Huseini Youth Present

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Huseini Youth Present
SUBHANNALLAH Miracles of the Quran
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SUBHANNALLAHMIRACLES OF THE HOLY QURAN

• Preliminary Details
• Revealed to the Prophet from the start of his
  mission to the end of his life.
• i.e. 40th year of his life up to the 28th of
  Safar

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Preliminary Details Contd

• First Ayats revealed were the first 5 Ayats of
  Sura Iqra.
• 114 Surahs in the Holy Quran
• Two types of Surahs
• Makki (shorter Surahs) describe the matters of
  basic faith
• Refutation of paganistic beliefs
• Evidence of the Oneness of Allah
• His Attributes
• Proof of the resurrection on the Day of Judgment
• Prophethood
• Building good character etc.

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Two types of Surahs Contd

• Madani (longer Surahs) mostly describe
• Code of life
• Rules of Shariat
• Prayers
• Fasting
• Khums
• Zakat etc.

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Writing and Collection of the Holy Quran

• Quran was committed to writing from the very
  beginning.
• There are numerous Ayats in which the Quran is
  called Al-Kitab (meaning the written thing the
  book)
• Prophet used to repeat what Jibrael revealed to
  him, as to not forget.
• Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it.
  Indeed it is up to Us to put it together and to
  recite it. (Al-Qiyamah - 7516-17)

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Writing and Collection of the Holy Quran-Contd

• Writers of the Holy Quran
• Ali ibn Abi Talib
• Ubayy bin Kab
• Abdullah bin Rawaha
• Khalid bin Said bin Al-Aas
• At a later period Zaid bin Thabait among others

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The Holy Quran being free from Discrepancies

• Do they not contemplate the Quran? Had it been
  from (someone) other than Allah, they would have
  surely found many discrepancies. (Al-Nisa -482)

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The Holy Quran A Miracle Performer

• The Holy Quran is a
• Miracle of Language and Style
• Miracle of Prophecies
• Miracle of Scientific Revelations

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The Holy Quran A Miracle Performer-Contd

• The Holy Quran is is not only a Miracle It is a
  Miracle Performer
• It brought out the Miracle of transforming an
  extremely ignorant and backward society into the
  guardians of knowledge and learning.

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Miracle of Language

• This is the greatest miracle of the Quran
• Arabs at the time of the Prophet were extremely
  proud of their language.
• Poets and eloquent speakers were idols of their
  tribes.
• There used to be a yearly poetry competition
  where everyone came and recited

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Miracle of Language

• But the Quran came, and to their surprise, its
  Miracle was its language. And Allah challenged
  them
• Say, Should all human beings and jinn rally to
  bring the like of this Quran, they will not
  bring the like of it, even if the assisted one
  another. (Al-Isra 1788)
• Do they say, He has fabricated it? Say, Then
  bring ten Surahs like it, fabricated, and invoke
  whomever you can, besides Allah, should you be
  truthful. (Hud 1113)
• Do they say, He has fabricated it? Say, Then
  bring down a Surah like it, and invoke whomever
  you can, besides Allah, should you be truthful.
  (Yunus 10-38)

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Miracle of Prophecies

• When the Prophet was in Mecca, a war broke out
  between the Romans and the Persians. The
  Persians were victorious in this battle, which
  made the Meccans extremely happy since the
  Persians were idolaters.
• Byzantium has been vanquished in a nearby
  territory, but following their defeat they will
  be victors in a few years. (Ar-Rum 302-4)
• In a few years, the Romans defeated the Persians.

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Miracle of Prophecies

• When the Prophet was about to Migrate to Medina,
  he was extremely sad because he was leaving his
  home.
• Indeed He who has revealed to you the Quran
  will surely restore you to the place of return.
  Say, My Lord knows best him who brings guidance
  and him who is in manifest error. (Al-Qasas
  2885)
• Prophet returned triumphantly to Mecca in a few
  years

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Miracle of Prophecies

• Prophet had a dream that he was entering Mecca
  It was followed by this Ayaat.
• Certainly Allah has fulfilled His Apostles
  vision in all truth You will surely enter the
  Sacred Mosque, God willing, in safety, with your
  heads shaven or hair cropped, without any fear.
  (Al-Hujarat 4927)
• As mentioned earlier, this came true also.

