This phenomenon can be compared to the discovery of a cure...

This phenomenon can be compared to the discovery of a cure for cancer or brain haemorrhage before science can make such a discovery. If the question is how Islam, which planned the age of the Awaited Saviour, could anticipate science in this field the answer is simple. This is not the only field wherein Islam has anticipated science. The Islamic Shari'ah as a whole anticipated the scientific movement and the natural development of human thinking by several centuries.