THE HOLY QURAN

Of course , if there is a universe , there is a creator who created it. Of course , if there is a creator , messengers will come to introduce and explain him . Of course , if the messengers come , they will have holy books in them hands That are the prescription for eternal salvation.

God has sent books through his chosen messengers (Moses, Davit, Jesus, Muhammad) at different times to lead people from darkness to light.

 These books are the Torah, the Psalms, the Bible and the Quran. All the books and the Prophets who delivered them to people through revelation came with the same truths and the ones that came later confirmed and completed the previous ones.

There are three great and universal things which make known to us our Sustainer. One is the Book of the Universe. (Every created being introduces the Almighty Creator. Since a simple needle cannot come into being by itself, can the entire universe exist without a Creator?) 

Another is the Seal of the Prophets (ASM), the supreme sign of the book of the universe.

And the other is the Qur’an of Mighty Stature.

The Holy The Quran has survived to the present day in its original form, as revealed by God , without even a single letter being changed .

      The The Quran is a holy book consisting of 114 surahs , 600 pages and 6,666 verses .     

The belief in God and the eternal life after death , heaven and hell are explained in general terms in the Quran . There are also examples from the lives of previously sent prophets , for example , Prophet Moses is mentioned 136 times in the Quran , Prophet Ibrahim 69 times , Prophet Jesus 180 times ,Prophet David 16 times . Of addition , the disasters That befell the nations to whom These holy prophets were sent are told.

The name of Hz. Maryam is also mentioned in 34 verses.

The The Quran is the last message sent to humanity by Allah, the creator of the universe and humanity . Those who read the Quran and apply it to their lives will be happy both in this world and the hereafter.

The Quran Came to confirm and complete the other holy books That Came before it.

And when Jesus son of Mary said, "O children of Israel! Surely I am the messenger of Allah to you, verifying that which is before me in the Torah and giving the Good News (Gospel) of a Messenger who will come after me, his name being Ahmad. -Quran.61/6

The Last Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “My name is Muhammad in the Quran, Ahmed in the Bible, Ahyed in the Torah.”

Most of the Qur'an's verses are keys to a treasury of perfections and guides to a store of knowledge.

In truth, it is impossible for the Artist Who adorns this world with His arts not to speak with man, who appreciates His art. Since He makes and knows, He surely speaks. And since He speaks, it is surely the Qur’an which is appropriate to His speech. [The All-Wise Qur'an] the instructor, true wisdom, guide, and leader of the world of humanity; it is both a book of wisdom and law, and a book of prayer and worship, and a book of command and summons, and a book of invocation and Divine knowledge –

it is book for all spiritual needs; and it is a sacred library offering books appropriate to the ways of all the saints and veracious, the purified and the scholars, whose ways and paths are all different.

Just as the Qur'an explicitly urges man to follow Jesus' (Peace be upon him) high morals, so it allusively encourages him towards the elevated art and dominical medicine of which Jesus was the master. The verse indicates the following: "Remedies may be found for even the most chronic ills. In which case, O man!, O calamity-afflicted sons of Adam! Don't despair!

Whatever the ill, its cure is possible. Search for it and you will find it. It is even possible to give a temporary tinge of life to death."

The All-Wise Qur'an sends the Prophets to man's communities as leaders and vanguards of spiritual and moral progress. Similarly it gives all of them a number of wonders and makes them the masters and foremen in regard to mankind's material progress, and commands men to follow them absolutely. Thus, just as by speaking of the spiritual and moral perfections of the Prophets, it is encouraging people to benefit from them, so too in discussing their miracles it is inferring encouragement to achieve similar things and to imitate them.

Just as a master builder speaks of two houses he has constructed and arranged, and makes out the programme and list and index of the matters involved, so the Qur’an is fitting for the One Who makes the universe and arranges it, and writes out and displays the list and index and -if one may say so- the programme of the matters concerned with it. There is no sign of any artificiality or false display. And just as there is no trace of imitation or hint of any fraud, like speaking on behalf of someone else... the Qur’an’s pure, shining, brilliant exposition declares: “I am the word and exposition of the Creator of the world,” just as the light of day declares: “I came from the sun.”

if all the fine words of man and jinn which do not issue from the Qur'an and do not belong to it were to be gathered together, they could not imitate the Qur'an. And they have not been able to imitate it, for they have been unable to show that they have.

