WHO WROTE THE QURAN

e stationary in the center of the solar system. The Quran had, however,revealed 1400 years ago, "The sun is moving along toward its appointeddestination."(36:38) The great Russian philosopher, astronomer andscientist, P.D. Ouspensky, maintained that any science that contradictedthe Quran would turn out to be false. Then, during Ouspensky's lifetime, itwas discovered that the sun is moving toward a specific destination at 12miles per second i.e. 43,200 miles per hour! This destination has even beenassigned names, the Solar Apex, the Constellation of Hercules. Guess whatOuspensky did! He embraced Islam.“Roger Bacon owed his illumination to the Muslim Moors of Spain. Thegreat figures of European Renaissance could see further because theystood on the shoulders of the giants of the Muslim world. -- Thoseachievements represent what the Muslim world has been in the past. Theyalso point to what it could become in the future.” (Richard Nixon - Nixon'sTen Commandments)11. Nationalism: Arnold Toynbee in his 1952 work, The World and the West,called nationalism a form idol worship. In his writing and lectures herepeatedly urged the world leadership to break this idol. After all, who isunaware of the devastation caused to our planet by the World Wars I and II.Nationalism was the obvious root cause of this massive trauma tohumanity.Years before Toynbee, Sir Iqbal, on the authority of the Quran, callednationalism "the modern idol which the humanity has sculpted". The Quranordained all mankind to be one nation and declared that all believers in theFinal Revelation, regardless of where and when they live, are tied in thesacred bond of brotherhood and sisterhood (49:10). That announcementleft no room for manmade geographical boundaries.It is heartening to note that great western minds such as NicholesBerdyeau, Henry Bergson, A.C. Ewing, Rene Guenon, Alfred Cobban,Frederick Hertz, H.G. Wells, and numerous others, not only support theunity of mankind but also predict it!12. Pragmatism: At the dawn of Islam, Greeks were the torchbearers ofknowledge in the world. Many scholars including Briffault and Higginshave correctly remarked that the Greek knowledge rested on theoryand logic. Experimentation had no place in the Greek system oflearning. Aristotle had written that women were deficient in intellectbecause they had only 28 teeth. He never even bothered to look! Healso stated that an egg would float in the ocean! It was only Islam thattaught mankind of the necessity of testing a theory or ideology by wayof experimentation.51