Reasons why Muslims made Many Scientific Discoveries from the 8th to the 12th Century - Dr Zakir

Muslims made Many Scientific Discoveries from the 8th to the 12th Century which was Called as the Dark Ages for the Westerners — Dr Zakir Naik

SKLI-8

And we find today that Muslims are in the firing line. We find that Muslims have become backward as far as science technology is concerned, as far as education is concerned and the main reason is because we have gone away from the Qur’an and Sunnah. Previously from the 8th to the 12th century it was called as the dark ages, dark for whom? Dark for the Europeans, the amount of advances the Muslim Arabs made it is phenomena. And if we read history, what we read in school, I myself have passed in a covenant school, a Christian missionary school, I have got my education from there. Its later on afterwards I realized that what I read in school and in my medical collage, I being a medical doctor many things is something different. We are taught in school that the blood circulation was first discovered by William Harvey. In fact if you read the Qur’an, Qur’an speaks about the blood circulation in Surah Nahl Ch. no. 16 verse no. 66 how does the food enter the stomach then from there it goes into the intestine from the intestine via the blood stream to the various organs of the body including the mammary glands which is responsible for the production of milk. It speaks about the production of milk and about the blood circulation in a nutshell in Surah Nahl ch. 16 verse 66.

After I did research I came to know that the first human being who first described the blood circulation was Ibn Nafees, 600 years after the Qur’an was reveled and 400 years before William Harvey. But when we read in our text book, we are told about William Harvey how many of us know about Ibn Nafees? How many of us? Hardly anyone knows that Ibn Nafees was the first person who described the blood circulation. We learn about Geography but the person who drew the first world map Geography was Al Idrusi in 1154. What we study the digits in school, you know what’s it called? It is called as Arabic numerals the 1,2,3,4 that we use for writing 1, 2, 3, 4 it is called as Arabic numerals. The other is Roman numeral, The Indians were the people who first discovered about ‘Zero’ and the Arabs took it from there and made it famous to the world by adding a decimal that’s how we have this system today.

We learn in mathematics about the Pythagoras Theorem that the square of the hypotenuse in a triangle is equal to the sum of the square of other 2 sides. The Pythagoras Theorem that we learn in school it was first discovered by Al Tusi. So we know that Muslims few centuries back, they were advanced in science and technology but when we read in our text book today, they are hardy mentioned. Who is the father of trigonometry? It is Al Biruni. Have you heard of Al Khindi? Al Khindi wrote 200 works in mathematics, in geometry, in logic and at a time when Galileo, Descartes and Newton when they said that all physical laws are absolute, he said that it was relative. Later on Albert Einstein did more research and he propounded the theory of relativity. When we read history we come to know that Mohammad Ahmad and Hassan Shakir, these brothers, they measured the surface area of the earth by measuring angles at the red sea at a time when people thought that the world was flat. We learned chemistry and we were told that Gebber is the person who discovered alcohol. It is Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jabir...