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Scientific miracles in the Qur'an? Alexander the Great

4,371 views · Published 18 August 2015 · 7:18 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: PfanderFilms · 2015 · News & Politics

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Jonathan McLatchie and Jay Smith look at Sura 18:86-99 concerning the story of Dhul Qarnain (popularly believed to be Alexander the Great) and suggest that it is nothing unique, but was borrowed from a political tract, written by the Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius, as a prophecy of himself. They note that the early commentators of these verses, such as al Bukhari (4:421) state that the reference to the Sun setting and rising in a pool of water is how they understood these verses, believing that the Sun would go below the earth, and then rise the other side, by Allah's decree. Jonathan and Jay also mention that the wall built of iron and copper by Alexander between two mountains would have been one of the greatest engineering feats of ancient history, yet no one has ever heard about it. 

Jonathan and Jay then look at Sura 36:38-40, supported by both ibn Dawud and al Bukhari, implying that the Sun and the Moon chase one another around the earth, which yet again supports the very unscientific, and pre-Scientific notion that the earth was the center of the universe, a mistake God would never have made. Yet again, these stories prove that the Qur'an is nothing more than a book, borrowed and written, and then put together by men, and in these cases pre-scientific men.

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