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1
Scientific Investigation of Revealed Knowledge
A Project with unlimited potential for peace and
development
2
In 1996, a Science fiction, centered around Quran
was presented, outlining a research on revealed
knowledge
The book argued that revelations are
extra-terrestrial in origin, global in extent,
periodic and have not ended in the past
The research presented a Design that predicted
the arrival of a last transmission on earth that
would contain all future guidance for humanity,
hidden within it, in layers
From this transmission, humanity was expected to
decode guidance for its future with its
increasing intelligence, at suitable time
intervals
3
The book The Ultimate Revelations argued that
Quran is that last predicted transmission of the
Design and presented about 350 strong arguments
to support this contention
The book was released in India and UAE, and was
critically reviewed by several major newspapers
4
Apart from Arabic and Urdu newspapers of India
and UAE, following major newspapers covered the
research
Gulf News Azza Sultan impressed by new book
Khaleej Times Holy Quran in scientific light
The Times of India In Search of new meanings in
Quran
Sunday Observer - Should the sun hiccup..
The Hindu - Message from Stars
Islamic Voice - Science fiction with a difference
5
19 years later, the same researcher has presented
a fresh perspective on our origins, once again
outlining hundreds of additional hints from
Quran, to help and augment scientific research in
this direction
6
This new research discusses compelling evidences
in the arrival of revelations, and gives pointers
on
How the historical evidences should be
investigated
And how to extract the information from
revelations in an objective and transparent
manner
7
The research attempts to resolve ..
The debate on terrestrial or extra-terrestrial
origin of life
The mechanism through which the mysterious LUCA
Last universal common ancestor appeared on
earth
Location on earth where it was created
Reason for the delay in the appearance of
multicellular life
The development of complex life forms
The possible presence of a non-organic
intelligence on earth
8
The research also elaborates on the link of man
with rest of the life on planet
How the first man and his mate were created
When were they created on earth
Where was the first pair nurtured initially
Where did they appear on earth
Was the first pair able to communicate
What was the basic structure of their language
Mystery of jinn and angels
9
The research outlines creation in six different
periods
.. and describes a Last period, where progressive
destruction of oceans, hills, earth, moon, sun
and stars become signs of an Ultimate End of
creation ..
The data is detailed and specific and encompasses
the intelligence factor
Correlating the information with standard models,
several queries regarding our future can be
resolved
10
The research also outlines
The physics of Paradise and Hell
And explains a Creator, vastly different from the
man in His image concept
Covering many more universes, spread over levels
upon levels of existence and perception
11
Hints presented support a Super String based
cyclic Universe, unfolding according to an
Ultimate Program, and teeming with 'life and
Intelligence' at different levels of maturity
Governed by a dynamic mechanism of administration
with a Federation of Intellects at its highest
levels, this universe has a mysterious entity
Holy Spirit as part of its Design
12
For authenticity, all the information is
extracted from the Arabic roots of the original
text of Quran, as identified in standard
dictionaries
The information not only points towards specific
models out of several that are being debated in
the scientific world, but
the hints also seem to resolve several
difficulties of these models that are troubling
the scientists
13
The problem however is that almost all
communities in the world claim the existence of
advanced scientific information in their own
scriptures
14
And for them, mere demonstration of this
information in revelations alone will never be
enough, however unambiguous the hint may be
Because, it can always be interpreted in a
different way and then rejected
15
Therefore, a sound scientific approach is also
required to objectively investigate this
information
16
Applying Dembiskis information theoretic work on
Intelligent Design towards this problem, an
objective method can be outlined to verify
the information in revelations
17
This method would entail investigation and
verification of four factors related to
information in revelations, by a panel of experts
18
First is clear evidence of actualization of
information or demonstration of the fact that
the claimed information truly existed in the
scripture
Which means showing the presence of specific
words in the ancient manuscripts of the scripture
19
Original ancient copies of Quran, still existing
in the world, can help in this exercise
Mohamed Seif el-Shazli, his son Ahmed and Hassan
el-Zeneiny, caretaker of the Al-Hussein Mosque,
display the Uthman Quran, in the relics room of
the mosque
20
Apart from the evidence of its presence in
scripture, the establishment of exact meaning of
Arabic words from its verb root is also important
21
An example
???????????? ???????????? ???????? ????????
