Barrier Between Sweet & Salt Water “He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together: Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress.” [Al-Qur’an 55:19-20] In the Arabic text the word barzakh means a barrier or a partition. This barrier, however, is not a physical partition. The Arabic word maraja [...]

Blood Circulation & Milk The Qur’an was revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the circulation of the blood and 1,000 years before William Harwey brought this understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the [...]

The Function of Mountains The Qur’an draws attention to a very important geological function of mountains. “And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them.” [Al-Qur’an 21:31] As we have noticed, it is stated in the verse that mountains have the function of preventing shocks in the Earth. [...]

The Proportion of Rain One of the items of information given in the Qur’an about rain is that it is sent down to Earth in due measure. This is mentioned in Surat az-Zukhruf as follows: “It is He who sends down water in measured amounts from the sky by which We bring a dead land [...]

A group of Muslim Scholars, under the direction of an eminent Yemani Scholar, Sheikh Abdul Majid Azzindani, collected information concerning embryology1 and other sciences in the Qur’an and undisputed Hadith2 and translated it into English. They then followed the Qur’anic advice: “If ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.” [Al-Qur’an 16:43 [...]

 Animals & Birds Live in Communities The Holy Qur’an says “There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you.” [Al-Qur’an 6:38] Research has shown that animals and birds live in communities, i.e. they organize, and live and work together. [...]

Atoms Can be Divided In ancient times a well-known theory by the name of ‘Theory of Atomism’ was widely accepted. This theory was originally proposed by the Greeks, in particular by a scholar called Democritus, who lived about 23 centuries ago. Democritus and the people that came after him, assumed that the smallest unit of [...]

CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE ‘The Big Bang’ The creation of the universe is explained by astrophysicists as a widely accepted phenomenon, popularly known as ‘The Big Bang’. It is supported by observational and experimental data gathered by astronomers and astrophysicists for decades. According to ‘The Big Bang’, the whole universe was initially one big mass [...]

Plants have Male and Female Genders Previously, humans did not know that plants too have male and female gender distinctions. Botany states that every plant has a male and female gender. Even the plants that are unisexual have distinct elements of both male and female. The Holy Qur’an says “‘And has sent down water from [...]