THE CHALLENGE OF THE QUR’AAN

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THE CHALLENGE OF THE QUR’AAN

Literature and poetry have been instruments of human expression
andcreativity, in all cultures. The world also witnessed an age when
literature andpoetry occupied pride of position, similar to that now
enjoyed by science and
technology.
Muslims as well as non-Muslims agree that Al-Qur’aan is Arabic
literature par excellence - that it is the best Arabic literature on
the face of the earth.
The Qur’aan, challenges mankind in the following verses:
“And if ye are in doubt As to what We have revealed From time to
timeto Our Servant, then produce a Soorah Like thereunto; And call
yourwitnesses or helpers (If there are any) besides Allah, If your
(doubts) are true. But if ye cannot –And of a surety you cannot. hen
fear the Fire
Whose fuel is Men and Stones – Which is prepared for those Who reject
Faith.” [Al-Qur’aan 2:23-24] 1
The same notation is followed throughout the book. References and
translation of the Qur’aan are from the translation of the Qur’aan by
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, new revised edition, 1989, published by Amana
Corporation,
Maryland, USA.
The challenge of the Qur’aan, is to produce a single Soorah (chapter)
like the Soorahs it contains. The same challenge is repeated in the
Qur’aan several times. The challenge to produce a Soorah, which, in
beauty, eloquence, depth
and meaning is at least somewhat similar to a Qur’aanic Soorah remains
unmet to this day. A modern rational man, however, would never accept
a religious scripture, which says, in the best possible poetic
language, that the world is flat. This is because we live in an age,
where human reason, logic
and science are given primacy. Not many would accept the Qur’aan’s
extraordinarily beautiful language, as proof of its Divine origin. Any
scripture claiming to be a divine revelation must also be acceptable
on the strength of
its own reason and logic.
According to the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert
Einstein,
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
Let us therefore study the Qur’aan, and analyze whether The Qur’aan
and Modern Science are compatible or incompatible?
The Qur’aan is not a book of science but a book of ‘signs’, i.e.
ayats. There are more than six thousand ‘signs’ in the Qur’aan of
which more than a thousand deal with science. We all know that many a
times Science takes a ‘U-turn’. In this book I have considered only
established scientific facts and
not mere hypotheses and theories that are based on assumptions and are
not backed by proof.


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