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‘In search of our origins’
by
Jamshed Akhtar  
'In search of our origins’ 11
Introduction  11
Part I 13
The mystery of revelations  13
A rational possibility of the extra terrestrial origin of ‘revealed information’ 13
What is the phenomenon of revelations?  16
Can modern knowledge help in the debate?  17
How to begin the investigation?  17
Extreme pain in the transmission of revelations  17
A low volume high frequency hum   18
Evidence of virtual mass during the phenomenon  19
How did the human frame support the pressure of extra weight?  19
Evidence of an operation  20
Evidence about a small protuberance on the back of Muhammad 22
Absence of electro magnetic noise or interference  23
A note about evaluation of the records  24
How revelations of Quran were recorded and preserved  24
Part II 27
‘Origin of life and man’ 27
Introduction  27
Revelations from Quran on the origin of life and man  28
The existance of patterns  29
Usage of peculiar words and enigmatic compositions  29
Popularity of the derived meanings  30
Foreign connotations  30
Quran’s solution  30
‘Respect’ for elders vs ‘uncritical acceptance’ of their ideas and beliefs  31
1.     Man has a terrestrial origin  31
2.     Link of plants with man’s birth  32
3.     Branches of life  32
4.     Creation was not an instantaneous act 32
5.     Man’s creation was in stages or phases  32
6.     Creation first and shape afterwards  33
7.     Involvement of a long period in the creation of man  33
8.     A thing without description  34
9.     Man’s creation is different from the image of God  35
10.   Man was created in the best possible way  35
The Scientific view  36
Problems in the scientific view  37
Sura At-Tin’s statement [95: 4] 38
11.     Process of creation started from clay  38
Brief outline of Cairn-Smith’s clay crystal theory  39
Pointers from Quran continue - 40
12.     Creation from clay - extracting one thing out of the other 40
13.     Importance of ‘a small quantity of water’ in the creation process  41
14.     The small quantity of water was a mixture  42
15.     Something which clings – another peculiar term 42
16.     Evidence of pre-biotic chemistry in creation process  44
17.     The awful smell of half finished organic molecules in the liquid  44
18.     A ‘site’ for the liquid used in the creation process  44
Bubbling clay pools on earth  46
19.     Period involved in creation determined and known to God  46
20.     Appearance of organic and pseudo organic molecules  47
21.     Emergence of clear defined shape in the progress of life  48
22.     Appearance of bones and muscles  49
23.     Human body was crafted like pottery for control over his acoustic  51
24.     Water as the most desirable element in the creation of life  51
25.     Different roles of water in the progress of life  53
26.     Creation of sex in the progress of life  55
27.     Progeny before the birth of Adam   55
28.     Eyes, Ears and Brain as gifts from the Creator 57
29.     A Pointer 57
30.     Life from non life - another pointer 59
‘A direct query on the origin of life and its answer in Quran’ 60
Guidance about the perspective in researches  61
The usage of allegory  61
Does this verse contain an allegory or is it a simple instruction?  62
31.     Significance of figure ‘four’ in the creation of life  63
32.     Allegory of birds in the progress of life  63
33.     Evidence of a bias in the process of life  64
34.     Evidence of different energy levels  65
35.     Evidence of teleology  65
Additional information from the verse  66
Conclusion  66
Part III 68
‘The Origin of Modern Humans’ 68
Multiple perspectives & Quranic pointers  68
Introduction  68
The established scientific view of the timeline of bipeds on earth  68
The problems  68
Microevolution  69
Macroevolution  69
The two hypotheses  70
Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? Donald Johanson  70
Understanding the issue  71
Anatomical evidence  72
Archaeological evidence  73
Genetic evidence  75
Additional considerations  76
Conclusion  78
Creationism – a different view point 78
Judeo Christian Creationism   78
Islamic scholars’ view  80
Arguments against the theory of evolution  80
The mystery of the birth of first living cell – how did it emerge?  80
The problem with random mutation  81
A glaring lack of intermediate forms in the fossil record  81
Sudden emergence of species  81
Genetic similarity  82
The case of Archaeopteryx  82
Vestigial organs  82
No gradual evolution  83
Evolutionary biologists reply to the criticism –  83
Information from Quran on the birth of First Man  84
‘Making a body of clay’ - the first creative act of God  84
‘Breathing into his nostrils the breath of life’ - second creative act of God  85
