The Quranic Revelations on Marine Knowledge

The Quranic Revelations on Marine Knowledge

by Agus S. Djamil [1] and Mifedwil Jandra [2]

Submitted for The 2nd World-ISLAM; World Congress on Islamic Systems 2012 (World-ISLAM2012). 

FTI, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Skudai 81310. Malaysia

[1] Agus S Djamil, PhD candidate, Islamic Civilization, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Master of Science in Exploration and Development Geophysics from Stanford University, USA (1996), Sarjana Physics from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (1988) Mobile: +673 888 4569; Email: agus.djamil@yahoo.com

[2] Mifedwil Jandra bin Moh Janan, PhD, Professor in Islamic Study, Islamic Civilization, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Total no of pages : 12 

excerpts from the E-Book 

The Fire within the Ocean: The Qur’an mention at verse Ath Thur 52:6 “And by the sea kept filled (or it will be fire)” . Or another translation that say “And the sea that contain fire within”. Without reading into another sign of Allah SWT in the real ocean, this verse would be quite puzzling. This verse indicates that there are source of heat within the ocean. This is the magnificence reason for discovering energy resources within the deep of ocean, the dynamism of ocean, the physical/biological/chemical condition of the ocean. The science has been able to probe deep ocean and beneath, to collect data and reported that there are fire, immense heat, high energy and energy potential within the ocean

The Layers of the Ocean and the Darkness of the Ocean: The Qur’an also reveals, long before mankind can goes into the deeper water with submarine, that deep ocean is totally dark. Perfect darkness with layers of waves, one after another. Verse AnNuur24:40 reveals: “Or is like the darkness in a vast deep sea, overwhelmed with waves topped by waves, layers up darkness upon darkness; if a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it! And he for whom Allah has not appointed light, for him there is no light”. Ocean has physical layer characteristics like pressure, salinity, temperature, density, light intensity, chemical composition, and biological distribution. Vast volume of ocean water never have homogeneous in term of physical, chemical and biological characteristic.

9 words that show how much of English math is actually Arabic

During the Islamic Golden Age, which scholarly consensus places between the 8th and 13th centuries, immense scientific progress was achieved by Muslim scientists and scholars in the Arab World, especially in the fields of mathematics, chemistry and physics.

The scientific discoveries and theories made during this era of enlightenment acted as the basis of the modern sciences as we know them today.

Traces of that era are still present in modern life in the form of language, especially in the English language in which many scientific terms and random generic words are derived from Arabic.

These are nine words that show how much of modern mathematics is originally Arabic.

1. Algebra – Al-Gabr

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The Arabic word “al-Jabr,” which literally means completing broken parts, is the origin of the English word.

The Arabic term was coined by Muslim scholar and mathematician Mohammed Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi in his book, which earned him the title of the founder of algebra.

2. Algorithm – Al-Khwarizmi

THE LIMITED ABILITY OF SCIENCE EVEN IN DETERMINING THE FETUS RELATED ISSUE

In this small article it shows 

1. How science even until the recent 19th century was unable to determine much of what it can today which is a proof that how limited and more importantly dependent science is upon humans who in turn are limited - both in their power and intellect - themselves 

2. Shows how even today science needs a few months or many weeks to determine the sex and the baby taking shape via ultrasound and cannot determine what God informed us he can even years before the baby is born.  Such as its gender, its destiny, its career etc. 

3. Science is so limited that it could not study the detailed embryo development pattern until in the early 20th century or late 19th era . 

4. Despite its advancement, science even now cannot tell when exactly the fetes gains its spirit /becomes a person with senses 

Why Science Can’t Say When a Baby’s Life Begins by SCOTT GILBERT

THE PROBLEM WITH THE CLAIM " SCIENTIFIC FACT OR PROOF "

This is a quick transcript for a short but POWERFUL discussion , exposing or disclosing the fallacies of some scientific claims, facts and their scientific methodology as explained by brother Imran Hussain [Link : https://www.facebook.com/imranhusseindawah?] and Saboor Ahmed [Link unkown]. The video begins from 00:10 seconds and it is 1:40 am here but the points made in this video are so sublte yet important i decided to get up and transcribe it,so kindly excuse any mistakes and bring them to my notice via commenting below this post. 

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI6yXt1hIXA&feature=youtu.be

00:10 

Imran : Today's show we are discussing something very interesting, that is Richard Dawkin's support IERA's narrative . Now there are a few questions that arise from this and 

1) what is this narrative and
2) How does he support this narrative 

Saboor: I can answer the first one, the second one's going to have to wait till the end of the show 

Imran : Okay so let us address the first one, what is this narrative?

