Islamic Miracle Claims

Documented analysis of alleged Islamic miracles, testing prophetic claims, prophecies, and supernatural assertions using scripture, history, and reason.

Qur'an and Science: Is the Earth Egg-Shaped? Members Public

Is the Earth Egg-Shaped? Sura 79:30 reads Wal'arda ba'da dhalika dahaha and is usually translated as And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse); (Yusuf Ali) And after that He spread the earth, (Pickthall) And the earth, He expanded it after that.

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Is the Qur'an Miraculous? -- Zul-Qarnain and the Sun Members Public

ZUL-QARNAIN AND THE SUN THE PLACE OF THE SETTING AND RISING OF THE SUN Since Muslims are divided as to whether Zul-Qarnain is Alexander or not, in this part we are going to investigate the claims of the Qur'an about Zul-Qarnain, assuming that Zul-Qarnain is not Alexander the

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Is the Qur'an Miraculous? -- The Gate Members Public

THE GATE Had it been from other than God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. (Q. 4:82) In the course of giving a lesson from history and a warning for the future the Qur'an mentioned a great personality and a powerful nation in Sura 18.

P. Newton
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A Topical Study of the Qur'an Members Public

Chapter Thirteen Human Characteristics Ascribed to Allah Preface and Comparison with the Bible One of the major criticisms that Muslims have about the Bible is that it ascribes physical features to God. They say that the Bible is flawed in this respect since the Almighty should never be described as

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Is the Qur'an Miraculous? Members Public

Do I love you because you're beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you? -- Joe Aldridge My wife is the most beautiful women in the world! Bring me any woman like it! If you can't, then you have to accept that everything she says

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Satanic Verses and the Miracle of the Qur'an Members Public

The Satanic Verses and their implications for the Miracle of the Qur'an For the historical background on the satanic verses, please read the article by Ernest Hahn. Here I only want to reflect on the implications of this event on the claimed miracle of eloquence which propsed as

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Qur'an Difficulty: Ants Cannot Talk Members Public

Qur'an Difficulty: Ants Cannot Talk At length, when they came to a valley of ants, one of the ants said: "O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it." So he smiled, amused at her speech;

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Qur'an and the Oily Red Rose Nebula Members Public

There are many Muslim webpages propagating one particular example of the miraculous scientific knowledge of the Qur'an, supposedly proven by a picture from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope on January 11, 1995, but having reached the attention of the Muslims apparently when it was the featured image at

Jochen Katz
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