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Was Muhammad Really Illiterate?
The Quranic case for Muhammad’s literacy: the meaning of ummi, the writing language of 29:48 and 25:5, and the treaty reports describing him taking a document and writing. Continue reading
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Service or Gambling? The Quranic Line Between Insurance and Honest Commerce
The Question at the Gate A brother in our community recently described a situation that millions of people share. His home is fitted with a monitored alarm system run by a private security company: motion detectors inside and outside, a… Continue reading
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Why Seek Purpose? The Fake-Life Generation and the Reason We Are Here
Introduction: The Generation That Says Its Life Is Fake A Harvard-trained social scientist sits down in front of a camera for Big Think and opens with a number that should stop a room. Depression among adults under thirty has roughly… Continue reading
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The Impossible Prophecy: Exposing the Fabricated Constantinople Hadith
Introduction: A Prophecy That Arrived Eighty-Five Years Late There is a saying that every schoolchild in the Muslim world learns, that preachers deploy on anniversaries, and that Ottoman court historians carved into the foundation of an empire’s self-image: that the… Continue reading
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With Pain There Is Gain
Part One: Everything Has Become a Drug Something is winning against you right now. You already know what it is. You did not need me to name it. You named it yourself in the third paragraph of your own thoughts… Continue reading
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The Levels of Shirk: From Denying God to Wearing His Name as Camouflage
Introduction: The Only Unforgivable Sin Is Not One Sin Ask most people what idol worship looks like and they will picture a statue — a carved figure on an altar, candles, incense, a bowed head before stone. That image is… Continue reading
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Münafıkların Çöküşü
Namazın Önündeki Soru Topluluğumuza sürekli geri dönen bir soru var. Bir inanan, sözler ve hareketler doğru yapıldığı sürece, herhangi birinin arkasında Bağlantı Namazı’nı kılabilir mi? Şimdi dolaşan bir doktrin buna tereddütsüz evet diyor. Namazın kalbin değil, uygulamanın meselesi olduğunu söylüyor.… Continue reading
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The Unappreciative Chip: The Fault We Wrote, the Instinct God Installed
Two Paths, One Choice The test you were shipped into Before you had a name, before you had a face, before there was anything about you worth reporting, you already existed as a decision waiting to be made. The Quran… Continue reading
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Who Sets the Standard? The Quran’s Own Test for Its Own Arguments
Introduction: The Fairest Possible Reading An article titled “A Framework for Evaluating Quranic Arguments” sets itself a demanding task, and it deserves a demanding reply. The piece is a serious, disciplined attempt to sort good reasoning from bad. It proposes… Continue reading
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Preaching With Wisdom and Kind Enlightenment: How God Commands Us to Deliver His Message
Introduction: Two Commands That Never Collide There is an argument that surfaces every time a submitter opens his mouth to share the message. One person says the messenger must labor over how he speaks — gently, wisely, patiently. Another answers… Continue reading
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