The Age of Forty

A recent British study has found that the growth of the brain lasts until almost the age of forty and then it stops afterwards. Another study affirms that the mental capacities start to deteriorate after the age of forty. Amazingly, the holy Qur’an says that man reaches the age of full strength when he becomes forty and then consequently starts deteriorating after wards. Allah, the almighty says in the holy Qur’an:

“We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of full strength and attains forty years, he says, “O my Lord! Grant me that I may be grateful for Thy favor which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I bow (to Thee) in Islam.”” Ahqaf: 46: 15

Our question to all skeptics of the message of Islam is how Prophet Mohammad, PBUH, knew that the age of forty is the separating line between the completion of mental capacities and the deterioration of such capacities.