Muslim Responses To Anti-Islam Polemics
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“On The Errors of the Trinity” By Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus was born in Villaneueva in Spain in 1511. He was the son of the local judge. He lived at a time when there was unrest in the established Church, and in a period when everyone was questioning the nature of Christianity. As he grew older and more informed, the young Servetus was appalled…
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The Islamic Prayer and Its Importance in the Muslim Religious Consciousness
Prayer (salat) is the first duty imposed by God Almighty upon mankind after that of the belief in tawhid and constitutes a pillar of the Islamic faith. The position of prayer is very important and unparalleled by any act of other worship. Like the pole of a tent without which it cannot stand straight, Islam…
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Common Misconceptions About Muslims and Islam
Muslims do not believe in Muhammad(P) as God or venerate and worship him as God. We believe that he is a Messenger of God, just like Moses(P) and Jesus(P), and that he brought God’s Words to us. He neither conceived his own conception of God nor did he told Muslims to establish Islam with force.…
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John Biddle’s “Twelve Arguments Refuting The Deity of the Holy Spirit”
John Biddle, the Father of Unitarianism in England, was born in 1615. He was a brilliant student and was described as a man who “outran his instructors and became tutor to himself”. He went to the University at Oxford n 1634, was made a B.A. in 1638 and an M.A. in 1641. After leaving Oxford,…
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The Human “Fitrah”: The Religio Naturalis of Man
Muslims believe that God gave mankind an inborn natural predisposition which cannot change and which exists at birth in all human beings, a religio naturalis which is called “fitrah” in Arabic.
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The Qur'an and Hadith
The Qur’an is the last revealed word of God and the basic source of Islamic teachings and laws. It deals with a variety of subjects including the basic beliefs of Islam, morality, worship, knowledge, wisdom, God and man’s relationship, and relations among human beings. Comprehensive teachings on which sound systems of social justice, politics, economics,…