Epic Response to “Love is Love”
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I recently came across this video that spat so many fire responses to the LGBTQ cliche line that “love is love.”
Everything Wrong With This Tweet
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A brother recently asked me “How would you respond to this common atheist retort?”
“If you need someone to threaten eternal damnation in order to be a good person, you need more than just religion.”
How to Improve Your Arabic from Intermediate to Advanced
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2 years ago, I had virtually no problem understanding a lecture or class taught in classical Arabic. My comprehension was at 99%, given contextual clues. It, therefore, came as a surprise to learn that I was incapable of reading a single page of a book of Arabic literature without having to refer to the dictionary at least 10 times per page. Poetry was little more than sweet-sounding jibberish to me.
Response to David Wood’s Argument on the Muslim “Strategy”
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In a recent debate with the cocksure and outrageously honest apologist, Daniel Haqiqatjou, the sly provocateur, David Wood, made reference to a conspiratorial anti-Islamic trope. He charged Muslims, following in the steps of the Prophet Muhammad (s), or so he claims, with a secret plot to preach tolerance until such a time as to gain enough strength to supplant the existing social structure and impose Islam upon all.
The Great Books of the Islamic World Megalist Draft
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The late American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler compiled a list of books that he deemed “The Great Books of the Western World.” Introducing this list of books at the end of his best-selling book “How to Read a Book” (recommended by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf), he writes:
Ridicule is the Weapon of the Disbeliever
On YouTube, there is a rise of channels (The Vegan Atheist comes to mind) of super-smart-unbiased-intellectual-smartherthanthou-amazinglyintelligent-skeptics who are now making it their primary business to ridicule the Creator of the Universe’s Last Covenant with mankind.
Can Religious Texts Be Used as Historical Evidence?
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In a recent Reddit thread, someone asked about the practice of infanticide. In response, I said the following:
Are Late Sources Unreliable?
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We often hear from critics that the hadith canon was written hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet (s) and therefore it is unreliable.
Hadith Transmission is not like Chinese Whispers / the Telephone Game
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There is a popular attack given on hadith as well as orally transmitted history in general (even outside of Islamic civilization) that it is unreliable because it is like the telephone game (also known as Chinese whispers). For those unfamiliar, the telephone game is when a group (usually of children) sit in a circle. Then, someone starts off with a message and whispers it into the ear of the next person. That person then whispers it into the ear of the next person, and so on until the circle is complete and the last person says the message out loud. It is then compared to the original message, and usually totally off. This supposedly proves how oral transmission is unreliable.
Can God be both Merciful and Just?
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“Justice means to give someone exactly what he deserves. Mercy is to give someone less than he deserves. God therefore cannot be infinitely/perfectly Just and infinitely/perfectly Merciful at the same time.”
Famous atheist Dan Barker once made this argument in a debate. Although there are many answers to this dilemma, I wanted to offer one thought.
Let us say that a man murdered your child. In Islamic law, you have the option to a) have him executed or b) forgive the man and have him pay blood money.
Let us say you pick option b, which is the more merciful option. Has justice not been served? Of course it has. That is because you, as the injured party, have the choice as to whether you want vengeance or not. The murderer is brought to justice in both a and b, because justice here is dependent on the will of the injured party.
Allah owns all of us, and all sins are sins against Allah first and foremost. He can therefore choose to forgive whatever He Wills on the Day of Judgement without this being a violation of justice. All of our missed prayers, our anger, our lust, etc. can be forgiven.
