Sayeedur Rahman on the Qur'an and extrasolar earths (1/3)

Extraterrestrials and the Qur'an

Are we alone? Is the Earth unique? Does life or the intelligent one exist merely on this humble planet or it enjoys many more similar abodes across this amazing universe too?

These are some of the questions my first book Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Amazing New Insights from Qur'an in the Light of its Own True Nature attempts at answering them from a Qur'anic perspective. It shows that modern science has benefited us in an unprecedented way not only in our understanding of the many vital realities of the natural world it has also enabled us greatly to place a whole host of statements of the Qur’an concerning it in their right perspectives. The ground-breaking insights thus obtained shall certainly go a very long way in resolving in a marvellous fashion many of the riddles faced by the science itself in its own quest for the aliens. Chiefly among them is the scintillating mystery behind the evidence of past surface liquid water and a minuscule atmosphere particularly on Mars. A remarkable convergence of religion and science is in the offing, thus.

This yet to be published book has received very decent and enthusiastic reviews among both the scientific and the religious circles. A few of them are as follows:

"Indeed an interesting book."

---Prof. H. Paul Shuch

Executive Director Emeritus

The SETI League, New Jersy, USA

"Great effort...Great job done."

---Dr. Mohiuddin Kabir

NASA Ames Research Center &

Principal Investigator, SETI Institute, California, USA

"A highly original...very interesting...naturally quite overwhelming work."

---Prof. Klaus Klostermaier

Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

"A very interesting, thorough and professional, and very convincing and promising work with fresh ideas that can have large implications for the Qur'anic view of the universe as we know it."

---Arnold Mol

Author & CEO, DRS Thinktank, Leiden, The Netherlands

"Not only commendable but an enviable book too."

---Dr. M. Zaki Kirmani

Chairman, Centre for Studies on Science, Aligarh, India

"It has been attempted to revealing the greatest intellectual marvel of the Qur’an upon the humanity by bringing to light the modern Qur’anic insights concerning the extraterrestrial earths, abundance of life in them, reality of man, and its own true nature."

---Moulana Samiul Haq Haqqani

Principal, Jamia Haqqania, Pakistan

"The author has inherited largely from the celebrated taste and deep foresight which his glorious father was endowed with….The Qur’anic philosophy he has propounded shall, God willing, become a source of evolution and accomplishment for the Muslim scientists, and thought-provocation and further inclination towards the Qur’an for the non-Muslims in the contemporary world."

---Moulana Mohammed Salim Qasimi

Rector, Darul Uloom Waqf Deoband, India

"This book is the continuation of the exploration of Qur'anic insights, which the author has inherited from his great father, the reviver of the Qur'anic thought...Indeed, the book is the result of a vast and careful study of the universe in the light of the marvelous Qur’anic statements."

---Dr. Saeed-al-Azami-al-Nadwi

Principal, Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, India

"This very first book of the author has left an impression upon my mind that the Almighty has made him the right successor of his great father. The finding of a successor to this laborious task in this period of the dearth of competent people is indeed the sign of his father's sincerity and acceptance of his endeavours before the Almighty...The sort of arguments that the author's perfect-minded self has amassed establishes the intellectual marvel of not only the Qur’an but that of Islam too."

---Dr. Essa Mansuri

Chairman, World Islamic Forum, London, UK

"I read the manuscript cover to cover with passion and due care... The topic is new, but your argumentation and as well as your approach are impressive."

---Moulana Syed Salman Hussaini Nadwi

Professor of Islamic Studies, Nadwatul Ulama, India

The entire book has been made available online on Authonomy from HarperCollins.