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This is the title of a small Booklet written by Gary Miller.
THE AMAZING QURAN
About the author:
Dr. Gary Miller is a Canadean professor in Math. He is a former Christian missionary and minister and very knowledgable of the bible. He converted to Islam in a very interesting Story. He decided to read the Quran to find mistakes and errors that he might take advantage of while inviting Muslims to convert to Christianity. He expected the Qur'an to be an old book written 14 centuries ago, a book that talks about the desert and so on. He was amazed from what he found.
Since he was a Prof in Math, he sees everything through with a logical mind. He started to read, and he was amazed how perfect the Quran is. He ended up converting to Islam, and having small booklets and a lot of lectures about Islam.
Booklet review:
This is a very small book, easy to read. It is about 17 pages and I finished in less than a night. It is a summary of long study of Gary Miller and conclusions he reached, with critical reasoning and strong logic that made him convert to Islam. I am a born Muslim, and I grew up with my strong faith. However, reading this book (and few other converts, that I will cover later) only strengthened my faith and showed me amazing angles of my religion that I have not seen before.
The book start with the following few words that explains its title:
Gary amazed by what he calls the "Falsification Test" by the Quran. How the book challenge others to prove it is wrong. And 1400 years passed, and no one could prove that. It states
With that, he provides a lot of examples where many things are mentioned in the Quran are aligned with what we know today in 20th century. People who doubt Quran, say: it is a matter of chance (50% chance that this text was aligned). He explains that this assumption is impossible if you look into all of these situations in the Quran:
Finally Gary reached a mathametical conclusion:
But what no one can deny is the following: the odds that Muhammad (s), an illiterate, guessed correctly about thousands and thousands of subjects, never once making a mistake, are so high that any theory of his authorship of the Qur'an must be completely dismissed - even by the most hostile enemies of Islam!
Finding the booklet:
The booklet is easier to find on the net rather on bookstores. It is not a typical commercial book. There is only used copy in amazon. I am posting a link where you can download the booklet in pdf and other links about Gary or writings of by:
Download
The True Call
The basis of Muslims Beliefs
Islam and Christianity: presentation by Gary Miller
THE AMAZING QURAN
About the author:
Dr. Gary Miller is a Canadean professor in Math. He is a former Christian missionary and minister and very knowledgable of the bible. He converted to Islam in a very interesting Story. He decided to read the Quran to find mistakes and errors that he might take advantage of while inviting Muslims to convert to Christianity. He expected the Qur'an to be an old book written 14 centuries ago, a book that talks about the desert and so on. He was amazed from what he found.
Since he was a Prof in Math, he sees everything through with a logical mind. He started to read, and he was amazed how perfect the Quran is. He ended up converting to Islam, and having small booklets and a lot of lectures about Islam.
Booklet review:
This is a very small book, easy to read. It is about 17 pages and I finished in less than a night. It is a summary of long study of Gary Miller and conclusions he reached, with critical reasoning and strong logic that made him convert to Islam. I am a born Muslim, and I grew up with my strong faith. However, reading this book (and few other converts, that I will cover later) only strengthened my faith and showed me amazing angles of my religion that I have not seen before.
The book start with the following few words that explains its title:
Calling the Qur'an amazing is not something done only by Muslims, who have an appreciation for the book and who are pleased with it; it has been labeled amazing by non-Muslims as well. In fact, even people who hate Islam very much have still called it amazing.
While you read the book, you feel that you go to Gary Miller mind, or like he is thinking loudly. And he expresses his amazement situation after the other on the Quran and why it cannot be from human. If it is from human, Mohammad must be lying. So, Gary puts himself in the shoes of Mohammad, and read the Quran in a logical critical way or as he called it in the book: a "Scientific Approach to Quran".
Gary amazed by what he calls the "Falsification Test" by the Quran. How the book challenge others to prove it is wrong. And 1400 years passed, and no one could prove that. It states
(Surah An-Nisa, 4:82): "Do they not consider the Qur'an? Had it been from any other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy". It invites Muslims to find a mistake. One does not write a book then challenge others to find its mistakes.
<<If, indeed, one finds a mistake, then he has the right to disqualify it. This is exactly what the Qur'an encourages.>>.
