WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE QURAN, THE PROPHET AND ISLAM

PROF. ALFRED KROENER

• Professor of the Department of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Germany.
• He said: "

"Thinking where Muhammad came from... I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case."

"Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400 years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same origin, or many other questions that we have discussed here...

If you combine all these and you combine all these statements that are being made in the Qur'an in terms that relate to the earth and the formation of the earth and science in general, you can basically say that statements made there in many ways are true, they can now be confirmed by scientific methods, and in a way, you can say that the Qur'an is a simple science text book for the simple man. And that many of the statements made in there at that time could not be proven, but that modern scientific methods are now in a position to prove what Muhammad said 1400 years ago."

EDWARD GIBBON

• In his famous 1776 historical masterpiece, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", he expressed a deeply complex, dual view of the Quran. 
• He wrote "The creed of Mahomet is free from suspicion or ambiguity, and the Quran is a glorious testimony to the unity of God...'I believe in One God, and Mahomet the Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable of Islam."
• "Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the Quran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome."

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

• He first studied it at the age of 23 at the suggestion of philosopher J.G. Herder and continued to engage with deeply until his death. 
• A book of "powerful effect, precise and sublime, ever-renewing, its style majestic, noble, and astonishing. 
• "It is a book of revelation to a people at all times and in all places."
• What he say about Prophet Muhammad s.a.w : "He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Quran is to be seen as Divine Law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment."
• "The more I read the Quran, the more my admiration for it grows"

PROF.KEITH L.MOORE

• A Professor Emeritus in the division of anatomy, Faculty of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• He said at a Conference in Cairo: "It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah."
• He also stated that : "The intensive studies of the Qur'an and Hadith in the last four years have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D... The descriptions in the Qur'an cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century..."

DR. MAURICE BUCAILLE

• A former chief of the Surgical Clinic, University of Paris and the author of the "The Bible, The Qur'an and Science" published in 1976. 
• His famous quote about the Quran : 
• "our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'an could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times. "
• "The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of the Qur'an untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature?" 
• "How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human-being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?"

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

• During his 1798 military campaign in Egypt, Napoleon famously declared his deep respect for God, the Prophet and the "glorious Quran".
• His quote about Quran : "I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness."

SIR WILLIAM MUIR

• A prominent 19th-century Scottish Orientalist and Colonial administrator in India. 
• In his seminal work, "The Life of Mahomet", he wrote : "There is probably in the world no other work which has remained twelve centuries with so pure a text."
• The most famous quote : "The sword of Mohammad, and the Quran, are the most stubborn enemies of civilisation, Liberty and Truth which the world has yet known."

PROF. TEJATAT TEJASEN

• Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• He studied various articles concerning the Qur'an and modern embryology. During the the 8th Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia he stood up and said:

"In the last three years, I became interested in the Qur'an... From my studies and what I have learned throughout this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Qur'an fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means.

Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a Messenger who relayed this truth which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible creator. This creator must be God, or Allah.

I think this is the time to say La ilaha illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah (God), Muhammad rasoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger of Allah...

The most precious thing I have gained from coming to this conference is La ilaha illa Allah, and to have become Muslim."

THOMAS CARLYLE

• The influential Victorian-era Scottish philosopher and historian. In his lecture series, published as "On Heroes: Hero-Worship & the Heroic in History" he chose Prophet Muhammad s.a.w over all other biblical prophets. 
• He famously wrote : "To the Arab Nation it was a birth from darkness into light. Arabian first became alive by means of it. A poor shephers people, roaming unnoticed in its deserts since the creation of the world, a Hero-Prophet was sent down to them with a word they could believe, see, the unnoticed becomes world-notable, the small has grown world-great."

TONY BLAIR

• a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
• He made some comment about the Qur'an : 

"The Qur’an is practical and way ahead of its time".
"The most remarkable thing about reading the Koran – in so far as it can be truly translated from the original Arabic - is to understand how progressive it is. 

"I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgements. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance," 

PROF. T.V.N PERSAUD

• Professor of Anatomy, Pediatrics and Child Health in University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Author and editor of over 20 books, has published over 181 scientific papers.
• He said : "It seems to me that Muhammad was a very ordinary man, he couldn't read, didn't know how to write, in fact he was an illiterate...
  We're talking about 1400 years ago, you have some illiterate person making profound statements that are amazingly accurate, of a scientific nature...
  I personally can't see how this could be mere chance, there are too many accuracies and like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind reconciling that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which lead him to these statements."

References:

• Ideal Muslimah

Hj Zulheimy Maamor

22 August 2026: 12.00 p.m