It is as though the Qur'an is every century turned directly towards all the classes of humanity, and addresses each particularly.

The Qur’an is truth, reality, truthfulness, guidance and wonderfully eloquent that it does not cause weariness and preserves its freshness and agreeableness as though preserving a perpetual youth.

While there is a perpetual miracle like the Qur’an, searching for further proof appears to my mind as superfluous.

Since the Qur’an’s principles and laws have come from pre-eternity, they shall go to post-eternity. They are not condemned to grow old and die like civilization’s laws. They are always young and strong.

For sure, everyone whose heart is without disease, whose mind is sound, whose conscience is not sick, whose taste is unimpaired sees in the Qur’an’s manner of exposition a beautiful smoothness of style, a graceful harmony, a pleasing proportionateness, a unique eloquence.

Indeed, the Qur’an’s style is both strange, and original, and wonderful, and convincing. It has imitated nothing and no one. And no one has been able to imitate it. Its style has always preserved the freshness, youth, and singularity it possessed when it was first revealed and continues to preserve it.

In truth, it is impossible for the Artist Who adorns this world with His arts not to speak with man, who appreciates His art. Since He makes and knows, He surely speaks. And since He speaks, it is surely the Qur’an which is appropriate to His speech.

All the clear-sighted see that the Qur’an possesses an eye that sees the whole universe together with its outer and inner aspects clearly before it as though it was a page; that it turns the page as it wishes, and tells the page’s meanings as it wishes.

Since the Qur'an is a pre-eternal address, and sitting above and beyond the centuries, which, layer upon layer, are all different, addresses and instructs all of mankind lined up within them, certainly it will include and intend numerous meanings according to those varying understandings, and will make allusions to what it intends.

This is the Qur'an's youth. It preserves its freshness and youth every age as though newly revealed. In fact, the Qur'an has to have perpetual youth since as a pre-eternal address, it addresses at once all the levels of mankind in every age.

The expositions of the Qur'an cannot be attributed to man's partial knowledge, and particularly to the knowledge of someone unlettered. They rest rather on a comprehensive knowledge and are the word of One able to see all things together and observe in one moment all truths between pre-eternity and post-eternity.

That means the Qur'an is the Word of One Who sees at the same instant all time and all within it.

Just as with all its miracles and all its truths, which are an indication of its veracity, the Qur’an is a miracle of Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him), so too with all his miracles and the evidences of his prophethood and perfections of his knowledge, Muhammad (PBUH) is a miracle of the Qur’an, and a decisive proof that it is the Word of God.

The Qur’an displays an agreeableness so true that for those who recite it, its many repetitions, which are the cause of even the sweetest things being wearied of, do not cause weariness, rather for those whose hearts are not corrupted and taste spoilt, the repetitions increase its agreeableness.

Thus, although the Perspicuous Qur’an was revealed part by part like stars over twenty years in response to the circumstances and needs, it possesses such a perfect harmony and displays such a proportionateness that it is as though it was revealed all at once.

     Furthermore, although the circumstances which prompted the Qur’an’s revelation were all different and various, its parts are so mutually supportive that it is as though it was revealed in response to only one of them.

The reason for [Qur’an’s] not causing boredom, and the wisdom of it, is this: it is food and sustenance for the heart, strength and wealth for the mind, water and light for the spirit, and the cure and remedy for the soul. Everyday we eat bread, yet we do not tire of it. But if we were to eat the choicest fruit every day, it would cause boredom. That means it is because the Qur’an is truth and reality and truthfulness and guidance and wonderfully eloquent that it does not cause weariness and preserves its freshness and agreeableness as though preserving a perpetual youth.

The Qur'an's expositions of the Divine truths, and its explanations of the cosmos, which solve the talisman of the universe and riddle of creation, are the most important of its disclosures about the Unseen. For it is not reasonable to expect the human reason to discover those truths about the Unseen and follow them without deviating amid innumerable ways of misguidance. It is well-known that the most brilliant philosophers of mankind have been unable to solve the most insignificant of those matters by use of the reason.

Who else could the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition be fitting for? Whose speech could it be apart from His? Who can claim ownership of it apart from Him?   Whose word could it be other than His? Whose light could the exposition of the Qur'an be, which solves the talisman of creation and illuminates the world, other than the Pre-Eternal Sun's? Who has the ability to produce the like of it, and imitate it?

