Many preachers mix politics with Islam; they seek to drive people towards a certain political direction which have come to exist under the name Islamism. Islamists claim that they want to apply the Islamic Shari‘ah through today’s legitimate political channels. Let’s go back to the beginning, discuss the matter reasonably, and try to assay the ideology… Continue reading Assaying Political Islam
Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H. said, “Convey on my behalf, even one verse.” Unlike what many Muslims think, preaching Islam is not about converting others to Islam, making presentations about Islam, giving lectures in mosques, having the prophetic traditions hanged on billboards in non-Muslim countries, etc. Those acts neither improve people’s understanding of Islam, nor even urge them… Continue reading The Methodology of Preaching Islam
The story of Abraham is told in the Qur’an at different places. Among what Allah says: “They said: ‘Build for him a structure (i.e. big furnace), and throw him into the blazing fire.’ So, they plotted against him, but We made them the lowest. And he said: ‘I am going to my Lord, He will… Continue reading Comparative Religion Part II
This post is only for those above 18; hence, if you are under this age, kindly have enough courtesy to close the page right-away, this is not for you. Please read part III first, or you won’t be able to understand this post. There is consensus among Muslim scholars that the punishment for fornicators, if… Continue reading Islamic Penal Code Part IV
In Genesis, Allah informed Abraham of his firstborn’s future—of Ishmael’s future—saying: {17:20} And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly, twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. Pondering over the Arabs’ conditions nowadays, one… Continue reading Islamic Golden Age
Mount Paran: Or “Pharan” as correctly pronounced and written in Hebrew (פארן), is among the mountains around the wilderness where Ishmael lived after prophet Abraham P.B.U.H. took him and his mother Hagar to live there. Read Genesis where it says: {21:20} And God was with the lad, and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness,… Continue reading Locating Paran
From Habakkuk, we read when Prophet Habakkuk P.B.U.H. was invoking Allah for mercy after seeing a vision of the Chaldeans destroying his people’s towns and cities. Habakkuk then wondered why Allah would allow this to happen to the Israelites, trying to find excuses for their sins which he knows and even spells some of them… Continue reading The Prophecy of Habakkuk
The song of songs is a big dispute among scholars, some argued that it shouldn’t be included in the holy book because of its apparent sexual nature like the famous rabbi Shammai (50BC–30CE, Hebrew: רבי שמאי) who was an important figure in Judaism’s core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah. Others stressed its importance like… Continue reading The Man In the “Song of Songs”
Like all prophets, Prophet Muhammad gave many prophecies about future events. One of the most amazing prophecies was about conquering Persia. This prophecy was given at a moment when the Persian army was the strongest army in the whole world; its soldiers exceeded 250,000 soldiers and they were triumphant over the Romans and had even… Continue reading Chosroes’s Cloak
How to know whether a person is a fraud or not has always been a complicated issue that needs a lot of investigation. Trying to imagine how such investigations were carried out 1400 years ago is surely something extremely hard. Luckily enough, we have an example that has been lying recorded in the book of Bukhari for… Continue reading Heraclius’s Dialogue
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