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| From | asep <asep @ somewhere.in.the.world> |
| Date | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:42:59 +0000 (GMT) |
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sorry for cross posting an interesting news ! regards, asep > Assalamu'alaikum wr wb > > Ini ada forward mail ttg kromosom ke 19, yang menurut para ahli > genetika disebut junk DNA, ternyata berisi code > 'ayat ayat Al qur'an'. > Bagi yang hadir di public lecture 'The Quran and Science' hari ke tiga > oleh prof. Zaghlul El Najar, di Melbourne University mungkin sudah > mendengarnya. > Semoga bermanfaat, > > Wassalam, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Muslim Scientist Profiles: Dr. Ahmad Khan > by Sameer Chouwadhary > > Upon arriving at Dr. Ahmad Khan's laboratory, I can tell from the > boisterous way he says salaam that it is not going to be a typical > interview. Dr. Khan, to say the least, is glowingly euphoric, and he > seems > to be consciously trying to lower the level of excitement in his voice. > > By all accounts this is the same Dr. Khan known to his geneticist > colleagues as soft-spoken and shy- given to a calm, straight-faced > demeanor. > As he offers me some piping hot chai, and bades me strenuously with his > hands to sit within his office chambers, I begin to wonder if in fact I > had > heard correctly what he, to my utter consternation, had thought brought > me > to see him. Dr. Khan begins to tell me that he had not only found > evidence > of the Holy Qur'an's authorship, but, in fact, the authorship of > mankind. > > Little did I know before walking into the sleek mirrored-face "GenLab" > on > the campus of the University of New Mexico, that on the fifth floor I > would > find a scientist, who by the sheer scope of his findings may very well > end > up as familiar a name as a Galileo, Newton, or Einstein. I thought > quite > simply that I was going to be interviewing Dr. Khan about his book in > development, which I was told previously was to be a synthesis of > genetics > and Islam. I figure, hey, a little about the morality of cloning here, > another little bit about genetic engineering there, and badaboom > badabang- a > simple little volume which puts genetics in its proper perspective. My > expectations exponentially surpassed, I ask my first question with my > mouth > agape - "You're kidding? Right?" > > "Nehi! Subhan Allah! Nehi!" He laughs, the largest conceivable grin > on > his face, as he brushes aside a few of the sundry piles of papers > clogging > his pigsty of a desk. I cast a glance at the wall behind his desk, bare > > save for a framed ayat-ul-kursi and a family portrait of his former > beardless self along with his wife Nur, and their two small children. I > don > 't find any evidence of the ostentation one might expect from some one > who > graduated summa cum laude from Duke University. I distinctly get the > impression that despite his status as a young (31 years of age) and up > and > coming geneticist, that his love remains solely for Allah and his > research. > Diplomas and awards are nothing more than clumps of paper to him. > > My list of questions made irrelevant by Dr. Khan's revelation, I begin > to > try to ascertain what exactly he had discovered and how, asking him just > to > divulge a little of his research and how he had come about it. > > "For a few years now I have mused during my Ph.D. training that there > was > the possibility for information other than that for the construction of > polypeptides to be encoded by individual codons or nucleotides of DNA. > But > it was only after a Jum'ah khutbah where I heard the Imam mention a > verse in > the Holy Qur'an where I put two and two together." > > Ahmad, as I now call him, rises up from his seat and reaches to the top > of > the massive bookshelf to the left of his desk, grasping hold of the > Qur'an, > by its looks very worn. An interesting combination I think to myself- a > lab > coat and a white kufi. But I have little more time for such musings on > the > fashions of the day, as he kisses the Qur'an and opens it to his > selected > verses. > > "Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillah Ir-Rahman Ir-Raheem. > > Sanureehim ayatinaa filafaaqi wafi anfusihim Hatta yatabayyana lahum > annahu > ul-Haqq, awalam yakfi birabbika annahu 'ala kulli shayiin shaheedoon." > He > pauses for a breath, and his index finger moves over to the English > text: > "Soon will We show them Our Signs in the furthest regions of the earth, > and > in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the > Truth. Is it not enough that your Lord witnesses all things?" > > "Which Sura is that?" "It is from the forty-first Sura, Fussilat, the > fifty-third ayat." "Shukriyya, go on..." > > "You may have heard of a study by a non-Muslim scientist by the name of > Keith Moore?" "Yes, but if you could refresh my memory..." > > "Quite simply Keith Moore is the world authority on embryology, and > after > having read the Holy Qur'an he came to see that there was a remarkable > correspondence of the Qur'an's description of embryos with the > descriptions > of modern science. So we can see from this that indeed the Holy Qur'an > has > shown us a sign in our own souls, our own selves, by relating > information > that due to its microscopic nature could not have been known fourteen > hundred years ago." > > "What I've come to realize is that the Holy Qur'an has many levels of > meaning, some of which are known only to Allah subhana wa t'ala himself. > > But what I recognized is that if we look at the Arabic, the ayat in > question > uses the same word for Qur'anic verses- 'ayaat.' And it says as you > read > along, that those same verses are 'fi anfusihim'- are in themselves- in > the > human beings. Coming as I do from the specialty of genetics, I realized > > that the verses of the Qur'an could indeed be within each human being- > coded > within our DNA." > > "But aren't you just speculating that the meaning of the ayat is that > ayaat > >from the Qur'an appear in some form or another within the