Yes, who is there apart from the universe’s Creator that could give a discourse concerned to this degree with the universe and the Creator of the universe? Who could step beyond his mark to an infinite degree and make the All-Glorious Creator speak according to his own whims, then make the universe speak the truth? Yes, in the Qur’an, the universe’s Maker is seen to be speaking and making others speak most seriously and truthfully and in elevated and true fashion. There is no sign at all to suggest imitation. He speaks and makes speak.

Furthermore, [Qur’an] demonstrates such a freshness, youth, and originality that although it has lived for fourteen centuries and has been freely available to everyone, it has preserved its freshness as though newly revealed. Each century has seen it to be young as though it was addressing that century in particular. And although in order to benefit from it all the time, all the branches of scholars have always had copies of it present with them in large numbers and have followed and emulated its style and manner of expression, it has preserved the originality in its style and manner of exposition exactly.

Although for one thousand three hundred and fifty years, the All-Wise Qur’an has set forth and displayed all its truths in the market of the universe, and everyone, all nations, all countries have taken some of its jewels and its truths, and they do take them, neither the familiarity, nor the abundance, nor the passage of time, nor the great changes have damaged its valuable truths and fine styles, or caused it to age, or desiccated it, or made it lose its value, or extinguished its beauty. This on its own is an aspect of miraculousness. 

Also, all the classes of mankind from the most stupid and lowly to the cleverest and most learned taking their full share of the Qur’an’s instruction and their understanding its profoundest truths, and all branches of scholars like the great interpreters of the Greater Shari’a in particular, and hundreds of Islamic sciences and branches of knowledge, and the brilliant and exacting scholars of theology and the principles of religion extracting from the Qur’an all the needs and answers for their own sciences, - this is a stamp confirming that the Qur’an is a source of truth and mine of reality.

And although the Qur’an was revealed through Divine condescension in styles appropriate to the understanding of the innumerable people it would address, whose circumstances were different and diverse, it displays such a fine correspondence and beautiful smoothness of style that it is as though the circumstances were one and the level of understanding the same; it flows as smoothly as water. And although the Qur’an addresses numerous classes distant from one another, it possesses such an ease of exposition, such an eloquence in its word-order, such a clarity in its manner of expression that it is as though it is addressing a single class. Even, each class supposes that it alone is being addressed.

The Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition says: “O men and jinn! If you have any doubts that the Qur’an is the Word of God and imagine it to be man’s word, then come on, here it is, let’s see! You bring a book like this Qur’an from someone unlettered, who does not know how to read and write like the one you call Muhammad the Trustworthy, and get him to compose it! If you cannot do this, then he need not be untaught, let him be a famous man of letters and learned. And if you are not able to do this, alright, not on his own, take all the finest works of all your orators and men of eloquence, and indeed of all the literary geniuses of the past and all those of the future, and the assistance of all your gods. Work with all your strength, compose the like of a single Sura.”

The Qur’an’s meanings satisfy ears like mountains in the same way that with the same words they teach and satisfy tiny simple minds, like a fly. For the Qur’an calls to belief all the levels of men and jinn. It teaches the sciences of belief to all. In which case, the most lowly of the common people kneels shoulder to shoulder with the most elevated of the elite, and together they listen to the Qur’an’s teachings and benefit from them. That is to say, the Holy Qur’an is a heavenly repast at which the thousands of different levels of minds, intellects, hearts, and spirits find their nourishment. Their desires are fulfilled and their appetites are satisfied. In fact, numerous of its doors remain closed and are left to those who will come in the future.

Indeed, since the Qur’an summons all mankind with all its classes and instructs them in belief, the highest and most subtle science, and in knowledge of God, the broadest and most luminous branch of learning, and in the laws of Islam, which are the most important and various of the sciences, it is essential that it should instruct every class and group appropriately. What it teaches, however, is the same; it does not differ. In which case, there have to be different levels in the same lesson, and according to its degree, every class takes its share from one of the veils of the Qur’an.

The Qur’an caused a transformation in social life in this world in so luminous, happy, and truthful a fashion, and brought about such a revolution in both men’s souls, and hearts, and spirits, and minds, and in their personal lives, social lives, and political lives, and continued and directed that revolution, that every minute for fourteen centuries its six thousand six hundred and sixty-six verses have been recited with deep reverence by the tongues of at least one hundred million men, and it has trained men, purified their souls and cleansed their hearts, and has caused spirits to unfold and progress, given direction and light to minds, and vitality and happiness to life. For sure, such a book has no like; it is a wonder, a marvel, a miracle.