<<for it creates a difficulty for one who says, "I do not believe it." At the onset of refusal one immediately has an obligation to find an explanation himself if he feels others' answers are inadequate.>>
Gary continue with amazement how Quran asked people to ask those who have knowledge (on what it was mentioned in Quran) if they doubt it:<<If, indeed, one finds a mistake, then he has the right to disqualify it. This is exactly what the Qur'an encourages.>>.
<<for it creates a difficulty for one who says, "I do not believe it." At the onset of refusal one immediately has an obligation to find an explanation himself if he feels others' answers are inadequate.>>
This too is a surprising attitude. It is not usual to have a book that comes from someone without training in geography, botany, biology, etc., who discusses these subjects and then advises the reader to ask men of knowledge if he doubts anything. Yet in every age there have been Muslims who have followed the advice of the Qur'an and made surprising discoveries.
Then, he start giving stories and examples of scientific signs in Quran, that was only discovered in modern history.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Keith Moore for a television presentation, and we talked a great deal about this. He mentioned that some of the things that the Qur'an states about the growth of the human being were not known until thirty years ago. In fact, he said that one item in particular - the Qur'an's description of the human being as a "leech-like clot" ('alaqah) at one stage (Surahs al-Hajj 22:5; al-Mu'minun 23:14; and Ghafir 40:67) - was new to him; but when he checked on it, he found that it was true, and so he added it to his book (University Text Book). He said, "I never thought of that before," and he went to the zoology department and asked for a picture of a leech. When he found that it looked just like the human embryo, he decided to include both pictures in one of his textbooks.
The only way this could be from human that is:
Dr. Moore taunted, "Maybe fourteen centuries ago someone secretly had a microscope and did this research, making no mistakes anywhere. Then he somehow taught Muhammad (s) and convinced him to put this information in his book. Then he destroyed his equipment and kept it a secret forever. Do you believe that?
Gary provides a lot of such reasoning's, and examples he encountered with scientists or ministers of discussions on Quran. It is like going in a journey with him, and he could not find a way to prove that this Quran was nothing less than perfect. This journey is free of emotions or biased. Pure strong logical mind.
With that, he provides a lot of examples where many things are mentioned in the Quran are aligned with what we know today in 20th century. People who doubt Quran, say: it is a matter of chance (50% chance that this text was aligned). He explains that this assumption is impossible if you look into all of these situations in the Quran:
(i.e., one time out of eight or ½ x ½ x ½ ). Again, the odds of choosing the correct choice in all three situations have decreased his chances of being completely correct to only one time in eight. It must be understood that as the number of situations increase, the chances of being right decrease, for the two phenomena are inversely proportional.
Now applying this example to the situations in the Qur'an, if one draws up a list of all of the subjects about which the Qur'an has made correct statements, it becomes very clear that it is highly unlikely that they were all just correct blind guesses. Indeed, the subjects discussed in the Qur'an are numerous and thus the odds of someone just making lucky guesses about all of them become practically nil. If there are a million ways for the Qur'an to be wrong, yet each time it is right, then it is unlikely that someone was guessing.
After that, Gary continue with giving different examples of these situations where Quran was very precise in what we know today. One was about the bee, one about the sun and one about the different time zones.Now applying this example to the situations in the Qur'an, if one draws up a list of all of the subjects about which the Qur'an has made correct statements, it becomes very clear that it is highly unlikely that they were all just correct blind guesses. Indeed, the subjects discussed in the Qur'an are numerous and thus the odds of someone just making lucky guesses about all of them become practically nil. If there are a million ways for the Qur'an to be wrong, yet each time it is right, then it is unlikely that someone was guessing.
Finally Gary reached a mathametical conclusion:
But what no one can deny is the following: the odds that Muhammad (s), an illiterate, guessed correctly about thousands and thousands of subjects, never once making a mistake, are so high that any theory of his authorship of the Qur'an must be completely dismissed - even by the most hostile enemies of Islam!
Finding the booklet:
The booklet is easier to find on the net rather on bookstores. It is not a typical commercial book. There is only used copy in amazon. I am posting a link where you can download the booklet in pdf and other links about Gary or writings of by:
Download
The True Call
The basis of Muslims Beliefs
Islam and Christianity: presentation by Gary Miller
