A Critique on Seven Samples of Claims of Scientific Miracles of the Qur’ān

The claimers of scientific miracle of the Qur’an believe that in this Holy Scripture some scientific discoveries of the recent centuries have been referred to. “Hardship of breathing with the increase of altitude”, “very accurate proportion of constituents of a plant”, “the role of wind in inoculation of fruit trees”, “movement of the earth and the mountains drifting along with it”, “existence of living creatures in other planets”, “expansion of the world and the galaxies getting far from each other” are among the evidences that the claimers of scientific miracles attest to. With a critical study of the above seven samples, the present article shows that the claim of scientific miracle in these instances requires passing by the mental commitments of the early addresses of the Qur’an and ignoring the historical context of the Revelation and would result in tolerance in abiding by the external meaning of verses and the rules of understanding the text.