Category: Response to Christianity and Judaism

A Scientist’s Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur’an

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐€ ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ’๐š๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Statements referring to human reproduction and development are scattered throughout the qur’an. It is only recently that the scientific meaning of some Read More …

Does the embryo resemble a leech in theseย photos?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฌ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Here are some interesting photos that caught my eye. Look at the head of the embryo and the leechโ€™s front and rear suckers: Read More …

Surely the Qurโ€™anic โ€˜Alaqah (the embryo during the leech-like stage) is easily observed with the nakedย eye?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐’๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง๐ข๐œ โ€˜๐€๐ฅ๐š๐ช๐š๐ก (๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก-๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž) ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฒ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR โ€˜Alaqah is a stage in the development of the human embryo. One of the meanings of the term โ€˜alaqah is Read More …

Q&A: Was al-Harith bin Kaladah the source of the Prophetโ€™s medicalย knowledge?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐&๐€: ๐–๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ-๐‡๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ข๐ง ๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐š๐๐š๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ž๐๐ ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Some historians and commentators believe the Prophet Muhammad plagiarised Aristotleโ€™s and Galenโ€™s accounts of the developing human embryo via al-Harith bin Kaladah. Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: Was al-Harith bin Kaladah the Source of the Prophet Muhammadโ€™s Medicalย Knowledge?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐–๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ-๐‡๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ข๐ง ๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐š๐๐š๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐โ€™๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ž๐๐ ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Writing under the pen name of Lactantius, a Christian author alleges that the descriptions of human Read More …

Documentary Evidence For Early Islam: Dated Muslim Texts From 622-691ย CE

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ: ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐“๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ๐Ÿ-๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ ๐‚๐„ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR In Greek and Arabic, one of the earliest bilingual papyrus from 22 AH / 643 CE (The Austrian National Museum, Vienna). Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an โ€“ Correlation Studies with Modernย Embryology

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง โ€“ ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Keith L. Moore, BA, MSC, PHD, DSC (HON), FIAC, FRSM, FAAA Dr. Keith L. Moore is an internationally recognized leader in the Read More …

Human Development after the 42ndย day

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ฒ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐๐ฒ ๐“.๐•.๐. ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐š๐ฎ๐, ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐šย ๐€. ๐€๐ก๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐›๐๐ฎ๐ฅ-๐Œ๐š๐ฃ๐ž๐ž๐ย ๐€. ๐™๐ข๐ง๐๐š๐ง๐ข (๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ’) ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ฒ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ•๐ญ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: Fetus acquires aย skeleton

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐…๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ค๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐จ๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Compiled by I. Abdullah. This post is โ€œwork in progressโ€. Last updated on the 28th April 2013, 21:00  Any comments are most welcome. The Read More …

The Stages of Embryological Fabrication by Dr.ย Lactantius

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐š๐›๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‹๐š๐œ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Writing under the pen name of Dr. Lactantius, a Christian author who describes himself as a practising medical doctor in the United Kingdom, alleges that the Read More …