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The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge by Maurice Bucaille
5.0
An interesting book.
Maurice Bucaille was a Muslim Frenchman who was the physician for the family of King Faisal. Here, he presents his study of the Gospels and finds contradictions and scientific inaccuracies. When he discovers the Quran, he finds a book that indicates divinity, as it is filled with the contrary. Not only is it free of contradiction, it also explains things that were only discovered by scientists in the 19th century, but revealed 1400 years before the advent of modern science (and preserved until now).
Some may claim that these facts were created or guessed by Muhammad ﷺ, however, it is unfathomable to guess correctly the order of man's creation from a single sperm cell and the fertilisation of the egg, which follows sexual intercourse, leading to the formation of a fetus. Not only that, many processes like rain and the alternation of day and night are referred to, and those mentions made of creation were not found to be in dispute with what we know of science today. Though, they very clearly disagreed with the science of the time of revelation and would not have been common discussion in Arabia at that time or for many centuries after.
Bucaile explains all of that and much more. He does have some potentially controversial views on hadith but the man is not alive and so, there is no way to know more than his correct conclusion that the collections of hadith are not equal to the Quran, especially in its absolute authenticity, and some can be argued against - a science within Islam in itself.
Nonetheless, we know that he passed away as a Muslim. It is very rare that I praise works by the French, but this is important in the discourse between Islam and Christianity and science.
Maurice Bucaille was a Muslim Frenchman who was the physician for the family of King Faisal. Here, he presents his study of the Gospels and finds contradictions and scientific inaccuracies. When he discovers the Quran, he finds a book that indicates divinity, as it is filled with the contrary. Not only is it free of contradiction, it also explains things that were only discovered by scientists in the 19th century, but revealed 1400 years before the advent of modern science (and preserved until now).
Some may claim that these facts were created or guessed by Muhammad ﷺ, however, it is unfathomable to guess correctly the order of man's creation from a single sperm cell and the fertilisation of the egg, which follows sexual intercourse, leading to the formation of a fetus. Not only that, many processes like rain and the alternation of day and night are referred to, and those mentions made of creation were not found to be in dispute with what we know of science today. Though, they very clearly disagreed with the science of the time of revelation and would not have been common discussion in Arabia at that time or for many centuries after.
Bucaile explains all of that and much more. He does have some potentially controversial views on hadith but the man is not alive and so, there is no way to know more than his correct conclusion that the collections of hadith are not equal to the Quran, especially in its absolute authenticity, and some can be argued against - a science within Islam in itself.
Nonetheless, we know that he passed away as a Muslim. It is very rare that I praise works by the French, but this is important in the discourse between Islam and Christianity and science.