????????????
And the heaven We have constructed it with
strength, and indeed We are expanding it
Al-Quran 5147
22
The crucial word here is Musiana
Standard Lexicons such as Lane explains its verb
root through acts of widening, broadening,
enlarging and amplifying etc.
23
Using Musiana with heaven, obviously points
towards it being enlarged or expanded
The modern science confirms the phenomenon and
calls it Hubble expansion, where all
gravitationally unbound objects have been found
to be moving apart in the universe
via the stretching of space itself
24
However, another usage of this word is in
Al-Quran 2236, where God directs a man to be
generous because He has enlarged his resources
Among numerous commentators of Qur'an, Qurtubi, a
scholar from 10th century had explained its
meaning through aghnaynaakum, "we enriched you
Citing this particular explanation, critics
assert that as enrichment is different from
expansion, correlating this statement with
Hubble expansion is unacceptable
25
Resolution of this problem lies in the
investigation of words by a panel of linguists
Linguists, collectively and authoritatively, can
inform us how the root of words were understood
by Bedouins of the area
And how the Quran has utilized this root
throughout its text
26
Linguists have reviewed the research and have
attested the credibility of original Arabic
sources cited
27
Charge of plagiarism
Another problem with complex advanced information
in ancient texts is that statements with similar
contents are often found in different sources,
leading to the charge of plagiarism from older
sources
Thus Quran, the last well known scripture, is
also vulnerable to charge of plagiarism as it
claims continuity with earlier scriptures and
emphasizes a common Source of all
28
Resolution of this problem is possible through
Exclusion - the second factor
Critics who level the charge of plagiarism, gloss
over the background of information in older
sources and the fact that some superfluous
information often exists along with the truth at
the core
Demonstration of the deliberate exclusion of this
superfluous information from the revelations
under study, can resolve the issue of plagiarism
29
For example, stars are part of many myths and
legends, and have been believed to be gods,
souls, eyes of the dead, and even flowers etc.
Isolated group of stars, known as constellations
specially have given rise to many mythical tales
among ancients
30
The Quran, arriving in 7th century, had mentioned
the word masabeeh for stars
Masabeeh is the plural of sabeeh, meaning lamp
a source of light and heat
And We adorned the heaven of the world with
lamps, and protection Al- Quran 4112
31
The Bible also mentions lamps in the heaven, in
Daniel 810 Matthew 2429 Mark 1325 and
Revelation 613, 810, 91, 124
but with some additional content
32
Then another sign appeared in heaven an enormous
red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and
seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a
third of the stars out of the sky and flung them
to the earth Revelation 123,4
33
Transmission of a basic truth in both the
scriptures which was unknown at the time, such as
..
stars are sources of heat and light (lamps)
.. suggests the possibility of a common Source
behind the information that knew about the
reality of stars
34
.. while exclusion of information in the newer
scripture, about one third of these stars
falling on earth because of the tail of dragon,
without any means to differentiate it from myth
in the seventh century ..
.. hints that the information in the new
scripture is exclusive and has not been
plagiarised from the existing source
35
With all such information packets, it is
essential to know the similarities and
dissimilarities both with the existing sources of
the time
What really has been mentioned in the older
source and what exactly has been excluded from
the newer source
A panel of science historians can also help in
this exercise by establishing the exact status of
available information in the seventh century
36
Specification - third factor
It implies specifying or identifying the
information in an ancient text and corroborating
it with independently available and accepted
information in the world now
Three issues are important related to
specification
37
Specific for some and Unspecific for others -
First issue
It is obvious that futuristic guidance for
humanity would not come to earth in the form of a
tough research paper, addressed to a well-known
scientific publication
a technology independent bio-receptor, a human
channel on earth is expected to be a more apt
receptor for such a transmission
38
This Transmission is expected to cover broad
range of ethical and scientific guidance
.. embedded in a language that would appeal
equally to a nomad in the desert of a bygone era
or to a physicist of the new millennium
39
The combination of multiple receivers ..