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Miracle of Scientific Revelations

• Life
• The Human Embryonic Development
• The description of the development of the human
  baby is described in several places in the Holy
  Quran
• He creates you in the womb of your mothers,
  creation after creation, in a threefold darkness.
  That is Allah, your Lord! (Al-Zumar 396)

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The Human Embryonic Development - Contd

• According to modern scientific knowledge, the
  three veils of darkness refer to
• The anterior abdominal wall
• The uterine wall
• The amniochorionic wall

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The Human Embryonic Development - Contd
1. The anterior abdominal wall 2. The uterine
wall 3. The amniochorionic wall
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The Human Embryonic Development - Contd

• Certainly We created man from an extract of
  clay. Then We made him a drop of Seminal fluid
  (Nutfah) lodged in a secure abode.
• Then We created the drop of fluid as a clinging
  mass (Alaqah).
• Then We created the clinging mass as a fleshy
  tissue (Mudhgah).
• Then We created the fleshy tissue as bones
  (Idhama).
• Then we clothed the bones with flesh (Lahma).
• Then We produced him as yet another creature.
• So blessed is Allah, the best of creators!
  (Al-Muminun 2312-14)

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The Human Embryonic Development - Contd

• Seminal Fluid Nutfah Sperm
• Clinging MassAlaqahLeech/bloodsucker.

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The Human Embryonic Development - Contd

• Fleshy tissue Mudhgah chewed substance

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The Origin of Life in Water

• The idea of life originating in the oceans is
  strongly supported in the Holy Quran.
• And We made every living thing out of water
  (Al-Anbiya 2130)
• Allah created every animal from water (Al-Nur
  2445)
• it is believed that early forms of life
  developed in oceans or poolsIt has been
  suggested that the colonization of land, about
  425,000,000 years ago, was possible only because
  enough ozone was then produced to shield the
  surface from ultraviolet light for the first
  time. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

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The Ongoing Process of Creation

• There are verses in the Holy Quran which
  indicate that Allah has not finished creation
  rather, it is an ongoing process.
• and He creates what you do not know. (Al-Nahl
  168)
• Allah creates whatever He wishes. Indeed Allah
  has power over all things. (Al-Nur 2445)
• The emergence of new galaxies from huge clouds of
  nebulae.
• The evolution of species.

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The Cerebrum

• Allah said in the Holy Quran about one of the
  unbelievers who forbade the Holy Prophet from
  praying at the kaaba
• If he does not stop, We shall seize him by the
  Naseyah (front of the head), a lying, iniquitous
  Naseyah! (Al-Alaq 9615)

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The Cerebrum - Contd

• This area of the cerebrum (from of the head) is
  responsible for
• motivating, planning, and initiating good and
  sinful behavior, and
• is responsible for the telling of lies and the
  speaking of the truth.

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The Origin of the Universe

• One of the most popular and widely accepted
  theories in science is the Big Bang Theory.
• This theory states that the universe was created
  from a small dot of energy that exceeds our
  imagination.
• This dot of energy exploded creating the
  necessary material for the creation of the
  universe.
• With the passage of time, Hydrogen and Helium
  atoms began to combine and create galaxies, stars
  and planets.

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The Origin of the UniverseContd...

• The science of modern cosmology states that at
  one point in time, the whole universe was nothing
  but a cloud of smoke (a highly dense and hot
  gaseous composition.)

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The Origin of the UniverseContd...

