Merchant Marine Some years ago, the story came to us in Toronto about a man who was in the merchant marine and made his living on the sea. A Muslim gave him a translation of the Quran to read. The merchant marine knew nothing about the history of Islam but was interested in reading the Quran. When he finished reading it, he brought it back to the Muslim and asked, “This Muhammad, was he a sailor?” He was impressed at how accurately the Quran describes a storm on a sea. When he was told, “No as a matter of fact, Muhammad lived in the desert,” that was enough for him. He embraced Islam on the spot. He was so impressed with the Quran’s description because he had been in a storm on the sea, and he knew that whoever had written that description had also been in a storm on the sea. The description of “…a wave, over it a wave, over it clouds” (Surah Nur, 24:40) …was not what someone imagining a storm on a sea to be like would have written; rather, it was written by someone who knew what a storm on the sea was like. This is one example of how the Quran is not tied to certain place and time. Certainly, the scientific ideas expressed in it also do not seem to originate from the desert fourteen centuries ago. source: The Amazing Qur'an - By Dr. Gary Miller
lol his description of the sea was waves over waves over clouds umm I seriously dont think it takes a sailor to say the sea has waves and clouds over it
here is the complete translated meaning of verse that mentioned it in Quran: " or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covereth him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness. if he holdeth out his hand he scarce can see it. And for whom Allah(Arabic name for God) hath not appointed light, for him theres no light." ponder it well how could a man lived in the desert 14 centuries ago and haven't see any sea would have described such a thing... would you?!