Ruh or Spirit, according to the Quran  86
1.     No direct communication between God and man  86
2.     Ruh is the Messenger of God’s revelations to all prophets in history  86
3.     The Ruh is known through Different titles in Quran  87
4.     Ruh is distinct from angels  87
5.     Ruh is unique  87
6.     Only Ruh has been chosen by God to know the unseen  88
7.     Other functions of Ruh  88
8.     Ruh and Gabriel in Old Testament 88
9.     The other mystery - ‘whose belly was inflated’ 89
10.    The unique cases of Adam and Jesus  89
11.    The story of the birth of Jesus  90
12.    Quran rejects the Multi-regional hypothesis  91
13.    All humans are created from a single pair 91
14.     The first pair was created in stages  92
15.     A dichotomy between revealed and the scientific information  93
16.     Who is the real Eve?  94
17.     Support from archaeology  95
18.     Final fashioning in due proportions  97
19.     A counter argument 97
Significant additional information about ‘First Man’ through a dialogue  98
20.     Khalifatul fil ardh - Vicegerent or a Survivor on earth?  100
21.     Angel’s apprehensions  101
22.     The problem of shedding of blood  102
23.     The problem of chaos  102
24.     The ability to communicate creatively in the New Hominids  103
25.     A Second Test 104
Mystery of Satan  104
26.     Why did Satan refuse to bow before man  105
27.     He was punished for his defiance  105
28.     Satan asked for respite  106
29.     Satan promises revenge  106
30.     How Satan succeeded in misleading the First Man?  106
31.     The words Satan used to tempt Adam   107
32.     The fall of Adam   107
33.     The difference between Adam and Satan  108
Mystery of Adam’s Jennat 109
34.     Does Quran describe the same Jennat?  109
35.      Jennat promised to believers after the Day of Judgment 109
36.     Verses where the word Jennat has been used for earthly gardens  111
37.     Is Adam’s Jennat the promised one, after the Day of Judgment?  112
38.     Where was this Adam’s Jennat located?  113
39.     Where on earth did Adam and Eve descend?  114
40.     Problems that still remain to be answered on life and man  114
‘The mystery of Jinn’ 114
41.     Jinn are beings that have been created before man  115
42.     Jinn are hidden from us  115
43.     Their creation process had a different foundation and route  115
44.     A parallel between the creation of Jinn and Man  116
Energy based life forms – difficulties and researches  117
Life from Plasma  117
Similarity of these energy spheres with the living cells  118
Other pointers from Quran  119
45.     Jinn are intelligent beings  119
46.     Jinn are aware of revelations  119
47.     Jinn, like men, have been created to serve God  120
48.     Involvement of Jinn in the progress of life  120
49.     Quran’s testimony in this regard  122
50.     The command to prostrate  122
51.     A curious coincidence  123
Conclusion and purpose behind the revelation of Adam’s story  123
Part IV  126
Suggestion of a verification mechanism for info in revelations  126
Sceptic and the revealed knowledge  126
Dembiski’s work on the identification of an ‘Intelligent Cause’ in evolution  126
Applying Dembiski’s method to revelations  128
Step one - (Actualization of a contingency) 128
The characteristics of Arabic language  129
Simultaneous existence of a standard language and a colloquial 129
A language caste in stone  129
The ‘Modern Standard Arabic’ is closest to its ancestor 130
Tri-consonantal roots and existence of patterns  132
Examples  132
Step two - Exclusion (ruling out of other live possibilities) 133
Example  134
Step three (Specification) 135
Post hoc patterns  135
How the problem is related to revelations from Quran?  136
Asymmetry between specified and unspecified information  138
Step four – Complexity, the final factor 138
Why is it necessary to settle the question of the origin of revealed knowledge?  140
A Message for high-intellect believers in the Quran  141
Faith as per Quran  141
The albabi 141
1.     Wisdom is the most important gift - 142
2.     Message and the high-intellect believers - 142
3.     Symbiosis required between revealed and rational knowledge  143
4.     Each data has a purpose. 143
5.     The emphasis on intellect - aql  in Quran  143
6.     Arguments on rational grounds  144
7.     Those who do not reflect 144
8.     An eternal problem of humanity  145
9.     Knowledge lies in Quran, whose explanation we may not yet know  145
10.    One should not fall on verses blindly and deafly  146
11.    Quran as Mahjur – a highly potent warning  146
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  149
 
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