Islam Rediscovered
16. Islam Stands the Test of History
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contemporaneously and at all future times.
Advances may be made in human knowledge, but
they will never contradict Qur’anic statements. To a
remarkable degree, latter day history has testified to
this. While many statements contained in all the
ancient books have been at loggerheads with the
latest scientific discoveries, the Qur’an is unique in
steering clear of all such contradictions.
As the Qur’an says: “Do they not ponder on the
Qur’an? had it been from other than God, they
would surely have found therein much
discrepancy.” (4:82). (The word “discrepancy” here
means inconsistency, that is, a Qur’anic statement
not agreeing with eternal knowledge).
Much has been written on this aspect of the Qur’an
in modern times. The French scientist, Maurice
Bucaille, has shown in detail in his book,
The Bible,
the Qur’an and Modern Science
, how the statements
contained in the Qur’an are astonishingly in exact
accordance with the discoveries of modern science.
This shows that the Qur’an perfectly comes up to
the scientific standards.
