For example, while I am now a Lutheran Christian, when I began college I was agnostic, and my roommate was a fundamentalist. There were many political issues on which we disagreed, and when I tried to explain to her what I thought, she would say that the Bible said something else. In...
All these years, even while claiming to be on a ‘spiritual quest’, I was really searching for an understanding of God and religion that would mirror my own preconceived notions of what the two ought to be. I definitely didn’t want a God who would make ‘inconvenient’ and ‘irksome’...
If an animal has been slaughtered in a way that is not in accordance with the Shariah, it is also regarded as mayta and dirty; its flesh cannot be eaten; for instance, when a person does not utter basmala deliberately while slaughtering the animal. However, if he forgets to utter basmala...
there IS some attempts at explicit arabization going on due to gulf $ and habituation toward arab Islam through working in the gulf but my understanding is that this has been spotty in its impact. one of my uncles started praying in a manner more influenced by non-hanafi forms after some...
On this point consider the sophist Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic. While Thrasymachus agrees that the conclusions of Socrates’s arguments make sense, he never really agrees to accept them. When Socrates presents Thrasymachus with his final conclusion – that “injustice is never more profitab...
Planned to kill Jews. The west continues to import Islamic Jihadists into western civilization. Why? [Islam, Terrorism] Feb 23, 2025 ~ Imtiaz Mahmood, "In the last 30 days, there were 115 Islamic attacks in 24 countries, in which 860 people were killed and 872 injured. You don’t hear...
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to the...
Mohammad and Muslims have been praying every day many times in their much-devoted prayers for guidance, and amazingly the last and greatest of Islam's Prophet kept praying for it till his death.11 Was Mohammad on the straight path? Is Islam the straight path? I encourage all Muslims to ask...
Like in the morning, there is a set of duas to make in the evening. Ensure you have some time to sit after praying Maghrib to supplicate. ‘Allaahumma bika ‘amsaynaa wa bika ‘asbahnaa, wa bika nahyaa, wa bika namootu wa ‘ilaykal maseer.’ ...
According to Islam and also verses in the Bibles, there is no legitimate Divine Book called "Bible". It is a man-made lie. Here is an example: Deuteronomy 4:2Do not addto what I command you anddo not subtractfrom it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. ...