God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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work is a superior Being whose knowledge pre-
dates time itself and goes infinitely far beyond
present knowledge, no matter how advanced the
latter may appear to be.
At this point, I propose to give some examples from
different disciplines to show how, while dealing
with any given science, the Quran surprisingly
encompassed truths which were to be discovered
and confirmed much later. Before launching upon
this discussion, it should be borne in mind that the
correspondence between modern research and
Quranic words is based on the presumption that
modern research has, indeed, succeeded in finding
out the truth of the facts in question, thus,
providing us with the necessary material to make
an up-to-date and correct interpretation of Quranic
assertions about the material universe. Now, if
further research proves our contemporary research
wrong, even in part, it will amount in no way to
proving the Quran at fault. It will simply mean that,
that particular interpretation of the Quran in the
light of scientific discoveries was wrongly angled,
or inadequate. I feel certain that with the more
accurate information which will be available in the
