Consultant Physician and Nephrologist
MRCP (UK) , FRCP (Edinburgh), FRCP (London)
King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

The Scientific Miracles in
The Holy Quran (Examples)
• Al-Nasiyah (front of the head and the brain) in The Holy
Quran and medicine (Prefrontal lobe).
• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) functions and ablution (Wudu).
• Breast feeding in The Holy Quran.
• Embryology in The Holy Quran.
• Iron (Fe) in The Holy Quran and medicine.
• Water (H
2
O) in The Holy Quran, science and medicine.
• Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) e.g. AIDS in Islamic teaching and medicine.

• Message of Holy Quran.
• Number of medical and cosmic verses (ayaat) in the
Holy Quran (ayaat with scientific reference).
• The Holy Quran and science.
• The Quranic system in the mankind and universe.
• Two books (The Holy Quran and the universe).
• The rationale for recurrence of ayaat of scientific reference in The Holy Quran.

• The Qura’n is a book of faith (Iman) and guidance (Hidaayah). It also includes educational dimensions for the establishment of a virtuous society. Allah (SWT) says:
89 : ِّ حنلا
ٍ ْْ ََ ِ
ِّ لك
ِ ل اًناَيْبِت َباَت ِ ك لا َكْيَل َع اَن لَّزَن َو
" َني ِمِلْس لم لِل ىَر ْشلب َو ًة َم ْحَر َو ى ًد له َو
"
" And we have sent down to thee the book explaining all things, a guide, a mercy and glad tidings to muslims
”
(An Nahl:89)
.

• There are many verses ( ayaat
) in Al Qur’an al
Kareem which deal with different branches of science ( medical and cosmic ).
• We have reviewed and classified these verses according to their scientific topics and also studied the rationale behind their recurrence in the Qur’an.

• The results were as follows:
First : There are approximately 1200 ayaat which refer to the different sciences, which constitutes nearly 20% of the total number of ayaat (6236) in Al Qur’an al
Kareem.

Second : There are approximately 70 ayaat praising Science and Scientists, encouraging them to be involved in discovering the universe for the good of humanity. As a matter of fact the first five ayaat revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH ) ordered him to read and learn.

مرك لا كبرو ارقا ) 2 ( قلع نم ناسنإلا قلخ ) 1 ( قلخ يذلا كبر مساب ارقا
) 5 ( ملعي مل ام ناسنإلا ملع ) 4 ( ملقلاب ملع يذلا ) 3 (
5 1 : قلعلا
Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (1) Has created man from a clot (2)
Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous,(3)
Who has taught by the pen,(4) Has taught man that which he knew not (5)
Al-Alaq 1-5

Third : The studied ayaat were categorized according to their scientific topics as follows:
Medicine
Physics
Biology
Astronomy & Cosmology
Geography
Agriculture
Math. & Statistics
All of the above & others
416 Geology
138 Seas & Rivers
69
35
130 Transportation 28
105 Origin of Man & others 27
98
89
79
Engineering
Chesmistry
Language of birds & animals
12
11
8
> 20

The System of The Holy Quran: in the Universe and Mankind!!

MANKIND
THE
TRUTH
(AYAAT)
The Holy
QURAN
UNIVERSE
SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE

• 1 st . The written and readable book !!
(The Quran – words of Allah -SWT)
• 2 nd . The visible book !!
(The universe – created by Allah -SWT)!

• Day : 365 times .
• Month : 12 times .
• Moon : 27 times .
• Sun : 33 times .
• Sun and Moon in same Ayaah : 19 times.

Al-Nasiyah
(front of the head & the brain)

• The holy Qur ’ an describes the front of the head in the disbelievers being lying and sinful !!
) 16 : قلعلا ةروس (
) ةئطاخ ةبذاك ةيصان (
Allah (SWT) says: (a lying sinful nasiyah
(front of the head).
(96: 16)

• Since the front of the head does not speak, how can it be described as being lying? It does not commit sins.
How is it then said to be sinful?

• The linguistic meaning of the Ayah
) ةئطاخ ةب ذاك ةيصان .
ةيصانلاب اعفسنل هتني مل نئل لاك (
16 15 : قلعلا
Allah (SWT) says: (Let him beware! If he does not stop, We will take him by the nasiyah, a lying, sinful nasiyah!)
(96:15-16)
Al-Nasiyah: the front of the head.

• Most commentators have interpreted this
Verse metaphorically, saying that describing the nasiyah being lying and sinful is not to be taken literally; the description is attributed to the owner of the nasiyah and not to the nasiyah itself.

• Other commentators did not comment on the
Verse sparing themselves the involvement in something beyond their knowledge and the knowledge of their age.

• The function of this part of the brain that lies in the font of the human head (the prefrontal cortex ) is to control the human behavior.

• The prefrontal cortex constitutes the bulk of the frontal lobe of the brain, and its function is involved in the making of one’s personality. It is also considered as a superior center among the centers of concentration, thinking and memory. It plays a significant role in the person’s emotion and it is somehow concerned with initiative and discrimination.