Saboor: Okay, our narrative is when it comes to evolution , that a scientific fact isn't neccessarily an absolute fact, right?

Imran: Yes

Saboor: and the counter narrative to this is that evolution, darwanian evolution is an absolute fact, whoever challenges it is committing intellectual suicide and it is written in stone. It's true and it's never going to change and it is a brute fact of reality

Imran: Okay, so two questions that arise from what you just said. 

1) Is evolution a scientific fact? and 
2) Define for us what is a scientific fact?

Saboor: Okay, so is evolution a scientific fact? Now this is an area where there could be a lot of dispute so there could be like someone could say it is a scientific fact, others would say there are big problems with observation , actually no one can even see any macro evolution in real time and you know we're going to get into this whole discussion...

Imran: Generally speaking for the case of this video, let us accept for the sake of discussion that it is considered a scientific fact amongst the majority of scientific community? right?

Saboor: yes that'll be a fair way to carry on. 

Imran : so what is a scientific fact now, define that for us?

Saboor: Scientific fact is something which obviously goes through a scientific method so you have observation, experimentation, you know falsification - its confirmed or falsified - and then it goes through pier review and if its new knowledge it becomes like a theory and if it is generally has a consensus among the scientific community , in scientific discourse you'd call it a fact in science

Imran: Okay, good. This being the case, is there problems with scientific facts? This is another question we need to tackle.

Saboor: I wouldn't use the word problems i would say "limits"

Imran : Okay, so are there limits to such facts

Saboor: Yes, there are limits because it is very counter intuitive to think that scientific fact can be wrong because science has given us so much. It's given us cameras and iphones and satellites and all those things.. so you will think that science will never change, or scientific fact will never change but they actually do! 

Like for e.g in the beginning of the 20th century there was a consensus among scientists which was that the University is eternal - a steady state model - and it was a scientific fact , it was (taken as) a brute fact of reality; what actually happened after a few years - the hubble telescope - we discovered the universe is expanding so this scientific fact was WRONG! 

Universe was not eternal , it had a begining some 13.7 billion years ago; likewise around the same time Einstein's view of the universe it prevailed over the newtonian view of the universe so you always have these revolutions and para dime shifts and you know changes

Imran : scientific facts change, now that leads me to another thing which is that something is going on here which is leading scientific facts to change or allowing them that room to change and this leads me to think that it is something to do with the method itself which is the scientific method, so there are some limiting factors about the scientific method itself right? 

Saboor: yes

Imran : One ; i think we can discuss briefly is the problem of deduction, so maybe you'd want to clear that for us 

Saboor: Let us take the example of a scientist in wales . A scientist in wales must find out what colour sheep are. So he travels all over whales and sees all the sheeps are white so he comes up with a hypothesis that the sheep are white. He tests it out, every sheep that he sees is white so it is a scientific fact for him that sheep are white. Say this happens 300 years ago there is not T.V, no internet nothing like that. 

Then he travels to say New zealand and he comes across a black sheep; which is going against his current theory 

imran : yea

Saboor: that's basically the problem of induction. So when you get new evidence which goes against your previous evidences , conclusions. 

Imran : and the problem there is that you are always limited to how many observations you have at hand and based on those observations you make your inference and there is room for error because it is possible that the next sheep or next ten sheep could be black or blue or pink for that matter

Saboor: Exactly , look there are somethings so certain about. For e.g.  the scientists believed at one point that the sun is stationary , it didn't move. And anybody who said that the sun had an orbit, would be mad , would be (deemed) crazy. So anybody who was a Muslim at that time and you know in the qur'an it mentions the sun has an orbit ; he would be like no that is impossible - we can see the sun it's not moving - but again when we discover the universe is much bigger than we thought, the sun goes around the milkyway galaxy in millions of years of ..you know over 200 million years in terms of orbit . 

So again something that we were so sure about , because of the problem of induction it goes through a You Turn and the interesting thing here Imran is not one or two things in the history of science where there is a U-Turn ; (but rather) the whole history of science is filled with U-Turn's and you know we think of science as an accumulation of eternal truth - (but) It's not ! - and as it mentions in the introduction to the Philosophy of science by Oxford University that 

"Science is revisable. Hence to talk of scientific proof is dangerous, because the term fosters the idea of conclusions that are graven in stone"  [Ref: Gillian Barker and Phillip kitcher. Philosopher of science. A new introduction. Oxford University Press 2014, p. 17] 

Now this is information which obviously the academics know, but the laymen doesn't! 

