Al-Quran - The Miracle of Miracles [ deedat]

In the words of a modern Frenchman:
"THE ABOVE OBSERVATION (HIS OWN THESIS) MAKES THE HYPOTHESIS
ADVANCED BY THOSE WHO SEE MUHAMMAD AS THE AUTHOR OF THE
QUR'AN UNTENABLE. HOW COULD A MAN, FROM BEING ILLITERATE,
BECOME THE MOST IMPORTANT AUTHOR, IN TERMS OF LITERARY MERITS,
IN THE WHOLE OF ARABIC LITERATURE?
"HOW COULD HE THEN PRONOUNCE TRUTHS OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURE
THAT NO OTHER HUMAN-BEING COULD POSSIBLY HAVE DEVELOPED AT
THAT TIME, AND ALL THIS WITHOUT ONCE MAKING THE SLIGHTEST
ERROR IN HIS PRONOUNCEMENT ON THE SUBJECT?"
See "The Bible, the Qur'an and Science" p. 125
By Maurice Bucaille
EARLY INSPIRATION
The seeds of this booklet, "AL-QUR'AN - The Miracle
of Miracles," was probably sown by the Roving Ambassador of Islam, the silver-
tongued orator - Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui. I was only a schoolboy when he visited
South Africa on a lecture tour in 1934. Among his many erudite speeches, I heard him
talk on "Cultivation of Science by the Muslims." Subsequently, a booklet under the
same title was published by the World Federation of Islamic Missions, Karachi, Pakistan,
which brings back the earlier joy and thrill of the discourse I heard in my teens. In
memory of that great servant of Islam, I reproduce here, for posterity, a few words of
what the Maulana had to say on the relationship between the Holy Qur'an and the
branches of scientific knowledge:
EXHORTATIONS TO THE SCIENCES
"The stress which the Holy Qur'an has laid on the scientific study of the universe is
a phenomenon unique in the religious literature of the world. Repeatedly it calls our
attention to the multifarious phenomena of nature occurring around us. Repeatedly
it exhorts the Muslims that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is one of their
religious duties. Repeatedly it emphasises the great truth unknown to the pre-
Qur'anic world that everything in nature is for the service of man and should be
harnessed by him for his use. It exhorts us to study the structure and function of the
human organism, the structure, functions and distribution of animals, the form,
structure, functions, classification and distribution of plants, and these are problems
of BIOLOGY.
"It exhorts us to study the order of nature and the general properties of matter as
affected by energy, which is the problem of modern PHYSICS.
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