Professor
Kroner said: "Thinking about many of these questions and thinking where Muhammad came
from, he was after all a bedouin. I think it is almost impossible that he could have known
about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found
out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods
that this is the case."
Professor Kroner chose an
example from the Quran which proved to him why the Quran could not have come from Muhammad
(PBUH) himself. The example which Professor Kroner chose is a description in the Quran of
the fact that this universe had its beginnings in one single entity. Allah, may He be
Exalted and Glorified said: "Do
not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together [ratqan],
before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing
" [Quran
21:30]
The meaning of ratqan in
this verse, as Ibn Abbas, Mujaahid, and others said, may Allah be pleased with all of
them, is that the heavens and the earth were stuck together or blended together, and that
they were later separated from each other. Professor Kroner used this as an example to
prove that no human being during the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), could have known
this.
Professor Kroner:
"Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400 years ago could not,
I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind for instance that the earth and
the heavens had the same origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed
here."
Professor Kroner, so it
seemed to us, has a special talent of being evasive. For example, we asked him to describe
the geological conditions of Arabia. Was Arabia full of orchards and rivers?
He said: "During the Snow Age." And it is further known that the North Polar
icebergs are slowly moving southwards. When those polar icebergs become relatively close
to the Arabian Peninsula, the weather will change and Arabia will become one of the
greenest and wettest parts of the world. We asked him: Will Arabia become the land
of orchards and rivers? He said: "Yes, it is a scientific fact."
This astonished us, and
we wondered how he could state this as a scientific fact while it was related to the
future and we asked: Why? He said: "Because the new Snow Age has actually
started. And we can see the snow crawling once again from the North Pole southwards. In
fact, the polar snow is now on the way to get closer to the Arabian Peninsula. We can see
the signs of this in the snow blizzards striking the northern parts of Europe and America
every winter. Scientists have other signs and information proving the actual beginning of
another Snow Age. It is a scientific fact."
So we said to him:
What you have just mentioned has only been known to scientists after a long series
of discoveries and with the help of specialized instruments. But we have already found
this mentioned by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) 1400 years ago. He said in a hadith
transmitted in Sahih Muslim:
"The Last Hour will
not come upon us until the lands of the Arabs are once again pasture lands and filled with
rivers."
At this point we asked
Professor Kroner: Who told the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), that the lands of the Arabs
were once filled with orchards and rivers? He immediately replied: "The
Romans." This reminded me of Professor Kroners evasive ability. We asked
him another question, we said to him: But who informed the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),
that the lands of the Arabs would once again become pasturelands and be filled with
rivers?. Professor Kroner becomes evasive if embarrassed. But whenever he was faced
with the truth, he is courageous enough to state his opinion frankly and thus he replied:
"This could have been known to him only through revelation from above."
Finally, after our
discussions with him, he made the following comments: "If you combine all these and
you combine all those statements that are being made in the Quran in terms that relate to
the earth and the formation of the earth and science in general, you can basically say
that statements made there in many ways are true. They can now be confirmed by scientific
methods, and in a way you can say that the Quran is a simple science text book for the
simple man, and that many of the statements made in there at that time could not be proven
but that modern scientific methods are now in a position to prove what Muhammad said 1400
years ago."
Allah confirms in His
Book that:
"This is no less than
reminder to (all), the worlds. And you shall certainly know the truth of it all after a
while." [Quran 38:87-88] |