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Professor Alfred Kroner is one of the world's most famous geologists. We asked him to describe the geological conditions of Arabia. “Was Arabia once a green land with water and rivers in it?” He replied in affirmative, saying that this happened during the Ice Age. And it is further known that the North Polar icebergs are slowly moving southwards. When those polar icebergs become relatively close to the Arabian Peninsula, the weather will change and Arabia will become one of the greenest and wettest parts of the world. We asked him, “Will Arabia become fertile once more and have rivers in it?” He said, “Yes, it is a scientific fact.”
This astonished us, and we wondered how he could state this as a scientific fact while it was related to the future and we asked, “Why?” He said, “Because the new Ice Age has actually started. And we can see the ice creeping once again from the North Pole southwards. In fact, the polar ice is now moving toward the Arabian Peninsula. We can see the signs of this in the snow blizzards striking the northern parts of Europe and America every winter. Scientists have other signs and information proving the actual beginning of another Ice Age. It is a scientific fact.”
So we said to him, “What you have just mentioned has only been known to scientists after a long series of discoveries and with the help of specialized instruments. But we have already found this mentioned by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) 1,400 years ago. He said in a hadith transmitted by Muslim, “ The last Hour will not take place … until the lands of the Arabs are once again pasture lands and (filled with) rivers.”
At this point we asked Professor Kroner, “Who told the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) that the lands of the Arabs were once filled with orchards and rivers?” He immediately replied, “The Romans.” This reminded me of Professor Kroner's evasive ability. We asked him another question: “But who informed the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) that the lands of the Arabs would one again become pasturelands and be filled with rivers?” Now, being faced with the truth, Professor Kroner was courageous enough to state his opinion frankly and thus he replied, “This could have been known to him only through revelation from Heaven.”
Finally, after our discussions with him, he made the following comments:
If you combine all these with the statements that are being made in the Qur'an in relation to the earth and the formation of the earth and science in general, you can basically say that statements made there in many ways are true. They can now be confirmed by scientific methods, and in a way you can say that the Qur'an is a simple science text book for simple man, and that many of the statements made in there at that time could not be proven but that modern scientific methods are now in a position to prove what Muhammad said 1,400 years ago.
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