Along with the fact that
Muhammad, peace be upon him, was unlettered, one who could neither read
nor write. He grew up in Makkah whree there were no conventional schools,
and he was far away from the scientific circles which existed in Syria,
Alexandria, Athens and Rome. Moreover, the scientific facts mentioned in
the Qur'an were not known in the seventh century. Having studied and
examined the Arabic text of the Qur'an, Dr. Maurice Bucaille
marvels:
"I could not find a single error
in the Qur'an. I had to stop and ask myself, if a man was the author of
the Qur'an, how could he have written facts in the Seventh century A.D.
that today are shown to be in keeping with modern scientific knowledge? I
had to acknowledge the evidence in front of me. The Qur'an did not contain
a single statement that was assailable from a modern scientific
point of view. I repeated the same test for the Old Testament and the
Gospels, always preserving the same objective outlook. In the former, I
did not even have to go beyond the first book, Genesis, to find statements
totally out of keeping with the cast-iron facts of modern
science.
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