By MaxQ on 3/15/2009 5:19 AM

According to traditional Muslim belief, there is an extraordinary legend about a powerful military general's expedition to Mecca in the year Prophet Muhammad was born. This powerful leader: Abraha – king of Saba, Hadramawt and Yamen – is believed to have been killed and his army humiliated by the Meccans led by Abd al-Muttalib in the battle of Macca. As amazing as this story is, we observe that the Quran seems to mention this event as well or so the traditionalists contend. Nonetheless, it would be vital to validate this event and determine its authenticity.

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By AY Mol on 8-3-2009 9:50

 by Dr. Manzoor-ul-Haque

 

BRIEF HISTORY Different theories about the origin of existing species including man came into vogue during the last few centuries. As they could not be supported by scientific evidence, they ultimately became obsolete one after the other. The actual forces that brought about evolution were gradually discovered and are now thoroughly understood.(1) Primitive human races had various myths to explain the origin of man and animals by the creative acts of supernatural powers. Until the last century most of the people including such scientists as Linnaeus, Cuvier, Agassiz and Owen believed that species had been created separately. Cuvier thought that the disappearance of fossil species had resulted from a series of catastrophes, the last being the Noah’s flood; and after each of these the earth had been repopulated by new creation of higher type. The belief in catastrophes was dispelled by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who showed that the geological...

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By AY Mol on 7-3-2009 18:01

 



 

The law of the Quran in the capacity of Divine Message to Mankind is perfectly universal and applicable to all nations. It knows no racial, geographical or religious bounds as it applies to the whole of Human species. How do Human nations rise to power and through what delinquency in their efforts they fall and are wiped out of the face of the earth–this as a matter of fact is the essence of a part of the whole teaching of the Quran. “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian rather he was a downright acceptor of commands: (hanifan Musliman) (3:67) Shows that the Quran does not accept the theory of Prophets having come down on earth for the purpose of instituting ‘religions’ or sects, nor did they come to divide man. “Human beings are one people” and “for this very purpose, God created them.” (wa li zalika khalaqahum) (11:119) Show that the intention of nature is to make Man develop as One Nation, in fact develop in exactly the same way as millions of other species of lower beings have...

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