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Future Events Which Later Came to Pass One example of the events foretold in the Quran is the victory of the Romans over the Persians within three to nine years after the Romans were defeated by the Persians. God has said in the Quran: {The Romans have been defeated in the nearest land (to
the Arabian Peninsula), and they, after their defeat, will be victorious
within three to nine years....) (Quran, 30:2-4) Let us see what history tells us about these wars. A book
entitled History of the Byzantine State says that the Roman army
was badly defeated at Antioch in 613, and as a result, the Persians
swiftly pushed forward on all fronts.1
At that time, it was hard to imagine that the Romans would defeat the Persians,
but the Quran foretold -that the Romans would be victorious within three
to nine years. In 622, nine years after the Romans' defeat, the
two forces (Romans and Persians) met on Armenian soil, and the result was
the decisive victory of the Romans over the Persians, for the first time
after the Romans' defeat in 613.2 The
prophecy was fulfilled just as God has said in the Quran.
There are also many other verses in the Quran and sayings
of the Prophet Muhammad that mention future events which later came to
pass.
(2) History of the Byzantine
State, Ostrogorsky, pp. 100-101, and History of Persia, Sykes,
vol. 1, pp. 483-484. Also see The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Micropaedia vol. 4, p. 1036.
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