw the attention of people to the        wonders of Allah’s creation. Any other seventh        century book making statements about the physical        universe would surely contain mistakes. Our knowledge of        physical sciences in the twentieth century is far        advanced beyond the imagination of people living the        seventh century.         What will come as a surprise to many people is that of        all the numerous statements about scientific matters        found in the Qur’an, not one of those have proved        contrary to the established facts of science. On the        other hand, many of those statements have already been        verified by modern scientific studies, and we confidently        expect that as various fields of knowledge advance, other        Quranic statements will likewise prove true.Let us        look at some of the statements which science has already        verified.        Concerning the creation of the heavens and the earth,        the Qur’an says that prior to the creation, the        Heaven was smoke. God then commanded it and the earth to        come into being and they came willingly (see surah        41:11). How does that compare with modern scientific        explanations? Let us hear a scientific explanation and        then judge for ourselves.        The French scientist Dr. Maurice Bucaille in his book        called The Bible, the Qur’an and Science explains:        “At the earliest time it can provide us with,        modern science has every reason to maintain that the        universe was formed from a gaseous mass principally        composed of hydrogen and a certain amount of helium that        was slowly rotating” (p.147).        Didn’t the Qur’an say that the Heaven was        smoke before its creation? Dr. Bucaille explains the        connection between his description and that of the        Qur’an as follows:        “Smoke is generally made up of a gaseous        substratum, plus, in more or less stable suspension, fine        particles that may belong to solid and even liquid states        of matter at high or low temperature” (p. 143).        He therefore sees no contradiction of the Quranic use        of the Arabic word dukhan (translated smoke) and a modern        interpretation of that word as a gaseous mass with fine        particles when speaking of the formation of the universe.        We notice here two remarkable feaures of the        Qur’an. The first feature is that it expresses        scientific truths that will be verified many centuries        later. The second feature is that the Qur’an        expresses those truths using terms and expressions that        would avoid confusing its first readers in the seventh        century. The seventh century reader of the Qur’an        can easily relate to the image of smoke, and the        twentieth century scientist can easily interpret the word        as a gaseous mass.

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