I never thought I'd have any thing good to say about Hamza Tzortis, but this video is interesting. In the early 1990s I used to hand out booklets about the "scientific miracles in the Quran". It bore an affinity to a similar phenomenon known as the "mathematical miracles in the Quran" which was invented by a Muslim biochemist called Rashad Khalifa who was promoted by Ahmed Deedat.
It was very impressive and came in handy for da'wah. Then Rashad Khalifa discovered something even more remarkable. He held a press conference one day and said that he was the Messenger of Allah. He set up his own masjid and began attracting followers. People stopped talking about his mathematical miracles after that and he was eventually murdered.
Muslims realized that his mathematical discoveries were an innovation that has no basis in Islamic theology.
But the "scientific miracles" narrative has persisted. I've been saying for a while that this stuff is equally bogus and that no classical tafsir has ever understood the Quran to be a book about physics, chemistry, or biology. When you look up the verses which are alleged to have scientific content, you discover that they bear no resemblance to scientific theories at all. The Quran is a book of spirituality, not a science textbook, or a mathematics textbook, or a history textbook.
But now the Salafis are speaking out against this narrative as well. Hamza Tzortis and Mohammed Hijab are dropping this stuff like a hot potatoe. There are so many websites debunking it as fraudulent and unscientific that they've realized that if people's trust in the "miracles" is destroyed, then so will their trust in Islam. This stuff was always innovation and bid'ah, but apparently some innovations are okay so long as they make a convert or two.
The funny thing is that people like Zakir Naik who champion it stole this idea from Christian and Hindu missionaries who claim there is divinely revealed scientific truths in their holy books.
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