Paying Heed to Scientific Aspects of the Holy Quran Crucial
Ever since its revelation, the Holy Quran has attracted a great number of Muslims throughout history by unveiling lots of scientific verities. Yet, they refused to explore those miraculous facts due to developing a mere non-scientific outlook toward the holy Book.
This is according to Ibtisam Abdul-Karim Ali Hossein Al-Madani, Iraqi Quran researcher and rector of Teachers Training Faculty in Kufa, who also told IQNA that Muslims would have surpassed western scholars had they reflected on the Quran’s scientific revelations.
“The history of exploring the scientific miracles of the Quran dates back to the time when scholars began interpreting the Holy Book and thereby inferring scientific theories,” she went on to say, adding: “However, years later, they realized that their theories were not much compatible with Quranic prophecies for the verses are beyond their comprehension.”
“For instance, the expansion of the earth was first interpreted as its being flat on surface, but came to have a different implication after scientists discovered that the earth is in fact spherical.”
Emphasizing that the notion of Quran’s scientific miracles has always been included in Quran exegeses, she noted: “The Book directed Muslims to various scientific and empirical facts but they failed to appreciate such treasures by not paying heed to scientific aspects of the holy Book.”
“Muslims could have far exceeded western thinkers if they had meditated upon the Quran’s scientific facts more carefully and made more exploratory attempts in this regard,” she further added, calling for more extensive research to be conducted using the Quranic tips.
“The main incentive that pushed Muslim scholars into investigating the Quranic miracles was the Quran’s logic on challenging its Munkerin (deniers) to bring a similar Surah of their own, and this directed the researchers towards discovering more about the miraculous aspects of the Holy Book.”
She further said that “such miracles were already implied within the Quranic verses but unfortunately, they went unnoticed by Muslims and western scholars could unconsciously discover some of them prior to Muslims.”
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“The history of exploring the scientific miracles of the Quran dates back to the time when scholars began interpreting the Holy Book and thereby inferring scientific theories,” she went on to say, adding: “However, years later, they realized that their theories were not much compatible with Quranic prophecies for the verses are beyond their comprehension.”
“For instance, the expansion of the earth was first interpreted as its being flat on surface, but came to have a different implication after scientists discovered that the earth is in fact spherical.”
Emphasizing that the notion of Quran’s scientific miracles has always been included in Quran exegeses, she noted: “The Book directed Muslims to various scientific and empirical facts but they failed to appreciate such treasures by not paying heed to scientific aspects of the holy Book.”
“Muslims could have far exceeded western thinkers if they had meditated upon the Quran’s scientific facts more carefully and made more exploratory attempts in this regard,” she further added, calling for more extensive research to be conducted using the Quranic tips.
“The main incentive that pushed Muslim scholars into investigating the Quranic miracles was the Quran’s logic on challenging its Munkerin (deniers) to bring a similar Surah of their own, and this directed the researchers towards discovering more about the miraculous aspects of the Holy Book.”
She further said that “such miracles were already implied within the Quranic verses but unfortunately, they went unnoticed by Muslims and western scholars could unconsciously discover some of them prior to Muslims.”
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