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It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (the Qur’an)
and We Who will preserve it. (Surat al-Hijr)

The Words of your Lord are perfect in truthfulness and
justice. No one can change His Words. He is the All-
Hearing, and the All-Knowing. (Surat al-An‘am: 115)
These promises of Allah are sufficient for those who
believe. Yet, Allah has shown us that the Qur’an is the book of
truth by including certain scientific and numerical miracles in it.

37. What are the scientific miracles of the
Qur’an?

Although the Qur’an was revealed 1400 years ago, it
includes many scientific facts which were absolutely unknown
at that time and have been discovered only in our day by the
help of the latest scientific and technological means. These
attributes of the Qur’an clearly demonstrate that it originated
in Allah. The following are some of these miracles.
l The constant expansion of the universe is one of the
greatest discoveries of the 20th century. Yet Allah proclaimed
this truth to us 1400 years ago in the 47th verse of Surat adh-
Dhariyat:

It is We who have built the universe with (Our creative)
power, and, truly, it is We who are steadily expanding it.
(Surat adh-Dhariyat: 47)
l The movement of heavenly bodies in unchanging orbits
was proclaimed centuries ago in the Qur’an:

It is He Who created night and day and the sun and
moon, each one moving in its own orbit. (Surat al-
Anbiya: 33)