MAURICE Bucaille was born to a French parent
and, like his family, he grew up a Christian. After
his secondary education, he joined Faculty of
Medicine, France University. Later, he became the
most renowned and cleverest surgeon ever in
modern France, but a story happened to change his
life completely.
France is known for its unique interest in
archeology and heritage. When French Socialist
President François Mitterrand assumed power in
1981, France asked Egypt, late in the 80’s, for the
mummy of Egypt’s pharaoh so that it would
conduct a string of monumental and processing
experiments. Actually the body of Egypt’s most
notorious tyrant was transferred to France, and,
strangely, the French president and his ministers as
well as senior officials in the country lined up near
the plane carrying the pharaoh’s body and bowed
down to him as if he were still alive! After the
ceremonies of the royal-like reception to Egypt’s
pharaoh were over, the tyrant’s mummy was
carried nearly in the same red carpet reception way
he received. Then the mummy was transferred to a
special wing at the French Monuments Center, and
renowned archeologists, surgeons and anatomists
started to conduct a study on this mummy in an
attempt to delve into its mysteries. The senior
surgeon and the scientist in charge of the study on
this mummy of the Pharaoh was Professor Maurice
Bucaille. While the processors were busy making
restoration to the mummy, their head (Maurice
Bucaille) was thinking otherwise. He was trying to
discover how this Pharaoh died when, late at night,
he concluded his final analyses. The remains of the
salt stuck in his body was a shining evidence that
he had drowned and that his body was retrieved
from the sea swiftly after he drowned; it was also
obvious that they rushed to mummify his body so
that his body would remain intact!! But Maurice
Bucaille puzzled over a question: How did this body
— to the exclusion of other mummified bodies of
other ancient Egyptians — remain that intact
although it was recovered from the sea?” Maurice
was busy conducting a final report while thinking
as to whether the pharaoh’s body was recovered
from the sea and mummified immediately after he
drowned. But one of his company whispered in his
ear, saying “There is no need to rush about this
issue, since the Muslims say that this Pharaoh did
drown.” At first, he vehemently rejected this and did
not believe it, citing that such a discovery would be
reached only through sophisticated, modern and
accurate computers. Another one accompanying
him surprised him more when he told him that the
Muslims’ Qur’an in which they believe narrates the
story that says he drowned and that his body
remained intact even after he drowned. He got
more surprised and kept on asking” Where did the
Muslims’ Qur’an quote these data from while the
mummy was not discovered until 1898, i.e. about
200 years only, given that the Qur’an has been
recited by Muslims for over 1400 years, and given
also that until a few decades ago the entire
mankind including Muslims did not know that the
ancient Egyptians had mummified their pharaohs?
Maurice Bucaille stayed up all this night gazing at
Pharaoh’s body, thinking deeply of what his fellow
researcher told him about the Muslims’ Qur’an
explicitly establishing that this body was recovered
after drowning, while the Christians’ Gospel
(Matthew and Luca) narrated only the story of
Pharaoh when he was chasing Prophet Musa
(peace be upon him) without mentioning the fate of
his body at all.
“Is it believable that Muhammad (peace be upon
him) knew about this over 1,000 years ago while I
have only just known it?” he thought.
Maurice spent a sleepless night, and asked for a
version of the Torah. But it only furthered Bucaille’s
astonishment; since even Torah did not narrate that
the body was recovered and remained intact due to
the processing and restoration, which it did
undergo.
France sent back the mummy to Egypt in a
splendid glass coffin. But, since he knew about the
story circulated by Muslims on the intactness of
this body, he decided to pack his baggage and
travel to Saudi Arabia where a medical conference
happened to be held with a galaxy of Muslim
anatomists attending.
There, told them about his discovery, i.e. that
Pharaoh’s body was kept intact even after he
drowned. One of the conferees opened the Qur’an
and read out the Ayah in which Allah Almighty said,
“So today We will (safely) deliver you with your
body that you may be a sign to the ones
succeeding you; and surely many among mankind
are indeed heedless of Our signs.” (Yunus: 92)
In his excitement, he stood before the attendants
and loudly said, “I have converted to Islam and
believed in this Qur’an.”
Back to France, Maurice Bucaille spent 10 years
conducting a study as to how far the recently
scientific facts match that mentioned in the Holy
Qur’an, trying to reassure himself that the Qur’an
has never contradicted with any single scientific
fact, so that he eventually came up with the
conclusion that Allah Almighty said of the Qur’an,
“Untruth does not come up to it before (Literally:
between its two hands) it nor from behind it; a
successive sending down from (One) Ever-Wise,
Ever-Praiseworthy.”
He came up with a earth shaking book on the Holy
Qur’an which jolted the entire Western states, with
the title of the book reading, “The Bible, The Qur’an
and Science, The Holy Scriptures Examined In The
Light Of Modern Knowledge.”
The book sold out and even hundreds of thousands
of it were translated from French to Arabic, English,
Indonesian, Persian, Turkish and German, extending
to include nearly all East and West bookstores; one
has come to see it with any Egyptian, Moroccan or
Gulf person in the US.
In the preface of his book, Maurice Bucaille said,
“These scientific areas which Qur’an established to
the exclusion of other Scriptures filled me with
deep surprise early on, since it never struck my
mind to see such a large amount of scientific
issues in such a variable and accurate way that
they are a mirror image of what has recently been
discovered in a book which has existed for more
than 13 centuries.!!
The Bible, The Qur’an and Science, The Holy
Scriptures Examined In The Light Of Modern
Knowledge was such a marvelous piece of writing
that, in the year 1988, the French Academy
awarded him its prize in history.
