Category: The Qur'an

  • The Qur’an Can­not Be A Text of Divine Origin

    The Christian missionaries tend to make the general conclusion that the Qur'an cannot be a text of divine origin because of the unacceptable meanings included in it.Perhaps they are correct in this conclusion and we may be inclined to agree with them due to the following reasons.

  • Surah al-Anbiyaa:30 and the Mis­sion­ary Felix Culpa

    Recently the world's most maladroit missionaries have allowed an impromptu piece to be published in response to Shabbir Ally's views on Surah al-Anbiyaa: 30. Personally I do believe that Shabbir's interpretation is wrong, albeit he was not the first Muslim to proffer such a cosmological hypothesis on this particular Holy Ayaah. However I feel that…

  • Cos­mol­o­gy and the Holy Qur’an : A Response to Richard Carrier

    This paper is intended to respond to atheistic criticism as proposed by Richard Carrier, in a rather large piece that is in my personal opinion and understanding, replete with errors and misunderstandings with regards to basic cosmological concepts, the Islamic viewpoint, as well as history. I also address a few polemics that were put forward…

  • Reli­gious Scrip­ture and Sci­ence, Con­flict or Con­cil­i­a­tion ? A Mus­lim Perspective

    Reli­gious Scrip­ture and Sci­ence, Con­flict or Con­cil­i­a­tion ? A Mus­lim Perspective

    Tran­script of speech at Inter­faith Dia­logue 4, organ­ised by MMU Mela­ka PART 1 Bis­mil­lahir Rohmanir Rohim. In the name of Almighty God, Most Gra­cious, Most Mer­ci­ful. Alham­dulil­lahi Rob­bil ?Alamin. All praise is due to Him alone, The Lord, Cher­ish­er and Sus­tain­er of the Universe. The Chair­per­son, Dis­tin­guished Guests, Learned Speak­ers, Broth­ers and Sis­ters, I wel­come you…

  • Ahad(un) and the Mis­sion­ary’s Folly

    Ahad(un) and the Mis­sion­ary’s Folly

    Recently we were introduced to a new, amusing polemic by the missionaries, namely with regard to the word "ahad(un)". To achieve this end, the missionaries cite an online text from a Christian Arab polemicist who claims that the word does not mean "one", but "one of". Is it true what they claim? We seek to…

  • 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…