Islam regards this
universe as a vast book, replete with signs and wonders, which, like the
Qur'an, must be explored to gain knowledge of God and His power. Abundant
references to the cosmos, nature, and human creation come in the context of
testifying to the unlimited power, knowledge, and wisdom of the Creator and to
the divine origin of the Qur'an through amazing, recently discovered scientific
facts, which were totally unknown 1,400 years ago.
“No Indeed! If he does not stop, We will seize him by the
forehead; his lying, sinful forehead.” (Qur'an 96:15-16)
The Qur'an does not call this person a liar,
but calls his forehead ‘lying’ and ‘sinful,’ and warns him to stop. Recent
studies have found that the prefrontal cortex, located in the very front of the
brain just behind the forehead, is associated with the ability to generate
deception.
More than 1,400 years ago, verses 6-7 of
Chapter Al-Naba' describes mountains as pegs: “Have We not made the earth as a
bed, and the mountains as pegs?” Verse 15 of Chapter Al-Nahl defines their main
role as stabilizers of the earth: “And He has set firm mountains in the earth
so that it would not shake with you.”
Verse 14 of Chapter Al-Mu'minun describes the
stages of embryonic development 1400 years before modern science: “…then We
(God) made the Nutfah (male sperm and female ovum) into an Alaqah (a leech-like
clinging clot), then We made the Alaqah into a Mudghah (a chewed-like lump of
flesh), then We made bones from that Mudghah, then We clothed the bones with
flesh…”