Why Did They Become Muslims

changes into nitric acid, which in its turn combines with the
ammonia and the carbonic acid in air, hence ammonium nitrate
and ammonium carbonate. The salts formed in this way fall on to
the earth with rain. Once these salts reach the earth they combine
with the calcium salts to make the compound termed calcium
nitrate. This salt is absorbed by plants and makes them grow.
These substances change into various proteins, [e.g. albumens,] in
the human beings and animals that eat these plants, and feed the
people who consume the meat, the milk, and the eggs of those
animals.” Then, people’s food, as is stated in the Qur’ân al-kerîm,
comes from heaven.
The information given above is at the same time an answer to
those who slander the Qur’ân al-kerîm by saying that “the things
stated in it do not agree with scientific knowledge.” The Islamic
scholars ‘rahima humullâhu ta’âlâ’, the experts of the knowledge
of tafsîr (explanation of the Qur’ân al-kerîm), explained the âyati-kerîmas
within the scientific knowledge of their time. What we
want to do now is to prove that not only is the Qur’ân al-kerîm in
conformity with the scientific knowledge of every age, but the
newest explorations will find their references in it. Each âyat-ikerîma
has an infinite number of meanings. As all the attributes of
Allâhu ta’âlâ are boundless, so His attribute Kelâm (word, speech)
has no limits. It is only the Owner of the Qur’ân al-kerîm, i.e.
Allâhu ta’âlâ, who knows all those meanings. And He has
intimated most of them to His Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi
wa sallam’. And this blessed Prophet of His ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’, in his turn, informed his Sahâba (Companions)
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ about the ones that he
considered suitable for them. We assume that the information we
have given above could be a few drops from that ocean of
meanings.
Now, if we ask these scientists, “Do you think a person who had
not learned how to read and write could conceive these facts
fourteen hundred years ago?” they will say, “It is impossible.
Obtaining these facts today have cost humanity centuries spent
reading innumerable books and doing countless experiments. And
doing all those experimentations requires reading for years,
establishing huge laboratories, and preparing and using delicate
instruments.”
Then, is it something conceivable that a person who had not
learned anything and who had grown up in a vulgarly ignorant
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