— Courtesy of www.quranandscience.com
MAURICE Bucaille was born to a French parent
and, like his family, he grew up a Christian. After
his secondary education, he joined Faculty of
Medicine, France University. Later, he became the
most renowned and cleverest surgeon ever in
modern France, but a story happened to change his
life completely.
France is known for its unique interest in
archeology and heritage. When French Socialist
President François Mitterrand assumed power in
1981, France asked Egypt, late in the 80’s, for the
mummy of Egypt’s pharaoh so that it would
conduct a string of monumental and processing
experiments. Actually the body of Egypt’s most
notorious tyrant was transferred to France, and,
strangely, the French president and his ministers as
well as senior officials in the country lined up near
the plane carrying the pharaoh’s body and bowed
down to him as if he were still alive! After the
ceremonies of the royal-like reception to Egypt’s
pharaoh were over, the tyrant’s mummy was
carried nearly in the same red carpet reception way
he received. Then the mummy was transferred to a
special wing at the French Monuments Center, and
renowned archeologists, surgeons and anatomists
started to conduct a study on this mummy in an
attempt to delve into its mysteries. The senior
surgeon and the scientist in charge of the study on
this mummy of the Pharaoh was Professor Maurice
Bucaille. While the processors were busy making
restoration to the mummy, their head (Maurice
Bucaille) was thinking otherwise. He was trying to
discover how this Pharaoh died when, late at night,
he concluded his final analyses. The remains of the
salt stuck in his body was a shining evidence that
he had drowned and that his body was retrieved
from the sea swiftly after he drowned; it was also
obvious that they rushed to mummify his body so
that his body would remain intact!! But Maurice
Bucaille puzzled over a question: How did this body
— to the exclusion of other mummified bodies of
other ancient Egyptians — remain that intact
although it was recovered from the sea?” Maurice
was busy conducting a final report while thinking
as to whether the pharaoh’s body was recovered
from the sea and mummified immediately after he
drowned. But one of his company whispered in his
ear, saying “There is no need to rush about this
issue, since the Muslims say that this Pharaoh did
drown.” At first, he vehemently rejected this and did
not believe it, citing that such a discovery would be
reached only through sophisticated, modern and
accurate computers. Another one accompanying
him surprised him more when he told him that the
Muslims’ Qur’an in which they believe narrates the
story that says he drowned and that his body
remained intact even after he drowned. He got
more surprised and kept on asking” Where did the
Muslims’ Qur’an quote these data from while the
mummy was not discovered until 1898, i.e. about
200 years only, given that the Qur’an has been
recited by Muslims for over 1400 years, and given
also that until a few decades ago the entire
mankind including Muslims did not know that the
ancient Egyptians had mummified their pharaohs?
Maurice Bucaille stayed up all this night gazing at
Pharaoh’s body, thinking deeply of what his fellow
researcher told him about the Muslims’ Qur’an
explicitly establishing that this body was recovered
after drowning, while the Christians’ Gospel
(Matthew and Luca) narrated only the story of
Pharaoh when he was chasing Prophet Musa
(peace be upon him) without mentioning the fate of
his body at all.
“Is it believable that Muhammad (peace be upon
him) knew about this over 1,000 years ago while I
have only just known it?” he thought.
Maurice spent a sleepless night, and asked for a
version of the Torah. But it only furthered Bucaille’s
astonishment; since even Torah did not narrate that
the body was recovered and remained intact due to
the processing and restoration, which it did
undergo.
France sent back the mummy to Egypt in a
splendid glass coffin. But, since he knew about the
story circulated by Muslims on the intactness of
this body, he decided to pack his baggage and
travel to Saudi Arabia where a medical conference
happened to be held with a galaxy of Muslim
anatomists attending.
There, told them about his discovery, i.e. that
Pharaoh’s body was kept intact even after he
drowned. One of the conferees opened the Qur’an
and read out the Ayah in which Allah Almighty said,
“So today We will (safely) deliver you with your
body that you may be a sign to the ones
succeeding you; and surely many among mankind
are indeed heedless of Our signs.” (Yunus: 92)
In his excitement, he stood before the attendants
and loudly said, “I have converted to Islam and
believed in this Qur’an.”
Back to France, Maurice Bucaille spent 10 years
conducting a study as to how far the recently
scientific facts match that mentioned in the Holy
Qur’an, trying to reassure himself that the Qur’an
has never contradicted with any single scientific
fact, so that he eventually came up with the
conclusion that Allah Almighty said of the Qur’an,
“Untruth does not come up to it before (Literally:
between its two hands) it nor from behind it; a
successive sending down from (One) Ever-Wise,
Ever-Praiseworthy.”
He came up with a earth shaking book on the Holy
Qur’an which jolted the entire Western states, with
the title of the book reading, “The Bible, The Qur’an
and Science, The Holy Scriptures Examined In The
Light Of Modern Knowledge.”
The book sold out and even hundreds of thousands
of it were translated from French to Arabic, English,
Indonesian, Persian, Turkish and German, extending
to include nearly all East and West bookstores; one
has come to see it with any Egyptian, Moroccan or
Gulf person in the US.
In the preface of his book, Maurice Bucaille said,
“These scientific areas which Qur’an established to
the exclusion of other Scriptures filled me with
deep surprise early on, since it never struck my
mind to see such a large amount of scientific
issues in such a variable and accurate way that
they are a mirror image of what has recently been
discovered in a book which has existed for more
than 13 centuries.!!
The Bible, The Qur’an and Science, The Holy
Scriptures Examined In The Light Of Modern
Knowledge was such a marvelous piece of writing
that, in the year 1988, the French Academy
awarded him its prize in history.
— Courtesy of www.quranandscience.com
