islam and Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe (Quran version)

The first hospital was built in Damascus (707 CE) by Caliph Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik. Muslims made many advances, such as the idea of blood circulation and quarantine. Ibn Sina's (d. 1037 CE) 20-volume The Book of Healing, consisting of The Canons of Medicine, was Europe's chief medical science guide from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Ibn Sina, the first to describe meningitis, surveyed all available medical knowledge, from ancient and Muslim sources, and made original contributions.Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873 CE) made advances in medicine, physics, mathematics, astronomy, veterinary science, and ophthalmology. This philosopher, physician, and head of Baghdad's famous school of translators, wrote the first systematic ophthalmology textbook. Al-Razi (d. 925 CE) wrote a 10-volume work on Greek medicine and a 20-volume encyclopedia of medicine, treated kidney and bladder stones, and researched smallpox and measles. He was the first to use alcohol for medical purposes and opium as an anesthetic. Surgeon Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (d. 1013 CE) wrote Al-Tasrif li Man Ajaz 'an al-Ta'lif, Europe's standard university textbook on surgery for 500 years. He was the first to use silk thread for stitching wounds.Al-Idrisi (d. 1166 CE) made major contributions in cataloging medicinal plants in such books as Kitab al-Jami'li Sifat Ashtat al-Nabatat. He also made original contributions to topography and wrote geographical encyclopedias, such as Pleasure of Men and Delight of Souls.Botanist Ibn al-Baytar (d. 1248 CE), one of the Middle Ages' greatest botanists and pharmacists, compiled a textbook of over 1,400 medicinal plants. It was translated into Latin and published as late as 1758.The founder of modern algebra, al-Khwarizmi's (d. 850 CE) Calculating Integration and Equation was used until the sixteenth century as the principal textbook in European universities. He also helped introduce Arabic numerals, the decimal point system, and the concept of zero. Algebra and algorithm are corruptions of his work and name. Under al-Ma'mun, he and his colleagues were the first to map the globe. In algebra, the Muslims continued with Thabit Ibn Qurra's more general equations solved by geometrical arguments. In 901 Abu Kamil, "the Egyptian calculator," established rules for manipulating algebraic expressions. Around 1000, al-Karaji's The Marvelous discussed higher order equations, combing geometry and arithmetic. Al-Samaw'al established the power law x^nx^n=x^(m+n) in 1180. Abu Yunus proved the famous identity cos(a)cos(b)={cos(a+b)+cos(a-b)}/2 and used spherical trigonometry to compute prayer times. Al-Biruni (d. 1050 CE) used spherical trigonometry to find any city's direction. Another outstanding late-fourteenth century mathematician, Ghiyath al-Din al Kashani, worked on number theory and computation techniques. In 1424, he computed a value of 2pi to 16 decimal points. In his The Calculators' Key, he described an algorithm for finding the fifth root of any number.Omar Khayyam (d. 1131 CE), famous in the West as a poet, was an excellent mathematician who criticized Euclid's theorems, evolved a methodology to solve thrid degree equations, and researched binomials and their coefficients. Methematician and atronomer al-Buzanji's (d. 997 CE) main contribution lies in mathematics, especially geometry, and a sizable part of today's trigonometry can be traced to him. Al-Battani (d. 929 CE) was a famous astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who is often considered one of Islam's greatest astronomers. He determined the solar year to be 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 24 seconds - very close to modern estimates. He proved that, in contrast to Ptolemy, the sun's variation of the apparent angular diameter and the possibility of annular eclipses. In 1749, Dunthorne used al-Battani's observations of lunar and solar eclipses to determine the moon's secular acceleration of motion. His most famous astonomical treatise, translated into Latin in the twelfth century, was extremely influential in Europe until the Renaissance.Physicist al-Khazini studied mechanics and hydrostats and wrote books on physics and astronomy. Geographer, chronologist, mathematician, astonomer, and physicist Al-Biruni's Elements of Astrology remained a textbook for centuries. He also wrote on specific gravity and developed formulas to determine all objects' absolute and specific weights. Ibn al-Haytham (d. 1039 CE), an eminent physicist and the father of modern optics, wrote Kitab al-Manazir on light, worked with mirrors and lenses, reflection, refraction, and magnifying and burning glasses. He discounted Euclid and Ptolemy by discovering that rays originated in the object of vision and not the eye. He discovered the principle of inertia, studied sunrise and sunset, and explained rainbows through the principle of reflection. He was also known for the earliest use of the camera obscura.

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[loyalcma]

@WillShakespeare2007 Quran provides us signs to prove it scientificaly, and it contains the basic principles of the pure humanity, which serves us as basis for building social systems and laws. Unlike all other man written books, Quran is not limited by time and region. Thats y Quran has a unique style of sayings, to guide every human.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@loyalcma - Really well then it is worthless isn't it. If it doesn't have anything but "signs" what use is it. The medical, scientific and legal books of man don't just have "signs" they have cures for diseases, factual information about the universe and well thought out legal systems to help mankind.

