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A Reply to Some Rational Criticism of Belief in Prophethood – Imam Al-Ghazali

By Rameez Abid / January 9, 2014 June 23, 2018

[Critic:] I have had no experience of what you have mentioned [regarding prophethood]: how, then, can I know that it exists and is verifiable, even though I admit its possibility? [Al-Ghazali:] You do not limit yourself to believing what you have experienced. On the contrary, you have listened to the reports of experienced men and …

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The Christian Faith and Worship [Muslim Perspective]

By Rameez Abid / December 23, 2013 June 24, 2018

As discussed in the earlier pages the Gospels do not prove conclusively that Jesus Christ (peace be on him) ever preached any new religion. In fact, his mission during his three year prophetic period was aimed at convincing the Jews that they had gone astray much from the path of God due the hypocrisy of …

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Examples of the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) Mercy Towards Non-Muslims

By Rameez Abid / November 30, 2013 June 27, 2018

Example 1 ‘Aisha narrated: That she asked the Prophet (s) , ‘Have you encountered a day harder than the day of the battle) of Uhud?” The Prophet (s) replied, “Your tribes have troubled me a lot, and the worse trouble was the trouble on the day of ‘Aqaba when I presented myself to Ibn `Abd-Yalail …

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Wisdom Behind the Creation of Shaytan (Devil)

By Rameez Abid / April 18, 2012 July 12, 2018

Imam Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullah) brings together some of the great wisdoms behind the creation of Shaytan in his book, Shifaa al-Ghaleel, p.322, he writes, “In the creation of Iblees and his cohorts, there is wisdom, the details of which cannot be encompassed by anyone except Allah.” A few of the many reasons he mentioned are briefly …

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Qur’an: A Timeless Miracle. A Brief Look Into Its Miraculous Nature

By Rameez Abid / January 23, 2012 July 12, 2018

The Arabic word for miracle is Mu’jizah. It comes from the root word ‘a-j-z, which means to be incapable of or to be weak. Technically, in Islam, it is defined as acts performed by prophets of a miraculous nature that humans are incapable of imitating.1 Allah sent through various prophets, throughout time, specific miracles in …

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Muslims Not Doing Enough to Fight Terrorism/Extremism? Wrong!

By Rameez Abid / December 4, 2011 May 14, 2019

We often here some non-Muslims rant on about how Muslims are not doing enough to fight against terrorism and extremism in their communities. However, this has no basis, in fact, Muslims are doing a lot of work in this area but the media refuses to cover it. Following are just a handful of examples: On …

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Islamic Polygyny vs Western Mistresses

By Rameez Abid / October 8, 2010 August 28, 2018

Once in a while I come across certain non-Muslims who love to pick on the topic of polygyny, having multiple wives at a time, in Islam. And as expected, they attack the religion with it and try to show how degrading Islam is towards women by allowing him to be with more than one woman …

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