Category: Polemical Rebuttals
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On The Qur'an, Logic And The FTMecca
Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Recently “Freethought Mecca”, an anti-Islamic website of atheist persuasion, came forth with an article that claimed to have found at least one error in the Qur’an. The article (and its supporters) took pleasure in pointing out the irony of the alleged error’s location: in Sura 4:82, the very verse Muslims have…
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Answering Islam: Preaching What They Do Not Practise?
In one of their pages, Answering Islam had made the following claim with the clear intention of “poisoning the well” where Muslim sites are concerned. The rest of the page goes on to either debase or discredit Muslim websites for their dependency on “atheist” material and preaching about the lack of “conscience” on the part…
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The Muslim Scholars Regarding the “Bewitchment” of the Prophet Muhammad
The Muslim scholars hold three views with regard to this incident. The sorcery whom the Prophet (peace be upon him) was exposed to is merely a usual disease and a transient illness, this is possible in regard to the Prophets as is to any human being. It does not disprove prophethood or disturb the message…
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Who Destroyed The Library of Alexandria?
Ptolemy II, who became the ruler of Egypt after Alexander the Great in the third century BC, was a great patron of learning, and founded a library in Alexandria, Egypt, which contained about 5,00,000 books on different subjects. It is this collection which is known in history as the great library in Alexandria. It has…
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Does “Musi’un” Mean “Expanding”?
Introduction It has come to our attention that Avijit Roy, webmaster of the Mukto Mona website, wrote an article titled Does the Qur’an Have any Scientific Miracles? One portion of the article on the subject of Sura’ az-Zaariyaat is worth commenting on, as it is an exhibition of some of the common problems with non-Muslim…
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Christoph Heger’s Problematic “Reconstruction” Of The Qur’anic Sura 96
In an article of his, Christoph Heger has ventured to uncover what he insinuated as the pre-Islamic ground layer of an originally Christian text in the Qur’anic Sura 96. Let us first present a beautiful English rendering of the portion of this Sura under consideration here: Recite in the name of thy Lord who created…