The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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man’s intellectual grasp. The most significant of
these is the origin of the universe.
NEWTON’S THEORY OF LIGHT
Another point on which human intelligence
appeared to have arrived at a major scientific truth
was that of the true nature of light. It was Sir Isaac
Newton (1642-1727) who put forward the theory
that light consisted of minute corpuscles in rapid
motion, which emanated from their source and
were scattered in the atmosphere. Owing to the
extraordinary influence of Newton, this corpuscular
theory held sway in the scientific world for a very
long time, only to be abandoned in the middle of
the nineteenth century in favour of the wave theory
of light. It was the discovery of the action of the
photon which delivered the final blow to Newton’s
theory. “Young’s work convinced scientists that
light has essential wave characteristics in apparent
contradiction to Newton’s corpuscular theory.”
It had taken only 200 years to prove Newton wrong.
The Qur’an, on the contrary, gave its message to the
world in the 7th century, and even after a lapse of
1400 years its truth emerges unscathed. The reason
