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Quran and modern science compatible or incompatible

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Human’. The book was the recipient of an award f<strong>or</strong><br />

the best medical book written by a single auth<strong>or</strong>.<br />

This book has been translated into several maj<strong>or</strong><br />

languages of the w<strong>or</strong>ld <strong>and</strong> is used as a textbook of<br />

embryology in the first year of medical studies.<br />

Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, Chairman of the Department<br />

of Obstetrics <strong>and</strong> Gynaecology, at the Bayl<strong>or</strong> College<br />

of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A., proclaims: “...these<br />

Hadiths, sayings of Muhammad (pbuh), could not<br />

have been obtained on the basis of the scientific<br />

knowledge that was available at the time of the<br />

writer (implying in the 7th century). It follows that<br />

not only is there no conflict between genetics <strong>and</strong><br />

religion (implying Islam) but in fact religion (Islam)<br />

may guide <strong>science</strong> by adding revelation to some of the<br />

traditional scientific approaches . . . there exist<br />

statements in the Qur’an shown centuries later to be<br />

valid which supp<strong>or</strong>t knowledge in the Qur’an having<br />

been derived from God.”<br />

DROP EMITTED FROM BETWEEN THE<br />

BACK BONE AND THE RIBS<br />

“Now let man but think<br />

from what he is created!<br />

He is created from<br />

a drop emitted –<br />

Proceeding from between<br />

the back bone <strong>and</strong> the ribs.”<br />

[Al-Qur’an 86:5-7]

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