1) Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is Professor of
Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics,
Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. There, he was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy
for 16 years. He is well-known in his field. He is the author or
editor of 22 textbooks and has published over 181 scientific papers. In
1991, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of
anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of
Anatomists. When he was asked about the scientific miracles in the Quran
which he has researched, he stated the following:
“The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very
ordinary man. He could not read, didn’t know [how] to write. In fact, he
was an illiterate. And we’re talking about twelve [actually about
fourteen] hundred years ago.
You have someone illiterate making profound
pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly accurate about scientific
nature. And I personally can’t see how this could be a mere chance.
There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my
mind that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these
statements.” (View
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Professor Persaud has included some Quranic verses and
sayings of the Prophet Muhammad in
some of his books. He has also presented these verses and sayings of the
Prophet Muhammad at
several conferences.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn
and the Chairman of the Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee,
Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was also the President of the American
Fertility Society. He has received many awards, including the Association
of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992.
Professor Simpson studied the following two sayings of the Prophet
Muhammad .
{In every one of you, all components of your creation are
collected together in your mother’s womb by forty days...}
{If forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God
sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin,
flesh, and bones....}
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively,
noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of
embryo-genesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolute precision
and accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet Muhammad .
Then, during one conference, he gave the following opinion:
“So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of
the Prophet Muhammad )
that have been noted provide us with a specific time table for the main
embryological development before forty days. Again, the point has been
made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this morning: these hadeethscould
not have been obtained on the basis of the scientific knowledge that was
available [at] the time of their writing . . . . It follows, I think, that not
only there is no conflict between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion
can guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific
approaches, that there exist statements in the Quran shown centuries later to
be valid, which support knowledge in the Quran having been derived from
God.” (View the
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3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor
Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, for 22 years he was Professor of
Anatomy, the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, and the Director of the
Daniel Baugh Institute. He was also the President of the Teratology
Society. He has authored more than 200 publications. In 1981,
during the Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor
Johnson said in the presentation of his research paper:
“Summary: The Quran describes not only the development of
external form, but emphasizes also the internal stages, the stages inside the
embryo, of its creation and development, emphasizing major events recognized by
contemporary science.” (View the RealPlayer
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Also he said: “As a scientist, I can only deal with things
which I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and
developmental biology. I can understand the words that are translated to
me from the Quran. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose
myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and describing things, I could
not describe the things which were described. I see no evidence for the
fact to refute the concept that this individual, Muhammad, had to be developing
this information from some place. So I see nothing here in conflict with
the concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was able to
write.”4 (View the RealPlayer
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4) Dr. William W. Hay is a well-known marine
scientist. He is Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. He was formerly the Dean of the Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, Miami,
Florida, USA. After a discussion with Professor Hay about the Quran’s
mention of recently discovered facts on seas, he said:
“I find it very interesting that this sort of
information is in the ancient scriptures of the Holy Quran, and I have no way
of knowing where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting
that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning
of some of the passages.” And when he was asked about the source of the
Quran, he replied: “Well, I would think it must be the divine being.” (View the RealPlayer video of
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