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Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an
The map shows the route taken by
Prophet Musa (as) after leaving Egypt
and the estimated location of the site
where the sea divided.
starting point, scientists came to striking conclusions with regard to
how the sea was divided into two. These conclusions are in full agree-
ment with those revealed in the Qur'an. The way that historical events
described in the Qur'an are today illuminated by historical records is
without doubt an important miracle of the Book of Islam.
Naum Volzinger and Alexei Androsov, two Russian mathemati-
cians, proved that Prophet Musa (as) could indeed have parted the sea.
Unlike those scientists who concentrated on the probability of such a
miracle, the Russian mathematicians investigated the conditions that
might have led to the miracle. In turn, this led to the confirmation of the
miracle itself.
According to the study which was published in the Bulletin of the
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