.. and complex content ..
.. inevitably brings the role of perspective in
the interpretation
40
Intellectuals with a positive perspective
would be able to dwell deeper and be able to
specify information from such a composition and
derive benefit from it
but ..
41
critics with a negative perspective would simply
reject the information as unspecific
And dismiss all such attempts as
pseudo-scientific efforts or retrofitting of
scientific meanings to some vague words in the
scripture
42
Therefore, along with good knowledge base, a
positive perspective is essential for specifying
the information
43
Second issue - Genuine vs post hoc patterns
Dembiski has explained this issue through three
scenarios
An archer shoots at a blank wall and hits it
randomly
The archer shoots at a specific target and hits
it squarely
The arrow strikes a wall anywhere ..
and then target gets painted around it
Obviously out of all the three scenarios, only
the second one demonstrates the ability of the
archer
44
Specifying information in revelations with
intelligent information now available in the
world, is akin to hitting a target with an arrow,
shot 1400 years ago
The target however should not appear to have been
painted around the arrow after it had struck the
wall, as then the exercise would resemble the
third scenario more
45
An example of a delayed claim from Al-Quran
2130
And those who disbelieved not consider that the
heavens and the earth were joined entity, and We
separated them
The word used here for the beginning of creation
is fatq, which implies an action of separating or
tearing
Modern science agrees with this scenario and
calls it the Big-Bang of Creation
but this was not always so ..
46
For long, scientists had believed that the
universe was eternal and static. It was only from
1930 onwards that a debate started about static
universe vs expanding universe, created out of
a Big Bang
Gradually new evidences began to emerge that
favoured the expanding universe model
With the discovery of residual radiation in space
in 1962, the static model of universe was
discredited and Big Bang became the model of
consensus
47
If commentators of Quran had pointed out the
meaning of fatq unambiguously during the
intervening centuries, irrespective of the
scientific opinion of the time, the Muslim
scientists guided by this verse may have strongly
supported the Big Bang model while the debate was
still on
and later, the confirmation of their claim would
have created unprecedented interest in the Quran
..
But since Muslims have put in their claim after
the establishment of Big Bang, the credibility of
claim has suffered
The exercise now seems to represent Dembiskis
third scenario more than the second scenario
48
Third issue - Peculiar structure of information
In Quran, verifiable and as yet un-verifiable
components of information exist together as part
of a complex structure
49
A purpose of this structure can be deduced from a
verse of Al-Quran 2130 quoted earlier
And those who disbelieve not consider that the
heavens and the earth were joined entity, and
We separated them and made from water every
living thing, - then will they not believe?
The verse seems to have two major components.
First reveals information regarding creation of
universe, while the second informs us about birth
of all life from water
50
In the first component, two words have been used.
