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الإعجاز العلمي في القرآن الكريم
Recently, a new field of study has opened up to scholars. People nowadays are fascinated with science. This is the age of technology and scientific discovery. For this reason, mankind has begun to study the religious scriptures of mankind from a scientific point of view in order to challenge the scientific claims made in these scriptures. Many works have been published on this topic
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First published January 1, 2005
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زغلول النجار
74 books508 followersزغلول راغب محمد النجار عالم في علوم الأرض (جيولوجيا ) مصرى ولد في قرية بسيون إحدى قرى محافظة الغربية درس في كلية العلوم جامعة القاهرة وتخرج منها سنة 1955م بمرتبة الشرف، وكان أول دفعته. يجيد كل من اللغة العربية، الإنجليزية، الفرنسية، وإلمام بسيط بالألمانية. ولد الدكتور زغلول في عائلة مسلمة فكان جده إمام القرية وكان والده من حفظة القرآن ويحكي الدكتور زغلول أنه إذا قرأ القرآن وأخطأ كان والده يردة في خطئه وهو نائم. بعد اتمامة لحفظ القرآن، انتقل الدكتور زغلول بصحبة والده إلى القاهرة والتحق بإحدى المدارس الابتدائية وهو في سن التاسعة.
أتم الدكتور زغلول دراستة الابتدائية والتحق بمدرسة شبرا الثانوية في عام 1946 وكان من الاوائل الخريجين وأمره ناظر المدرسة بالدخول في مسابقة اللغة العربية لتفوقة فيها. وكان يدخل المسابقة أيضا أستاذه في المدرسة في اللغة العربية فاستحى أن يكمل حرجا من أستاذه ولكن ناظر المدرسة رفض ذلك وقال له أن أستاذه لا يمثل المدرسة فوافق الدكتور زغلول على ذلك وحصل على المركز الأول واستاذه في المركز 42. التحق الدكتور زغلول بكلية العلوم جامعة القاهرة وتم افتتاح قسم جديد هو قسم الجيولوجيا وأحب الدكتور القسم بفضل رئيس القسم وهو دكتور ألمانى فدخل القسم وتفوق فية وحصل في النهاية على درجة بكالوريوس العلوم بمرتبة الشرف ولكن تدخل دكتور زغلول في إحدى المظاهرات السياسية تم اعتقالة بعد تخرجة من الجامعة وتم محاكمتة وظهرت براءته ولكن القرار السياسى رفض تعينة كمعيد في الجامعة بسبب انه ينتمى لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين.
عمل بشركة صحارى للبترول وعند محاولة استخراج تصريح بالعمل في أحد المواقع تم رفض استخراجة للقرار السياسى فتم فصله من العمل. التحق بالعمل بمناجم الفوسفات في وادي النيل وعمل بها لمدة عامان وكان لة تاثير ايجابى على العمال وعلى الشركة. أقام دعوة قضائية على الجامعة لرفضها تعينة في الجامعة وربح الدعوى وعمل داخل جامعة عين شمس لمدة عام ثم فصل منها أيضا بقرار سياسى.
Zaghloul Raghib El-Naggar
(Pronounced: Zaghlool Raaghib an-Najjaar)
Prof. Zaghloul El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988). Prof. Naggar is a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of Egypt and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum, London.
A former professor of Earth Sciences at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Prof. Naggar was educated at Wales University in the United Kingdom from where he obtained his PhD in Geology in 1963.
Prof. Naggar is the author/co-author of many books and more than 40 research papers in the field of Islamic Thought, Geology, General Science and Education. He was awarded by the Ministry of Education in Egypt the top "Secondary Education Award" as well as the seventh Arab Petroleum Congress Best Papers Award in 1970.
Prof. Naggar has taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo; King Saud University, Riyadh; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K; Kuwait University and the University of Qatar in Doha.
Elected a member of the IAS Council (1994 and 1999), Prof. Naggar is currently working at the Arab Development Institute.
أتم الدكتور زغلول دراستة الابتدائية والتحق بمدرسة شبرا الثانوية في عام 1946 وكان من الاوائل الخريجين وأمره ناظر المدرسة بالدخول في مسابقة اللغة العربية لتفوقة فيها. وكان يدخل المسابقة أيضا أستاذه في المدرسة في اللغة العربية فاستحى أن يكمل حرجا من أستاذه ولكن ناظر المدرسة رفض ذلك وقال له أن أستاذه لا يمثل المدرسة فوافق الدكتور زغلول على ذلك وحصل على المركز الأول واستاذه في المركز 42. التحق الدكتور زغلول بكلية العلوم جامعة القاهرة وتم افتتاح قسم جديد هو قسم الجيولوجيا وأحب الدكتور القسم بفضل رئيس القسم وهو دكتور ألمانى فدخل القسم وتفوق فية وحصل في النهاية على درجة بكالوريوس العلوم بمرتبة الشرف ولكن تدخل دكتور زغلول في إحدى المظاهرات السياسية تم اعتقالة بعد تخرجة من الجامعة وتم محاكمتة وظهرت براءته ولكن القرار السياسى رفض تعينة كمعيد في الجامعة بسبب انه ينتمى لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين.
