In Islam can you be a Muslim without being a believer? Can you be a believer without being a Muslim? S 6:163 No partner has he. And with that have I been commanded and I am the first of the Muslims. The First Muslim Commanded with what? Here the author is calling himself a Muslim. But: S 2:285 The messenger has believed in what has been sent down to him from his lord, and the believers . All have believed in Allah and his angels and his books and his messengers. We do not d

Muslims will tell us that the guy who called himself 'Muhammad' is (sic) a messenger and prophet to the world. But they, if they've actually bothered to read their book, ignore a number of passages. S 6:92 And this is a book; we have sent it down, blessed, confirming that which is in front of it and that you may warn the mother of the villages and those who are around it. And those who believe in the hereafter believe in it and they are guarding over their salat. S 42:7 And t

S 27:82 And when the speech fell against them, we brought out for them a beast from the Earth speaking to them: People were not certain...

In this post we shall be looking at occurrences of these three names. S 2:125 And when we made the House a resort for people and...

S 2:213 People were one nation then Allah raised the prophets as bearers of good news and as warners and sent down with them the book...

S 10:5 He is the one who made the sun a splendour and the moon a light and determined houses for it that you may know the number of...

S 19:16 And mention in the book Maryam, when she withdrew from her family to an eastern place. S 19:41 And mention Ibrahim in the book....

We created: S 7:11 And we created you then we formed you. Then we said to the angels: Do sujud to Adam. So they did sujud except Iblis....

In this post we shall be looking at the verses in which the word Egypt occurs. S 2:61 And when you said: Musa, we shall not be patient...

How often, according to quran, is one to pray? Quranists will argue for three times that one is to pray. Here are the verses cited for...

In this post we shall be looking at the phrase Allah's messenger. S 4:157 And their saying: We killed the Messiah, Isa son of Maryam, the...

S 2:120 And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Nasara, until you follow their cult. Say: Allah’s guidance, it is the...

In this post I shall show the Jewish background of the notion that Allah prays. In Ibn Kathir's tafsir for S 33:56 we read: And Ibn Abi...

S 2:133 Or were you witnesses when death attended Ya’qub, when he said to his sons: What will you worship after me? They said: We shall...

Hour S 7:34 And for every nation a term. So when their term has come they do not delay an hour nor do they bring forward. S 9:117 Allah...

S 17:106 And a quran that we have split that you may read it to people at intervals. And we sent it down as a tanzil . The descent of...

S 16:67 And from the fruits of date palms and grapes you take therefrom an intoxicant and a good provision. In that there is a sign for...

Muslims will say that man is designed. They will likely say that hands, for example, betray design, and if designed then created. Quran...

In S 18:74 we read: Then they set out until when they met a boy; then he killed him. He said: Have you killed a pure soul for other than...

S 2:62 Those who have believed and those who were Jewish and the Nasara and the Sabians--those who have believed in Allah and the last...