• Scientists can now observe new stars forming out
  of the remnants of that smoke.
• Then He turned to the heaven, and it was smoke
  (Fussilat 4111)

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The Origin of the Universe-Contd

• Because the earth and the heavens above (sun,
  moon, stars) have been formed from this same
  smoke, we can conclude that the earth and the
  heavens were one connected entity.
• Have the faithless not regarded that the heavens
  and the earth were interwoven and We disjoined
  them (Al-Anbiya 2130)

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The Expanding Universe

• Scientists discovered the universe was expanding
  in the 1900s.
• We have built the sky with might, and indeed it
  is We who are its expanders. And the earth We
  have spread it out, so what excellent spreaders
  We have been! (Al-Dhariyat 5147-48)

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Time

• The world experienced a great leap in science
  when Einstein proposed his theories of
  Relativity.
• According to his theories, time is relative, and
  it depends on the speed at which one travels
• A Muon (a particle smaller in size than an atom)
• Einstein discovered this idea in 1921.

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Time - Contd

• 1330 years ago, Allah mentioned the idea of
  relativity in clear terms.
• He directs the command from the heavens to the
  earth, then it ascends toward Him in a day whose
  span is a thousand years by your reckoning.
  (Al-Sajjdah 325)
• The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day
  whose span is fifty thousand years. (Al-Maarij
  704)

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Earth

• The Shape of the Earth
• Today we can look at a globe and know that the
  earth is somewhat like a ball or a sphere
• Allah made this clear in the Holy Quran

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Earth Contd

• He winds the night over the day, and winds the
  day over the night, and He has disposed the sun
  and the moon, each moving for a specified term.
  (Al-Zumar 395)
• Winds Kawwara which is used in describing the
  action of coiling a turban around the head.

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The Mountains

• Allah clearly describes mountains in the Holy
  Quran
• Have we not made the earth as a bed, and the
  mountains as pegs? (Al-Naba 786-7)

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The Mountains Contd

• Modern earth science have proven in the latter
  half of the 19th century that mountains have deep
  roots under the surface of the ground, several
  times their elevations above the surface.

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The Mountains - Contd

• Allah says in the Quran that mountains hinder
  the shaking of the earth.
• He cast in the earth firm mountains, lest it
  should shake with you (Al-Nahl 1615)
• Modern theory of plate tectonics holds that
  mountains work as stabilizers for the earth.

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The Clouds

• Meteorologists have long studied thunderstorm
  clouds to understand how they form
• The clouds are pushed by the wind to an area of
  convergence

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The Clouds Contd

• The clouds join together forming a larger cloud

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The Clouds Contd

• Stacking when the clouds join together, they
  grow vertically, as if it is stacked.

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The Clouds Contd

• Allah says in the Quran
• Have you not regarded that Allah drives the
  clouds, the He composes (joins) them, and He
  piles them up, whereat you see the rain issuing
  from its midst?... (Al-Nur 2443)
• Meteorologists have recently come to know these
  details using equipment such as satellites,
  planes and computers.

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The Proportion of Rain

• ..and (He) sent down water from the sky in a
  measured manner, and We revived with it a dead
  country. (Al-Zukhruf 4311)
• This measure mentioned above deals with a
  couple of characteristics of rain.

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The Proportion of Rain Contd

• At any given time, the amount of rain, which
  falls on the
• earth, is exactly the same.

• 16 million tons of water evaporates from the
  earth.
• This number is equal to the amount of water the
  drops on the earth in one second
• Another measure related to rain is its falling
  speed.
• Minimum altitude of rain is 1200 meters.
• An object with rains weight and size would fall
  at 558 km/h.
• However, the speed of rain is 8-10 km/h.

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The Proportion of Rain Contd

• The atmospheric layer where it starts to rain is
  -40C.
• Despite this, rain drops never turn into ice
  particles.
• The reason is that water in the atmosphere is
  pure water

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and a thought to reflect upon
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• Had We sent down this Quran upon a mountain,
  you would have surely seen it humbled (and) go to
  pieces with the fear of Allah. We draw such
  comparisons for mankind, so that they may
  reflect. (Al-Hashr 5921)