Why Did They Become Muslims

sharing this theory.” A period of fifty or sixty years is a rather short
time within the context of worldly life.
Now let us presently turn our attention to the Qur’ân al-kerîm
and see what Allâhu ta’âlâ declares:
The thirtieth âyat of Enbiyâ Sûra purports, “Do not the
unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined
together (as one unit of creation), before We clove them
asunder?...” (21-30) The thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth âyats of
Yasîn Sûra purport, “And a Sign for them, (for the unbelievers,) is
the night: We withdraw therefrom the day, and behold they are
plunged in darkness;” “And the sun runs his course [in its orbit]...
.” (36-37, 38) That means to say that it was fourteen hundred years
ago when Allâhu ta’âlâ intimated to us the creation of the earth,
which scientists have been aware of only for the recent five or six
decades. Now let us go back to scientists.
Biologists explain the earliest life on the earth as follows: “The
first earthly atmosphere contained ammonia, oxygen, and
carbonic acid gas. With the effect of thunderbolts, amino-acids
came into being from these substances. Billions of years ago
protoplasms came into existence in water. These substances
developed into the earliest amoebas, whereby the earliest life
began in water. Later the living beings that came out to land from
water absorbed amino-acids from water, giving birth to beings
containing proteins in their constructions. As is seen, water is the
origin of all living beings, and the earliest living being came into
being in water.”
It was fourteen hundred years earlier when the Qur’ân alkerîm
announced that life was first created in the sea.
The thirtieth âyat of Enbiyâ Sûra purports, “(Do not they
know that) We made from water every living being? ...” (21-30)
The fifty-fourth âyat of Furqân Sûra purports, “It is He (Allâhu
ta’âlâ) Who has created man from water; then has He established
relationships of lineage and marriage: ...” (25-54) The thirty-sixth
âyat of Yâsîn Sûra purports, “Allâhu ta’âlâ is far from all sorts of
fault or deficiency: He created in pairs all things that the earth
produces, as well as their own (human) kind AND (OTHER)
THINGS OF WHICH THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE.” (36-
36) In this âyat-i-kerîma, the expression “and other things of
which they have no knowledge,” makes references both to
botanists and zoologists and to those scientists who will be doing
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