Weird teaching from Quran

Submitted by Zuma (Singapore), Jul 15, 2021 at 12:10

If Muhammad were the prophet, why would the science in Quran as listed below seem unrealistic?
1) Quran 2:258, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Baqara/8 , sup-ports the sun rises from the east, since it mentions)..it is Allah that causeth the sun to rise from the east: Do thou then cause him to rise from the West..". According to science, the sun never rises from the east but the earth rotates itself around its axis to cause the days and the nights to be formed.

2) Quran 2:260, "(on the same website above supports the dead birds can fly, since it men-tions)..Allah said 'Take four birds, draw them to you, and cut their bodies to pieces. Scatter them over the mountain-tops, then call them back. They will come swiftly to you..".

3) Quran 3:83, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Aal-e-Imran/8 seems to imply all animals bow down to His will, since it mentions).. all creatures in the heavens and on earth have willing or unwilling, bowed to His will (Accepted Islam), and to Him shall they all be brought back."

4) Quran 3:96-97, "(on the same website above supports pilgrimage to Mecca to attain security in salvation, since it mentions) The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bak-ka..whoever enters it attains security: Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah.." and yet the so-called Bakka on the website, https://qurantalkblog.com/2019/12/14/bakka-vs-mecca-why-two-names-for-the-same-location/ , refers the same to Mecca. The phrase, Bakka..whoever enters it attains security, implies those who visited Mecca can have security for their salvation.

5) There is a custom-made table set in heaven, since Quran 5:112, "(mentions on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Maeda/8 , that) Behold! the disciples, said: 'O Je-sus the son of Mary! can thy Lord send down to us a table set (with viands) from heaven?" Said Jesus: "Fear Allah, if ye have faith." Yet many astronauts had gone to the space in the past and yet could not locate any table set in this universe. The same is mentioned in Quran 5:114, "Said Jesus the son of Mary: 'O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table set (with viands), that they may be for us..".

6) Quran 6:35, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Anaam/8 , supports one can locate tunnel or a ladder on earth to reach to the sky, since it mentions)..if thou wert able to seek a tunnel in the ground or a ladder to the skies and bring them a sign..".

7) Quran 7:11-12, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Araf/8 , sup-ports Iblis was created from fire, since it mentions)..Iblis; He refused to be of those who prostrate. (Allah) said: What prevented thee from prostrating when I commanded thee? He said: 'I am bet-ter than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from clay." Fire can only annihilate living things instead of creating them. How does the fire create Iblis? The same is mentioned in the extracts below: Quran 38:76, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Sad/8 , mentions) (Iblis) said: 'I am better than he: thou creates me from fire, and him thou createdst from clay." Quran 55:15, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Rahman/8 , mentions)..He created Jinns from fire free of smoke:".

8) Quran 7:40, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Araf/8 , men-tions)..the camel can pass through the eye of the needle..".

9) Quran 7:54, "(on the same website above supports the day seeks after the night in rapid succes-sion or vice versa, since it mentions)..Allah..draweth the night as a veil o'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid succession..". As the earth spins around its axis and that causes day and night to be formed instead of the formation of day and night is the result of the day seeks after the night for its rapid succession or vice versa, why does Quran 7:54, "(mention)..night..(and) day, each seeking the other in rapid succession

10) Quran 7:163, "(on the same website above supports fish knows how to observe sabbath day, since it mentions)..For on the day of their Sabbath their fish did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had no sabbath, they came not..".

11) Quran 11:42, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Hud/8 , mentions) So the Ark floated with them on the waves (towering) like mountains, Noah called out to his son, who had separated himself (from the rest): 'O my son! embark with us, and be not with the un-believers!" When Quran 11:42, "..the Ark floated..on the waves..like mountains, Noah('s son would have been on the ark with Noah, or else he would have perished in the flood as the flood was as high as mountains. Why would he then) call..out to his son..'O my son! Embark with us.." as if he were still outside the ark with unbelievers and had not yet embarked on it?

12) Stars, sun and the moon seem to be as human beings prostrated to Joseph, since Quran 12:4, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Yusuf/8 , mentions) Behold! Jo-seph said to his father: 'O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!" The same is mentioned in Quran 13:15, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Ar-Rad/8 , that) Whatever beings there are in the heavens and the earth do prostrate themselves to Allah..".

