God Arises

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 372 ~ “We fashioned … into something which clings… into a lump of flesh in proportion and out of proportion.” More than a thousand years before our time, at a period when whimsical doctrines still prevailed, men had a knowledge of the Qur’an. The statements it contains express in simple terms truths of primordial importance which man has taken centuries to discover (pp. 205-06). DIETETICS IN THE QURAN In the Quran, certain foodstuffs are declared unfit for human consumption and are, therefore, prohibited. One of these items is blood. At the time of revelation, man had no idea of the dietetic importance of this law. Much later, when laboratory research had isolated the components of blood, the wisdom of this prohibition became clear. Far from refuting the law, scientific investigation illustrated its benefits. The analysis showed that blood contains an abundance of uric acid, a pernicious substance the intake of which is injurious to human health. This is