Professor Kroner
said: Thinking about many of these questions
and thinking where Muhammad came from, he was after all a bedouin. I think
it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the
common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within
the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods
that this is the case.
Professor Kroner
chose an example from the Qur’an which proved to him why the Qur’an could
not have come from Muhammad himself. The example which Professor Kroner
chose is a description in the Qur’an of the fact that this universe had
its beginnings in one single entity. Allah, may He be Exalted and Glorified
said:
Do not
the unbelievers see that heavens and the earth were joined together [ratqan],
before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing…
[Qur'aan 21:30]
The meaning
of ratqan in this verse, as Ibn Abbas, Mujaahid, and others said,
may Allah be pleased with all of them, is that the heavens and the earth
were stuck together or blended together, and that they were later separated
from each other. Professor Kroner used this as an example to prove that
no human being during the time of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alihi wa
sallam), could have known this.
Professor Kroner:
Somebody who did not know something about
nuclear physics 1400 years ago could not, I think, be in a position to
find out from his own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens
had the same origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed
here.
Professor Korner,
so it seemed to us, has a special talent of being evasive. For example,
we asked him to describe the geological conditions of Arabia. Was Arabia
full of orchards and rivers?’ He said, During
the Snow Age. And it is further known
that the North Polar icebergs are slowly moving southwards. When those
polar icebergs become relatively close to the Arabian Peninsula, the weather
will change and Arabia will become one of the greenest and wettest parts
of the world. We asked him: Will Arabia become the land of orchards and
rivers?’ He said: Yes, it is a scientific
fact.
This astonished
us, and we wondered how he could state this as a scientific fact while
it was related to the future and we asked: Why?’ He said:
Because the
new Snow Age has actually started. And we can see the snow scrawling once
again from the North Pole southwards. In fact, the polar snow is now on
the way to get closer to the Arabian Peninsula. We can see the signs of
this in the snow blizzards striking the northern parts of Europe and America
every winter. Scientists have other signs and information proving the actual
beginning of another Snow Age. It is a scientific fact.
So we said to
him: What you have just mentioned has only been known to scientists after
a long series of discoveries and with the help of specialized instruments.
But we have already found this mentioned by the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam) 1400 years ago. He said in a Hadith transmitted by Saheeh
Muslim:
The last
Hour will not come upon us until the lands of the Arabs are once again
pasture lands and filled with rivers.
At this point
we asked Professor Kroner: Who told the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam), that the lands of the Arabs were once filled with orchards
and rivers?’ He immediately replied: The Romans’. This reminded me of Professor
Kroner's evasive ability. We asked him another question, we said to him:
But who informed the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), that
the lands of the Arabs would one again become pasturelands and be filled
with rivers?’. Professor Kroner becomes evasive if embarrassed. But whenever
he was faced with the truth, he is courageous enough to state his opinion
frankly and thus he replied: This could
have been known to him only through revelation from above.
Finally, after
our discussions with him, he made the following comments:
If you combine
all these and you combine all these statements that are being made in the
Qur’an in terms that relate to the earth and the formation of the earth
and science in general, you can basically say that statements made there
in many ways are true. They can now be confirmed by scientific methods,
and in a way you can say that the Qur’an is a simple science text book
for the simple man, and that many of the statements made in there at that
time could not be proven but that modern scientific methods are now in
a position to prove what Muhammad said 1400 years ago.
Allah confirms
in His Book that:
This is no less than
reminder to (all), the worlds. And you shall certainly know the truth of
it all (all) after a while (Qur’an
38:87-88).
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