Divine Revelation and Inspiration

Many studies have been done on these birds. From this, it has been learned that their migratory journeys are not some purposeless flying about. Instead, they indicate a very high level of organization, as meaningful as any well-planned journey of human beings. Further, observation has revealed that these flights take place extremely accurately on welldesigned flyways. The phenomenon of these birds’ migratory journeys is truly remarkable. Human beings can go from one place to another, but this is only possible when they have obtained detailed information about the route and destination from some external source. These external means include hearing from others, reading other people’s research findings, consulting guidebooks, and electronic devices that provide travel information like GPS systems. If man were cut off from this information accumulated over time, he would be unable to do anything. For example, Al-Idrisi (Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Muhammad Al-Idrisi, 1100-1166 AD) initially took the concept of the Earth being round from the Indian Arin theory. Then, this idea reached Europe through the Latin translation of Al-Idrisi’s book entitled Kitab Nuzhat alMushtaq fi Ikhtiraq al-Afaq (The Pleasure Excursion of One Who Is Eager to Traverse the Regions of the World). Then, with the experiments of Christopher Columbus (14511506), further knowledge of the later generations was