13) Quran 14:33, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Ibrahim/8 , men-tions)..He made subject to you the sun and the moon, both diligently pursuing their courses; and the night and the day hath he (also) made subject to you." As the sun and the moon were non-living things, why did Quran 14:33, "(use the phrase,) both diligently pursuing their courses ..", to describe the way of they moved as if both were living things in pursuing with some actions?

14) Quran 15-16-17, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Hijr/8 , men-tions) It is We who have set out the zodiacal sign in the heavens..We have guarded them from every cursed devil:". Why would the zodiacal sign in the heavens have to be guarded against every cursed devil as they were non-living things?

15) Quran 16:66, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+An-Nahl/8 , men-tions the process of how a cattle produces its milk is)..in cattle (too) will ye find an instructive sign. From what is within their bodies between excretions and blood, We produce, for your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it."

16) Quran 16:68-69, "(on the same website above supports Allah had to teach a bee to build its cells, since it mentions) And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men's) habitations; Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord..".

17) Quran 16:79, "(on the same website above supports the way how a bird can fly is Allah makes it to fly instead of it learns to fly by itself, since it mentions)..the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe."

18) Quran 18:17, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Kahf/8 , supports the sun declines to the cave, since it mentions) Thou wouldst have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the cave. Such are among the signs of Allah..".

19) Quran 18:18-19, "(on the same website above supports dogs speak with each other and they acknowledge Allah too, since it mentions).. their dogs stretching forth his two fore-legs on threshold: if thou hadst come up on to them, thou wouldst have certainly turned back from them in flight, and wouldst certainly have been filled with terror of them. Such (being their state), we raised them up (from sleep), that they might question each other..(At length) they (all) said, 'Al-lah (alone) knows best how long ye have stayed here..".

20) Quran 18:37, "(on the same website above supports the process of the development of a child in a mother's womb to be a man is from dust to sperm-drop to a man, since it mentions)..Him who created thee out of dust, then out of a sperm-drop, then fashioned thee into a man?" If a per-son were created out of dust and then turned to a sperm-drop, there would be dust inside the woman's womb prior to her conception and yet in reality, none could find dust in her womb. The same is mentioned in the extracts below: Quran 40:67, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Ghafir/8 , mentions) It is He who has created you from dust then from a sperm-drop, then from a leech-like clot; then does he get out (into the light) as a child.."; Quran 40:67, "(mentions on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Ghafir/8 , that ) It is He who has created you from dust then from a sperm-drop, then from a leech-like clot; then does he get you out (into the light) as child..".

21) Quran 18:86, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Kahf/8 , supports the sun sets in a spring of murky water, since it mentions) Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People..".

22) Quran 19:10, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Maryam/8 , men-tions) (Zakariya) said: 'O my Lord! give me a sign. 'Thy sign,' was the answer, 'Shall be that thou shalt speak to no man for three nights, although thou art not dumb." How would Zakariya not be able to speak when he was not dumb?

23) Quran 19:16, "(on the same website above mentions)..Mary.." Quran 19:23, "(on the same web-site above mentions)..the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): 'Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!" and Quran 19:25, "(on the same website above mentions)..shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee." If there were childbirth in her, it is irrational to assume Qurna19:16, "..the pains of childbirth (would) dr(i)ve her to the trunk of a palm-tree.." to Quran 19:25, "..shake..the trunk of the palm-tree.. (to cause the) fall (of) fresh ripe date upon thee.", when the pain itself to her was insufferable.

24) Quran 20:53, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Taha/8 , supports the earth is flat like a carpet, since it mentions) He has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels); and has sent down water from the sky..". The same is mentioned in Quran 71:19, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Nooh/8 , that)..Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)."