The All-Wise Qur'an is wise. It affords everything a position in relation to its value.

"It is only you who solves and unravels the talisman of the universe and riddle of creation, O All-Wise Qur'an!"

Who produces for you fire from the green tree. {Qur’an, 36:80.}

       Here the Qur’an is saying in the face of rebellious man’s denials, who is as though challenging the Qur’an by saying, “Who will raise to life rotten bones?”, “Whoever created them in the first place, He will raise them to life. And that Creator knows every single aspect of every single thing. Furthermore, He who provides fire for you from the green tree, is able to give life to dry bones.”  

Moreover, everyone is not capable of always reading the whole Qur'an, but is mostly able to read one Sura. Therefore, since the most important purposes of the Qur'an are included in most of the longer Suras, each is like a small Qur'an. That is to say, so that no one should be deprived, certain of its aims like Divine unity, the resurrection of the dead, and the story of Moses, have been repeated.   

The Qur’an’s style has a comprehensiveness so wonderful that a single Sura contains the ocean of the Qur’an, which in turn contains the universe. A single of its verses contains the treasury of the Sura.

And most of the verses are each a short Sura, while most of the Suras are short Qur’ans.

If the wonders of civilization were to demand their rights with a view to fineness of art and seek a place from its verses, then a single fly would bid them to be silent, saying: "Your rights are not equal to even one of my wings! For if all the fine arts and delicate instruments achieved through man's faculty of will were to be gathered together, they could not be as wondrous as the fine art of my delicate members and tiny body." The verse, "Those on whom you call besides God cannot create [even] a fly, if they all met together for the purpose..." bids you to fall silent!"

-      Risalei Nur Collection

The All-Wise Qur'an, which makes known to us our Sustainer, is thus: it is the pre-eternal translator of the great book of the universe; the discloser of the treasures of the Divine Names concealed in the pages of the earth and the heavens; the key to the truths hidden beneath these lines of events; the treasury of the favours of the Most Merciful and pre-eternal addresses, which come forth from the World of the Unseen beyond the veil of this Manifest World; the sun, foundation, and plan of the spiritual world of Islam, and the map of the worlds of the hereafter;

As for the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, the supreme miracle of Muhammad (PBUH), since it shows in detail the reality of the teaching of the Names, it points clearly to the true goal of the sciences and branches of knowledge, which are truth and reality, as well as the perfections, attainments, and happiness of this world and the next. With truly powerful encouragement, it urges man towards them. It hints:

      "At the end of time, mankind will spill into science and learning. It will obtain all its strength from science. Power and rule will pass to the hand of science."

There are three great and universal things which make known to us our Sustainer. One is the Book of the Universe. (Every created being introduces the Almighty Creator. Since a simple needle cannot come into being by itself, can the entire universe exist without a Creator?)

Another is the Seal of the Prophets (ASM), the supreme sign of the book of the universe. And the other is the Qur’an of Mighty Stature.

Some verses from the Quran:

Goodness does not lie in turning your faces to the East or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are those who have iman in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves free, and who establish salat and pay zakat; those who honour their contracts when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the Allah-fearing. Quran.2/177

157.     Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them. He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong. He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters that they used to wear. Then those who believe in him, and honour him, and help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him: they are the successful.

158.    (Say, O Muhammad): 'O men! I am Allah's Messenger to you all - of Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He. He gives life and causes death. So believe in God and His Messenger, the  Unlettered Prophet, who believes in God and His words. And follow him, that you may be guided.

Quran 7 /157-158

This (Quran) is a Message for all mankind, let them (the men) take warning from it, and let them know that He is One God (Allah): Let men of understanding pay attention!

Quran. Abraham 52

Every verse of the The Quran is a miracle . Subjects That science has recently discovered Were mentioned in the Quran 1400 years ago . This definitely prove That the The Quran is the word of the creator who knows the Past and the future with his infinite knowledge . In This respect , it is not possible to describe all the Miracles in the Quran here. Some of them are as follows :

1.It is God who raised up the heavens with no visible supports and then established Himself on the throne ; He has subjected the sun and the moon each to pursue its course for an appointed time; He regulates all things , and makes the revelations clear so That You may be certain of meeting your Lord ( Quran . Ra'd 13/2)

2.The creation of the The universe is explained in the Quran as follows . “He is the What's that who created the heavens and the earth from nothing .” ( Quran.An'am , 6/101) This verse informed us 1,400 years ago about the latest point reached by the world of science - that the Entire universe emerged from nothing with the dimensions of time and space , with a great explosion.

