It Cannot be Shown that The Qur'an is Revelation from God

I will use Allah to specifically mean The God according Islam. INTRODUCTION Firstly, I would like to introduce a way (out of many) how it can be shown that the Qur’an is indeed revelation from Allah. I will call this method as “Common Sense Argument”. It is very simple and can be confirmed by logic and common sense. Let me give an example to show how this method works. Imagine that a lost wallet is found and there are many who claim to be the owner of that wallet. How can we find out who the real owner is? Here are two ways (out of many) how you can find out whose wallet that really is.1. You ask each of them to write a message to you about the wallet. The message which accurately talks about or describes some specific things about the wallet, that nobody can know other than its owner, is surely the message of the owner of that wallet. 2. You open the wallet and try to find something, like an ID card, that shows that the wallet cannot belong to anyone else except a particular person. COMMON SENSE ARGUMENT – 1 We “found” the universe and wonder who its owner is. We have a message called Qur’an and is claimed to be from Allah (i. e. , the owner of the universe). We apply the first way, discussed above, to find out if this claim is true or not. To do so, we will compare some specific things written about the universe in the Qur’an that nobody other than the Owner, the Creator, and the Ruler of the universe could know when (and where) the Qur’an was revealed/written and to see if they match or not. 1. Motion of Celestial Bodies and Dark Matter Until recently it was believed that the planets, stars, galaxies etc. were moving in free/empty space or vacuum. Then, in 20th century, we discovered that there is dark matter which constitutes about 85% of the total matter of the known universe. The discovery was simply as follows; the matter we knew was insufficient to account for motion of stars and galaxies. Since the observed motions require more matter, then there necessarily exists some other type of matter that couldn’t be observed and they called it as “dunkle Materie”, i. e. , “dark matter”. Now let’s see if the Qur’an talks about/gives any sign to dark matter. [1] “. .. and all swim in an orbit. ” (Quran, 36:40) In the context the Quran is talking about the Earth, the sun, and the moon. …and all is a generalization for all of Earth-like (i. e. , planets), sun-like (i. e. , stars), and moon-like (i. e. , satellites) objects. . .. an orbit is translation of falakun which means each of those objects has a separate/different orbit. In history of science we see first geocentric model (i. e. , Earth doesn’t move) and then heliocentric model (i. e. , sun doesn’t move) etc. It is also believed once that the sun and the moon share the same orbit (e. g. , in flat Earth model). But Qur’an in this verse clearly states that each of them moves and has a different orbit, which was not known when the Qur’an was revealed. There is another outstanding sign in this verse. Swimming can be explained as the motion of something inside a “less solid” material, like liquid. Therefore, the above verse also has a meaning that all of those objects move inside another matter, not in completely empty/free space. Or it has a meaning like “their motion is like the motion of an object inside another material like liquid, not in real vacuum”. This is exactly how the dark matter was discovered, the motion of the stars and galaxies show that they are not moving in a free space, but inside some other material which constitutes about 85% of the known universe. We named that material as dark matter. (Allah knows best. ) Now the question is Who could possibly know such information with such specifications 14 centuries ago other than Allah? Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) or anyone else at or before His time could not possibly know such information. Then according to our test above, this must be from the Owner of the universe (remember the test above), who we call as Allah in Islam. 2. Universe is Expanding In 20th century it was discovered that the universe is expanding with a positive acceleration, i. e. , with an increasing speed. Since the universe is expanding, then if we went back in time we would expect a smaller universe. If we went more back, we would expect even smaller universe. If we went back for about 14 billion years, we would see the whole universe compressed in a very tiny point. So, the universe started from a very tiny point and expanded until became as big as it is today and is still expanding. That is the point where EVERYTHING; time, space, laws of physics etc. emerged from. In other words, that is the beginning/birth of the universe and everything in it. [2] Let’s see if Qur’an says anything about it, which we know for sure that nobody could possibly know about 14 centuries ago, except of the real Owner of the universe. And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. (Qur’an, 51:47) The word for expander in the verse is lamoosi’oon which is from the root waasi’. Here are the meanings of waasi’ (see also ref. [3]): The parts of the word la-moosi’-oon mean very-expander-(gives a meaning of plurality for We). Note that We in the verse is plural of respect. So this verse is literally informing us about the expansion of the universe. This was not & could not possibly be known by anyone about 14 centuries ago where they didn’t know anything about general relativity, relativistic Doppler Effect etc. Therefore, it cannot be the word of anyone other than the Owner of the universe, i. e. , the word of Allah. 3. Position of the Stars Nay, I swear by the places of the stars. And lo! That verily is a tremendous oath, if ye but knew. (Qur’an, 56:75-76) The word translated as places is mawaaqi’ in Arabic which is the plural of mawqi’. Here is what mawqi’ means (see also ref. [4]): One reason why Allah vows with things in the Qur’an is “to indicate the importance and value of these beings for men and draws attention to them. ”[5] Let’s explain a few things about the stars to see if their places have any importance at all. i. The stars around the center of a galaxy are held in an orbit with gravitational force of the central mass of the galaxy. The stars (astronomically) close to each other also have gravitational effects on each other. The balance between these forces, to keep them in an orbit around the center of the galaxy, is the result of balance between all those forces, which is obviously very complicated. A slight (astronomical) change in the position of a star could bring chaotic results for the galaxy. For example, if a star moved away from its orbit, breaking the balances, it could go and collide with other stars within the galaxy. Just imagine how chaotic would that be, if that star was close to our solar system. This implies that the positions of stars in a galaxy are not just random positions. Therefore, obviously the positions of the stars are tremendously important. ii. We see everything through light that is either emitted from or reflected by them towards our eyes. The light has a limited speed and the stars are very far away. There are stars that are hundreds or thousands of light-years away from us. This means that, we would never know where the actual (today’s) location of a star is. [6]Therefore, it would be tremendously important if someone could somehow know about the actual locations of the stars. iii. The Black Holes are also stars which have so strong gravitational force that even light cannot escape it, therefore we can’t see them. Therefore, knowing the position of black holes is at least as important, if not more, as the places of other stars. You can extend the list by examining some other properties of the stars, but these are enough to give us an idea about how their positions are important. Think about the information that people had about the stars in 7th century, they had no significant importance at all at that time. Therefore, this cannot be the words of anyone other than the Owner of the Universe, i. e. , the word of Allah. 4. Fingerprints Does man think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips. (Qur’an, 75:3-4) In 19th century it was discovered that everyone has unique fingerprints. Even proportioning his fingertips obviously gives us a sign that there is something special, like fingerprints, about the fingertips. It was impossible for people of 7th century to know anything special enough about fingertips as it is impressed in the verse. Then the verse is obviously giving sign to something very special at least like fingerprints. (Allah knows best). Therefore, this words cannot belong to anyone other than the Creator of whole humanity that could know uniqueness of their fingerprints at 7th century. I could bring many more examples if there wasn’t a limit in characters. I showed that he Qur'an gives specific information about the universe that nobody other than its Owner, Allah, could know at its time of revelation. Therefore, according to our test method 1, the Qur'an is for sure revelation from Allah. I would like to finish my arguments on R1 with the following verse from the Holy Qur’an. We will soon show them Our signs in the horizons and in their own souls, until it will become quite clear to them that it is the truth. (Qur’an, 41:53)I hope this will be a very enjoyable and fruitful debate. I wish Pro best of luck! References For Qur’an Verses: . http://quran.com... [1] . https://en.wikipedia.org... 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