Imran: Okay so let me sum this up, so to touch a point there. We only mentioned induction as one example but there are several examples , several limiting factors of the scientific factors. Not to say it is a bad method, it is an excellent method but what we're saying is we appreciate it for what it actually is. and i guess what happens when you do that is you end up doing justice with the method itself. Once you understand its limits and it's scope - so on and so forth - right. 

Now understanding this, our narrative then just to sum is that - science as a methodology is a beautiful method ; it works but its limited , has limited factors and it can't give us a 100% truth. Just based on induction itself it can give us from 0-99% , it can't give us a 100 % . Therefore any theory that science promotes or proposes can't be a 100% true. There they may be scientific facts but they may not be absolute facts. 

Saboor: Yes

Transcription is stopped at 6:54 minute. Approx 8 more minutes to go. To see it watch the remaining video. 

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The British copying Muslim design

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CHINESE ARABIC DICTIONARY

Download: https://ia601007.us.archive.org/16/items/ChineseArabicDictionary/ChineseArabicDictionary.pdf

E-BOOK : The worlds first written constitution of the World by dr. Hameedullah

Discusses the first pact made by the Prophet and the jews and residents of madeenah

Free download: http://ebooks.rahnuma.org/religion/Dr.Hamidullah/Dr.HamidUllah-The-First-Written-Constitution-of-the-World.pdf 

Useful websites to download E book pertaining to orientalist studies

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THE BIG BANG THEORY IS ONLY A THEORY AS PER ONE GROUP OF SCIENTISTS

05. The big bang theory has a growing number of detractors who have pointed out serious flaws in the model. In "An Open Letter to the Scientific Community" published in New Scientist, May 22, 2004, thirty-four scientists wrote the following letter:

The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed-- inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory. In no other field of physics would this continual recourse to new hypothetical objects be accepted as a way of bridging the gap between theory and observation. It would, at the least, raise serious questions about the validity of the underlying theory.But the big bang theory can't survive without these fudge factors. Without the hypothetical inflation field, the big bang does not predict the smooth, isotropic cosmic background radiation that is observed, because there would be no way for parts of the universe that are now more than a few degrees away in the sky to come to the same temperature and thus emit the same amount of microwave radiation.
Without some kind of dark matter, unlike any that we have observed on Earth despite 20 years of experiments, big-bang theory makes contradictory predictions for the density of matter in the universe. Inflation requires a density 20 times larger than that implied by big bang nucleosynthesis, the theory's explanation of the origin of the light elements. And without dark energy, the theory predicts that the universe is only about 8 billion years old, which is billions of years younger than the age of many stars in our galaxy.

What is more, the big bang theory can boast of no quantitative predictions that have subsequently been validated by observation. The successes claimed by the theory's supporters consist of its ability to retrospectively fit observations with a steadily increasing array of adjustable parameters, just as the old Earth-centered cosmology of Ptolemy needed layer upon layer of epicycles.

Eastern Texts Meet Western Quills: The First English Translation of the Qur’an

British Islamic and Quranic history spans centuries and includes significant influence in the English Civil War 



When asking people about the first English Qur’an, the response is frequently a reference to the 1930 translation by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall. Less frequently an excited voice speaks of the George Sale Qur’an of 1734. However, British Islamic – and Qur’anic – history extends long beyond that, in a rich account of theological study, political negotiations and self-discovery.

The entrance of the complete Qur’an into the western world is in fact traced back to the Middle Ages. The first translation into a European language, Latin, was completed by the English scholar Robertus Retenensis. It was entitled Lex Mahumet Pseudoprophete (The Law of Mahomet the False Prophet) and was completed in 1143. The translation enjoyed popularity and wide circulation, and was later to become the main basis for further contemporary translations into Italian, German and Dutch. Between 1480 and 1481, not long after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the first bilingual translation into Latin with accompanying Arabic appeared, composed by the Jewish convert to Christianity, Flavius Mithridates. In 1647, Andrew Du Ryer produced the first French translation in Paris. This first direct translation from the Arabic text since the Middle Ages was a marked improvement from those produced in the years since 1143.

the alcoran of mahomet

Title page for the first English translation of the Qur’an (1649) by Alexander Ross

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