The Islamic Bulletin Volume I No. 1 Page 10 Quran And Science The Qur’an, the holy book in Islam, is not a book of science; yet, it talks about so many different areas of material things in a very scientific way that leaves an everlasting miracle and a permanent challenge to the thinking humans. Such references are hard to include in such a short article; however, a good sample of them are included in this article. The translation from Arabic to English makes those verses loose some of their strength when some words have to be translated to the closest words. The human embryology subject is one of the most amazing parts in the Qur’an. A verse in Surah Al-Zumar says: “The Almighty makes you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, within three veils of darkness.” This matches with what Dr. Keith Moore from Canada says that a 20 week fetus in the uterus is surrounded by three veils of darkness: the abdominal wall, the uterine wall and the aminochorionic membrane. Another verse in Surah Al-Muminoun says: “The Almighty made you from a drop of sperm into a leech-like structure which changed into a chewed-like substance that then took the shape of a bone and was clothed with flesh.” Dr. Keith Moore says that a 24 day human embryo looks exactly like a leech or a bloodsucker. At 28 days, several parts of bead-like somites start to appear on the embryo to make it look like the chewed substance. A saying of the Prophet also states this: “Not from all the fluid is the offspring created” while a verse in Surah Al-Insan says: “Verily, We created the human being from mixture of germinal drop.” Another verse in Surah Al-Muminoun shows that the bone material is formed before the flesh: “Then We clothed the bones with flesh.” Many more verses provide detailed description of the development of the embryo that needs advanced knowledge of the human embryology to appreciate. The expansion of a universe, a recent discovery of modern science that was first suggested by the general theory of relativity and is backed up by physics in the examination of the galactic spectrum; the regular movement towards the red section of their spectrum may be explained by the distancing of our galaxy from another. Thus the size of the universe is constantly increasing. This verse in another Surah says: “The Heaven, We have built it with power. Verily, We are expanding it.” Concerning the moon, the sun, and the night, the Holy Qur’an says in Surah Al-Anbiyaa: “(The Almighty is) The One who created the night, the day, the sun, the moon. Each one is traveling in an orbit with its own motion.” Another verse in Surah Yaseen says: “The sun must not catch up the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. Each one is traveling in an orbit with its own motion.” The Qur’an also tells the difference between the sun and the moon. The sun is called “Sirjan
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