Part-1 |The Man Behind Modern Chemistry (Jabir Ibn Hayyan). #islamicreminder #islam #chemistry #ai

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]This scientist is called the father of modern chemistry and most lab techniques you learned in school trace back to him.

[00:00:06]It's the 8th century, Tus. A boy grows up in a world where alchemy was myth and superstition. His father, a pharmacist, is executed for [music] political reasons. He is sent away and raised in Iraq, but hardship sharpens him.

[00:00:22]He studies under the greatest scholars of his time and eventually becomes a close student of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. It is here that his obsession with understanding the physical world truly begins.

[00:00:33]Where others theorized, he experimented.

[00:00:35]He built equipment, designed processes, distillation, crystallization, evaporation, filtration.

[00:00:43]Techniques that every chemistry student still learns today. He was the first to describe how to produce sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and aqua regia.