• Prof. Dr. Keith Moore, who stated that the front of the head is responsible for judging and for directing human behavior. The working organs of the body (e.g. the limbs or tongue) are but tools to carry out the decision made in the front of the head

• He, confirming what he had said, added:
“When a person intends to tell a lie, the decision is made in the frontal lobe of the brain, which is the front of the head. If he wants to commit a sin, the decision is made there, too ”

Functional MRI of the brain

Functional MRI of the brain showing the area of lying in the prefrontal cortex

فلا ة مدقم ْ ر يبك ا شن بو طو ر دوي ْفييو لا ْ سيطانيملا نينرلا ب نا سنإا إامد ل ة يقيقح روص
لا حل رو ص ا ديلت م ا د صلا ة لاح ْ إامد لا ِّ لمت ىر سيلا ةرو صلا .
بذ كلا ة سرامم ٍ ا نا ا ْما م لا
ة ققنملا ْ إامد لا ا شن ِّ لمت ْ تلا ٍ ارف صلا ة عقبلا م اح با يبيا ا حلان يح بذكلا ْ ةطردتم
.
ر ل ك ا بذ كلا نا سنإلا د معت ا ملك
ًايايرد ت ا شنلا اذ ه بابز يو ة يمام لا http://www.idealibrary.com

• Prof. Keith Moore, illustrating this Scientific Miracle, says: “The information we now know about the function of the brain, was not mentioned throughout history, nor do we find anything about it in the medical books.
Should we survey all the medical literature during the time of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) and several centuries thereafter, we would find no mention of the function of the frontal lobe (nasiyah), or an explanation of it or a statement about it except in this Book (the
Holy Qur’an), which indicates that such information is of the Knowledge of Allah, the Almighty, Who knows everything, and that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger”

!!
ضر لاو اومسلا ْ نم داسي للهو (
15 : دعرلا ) لاص لاو وديلاب مدللايو ًاهركو ًاعوط
• Allah (SWT) says in The Holy Quran:
(And to Allah prostrates whoever is within the heaven and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows (as well) in the mornings and the afternoons)
Surrah 13: 15

Front and lateral views of the brain in prostration
بواسلا ةلاح ْ ناسنإا ِّ اامت إامدلل نمي ا ْبناطو ْمام ا رونم

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF)
1. Functions
2. Sterile: The purest fluid in the body!
3. Origin: Choroid plexus in the brain ventricle.
4. Volume: about 125 ml
5. Turn over (Circulation): 5 times during 24 hrs *
(Ablution -Wudu For 5 prayers during 24 hrs!)
*
Cortex of neuroanatomy,by:Malclom Carpenter,P 28,3 rd edition (1999). International student edition, Baltimore-
USA.

CSF surrounding the brain
Turn over (Circulation) of CSF: 5 times during 24 hrs!
Ablution –Wudu of the brain for 5 prayers during 24 hrs!

(Allah SWT knows best)

A-To support the six principles of Faith (Iman), especially the Iman in Allah Almighty and in the hereafter.
B-To stimulate thinking and scientific research in order to discover the universe.
C- To express the power of Allah Almighty and his unique creations.
D-To show the mercy and the numerous favours of Allah
Almighty to mankind.
E- To give evidence that the Qur’an is the word of Allah
Almighty revealed to His Prophet Muhammad (PBU).
The scientific miracle of Holy Qur’an.

)
(
53 : تلصف
We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their ownselves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Qur'ân) is the truth Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?
(Surah Fussilat: ayat 53)

1- Lying brain, Science, 10 December 2004.
2- You Can't Hide Your Lying Brain, www.signalplusnoise.com, 7
June 2003.
3- Feroze B. Mohamed, Scott H. Faro, Nathan J. Gordon, Steven M.
Platek, Harris Ahmad, and J. Michael Williams, Brain Mapping of
Deception and Truth Telling about an Ecologically Valid Situation:
Functional MR Imaging and Polygraph Investigation—Initial
Experience . Radiology Volume 238, Issue.
4- Thomas L. Bennett, Introduction to Physiological Psychology,
Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. 1982.
5- Maureen Morley, Brain imaging with MRI could replace lie detector, Radiological Society of North America, 29-Nov-2004.
6- http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25285
7- Keith Moore, The Development Human, Clinically Oriented
Embryology, 3 rd . Edition (1983), W.B. Saunders Co.

We have deduced from our study and
Allah knows best, that the rationale for the recurrence of those ayaat are to achieve the following aims:

ATo support the six principles of Faith
(Iman), especially the Iman in Allah
Almighty and in the hereafter, for example Surah An-Nisa ’ ayat no. 136.
It was found that there is a strong correlation (about 92%) between such ayaat and these principles of
Iman as follows:

136 : ٍ اسنلا

O you who believe! Believe in Allâh, and His
Messenger, and the Book which He has sent down to His Messenger, and the Scripture which He sent down to those before, and whosoever disbelieves in Allâh, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, and the Last Day, then indeed he has strayed far away.
An-Nisa ’, 136

Principles of Faith
Iman in Allah Almighty
Iman in Angels
Iman in Holy Books
Iman in Messengers
Iman in the Hereafter
Iman in Destiny
No.
738
24
53
100
120
30

B- The unprecedented nature of scientific content: to stimulate reflection and research in order to discover more about the universe.

114 : ه ط
(
Then High above all be Allâh, the True King And be not in haste with the Qur'ân before its revelation is completed to you, and say: "My
Lord! Increase me in knowledge"
(Surah Taha: ayat 114)

C- The scientific miracle of the Qur ’an
(I ’jaz): to show and give evidence that the Qur ’an is the word of Allah Almighty revealed to his Prophet Muhammad
(PBU)

)
(
53 : تلصف
We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their ownselves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Qur'ân) is the truth Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?
(Surah Fussilat: ayat 53)

D- To express the power of Allah Almighty and his unique creations ( Surah Al-
Mu ’minun: ayaat 21 -22 ) .
(
And Verily! In the cattle there is indeed a lesson for you We give you to drink (milk) of that which is in their bellies And there are, in them, numerous (other) benefits for you, and of them you eat and on them, and on ships you are carried

E- To show the mercy and the numerous favours of Allah Almighty to mankind ( Surah An-Nahl:ayat 18 ) .
(
And if you would count the graces of Allâh, never could you be able to count them Truly!
Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful