The Holy Quran on Nuclear War and atomic bombs

Quran on Nuclear War

Quran on Nuclear War — mp3

We stand at the precipice of the 6th cataclysm and as we inch ever closer to the abyss many of us wonder how we got here in the first place.

The Quran has a short chapter, Chapter 104 called "Al-Humazah", The Slanderer.

This Chapter, the 4th Khalifa of the Promised Messiah has said, deals with the Quran’s prophecy of Nuclear War via atomic bombs. The fact that atomic bombs were created in the past century is probably the biggest reason why the people who wrote commentaries on the Quran in many previous centuries were a little puzzled at the inclusion of the word, "hotamah" in the Quran, which is the smallest particle, literally, an atom.

Here is Khalifatul Masih IV, Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad’s translation of

Chapter 104, Surah Al Humazah, "The Slanderer":

[104:1] In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
[104:2] Woe to every backbiter, slanderer,
[104:3]Who amasses wealth and counts it over and over.
[104:4]He imagines that his wealth will make him immortal.
[104:5]Nay! he shall surely be cast into the "hotamah".
[104:6]And what should make thee know what the "hotamah" is?

Explaining the word hotamah, the Holy Quran speaks of a blazing fire built within it and confined in extended columns. It goes on to declare that when man will be cast into it, this fire will directly leap upon his heart as though no intervening rib cage existed. This can only mean that this fire would be of a completely different nature which could directly kill the heart before it could scorch the body. Certainly no fire known to man of that age could be described as such.

Unless one is familiar with the scientific description of how an atomic explosion takes place and what changes are brought about within the nuclear mass, one cannot fully comprehend the meaning of the Quranic expression of ‘extended columns’. Nuclear experts describe the state of a critical mass which is about to explode, as something elongating and pulsating with the immense pressure built within it. This pressure is caused by the elongation of the nuclei before they burst and in that process an element of high atomic weight is split into two elements of lesser atomic weight. The sum total of the atomic weight of the newly formed elements is less than the atomic weight of the original parent element, normally referred to as a heavy metal. The small portion of the atomic weight which is lost in this process is turned into energy. This is not the only model of a nuclear bomb but we have chosen this simple one to describe the process of the extended columns.

Then the Chapter speaks of the gamma rays that are unleashed by a nuclear explosion vibrating at the speed of light as the "fuel" which "leaps suddenly on to the hearts"

[104:7]Allah’s fire as preserved fuel,
[104:8]Which will leap suddenly on to the hearts.
[104:9]It is locked up in outstretched pillars to be used against them

The x-rays also travel sideways in all directions along with the neutrons, causing immense heat which burns everything on its way. The speed at which this heat front moves is many times the speed of sound which also creates shockwaves. But much faster and more penetrating than this are the gamma rays which outpace the heat front by leaping forward at the speed of light. They are so immensely vibrant that by the sheer force of their vibration they strike the hearts dead. So death is not caused by the intense heat generated by x-rays, it is the tremendous energy of the gamma rays which inflicts instantaneous death. This is exactly how the Holy Quran describes it.

There is much more information in the following links which I have not quoted here that convincingly makes the case of the Quranic prophecy of Nuclear War or Nuclear Holocaust.

Quran on Nuclear War — extract from Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth by the 4th Khalifa of the Promised Messiah

Quran on Nuclear War — mp3