Tag: Religion_Belief
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Between Myth and Reality : The Banu Qurayzah Narrative
Content Overview1 Preamble1.1 Myth 1 : Innocent Victims1.2 Fact1.3 Myth 2 : Ordered by the Prophet1.4 Fact1.5 Myth 3 : Banu Qurayzah Massacre on Muhammad’s Command1.6 Fact1.7 Myth 4 : Inhuman and Unmerciful Prophet1.8 Fact1.9 Myth 5 : The Event Reflects Intolerance in Islam1.10 Fact2 Conclusion : Principles of Justice and Truth Preamble The narrative surrounding the Banū Qurayẓah, a Jewish tribe residing in…
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Did Abd al-Malik Build the Dome of the Rock to Shift the Hajj from Makkah to Jerusalem ?
The Jewish Orientalist Ignaz Goldziher claimed that the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan had built the Dome of the Rock to prevent the people of Syria and Iraq from the Hajj (pilgrimage) to Makkah and in order to religiously justify this act, his friend Al-Zuhri fabricated the hadith of "Do not set out on…
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The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat as-Sakhra)
The most universally recognized symbol of Jerusalem is not a Jewish or Christian holy place but a Muslim one: the Dome of the Rock, or Qubbat as-Sakhra as it is known in Arabic. When people see its golden dome rising above the open expanse of Haram as-Shareef, they think of only one place in the…
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The Position of Jerusalem and al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf in Islam
During the Mi'raj, the Prophet(P) is reported to have received from God the command of five daily prayers (salah) that all Muslims must perform. Upon his return to Mecca, the Prophet instituted these prayers. It is significant to note that he made Jerusalem the direction (al-Qiblah) which Muslims must face while doing their prayers (narrated…
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Arabic Bible “Calligraphy”: Expression of Art or Evidence for Deception ?
The Christian missionaries are well-known for their deception in order to spread their so-called "God-given" purpose to spread the Gospel to the world. This approach is not alien to the missionary agenda, for it is founded upon the very words of Paul, who laid down deception as the missionary approach. It is with this "mission"…
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Dealing With Anti-Islamic Websites
One of the downsides of the Internet is that it has given our critics and enemies an opportunity to publicly defame the religion of Islam. I guess this is the price of having freedom of speech. Sometimes you have to read and hear things which are just plain detestable. The fact of the matter is that…
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Was Keturah the Wife or the Concubine of Abraham ?
According to Genesis 25:1, Keturah is described as being Abraham’s wife : “Abraham married another wife named Keturah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is (‘ishshah) (Strong’s No. 802)[1] and The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (2001) defines the meaning of the word as “woman, wife, female”[2]. But according to I Chronicles 1:32, we are…
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On The Methodology For Determining The Various Bible Difficulties
The Christian missionaries in their initial response to our list of Internal Contradictions of The Bible have made the claim that we are : …more bothered with seeking excuses not to take the Bible seriously, than finding reasons for their [our] own faith. In light of this “excuse” by the missionaries to avoid the gory details of the…