wake up dead man

after i acquired a certain level of arabic, my original teacher, ustadh muhammad began making me read bits of verses from the quran to see if i could understand the meaning without translation. it’s amazing to read the quran in this light...it means so much more when you understand the arabic.

some fascinating facts about the quran were pointed out to me recently....

the middle east guide book states that the dead sea is the lowest point on earth. one would think that that’s an interesting bit of random fact to know. but to muslims, it is greater proof of the truth of the quran. as we know, the people of prophet lut were punished when the city was turned upside down. and they were supposedly buried under the dead sea, right? get this...in the quran, surah 11, verse 82, it says, "so when Our command came, We made the highest point of the city its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay.' in the quran, it says the city became the lowest point!

another noteworthy fact...in surah 57, verse 25, it says, ".....We sent down iron, wherein is great military might...." iron is present in the core of the earth. why does the quran say ‘sent down’ when iron doesn’t come from the sky? well, scientists discovered iron in meteorites that fell from the sky and back in the days, people made weapons out of them! subhanAllah! is that cool or what?