I read Islam is the biggest religion in the world as of this year.
But I wonder why? It seems like a religion from the stone age.
We muslims believe that Islam is the one true religion and Quran is the word of God. Quran is the proof of Islam as the true religion. Can anyone 1400 years ago wrote this kind of Book?
"And it is We who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it"
(Quran 51:47)
Universe in in constant motion and it is expanding (Alexander Friedmmann, Georges Lemaitre, Edwin Hubble)
"Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before We clove them asunder, and We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" (Quran, 21:30)
The Big Bang
"By the sky full of paths and orbits." (Quran 51:7)
The entire universe is full of paths and orbits.
"We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our Signs." (Quran, 21:32)
The atmosphere and Van Allen Belts
"By Heaven with its cyclical systems." (86:11)
"Returning" function of the sky (condensed water-rains, reflects radiation and UV ray, reflects radio waves broadcast etc)
"Then He turned to heaven when it was smoke. In two days, He determined them as seven heavens and revealed, in every heaven, its own mandate." (Quran 41:12)
Seven layers of atmosphere and their specific functions.
"… And We sent down iron…" (Quran 57:25)
Iron can only be produced in much bigger stars than the Sun, where the temperature reaches a few hundred million degrees and was sent down to Earth physically.
"Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them." (Quran 36:36)
Matter and Anti-Matter (Paul Dirac)
"It is He who sends down water in due measure from the sky…" (Quran 43:11)
Rain keeps falling every year in exactly in the same quantity (513 trillion tons/year) just as revealed in the Quran.
"He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break through."
(Quran 55:19-20)
The surface tension between Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
"Or (the unbelievers’ state) are like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those God gives no light to, they have no light."
(Quran 24:40)
Darkness in the seas (below 200m) and internal waves inside the sea.
"… a lying, sinful forelock." (Quran 96:16)
The prefrontal area, which is responsible for the management of particular functions of the brain, lies in the frontal part of the skull.
"He has created both sexes, male and female from a drop of semen which has been ejected."(53:45-6)
Gender is determined by the sperm cells from the male, and that the female has no role in this process.
"Yes, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers." (Quran 75:3-4)
Everyone, including identical twins has a unique fingerprint.
"When the oceans are set ablaze," (Quran 81:6)
Just by using a radio frequency salt water can be burned as fuel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sfEaL4KjYA&feature=related
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