An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
mountains having deep roots was introduced only in the latter half of
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the twentieth century.
Modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as
stabilizers for the earth. This information has just begun to be
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understood in the framework of plate tectonics since the late 1960’s.
God has said in the Qur’an:
“And He has set firm mountains in the earth so that it would not shake
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with you…”
There are many more similar examples of the perfect harmony
between the Qur’anic verses of over fourteen hundred years old and
extremely recently discovered scientific facts. These include areas
such as the water cycle, the orbiting of planets, cloud formation,
lightning, underwater waves and currents and many others. All of
them demonstrate the same thing: that the Qur’an spoke clearly about
many things that mankind had no knowledge of with great accuracy.
Which can only mean one thing:
“The above observation 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
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making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?”
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M. J. Selby, Earth's Changing Surface (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1985), p. 32
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El-Naggar, The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Quran, p. 5
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Qur’an 16:15
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Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, the Qur'an and Science, 1978, p. 125
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