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Mar 23, 20221 min read
Things in Orbit
S 21:33 And he is the one who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon. All swim in an orbit. Sun and moon are physical...
S 69:40; 81:19
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S 21:33 And he is the one who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon. All swim in an orbit. Sun and moon are physical...
In this post we shall look at S 2:2 with an excerpt from Sam Shamoun's article The Quran on the Authority and Integrity of the Biblical...
In this post I shall list a number of passages that explicitly mention the word Injil. S 3:3 He has sent down upon you the book in truth...
S 2:36 Then the Devil tripped them from it and expelled them from what they were in. And we said: Get down, an enemy to one another. And...
What would be the point of sujud, usually, but not accurately, often translated 'prostration'? During an act of sujud the person faces...
In this post I present a number of passages in which the Torah is explicitly mentioned. S 3:3 He has sent down upon you the book with...
Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun said, “Anyone who says that the Prophet was black should be killed." Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi,...
إِنَّ اللهَ أَذِنَ لِي أَنْ أُحَدِّثَ عَنْ دِيْكٍ قَدْ مَرَقَتْ رِجْلَاهُ الْأَرْضَ، وَعُنُقُهُ مُنْثَنٍ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ وَهُوَ...
In the Quran and other ahadith Gabriel is called Jibril جبريل. In the Arabic Bible he is called Jibra’il جبرائيل. Muslims will say that...
In this short post we shall look at two verses that suggest that Allah brought material. S 7:52 And we brought them a book which we...
In S 7:27 we read: Banu Adam, let the Devil not tempt you as he expelled your parents from the Jannah, stripping them of their clothes...
Abu Musa Ash'ari reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) mentioned many names of his and said: I am Muhammad, Ahmad. Muqaffi (the last in...
The Muslim martyr would supposedly go immediately to the Jannah. It was narrated from Miqdam bin Ma’dikarib that the Messenger of Allah...
Musa comes across the Allah-guided unnamed Al-Khidr. S 18:65-82 Then they found a slave of our slaves whom we had given mercy from us and...
In S 91:8 we read: فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا And he inspired it {the soul} with its licentiousness (fujur} and its taqwa....
"Kinana ibn al-Rabi' ibn Abu al-Huqayq was a leader/chief of the Jews of Khaybar and husband of Safiyah, who later became one of...
A number of passages speak of permission. S 2:97 Say: He who was an enemy to Jibril, he sent it down upon your heart with Allah’s...
According to the Quran a woman is only your mother if she gave birth to you. S 58:1-2 Allah has heard the speech of the one who argues...
Waraqah ibn Naufal refers to the founder of Islam's visitor as the Namus/namus, a word that means LAW. Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet (ﷺ)...
Has Allah died or is it dying? S 28:88 And do not invoke another god with Allah. There is no god but him. Everything is perishing except...
