"so how come if the Koran foretold all the scientific inventions, how come no muslims invented anything from it?…"
A good and legitimate question.
1- The Muslims were the masters of knowledge and science in almost every field when they were committed to Islam. They excelled in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, literature, geometry, etc, when Europe was living in the sheer darkness of the middle ages. If you read about the history of the Islamic civilization you will come to know that the icons from whom the light of knowledge spread to Europe and elsewhere were Muslims, like: Alhazen, Avicenna, Averroes …………etc.
As an indication of the Islamic contribution to the world’s civilization, tens of the words you know now as part of you language are from Arabic origin, like: cotton, alcohol, alchemy, almanac, astrolabe, algorithm, algebra, etc.
As for now, the Muslim world has become dependant on the US and Europe because they eliminated their religion from their life and lost both their religious and worldly prestige. There are other factors for this backwardness, social, economic, political, etc. which need books to cover.
2- Allah Almighty in His infinite Wisdom decreed that the disbelievers themselves discover the scientific phenomena referred to in the Quran to show them the indications of His Omnipotence and Greatness because they need such proofs to have faith in Allah.
Kindly read this Quranic verse for example:
“Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them? And We have made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” 21:30
Apart from the 2 scientific references this Quranic verse includes (the Bing Bang and that water is the origin of all living things), it makes reference to the non believers who came later on to discover those scientific findings.
"so how come if the Koran foretold all the scientific inventions, how come no muslims invented anything from it?…"
A good and legitimate question.
1- The Muslims were the masters of knowledge and science in almost every field when they were committed to Islam. They excelled in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, literature, geometry, etc, when Europe was living in the sheer darkness of the middle ages. If you read about the history of the Islamic civilization you will come to know that the icons from whom the light of knowledge spread to Europe and elsewhere were Muslims, like: Alhazen, Avicenna, Averroes …………etc.
Kindly check this list of Muslim scientists and see their achievements.
http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/
As an indication of the Islamic contribution to the world’s civilization, tens of the words you know now as part of you language are from Arabic origin, like: cotton, alcohol, alchemy, almanac, astrolabe, algorithm, algebra, etc.
Kindly check this link to see how many Arabic words have been taken from Arabic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin
As for now, the Muslim world has become dependant on the US and Europe because they eliminated their religion from their life and lost both their religious and worldly prestige. There are other factors for this backwardness, social, economic, political, etc. which need books to cover.
2- Allah Almighty in His infinite Wisdom decreed that the disbelievers themselves discover the scientific phenomena referred to in the Quran to show them the indications of His Omnipotence and Greatness because they need such proofs to have faith in Allah.
Kindly read this Quranic verse for example:
“Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them? And We have made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” 21:30
Apart from the 2 scientific references this Quranic verse includes (the Bing Bang and that water is the origin of all living things), it makes reference to the non believers who came later on to discover those scientific findings.
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