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RE:Science and History in the Quran
by Genesis on Feb 13, 2008 06:20 PM

Dear Avinash,
The knowledge mankind posesses is very limited. We are not sure about our own planet, what can we say about the universe. For some decades we were thing Pluto is a planet, now astronomers have discovered that it is not a planet !!! So we are yet discover lot many things about our own planets and universe. That does not mean The Quran is wrong !!! I have quoted the correct translation from Yusuf Ali, well known Quran Translater. You can find the correct translation - just google for Quran english translation by Yusuf Ali.

A few are quoted below...

27.61. Or, Who has made the earth firm to live in; made rivers in its midst; set thereon mountains immovable; and made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water? (can there be another) god besides Allah. Nay, most of them know not.

67.5. 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.

71.16. "'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?

81. 2. When the stars fall, losing their lustre;

67.3. He Who created the seven heavens one above another: No want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of ((Allah)) Most Gracious. So turn thy vision again: seest thou any flaw?

12.4 When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostr

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