genome?" > > "Yes, at first....At first it was speculation, but then I began to piece > > together more indications that there was a possibility that verses of > the > Holy Qur'an could be a part of the genome. What you must realize is > that > much of the DNA in our genome doesn't code for the production of > proteins at > all. The non-coding regions- introns- are often called junk DNA. > Mashaa > Allah. As it turns out, it is the farthest possible thing from junk, it > is > the words of our Creator, a great sign that it was Allah who gave us the > > breath of life." > > "So how did you test your hypothesis, and who else have you consulted?" > > "GenLab had a government grant to study the genetic roots of > intelligence, > and at the time this idea struck me, we were focusing on mapping the > central > region of chromosome 19. I talked with my younger brother, 'Imran, who > is a > systems analyst, and consulted with him about developing a way to see if > any > Qur'anic ayat could be found within the intron regions of chromosome 19 > that > had been mapped." > > "It was quite a project, because we had to figure out what Arabic letter > > each different possible codon stood for, by iterating each possible > coding > system through the introns and seeing if any of those combinations > resulted > in ayaat from the Holy Qur'an." > > "January 2nd, 1999. Two o'clock in the morning we found our first > ayaat. > Alhamdullilah! Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillah Ir > Rahman Ir Raheem. Iqra bismi rabbika ladhi khalaq. Read in the name of > > your Lord who created! Region p38q!" > > "The first ayat revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, Sal Allahu Alaihi wa > Salaam!?" > > "Yes, I was just as astonished as you are now. But the thing is, with > each > ayat we found, finding the next ayat came faster and faster, as we began > to > compile the full coding system. After that it has been a breeze. Our > only > trouble with finding more ayat has been that not enough of the genome > has > been mapped by geneticists to be searched. So far we only have found > 1/10 > of the Qur'an." > > "Although we obviously want to make our findings known to the greater > Muslim- greater world in general, we are taking precautions to make sure > our > heads are screwed on right...you can never be too careful. In the past > few > weeks I've been talking with individual Muslim scientists, just so I > could > get some feedback, and make sure that our findings are ready to be > published > come next fall." > > "But I am confident that we've found a phenomenon of great interest, > such > that I am willing to put my entire career on the line. I've revealed my > > findings to my fellow geneticists here at GenLab, and believe me- this > has > been the first time I've found Martin or Clive [two of his co-workers] > even > willing to discuss religion or Islam. I've also written to two > non-Muslim > skeptics inviting them to analyze my findings: Dan Larhammar of Uppsala > University in Sweden, and Aris Dreismann at the Technical University of > Berlin. I doubt they'll remain skeptical for long..." > > "There is such a tremendous amount of data that we're going to have to > be > analyzing it over the next few months, but I hope to create both a book > for > popular consumption as well as submit an abstract to Science very > shortly." > > "I'm speechless! Subhan Allah! But can you show me some of the verses > you > 've found?" > > Just then I find out what some of the sheets of paper are on his desk. > He > hands two sheets to me, one covered with four roman letters, T, C, G, > and A, > sprawling across the sheet, separated in columns of three letters. The > other in Arabic script is clear as day- after many 'lam's, and a couple > of > random 'ayn's and 'qafs' I see what looks like a sentence. I ask him > the > meaning. > > "From Sura al baqarah, the sixth ayat. In English it says: 'As to those > > who reject faith, it is the same to them whether you warn them or do not > > warn them; they will not believe.'" > > "The other page is a listing of the actual sequence of nucleotides, of > which there are four types. Every three code for an Arabic letter." He > > pulls out a laminated table, with Thymine, Adenine, Cytosine, and > Guanine > written vertically for the first nucleotide, then horizontally across > the > top for the second, and horizontally again for the third." > > "Instead of amino acids, as you can see from this table there are two > codons for every Arabic letter, as well as for the ta' marbuta and > hamza. > There is also a code for the end of each ayat, just like there would be > codons which would stop gene transcription." > > "Subhan Allah. I just feel so blessed to find such a miracle at such a > young age- I can only marvel at what else we might find inshaa Allah, > you > know.. I can only hope that within our lifetimes other Muslim > scientists > find out the meaning of the other 'ayaat' in nature that Allah makes > reference to." > > "Would you happen to have any last words for our readers?" > > "I just hope that after the publication of my book 'The Holy Qur'an and > Genetics' that Muslims begin to better understand how Allah has made > Islam a > complete way of life. We cannot compartmentalize our religion, keeping > Islam out of our politics, education, arts, and sciences without grave > detriment to ourselves, and loss of the true meaning of the Final > Revelation > to the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace." > > "I also hope that non-Muslims see that there is no need for the > controversies between religion and science, although no doubt some of > them > will ignore the evidence even if it is right before their very eyes." > > I take one last sip of my chai, looking intently at Dr. Khan's dark > brown > eyes and olive complexion, knowing full well, that inshaa Allah I am > looking > at the face of the Ummah's future. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > GET $10 OFF ANY ORDER @ healthshop.com! No min. purchase req. > Save on vitamins & supplements. 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