Islam - The FAQ - Answering the Issues

accounts is that whereas the Bible describes the flood as a worldwide
flood (see Genesis ch.7), the Qur’\n mentions it as a local flood
affecting the people of Noah. It says:
“We sent Noah (of old) unto his people, and he said: O my people!
Serve All\h. You have no other god save Him. Lo! I fear for you the
retribution of an awful day...
But they rejected him, and We delivered him, and those with him, in
the Ark: but We overwhelmed in the flood those who rejected Our
signs. They were indeed a blind people!” (7:59,64)
Today it is acknowledged that no record exists of a worldwide flood
occurring at the time specified by the Bible. The closest thing there is
evidence of is something discovered by Sir Charles Leonard Wooley. In
1929 he discovered remains from a great flood which occurred
around 4000 B.C. The discovery at a place called Ur made headline
news in the US and Britain. But was this a worldwide flood? After
describing the extent of the flood, author Werner Keller tells us:
“Looking at the map we should call it a ‘local occurrence’… obviously
not of sufficient magnitude for the Biblical Flood… A flood of the
unimaginable extent described in the Bible still remains
‘archeologically not demonstrated’.” (Werner Keller, The Bible as
History, 1980) How did the author of the Qur’\n avoid this mistake
unless the author was God Himself?
Another example of the not-so-similar similarities between the Qur’\n
and the Bible is the story of the Pharaoh. Both the Bible and the Qur’\n
tell us of God’s overthrowing Pharaoh and his army, but the Qur’\n
goes on to make a startling point which the Bible has absolutely no
record of: that God says to Pharaoh as he was drowning, “This day will
We preserve you in your body that you become a sign for those after
you” (10:92). Until the last couple of hundred years, it was completely
unknown to the world that the ancient Egyptians mummified their
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