25) Quran 21:30, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Anbiya/8 , men-tions) Do not the believers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"
As the phrase, the heavens and the earth were joined, in Quran 21:30 implies this earth, that was comparatively smaller in size than the immense heavens, was joined together with the heavens initially, it implies the earth was outspread all over the universe initially so much so it combined with the entire earth. According to 1929 on the website, https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/senior/cosmicengine/hubble.html , , American astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovery of the Hubble's law, the entire universe is expanding. Or in other words, the heavens are expanding. Not only that, Hubble discovered the majority of galax-ies appeared to be moving away from our own galaxy. If that were so, how could the earth, that initially spread throughout the heavens to be able to come together to form a solid earth, as the universe kept on expanding and pulling and segregating every part of the earth further and fur-ther away from the centre of the universe instead of drawing them together towards a point to form the solid earth?
26) Quran 21:79, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Anbiya/8 , sup-ports non-living things, e.g. hills, can celebrate with a human being, since it mentions) To Solo-mon We inspired the (right) understanding of the matter: to each (of them) we gave Judgment and Knowledge; it was Our power that made the hill and the birds celebrate Our praises, with David: it was We Who did (all these things)." The same is in the extract below: Quran 24:41, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+An-Noor/8 , mentions) Seest thou not that it is Allah whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate, and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise..".

27) Quran 27:18, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+An-Naml/8 , supports one of the intellectual ants recognised who was Solomon, since it mentions) At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley, one of the ants said: 'O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it."

28) Quran 27:20, "(on the same website above supports a Hoopoe can deliver its speech, since it mentions)..he said: 'Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? .." and Quran 27:22, "..the Hoopoe tarried not far: he (came up and) said: 'I have compassed (territory) which thou hast not compassed, and I have come to thee from Saba with tidings true."

29) Quran 31:29, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Luqman/8 , supports day and night can be mergeable, since it mentions)..Allah..merges Day into Night..". The same is mentioned in the extracts below: Quran 22:61, "(mentions on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Hajj/8 , that)..Allah merges night into day and he merges day into night..".; Quran 31:29, "(mentions on the website, httthat) p://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Luqman/8, that)..Allah merges Night into day and he merges day into night.."; Quran 35:13, "(mentions on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Fatir/8 , that) He merges night into day, and he merges day into night.."; Quran 39:5, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Az-Zumar/8 , mentions)..He makes the night overlap the day, and the day overlap the night..".

30) Quran 36:40, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+YaSin/8 , supports the sun is chasing after the moon and yet it can never catch up the moon by its speed, since it mentions) It is not permitted to the Sun to catchup the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law)." Yet in science, the sun never chases after the moon but the moon revolves around the earth.

31) Quran 54:1, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Qamar/8 , men-tions)..the moon is cleft asunder." As the word, is, in Quran 54:1 is in present tense instead of fu-ture tense, it implies the moon was cleft asunder at the time when the book of Quran was draft-ed. The same is mentioned in Sahih Muslim Book 039 on the website, http://hadithcollection.com/search.html?q=moon&Search= , Hadith 6729, "(that).. The moon was split up into two parts during the life of Allah's Messenger..".

32) Quran 55:6, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Rahman/8 , sup-ports the plants act like human beings to prostrate in adoration, since it mentions)..the herbs and the trees – both (alike) prostrate in adoration."

33) Quran 67:5, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Al-Mulk/8 , supports the lamps as missiles in heaven to drive away evils, since it mentions) And we have, (from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and We have made such (lamps) (as) missiles to drive away the evil ones, and have prepared for them the penalty of the blazing fire."

34) Quran 67:19, "(on the same website above mentions) Do they observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them except (Allah) Most Gra-cious..". As the word, None, in Quran 67:19 implies nothing can uphold them, it implies not even the birds themselves can learn to fly except with Allah's effort to uphold them in the air.

35) Quran 79:30, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+An-Naziat/8 , seems to imply the earth is expandable, since it mentions) And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);".

36) Quran 86:5-7, "(on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+At-Tariq/8 , men-tions the way that semen comes from is it proceeds from the backbone and the ribs, since it mentions) Now let man but think from what he is created! He is created from a drop emitted – Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:".

37) The moon follows the sun, since Quran 91:1-3, "(mentions on the website, http://search-the-quran.com/search/Surah+Ash-Shams/8 , that)..the Sun..By the Moon as she follows him;..(the Sun's) glory;". Yet in science, moon never follows the sun but follows the earth, since the moon revolves around the earth.

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