Tag: Genealogy

  • 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…

  • The Eclipse of Matthew 27 ?

    In the arti­cle His­tor­i­cal Errors in the Qur’an ? I briefly touched upon the events men­tioned in the Gospel of Matthew sur­round­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion of the Prophet Isa(P). With regards to the cru­ci­fix­ion of ​‘Isa(P), it is record­ed in the Gospel of Matthew : Matthew 27:4 ​“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour dark­ness came over all…

  • A Medieval Chris­t­ian Patri­arch on Prophet Muhammad

    A Medieval Chris­t­ian Patri­arch on Prophet Muhammad

    The fol­low­ing is an extract from the allo­cu­tion of Patri­arch Tim­o­thy I before the Caliph al-Mah­di on how he viewed the Prophet Muham­mad(P). I guess Chris­tians back then were not as intol­er­ant of oth­er faiths as how it might appear from their polem­i­cal web­sites such as ​“Answer­ing Islam”. It is enti­tled : Tim­o­th­y’s Apol­o­gy for Chris­tian­i­ty, Eng­lish trans­la­tion…