The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah
Why Arab Muslims Killed 20,000 IRANIAN PERSIANS بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In the month of Sha’ban, the Muslim army of Umar bin al-Khattab killed over twenty-two thousand Persian soldiers. This is why: It is fifteen years after the Hijrah – five years after the death of the Prophet ﷺ. Umar bin al-Khattab is the caliph […]
Evolution
Islam is a way of life, it doesn’t have a perspective humans have perspectives as they try to do Islam in terms of the perspectives of scholars, there are a few, 1. totally accepting evolution, 2. totally rejecting evolution, 3. accepting some things and rejecting others a) Science deals with the material world, Islam deals […]
Are Holidays A Part of Religion?
According to “Communication between Cultures” by Samovar, Porter, McDaniel, and Roy, a culture’s deep structure is composed of: “such elements as family (clans), state (community), and religion (worldview), [which] are important because they perpetuate a culture’s most significant beliefs and values.”So when we discuss Western culture, we are discussing Western family units, Western political structures, […]
Institutional versus Popular Religion
There is a difference between institutional/organized religion and popular religion. What religious texts and institutions describe as religion in the abstract can be very different than how the average person on the ground, or an ignorant layman, practices religion. It is very possible that the institution contains shirk or kufr whereas the popular practice of […]
Opinions on the Uncreated Nature of the Qur’an
There are more options:The uncreated Qur’an was Revealed to RasulAllah but he was the one who put it into human words, so the Qur’an with Allah is uncreated but the Qur’an with us is a created manifestation from the ProphetThe Qur’an with Allah is uncreated but Allah created the human language manifestation of it, not […]
Modern Psychology & Islam
Neurobiology is the study of the brain, psychology is a wider field that includes neurobiology as a part of it. Psychology deals with consciousness more broadly, and some have even argued that it is actually the study of the human spirit or the soul. Jamal al-Din Zarabozo did some great contrasting between psychology and Tazkiyyah […]
Modern Magic
This question itself has some assumptions which have to be challenged first. In the Qur’an we know that Harut and Marut were sent to Babel in order to teach people magic as a test, specifically to cause marital discord or divorce. It is something that has no power without Allah’s permission, is a teachable science, […]
Jahm b. Safwan and Christian Greek Philosophy
I wanted to share this Wikipedia rabbit hole, please bare with it if you decide to read it: “Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered consequences of […]
Is Democracy Compatible with Islam?
IS DEMOCRACY COMPATIBLE WITH ISLAM بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم How Muslims Approach Novel Issues Actions in Islam are graded as accepted or not based on three elements. All actions must be: in accordance with the Sunna, purely for Allah’s sake, and done with utmost determination (‘azm). All actions we do as Muslims are classified. A […]
The Heart in Islam
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Last month, a revolutionary medical operation occurred. Margaret Osborne writes in her article “Patient Who Received a Genetically Modified Pig Heart Dies After Two Months” for the Smithsonian, The procedure marks the first time that a genetically-modified, non-human cardiac organ functioned without immediate rejection by the human body. …A 57-year-old man […]