Fatq describes an action of creating a slit, a
rent, while Ratq has been translated as an act of
joining, but in reality means the closing of a
breach
The action of fatq has been verified already,
however, through ratq, God is revealing
information about an action that had occurred
before the fatq the Big Bang
51
Regarding this information, four points are
important
1. The information is specific and targeted
towards those who are studying the creation of
universe, such as theoretical physicists
2. We do not have the experimental ability to
verify this information
3. Its credibility lies in the fact that this
information is part of a statement where one
component, fatq, has been verified already
4. The unverifiable information, the act of
closing before the Big-Bang, seems to favour a
cyclic model of creation, which is neither a
traditionally accepted religious view nor an
officially accepted scientific consensus
52
Second component of this verse is also interesting
And those who disbelieve not consider that the
heavens and the earth were joined entity, and We
separated them
and made from water every living thing, - then
will they not believe? Al-Quran 2130
In a desert where life existed in vast stretches
of land without water, a 7th century statement
about birth of all life out of water is quite
unusual by itself, but more than that
the mention of creation of universe, and the
birth of all life from water, within a single
verse
.. suggests that the phenomenon of life out of
water could be universal, and not limited to our
planet only
53
Till recently, because of our atmospheric shield,
there was no way to know whether water was unique
to our planet or existed in rest of the universe
also
However, on Dec. 5, 1998, Submillimeter-Wave
Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) was sent into orbit,
and rising above the atmospheric shield, it has
detected vast amounts of water vapour hidden in
the dark pockets of our galaxy
The discovery thus seems to corroborate the
revealed hint that the organic life is present
all over the universe and not just on earth
54
The Quran seems to contain numerous such packets
of information
The verifiable component of information is meant
to increase the credibility of revelations once
humanity achieves a certain knowledge base to
verify it with the passage of time
Whereas the information, un-verified till that
time, is meant to guide the human race subtly
55
Since both the information components are linked
through a structure, verification of one part is
expected to establish the credibility of the other
56
Muslim scholars however concentrate only on the
part of information that has already been
verified, without demonstrating the guiding
potential of the still unverified information
57
Western scholars, predictably reject this
information, arguing the use of such revealed
information that can only be identified after the
West gets it verified through their own rational
efforts
58
Both sides do not realize that for guiding the
human race, the true component of the revealed
knowledge is in fact the un-verified part of the
verse
59
and its advantage can only be gained if the
information is studied through a symbiotic effort
between revealed and the rational knowledge
60
Fourth factor - Complexity
Another evidence of intelligence is the higher
Complexity of information
A monkey playing with a typewriter for days, may
come up with a coherent word or two, through
chance
But to write a higher complexity composition,
such as a book, a mail or even a sentence, it
requires human intelligence
61
Dembiski had sought to establish the existence of
an intelligent cause behind evolution of life
through higher complexity of information
With revelations however, the involvement of
intelligence has never been disputed. What we
have to determine is which intelligence is
responsible for this information, a human
intellect, or some supra Intellect, far beyond
the level of humanity
The complexity of information thus, has to be
demonstrated to be beyond the human ability of
the time, so as to exclude the human origin of
revelations
62
But again, demonstration of higher complexity
alone is not enough. Any complex occurrence can
also be explained as accidental in origin
Therefore to delink chance from these occurrences
..
the only way available for us is to demonstrate
the presence of futuristic information in such
large numbers that the probability of their
occurrence through chance, becomes statistically
unacceptable
63
Case of a rat in a maze is an example
If a maze is simple with few turns, a rat may get
lucky and escape from it
But if a maze is complex with numerous turns, the
rat will not be able to escape accidentally
reducing the factor of chance
64
We thus have to establish..
the complexity of information in revelations
beyond any human capability of the time,
demonstrating a supra human source
and presence of these pointers in such large
number that would rule out the factor of
chance from this exercise
65
Hundreds of pointers from revelations are now
available that require investigation and debate
by a panel of scientists, linguists and science
historians
66
And dissemination of arguments globally through
webinars for arriving at scientific consensus
67
Communicating scientific consensus to the world
is essential, as from the remotest corners of
Chechnya and Xingjian
..to the bustling mainland of New York and Florida
a massive confrontation is taking place all
across the globe
A phenomenon of guidance from a universe far more
complex than the fictional worlds of star-trek,
is being misunderstood by all, believers as well
as non-believers
68
Overlooking the immense size of universe and our
own insignificant position in it
We are busy fighting, killing, hating, and
destroying each other
Ironically, the phenomenon tells us that the
universe is watching us and waiting for our
maturity
The only thing required of us is a positive
global perspective towards revelations
69
To bring the information before the world
We intend to create a working group to oversee
the investigation of research
Involve science journalists to introduce the
research through print and electronic media
Involve experts (linguists, scientists, science
historians and others) and decide their terms of
reference, procedure and the remuneration (if any)
Decide the methodology of interaction with
experts (tele-conferencing /forums/webinars)
Asses and arrange the budget for this
investigation
70
A Project of Scientific Investigation of Revealed
Knowledge
Jamshed Akhtar
Institute of Revealed knowledge URL
irk.co.in Email info_at_irk.co.in
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