I will stick with mankind actual real achievements rather than the Qurans "signs" thanks.

[toms50500]

ok if your forefathers do research in science why this much rich people from arab countries didnt invent anything,compare qatar and israel both are in two directions.why you are promising heaven instead of solving problems here.why women have no opinion.why muslim people living in europe never want to go to arab countries or their country of orgin. why they are uneducated here aswell.if they rule europe did any non religious people get housing benefit.children benefit.

[Jesus2point3]

In reality this man has nothing on his mind, while in my mind God is Reason, & I thank ALLAH for giving me life. Stephen is Hawking "Nothing" as the reason for the beginning of time, & explains it as a place where time & space didn't exist.

In reality what the man describes, is eternity my friends, the residence of ALLAH. The Divine Reality that transcends both space & time, the Creator of the seen & unseen. All is going as God has planned it, regardless what anyone believes.

[sarfrazparastish]

All I know that Quran talks about Big bang and Destruction of this universe. Everything will be destroyed then He alone will remain

God show us the right path. Amin

[tellnet]

Neahhh walla gumba walla walla heahh heahh a ah willy gimbo gooba neahh neahh

[EastLGeez]

@Dhalsman There are great questions to which I struggle to find answers.I try to cast some light reading both holy books and scientific studies.I'm just finding it hard to believe that we were given precise instructions in very complicated times and then left for centuries wondering/discussing/fighting about who is the owner of the most true Godly message on earth.some of those messages are very confusing too.I have quotes from the Quran and Bhagavad Gita where there are claims of geocentrism...

[gfelix323]

God = Everything

[ChaoticInflation1]

All religious books are historic novels written to create social order. So if these books were invented by man with no means of justification why on earth do people believe in them? I believe in science as we have experimental method, no such thing exsists in religion, belief doesn't imply reason.

[proudfemale]

@Dhalsman LOL and you wonder why those of us with intellect laugh at islam and the gullible like you when you post such childish nonsense

whats with the god created science...WHAT god - given there's not a shred of proof of any such being

whats more vast majority of scientists are not only not muslim....but atheist

remember kid, your own koran PROVES islam a cruel hoax and how muslims are lied to

[mackgovern1]

Every learned Muslim must always be prepared to answer questions being asked by curious minds of the non-Muslims. The First question about the constant expansion of the heaven which refers to heavenly bodies in the galaxy. Our scientists discovered these 9 planets one after the other, 1 Mercury 2.Venus 3 Earth 4 Mars. 5 Jupiter 6 Saturn. 7 Uranus, 8 Neptune & 9 Pluto. As the time goes by, many orbiting bodies in the heaven were being discovered recently. Meaning, the heaven is indeed expanding

[next5852]

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[MeeToO59]

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[TKKTism]

@hadchimato. I am asking for something more fundamental than giving me selected evidence. I am asking for logical consistency of whether all these "evidence" logically support the Quran. I have already disproved the evidences, shown in the video, to exhibit logical consistency with implying the truth of Quran. If you want to show me new evidence please make sure they don't fail the test used below.

[next5852]

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[next5852]

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[hadchimalo]

@TKKTism

Now if prove to you with reason, from the Quran the word of ALLAH, would change your mind about religion.

just tell me wich type of person: do you need scientifiq prove,challenging prove,historiq prove...... that i can answer your question in the most good way.

[TKKTism]

I know of at least two other religions, in particular Buddhism and Christian, where you can spin Hawking's words to support their preaching. However, assuming that all three religions are simultaneously right gives out contradictions. So logically, such method of reasoning, by spinning Hawking's words, is inconsistent and poor. There is no way to prove or disprove "God". People choose to believe, not based on facts, but to have comfort in facing death.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@loyalcma - "The Quran is not limited by religion" - you have to be kidding me right? It is science that has brought mankind all the medical advances and understanding of the universe. The Quran has given us absolutely nothing. It is just another book and the Islamic system of law is barbaric beyond words.

[abcman]

@ScientificBob you're missing my point w/e, aside from replying to what you said what i forget to ask is. What is your theory as to why god does not exist.

[JiruTiyya1]

How come people don't get the teachings into consideration. In all the books revealed to humans, we were told to believe, that there is Heaven and Hell. So when we see that there are people who are stubborn and never acknowledged reality, even though it appears hard to believe to believers, isn't the fact that people do wrong so ignorantly the proof that god will fill Hell up with people?

[ScientificBob]

@abcman "What's there to evaluate." There's nothing to evaluate, exactly the point.

"God is theory" God is imaginary sounds more like it... 

"much of science is theory as well" 'Theory' in scientific context means something very different from what you are trying to claim here. And you know it.

"Much of science can't even be varified" Then it's not science. Being verifiable is imperative in science. It's an essential part of the method. Not verifiable = not science.