Page 263 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya

He who possessed knowledge of the Book said: "I will bring it [the
Queen of Saba's throne] to you before your glance returns to you." And
when he [Sulayman] saw it standing firmly in his presence, he said:
"This is part of my Lord's favour, to test me to see if I will give thanks
or show ingratitude..." (Qur'an, 27:40)

"He who possessed knowledge of the Book" told Prophet
Sulayman (as) that he could bring the Queen of Saba's throne to him
very quickly. This is a possible reference to the transmission of images
with present-day advanced technology. Another verse on the subject
reads:

A demon of the jinn said: "I will bring it to you before you get up from
your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it." (Qur'an, 27:39)

In our day, text, pictures, and films can be sent anywhere in the
world in a matter of seconds, thanks to the Internet and advances in
computer technology. For instance, carrying the Queen's throne to
Prophet Sulayman's (as) court very quickly may well refer to the fact
that it will be possible to send a three-dimensional picture or image in
the blink of an eye over the Internet.
According to scientists, the teleportation of atoms and molecules,
as well as larger bodies, may become possible in the near future. By this

method, the item's material characteristics are removed from one loca-
tion and transferred in every detail and atomic sequence to another
location, where they are reconstructed. If this technology becomes
operational one day, time and space will no longer represent an obsta-
cle to travel and objects will be able to be transported anywhere in a
single moment without traversing any physical distance. 197
In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) working with two European groups transported a photon.

The scientists formed a copy of the photon by reading its atomic struc-

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