عمل بشركة صحارى للبترول وعند محاولة استخراج تصريح بالعمل في أحد المواقع تم رفض استخراجة للقرار السياسى فتم فصله من العمل. التحق بالعمل بمناجم الفوسفات في وادي النيل وعمل بها لمدة عامان وكان لة تاثير ايجابى على العمال وعلى الشركة. أقام دعوة قضائية على الجامعة لرفضها تعينة في الجامعة وربح الدعوى وعمل داخل جامعة عين شمس لمدة عام ثم فصل منها أيضا بقرار سياسى.
Zaghloul Raghib El-Naggar
(Pronounced: Zaghlool Raaghib an-Najjaar)
Prof. Zaghloul El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988). Prof. Naggar is a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of Egypt and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum, London.
A former professor of Earth Sciences at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Prof. Naggar was educated at Wales University in the United Kingdom from where he obtained his PhD in Geology in 1963.
Prof. Naggar is the author/co-author of many books and more than 40 research papers in the field of Islamic Thought, Geology, General Science and Education. He was awarded by the Ministry of Education in Egypt the top "Secondary Education Award" as well as the seventh Arab Petroleum Congress Best Papers Award in 1970.
Prof. Naggar has taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo; King Saud University, Riyadh; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K; Kuwait University and the University of Qatar in Doha.
Elected a member of the IAS Council (1994 and 1999), Prof. Naggar is currently working at the Arab Development Institute.
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February 12, 2023
This book was given to me by a friend who is Muslim. It is an interesting format, primarily a Q&A between scientists who are also Muslim. Quotes from the Qur'an and Hadith are used and compared with scientific phenomenon. The participants use the science to show the "truth" in the Qur'an and to marvel at how such scientific knowledge, much of it not discovered by man until the last 400 years, could be so clearly articulated in the Qur'an some 1600 years ago.
The participants discuss the sun, moon, stars, Big Bang Theory, Big Crunch Theory, salt water / fresh (sweet) water associations, formation and constitution of mountains, and several other topics. There are many quotes used which stir the wonder of how the description (albeit translated here into English) from the Qur'an could so precisely match modern descriptions of things not experienced until modern times (e.g., an astronauts reaction to seeing the Earth and stars from space was a nearly perfect from the Qur'an, although the astronaut was not Muslim and had never had any exposure to the Qur'an).
In my opinion, it is very difficult to scientifically prove a general statement or condition from one source using detailed scientific data from another. Nor, in many cases can you disprove the general statement. That is because the general statement is open to broad interpretation, and the detailed science can be used to apply to almost anything so general.
The Qur'an is a fascinating work. It is possibly the only foundational religious text that is used in its original, untranslated, uninterpreted form. (There may be others of which I am not aware). The Bible has gone through many translations and is used in multiple forms today. The Buddhist sutras have been translated through multiple languages (and therefore people), over the course of several centuries and many commentaries are used to help understand them. In any of these works, there are thoughts and descriptions which seem to be ahead of their time, and we respond in awe with how this could have been realized or understood hundreds of years ago. We may never fully - scientifically - be able to understand this. That is why we rely on faith so often.
The book provides an interesting perspective. It could have been much shorter if edited more completely. It will, in my opinion, be if more interest to the Muslim reader.
The participants discuss the sun, moon, stars, Big Bang Theory, Big Crunch Theory, salt water / fresh (sweet) water associations, formation and constitution of mountains, and several other topics. There are many quotes used which stir the wonder of how the description (albeit translated here into English) from the Qur'an could so precisely match modern descriptions of things not experienced until modern times (e.g., an astronauts reaction to seeing the Earth and stars from space was a nearly perfect from the Qur'an, although the astronaut was not Muslim and had never had any exposure to the Qur'an).
In my opinion, it is very difficult to scientifically prove a general statement or condition from one source using detailed scientific data from another. Nor, in many cases can you disprove the general statement. That is because the general statement is open to broad interpretation, and the detailed science can be used to apply to almost anything so general.
The Qur'an is a fascinating work. It is possibly the only foundational religious text that is used in its original, untranslated, uninterpreted form. (There may be others of which I am not aware). The Bible has gone through many translations and is used in multiple forms today. The Buddhist sutras have been translated through multiple languages (and therefore people), over the course of several centuries and many commentaries are used to help understand them. In any of these works, there are thoughts and descriptions which seem to be ahead of their time, and we respond in awe with how this could have been realized or understood hundreds of years ago. We may never fully - scientifically - be able to understand this. That is why we rely on faith so often.
The book provides an interesting perspective. It could have been much shorter if edited more completely. It will, in my opinion, be if more interest to the Muslim reader.
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