Scientists and Islam
Dec 05, 2012
On Sunday, December 2, 2012,
Professor Mohamed Abdalla Alrayah, in Alintibaha newspaper, told of a story of a Jewish doctor who converted to Islam after the result of a scientific research he carried indicated to him the Truth of the Quran. The story was sent to Prof Alrayah by a friend who lives in al-Madinah al-Munawarah,
Professor Hashim Masawi.
“According to the story, a Jewish embryologist at the “Albert Einstein Institute” named
Robert Gillham converted to Islam after discovering that a man’s “imprint” remains with a woman (his wife or the one he slept with) for three months afterwards. He said if married couples do not have intercourse, then that mark will slowly disappear with a ratio of about 25-30 per cent. The imprint will totally be lost after three months pass without renewal of intercourse. And that proved to him the truth of the Quran and Islam; for Islam states that a divorced woman should not marry again till three months pass after her divorce. The wisdom of the three months celibacy led the scientist to convert to Islam, since Islam decrees a three-month waiting period after divorce in order to ensure that any subsequent child has clear parentage.
The story was first told by the scientist
Dr. Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Sayed, an Egyptian professor. It says that Gillham tested Muslim and non-Muslim women for the existence of these “imprints”, and discovered that many non-Muslim American women had imprints from multiple men, showing that they were promiscuous. He tested his wife and found out that she also had sex with other men, and in fact one of his three children was not his. But Muslim women that he tested were all proved to be faithful for they all only carried one imprint, and that was their husbands’.
On my last column I referred to the story of a Jewish doctor who converted to Islam after the result of a scientific research he carried indicated to him the Truth of the Quran. The story was first reported by an Egyptian professor; published in Sudan by Professor Mohamed Abdallah Al-Rayah who received it from another Sudanese Professor (Hashim Masawi).
“According to the story, a Jewish embryologist at the “Albert Einstein Institute” named Robert Gillham converted to Islam after discovering that a man’s “imprint” remains with a woman (his wife or the one he slept with) for three months afterwards. The wisdom of the three months celibacy led the scientist to convert to Islam, since Islam decrees a three-month waiting period after divorce in order to ensure that any subsequent child has clear parentage.
This story, when first published, annoyed and bothered a lot of Islam enemies, especially Jewish entities. They tried their best to refute it. Their attack targeted negating the story through three arguments:
First: There is no known scientist (to them) who is called Robert Gillham
Second: they do not know any “Albert Einstein Institute”.
(One of them wrote: I could find no record of any embryologist named Robert Gillham nor any doctor with that name who worked at any institution named Einstein.)
Third: This fact is already contained in Judaism.
(The same person wrote: The irony is that the 90 day waiting period after divorce in Islam, which supposedly shows how well the Koran knows science, comes from… Judaism !)
Well… the first and second arguments can easily be refuted by the source of the story, Professor Dr. Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Sayed, who as a known scientist, with a number of newly registered discoveries in science, wouldn’t endanger his reputation by such a naïve lie; and if he wanted to lie, he would have assigned the discovery to himself to add to his successes.
The third argument, for me, is the one to look at. The importance of the story does not come from the knowledge that a certain human being has changed his religion, but it stems from the newly discovered wisdom behind it. If Judaism, Christianity and Islam all decree the 90 day waiting period after divorce, then all of them are correct here. This in itself is a positive argument for the correctness of the Quran. All Muslims are ordered to believe in the True Bible and the True Torah as well as the Quran, because all of them are sent by God and professed by God’s messengers. Knowing that a decree is contained in the True Torah (and not what is written by humans) increases Muslims Iman (Believe). In Surratt Al-Baqarah Ayat 2-5 our God the Great commends Muslims who fear Allah, believe in the Unseen, steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what God have provided for them; “And who: believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter;”
Islam does not contradict Christianity, Judaism or any correct past religion, but because it was the last Revelation sent by God to all people, its decrees are well authenticated and no human hands have perverted or changed them as the case with other true sent religions.
By A.S. Alkoronki - 10/12/2012