Research Contest on Quran’s Scientific Miracles to Be Held in Egypt
Named Al-Nababiq (geniuses), it will begin on Monday and continue until Thursday, August 5, Akhbar el-Yom website reported.
Research papers on different aspects of the Quran’s scientific miracles in such areas as human body, plants, animals, birds and the universe can be summited to the competition.
Another theme of the contest is writing about the Holy Quran’s Balaqa (eloquence), which is considered as an aspect of the Holy Book’s miracle.
The research papers in this field should be at most 30 pages.
The ministry urged those willing to take part in the competition to submit their papers to the Awqaf Departments in cities and towns across Egypt.
They will be evaluated by the Fatwa and Propagation Studies Department for selecting the top ones.
The scientific miracle of the Quran is a notion that shows the Quran is a miracle according to some Quranic statements with findings in empirical sciences. There are statements in the Quran concerning empirical facts which were not discovered at the time of its revelation. And since it was outside the ordinary human capacity to state such facts at that time, the Quran should be considered as a miracle of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and as a book revealed by God.
Examples of the scientific miracle of the Quran include Quranic statements regarding the rotation and the orbit of the Earth, the origination of life from water, the Earth's gravity, and the division of plants and animals into male and female.
In the last century, the scientific miracle of the Quran has been the focus of the attention of many Quranic scholars in the world. Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Iskandarani, Rashid Rida, and Tantawi have been the first scholars who propounded the notion.
