particularly on the South Asia, with the possibility of nuclear exchanges". Mahmood has published papers concerning djinni, which are described in the Quran as beings made of fire. He has proposed that djinni could be tapped to solve the energy crisis. I think that if we develop our souls, we can develop communication with them, Mahmood said about djinni in The Wall Street Journal in an interview in 1988: Every new idea has its opponents, he added. But there is no reason for this controversy over Islam and science because there is no conflict between Islam and science. New York Times comments The New York Times has described Mahmood as "an autodidact intellectual with grand aspirations," and noted that "his fellow scientists at PAEC began to wonder if Mahmood was mentally sound." Mahmood made it clear that he believed Pakistan's bomb was "the property of the whole Ummah," referring to the worldwide Muslim community. "This guy was our ultimate nightmare," an American intelligence official told the Times in late 2001. He has been awarded a gold medal by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Bibliography 1980; Doomsday and Life After Death 1982; The Miraculous Qur'an: A Challenge to Science and Mathematics 1984; The Greatest Success 1985; The Life of Book: A Scientific interpretation of Quran 1986; Muhammad: The First & the Last 1988; A New Book of the Children Rhymes 1989; Judgement day and Life After Death 1994; The Holy Quran and Dirac equations 1995; The Miraculous Qur'an – A Discovery Concerning Its Arrangements into Chapter and Parts 1996; The Challenge of Reality 1998; Cosmology and Human Destiny: Impact of Sunpots on Earthly events; Our Past and Future 2005 A Tafseer of the Holy Quran. (English version) (2005) 2006 There is no God, but Allah 2006 Kitab-e-Zindagi Tafseer (Urdu version) 2010 Muhammad – The Prophet of Mankind Awards and honours Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1998) Gold medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1998) See also Pakistan Academy of Sciences Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Science and religion Pseudoscience Ummah Tameer-e-Nau Sitara-e-Imtiaz References Notes Citations Bibliography External links Living people 1938 births People from Amritsar Punjabi people Muhajir people People from Lahore University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore alumni 20th-century Pakistani engineers Pakistani electrical engineers Pakistani expatriates in the United Kingdom Alumni of the University of Manchester Pakistani expatriates in England Pakistani nuclear engineers Pakistani inventors Project-706 Pakistani nuclear physicists People from Karachi Pakistani Muslims People from