3.The fact That the The universe is constantly is now expanding scientifically Discovery accepted by the World of Science and knowledge . The Quran points to This with the following verse:

“ We have built the heaven with might , and We are Who make the vast extent ( thereof ).” ( Quran.Dhariyat , 51/47)

4. Another Discovery of the century is the fact That every star and The celestial body is in an orbit . the Quran points to This situation with the following verse:

“And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.” (Quran. Anbiya, 21/33)

5. Until recently, the sun was thought to be stationary. However, the Quran said that the sun was not stationary, but a celestial body that was always moving and advancing at a certain speed. And centuries later, science would confirm this. As follows:

“The sun also flows towards a place determined for it. This is the decision of the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing.” (Quran.Yasin, 36/38)

Geological Miracles in the Qur'an

The Decrease of Land

In the Holy Quran, which He sent down fourteen centuries ago, Almighty Allah reveals some secrets about His creation. These secrets prove that the Quran is the word of Allah and also pave the way for developments in natural sciences.

“Do they not see that We come to the earth and reduce it from its surroundings…” (Quran. Ra'd , 13/41)

“... But now, do they not see that We have come to the earth and are decreasing it from its surroundings ... ” (Quran. Anbiya, 21/44)

With global warming, the ice sheets in the poles are melting and the sea water level in the oceans is rising. The increasing amount of water is also covering more land. As the sea shores are flooded, the total surface area or land area of the earth is also decreasing. (Dr. Mazhar U. Kazi , 130 Evidence Miracles in the (Quran , Crescent Publishing House, New York, USA, 1998, p. 115) It is possible that the expressions in the verses , "We are decreasing it from its surroundings" and "We are decreasing it from its surroundings" refer to the sea shores being covered with water.  

Here is a news article in the New York Times about this issue:

Over the past century, the average surface temperature of the Earth has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit , and the rate of warming has accelerated over the past quarter century. Scientists compared submarine data from the 1950s and 1960s with observations from the 1990s and found that the ice sheet in the Arctic basin has thinned by 45 percent. Satellite images show that the extent of the ice covering the region has decreased significantly in recent years. (New York Times, August 19, 2000)

Continental Drift

The mantle layer, which is denser than the earth's crust, moves on the ground as if it were floating. It was first discovered in the early 20th century by Alfred A German scientist named Wegener discovered that the continents on Earth were together in the early days of the world, and then drifted in different directions and drifted apart.

The landmasses on Earth were connected to each other approximately 500,000,000 years ago and this large landmasses called Pangea was located at the South Pole. Approximately 180,000,000 years ago Pangea split into two. Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India were formed from the first of these two giant continents drifting in different directions; Europe, North America and the parts of Asia except India were formed from the second.

It has been calculated that continental movement is around 1 to 5 cm per year. As the plates move in this way, changes occur in the geography of the Earth. For example, the Atlantic Ocean expands a little more each year. ( Carolyn Sheets , Robert Gardner, Samuel F. Howe , General Science , Allyn and Bacon Inc. Newton , Massachusetts, 1985, p. 305)  

Allah has described the movement of mountains as drift in the verse. The English term that scientists use for this movement today is continental drift is continental drift. 

“You see the mountains and think they are frozen; but they drift like drifting clouds...” (Quran. Neml , 27/88)

The Earth Consists of Seven Layers

One of the information Allah gives about the earth in the Quran is the similarity of the earth to the seven-layered sky.

“Allah created seven heavens and the like of them from the earth…” (Quran.Talak, 65/12)

Our Lord stated centuries ago that the earth and the sky are each seven layers. Centuries later, the conclusion reached as a result of long geological researches was the same. These layers listed by scientists are as follows: Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere , Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core.  

Most importantly, the inclusion of these scientific facts, which can be determined with the technology of the 20th century, in the Quran are only a few of the many miracles of the Quran.

In summary: The Quran is the word of Allah. It is the word of the Almighty who knows us, the past and the future. Of course, those who know Him will reach eternal happiness.

(Of course , the Translations do not exactly similar to the original, but they still reflect what is meant in the verse to a greater or lesser extent.)