Page 54 - How Do The Unwise Interpret The Qur'an ?

HOW DO THE UNWISE INTERPRET THE QUR'AN?

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We must also mention another irrational claim some people
make about the Qur'an. In the previous section we saw that the
scientific information in the Qur'an were made ahead of the
knowledge available at that time. Those who oppose this obvious
fact argue, in an effort to disguise this miracle from others, that the
Prophet Muhammad gathered this information after being inspired
by the advanced civilizations of the time.
According to this claim, our Prophet took information about
such concepts as astronomy, embryology and medicine from
ancient civilizations. For example, they allege that he found the data
on astronomy from the Sumerians and that on medicine from
papyrus collections belonging to the ancient Egyptians and recorded
them in the Qur'an.
The invalidity of this assumption is visible from several
standpoints. It is in particular known that the Prophet Muhammad
never carried out such research during his life. No one has so far
declared otherwise. Furthermore, it is well known that the Prophet
had no knowledge of these civilizations' languages, either.
Again, anyone who wished to perform such research in that
period would have had to go through a lot of difficulties. Obviously,
7th century Arabia did not contain any of our contemporary
research tools such as large libraries, the press, bookstores or the
Internet. Even with today's technology it is not an easy task to
research ancient Egyptian documents on embryology. The
establishment of this civilization dates back to some 5,000 years
ago. The number of written sources that have survived to our time
is very limited, and furthermore not all of them have been
translated. In addition, it is imperative to have a detailed knowledge
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