E. A. Jabbar

I challenge, if you can bring a new piece of knowledge or information from Quran, which was not known by Arabs of that time but revealed through Quran and they had understood it from Quran at that time and followed, and later proved by the scientific community to be true, for example, the earth is round or day-night phenomena is happening due to earth's rotation, etc which was not known to Arabs of that time when Muhammad introduced Quran, but they got this knowledge through Quran at that time itself, and later science validated or discovered to be true, then I will recite Shahadah Kalima and will become Muslim again.

The three Conditions for the piece of information from the Quran should be:

• 1. It should be a new piece of information or knowledge, which Arabs of that time didn't know
• 2. This new piece of information or knowledge should be understood by the Arabs of that time through Quran by Allah
• 3. This new piece of information or knowledge should later be validated by science as true.

(ഖുർആൻ വഴി , അന്നത്തെ അറബികൾക്ക് അറിയാത്ത ഒരു പുതിയ അറിവ് കിട്ടുകയും ,അവർക്ക് അത് മനസ്സിലാവുകയും ചെയ്യുകയും , അത് പിന്നീട് ശാസ്ത്രം ശരിയാണ് എന്നും തെളിയിച്ച ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒന്ന് ഖുറാനിൽ നിന്ന് കാണിച്ചാൽ ഞാൻ ശഹാദത് കലിമ ചൊല്ലി തിരിച്ച് വീണ്ടും മുസ്ലിം ആവാം.

ഉദാഹരത്തിന് 'ഭൂമി ഉരുണ്ടത്' ആണെന്നും 'പകലും രാത്രിയും ഉണ്ടാവുന്നത് ഭൂമി കറങ്ങുന്നത് കൊണ്ടാണെന്നും' ഒക്കെ ഉള്ള വിവരം അന്നത്തെ അറബികൾക്ക് അറിയില്ലായിരുന്നു. ഇത് അള്ളാഹു ഖുർആൻ വഴി അറബികളെ അറിയിച്ചു കൊടുക്കുകയും അന്നത്തെ അറബികൾക്ക് അത് ബോധ്യപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യുകയും , ഇന്നത്തെ ശാസ്ത്ര ലോകം അത് ശരി വെച്ചതും ആയ ഖുറാനിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒരു കാര്യം കാണിച്ചാൽ ഞാൻ ശഹാദത് കലിമ ചൊല്ലി തിരിച്ച് വീണ്ടും മുസ്ലിം ആവാം)[10][11]

— E.A Jabbar

On 9 January 2021 he and a very popular Islamist scholar who was also the director at Niche of Truth,[12] M. M. Akbar debated on the topic, whether Quran is scientific or not. Jabbar had been challenging Islamist scholars in Kerala for many years to prove Quran was god's own words. He had ridiculed Quran and Hadiths, stating that they contained nonsense and mistakes. After he turned down many scholars who came forward, he accepted the Islamic scholar M. M. Akbar and agreed to debate him on the subject open-stage. A longstanding rationalist organisation―Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham―arranged the venue and stage to have this debate. The debate did take place as scheduled even after a long speculation of it being called off thanks to Akbar failing to show up, as it happened with other scholars who had challenged Jabbar earlier. A leading newspaper in Kerala run by pro-Islamist management, Thejus Daily, ran a story about this debate in which Akbar was quoted to have said that the debate helped unite the entire Muslim community in Kerala.[13]

In contrast, both sides claimed victory in the debate, and the video of the debate which went viral was re-used with footage from the original video to prove the success of either side.[14] Not to mention that the video that appeared on M. M. Akbar's YouTube account proclaimed his victory over Jabbar in the debate.[15]

The flip side of the program was that M. M. Akbar was criticized for stating that the Quran is scientific with his version of understanding the text. His opponents said that he had reduced the Quran to a mere science book.