An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
Not only is the Qur’an free of contradictions within itself, it has also
declared that it will never be found to be in disagreement with any
discovered knowledge, though it may have been unknown to man at
the time of the Qur’an’s revelation. God says of His final revelation:
“No falsehood can approach it from before it or after it: it is sent
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down by One full of wisdom, Worthy of all praise.”
We will look in the following chapter at the exactness with which the
Qur’an has discussed certain scientific areas which have only been
discovered by modern science extremely recently. Here, we will look
at some final examples of how pure the Qur’an is of contradictions.
Haman
The Qur’an speaks of a man called Haman along with the Pharaoh of
the time of Moses in six different places. From the descriptions of him
and his relationship with the Pharaoh in the Qur’an, we get the
impression he was a very close advisor or minister of the Pharaoh.
However, there is no mention of a Haman in the Bible in relationship
to Pharaoh, though there is mention in the book of Esther of the Old
Testament of a Haman who was the prime minister of a Persian king
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around 1100 years after the time of Moses.
For a long time the Qur’an’s mention of Haman alongside Pharaoh was
therefore attacked by critics of Islam as an example of Muhammad’s
borrowing from the Bible and muddling names up – Haman was said
to be a Babylonian name, not Egyptian. In 1906, however, an amazing
discovery was made. By decoding hieroglyph inscriptions in an
Egyptian monument in the Hof Museum in Vienna, the name Haman
was found for the first time in Egyptian writings. Not only that, but the
Qur’an 41:42 See Book of Esther, chapter 3
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