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No Time to Waste in Islam
The minute a human is born, the clock of their life starts ticking down, and it does not stop. “O son of Adam!” Muslim Scholar Hasan Al-Basri explained. “You are but days. Every day that goes by, a part of you goes with it.”
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Free Will and Moral responsibility
Free will is a faculty of the reason and soul, by which a human is capable of distinguishing and choosing right from wrong and good from evil.
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The Illusion of free Will
Volition, emotion, and intellect are not free and rational, but entirely chemical.
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The Primordial Nature of All Human Beings
Very much at the center of understanding the human being in Islam is the concept of Fitrah. Fitrah is like having an innate inner compass that always points in the direction of what is right, true, and just.
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Outlines of humanity in Islam
All humans, men and women, are descended from one soul: Adam (peace be upon him). From Adam, God created his wife, Eve (peace be upon her), and from them both He created the rest of the human race, which make all human beings equally valuable in His Sight, equally subject to His Sovereignty, equally deserving of His Grace, and equally accountable to Him for their deeds.
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Personalities are like metals
Personalities are like metals. They need to be further refined into purer forms and fashioned into useful shapes.
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Scientists’ Stance toward Religion
For most of history, up until the middle of the 19th century, science and religion were viewed as co-workers in the human quest for understanding, in which science served as an avenue to deeper faith in, and appreciation of, the Creator.
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Today vs. the Past
A fundamental rift occurred in the West in the relationship between science and religion after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, in which he argued that all life is the product of purely undirected natural forces – time, chance, and a process he called ‘natural selection and random mutations.’
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Following the Evidence Wherever It Leads
Following the Evidence Wherever It Leads Recent Scientific Discoveries Make the Case for a Designer God All the More Compelling.
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What, Exactly, Is Life?
What is life? What is awareness? What is conscience? Or, more to the point, what makes something alive and conscious? Science still has no answers for these questions.
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God’s Power of Creation and Creativity
Six major names and attributes of God as the Creator are stated in the Qur’an. Each of which provides a different aspect and insight into the divine power of creation and the composite process of creation, making it clear that every detail of creation was perfectly planned and performed directly by God, leaving nothing to chance or to someone or something else.
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To Any Generation of Humankind Skeptical about God
To Any Generation of Humankind Skeptical about God, God’s Challenge to Create a Fly or to Get back Something It Takes.
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Flies Continue to Astonish
“The brain of the fly performs a very sophisticated calculation, in a very short amount of time, to determine where the danger lies and exactly how to bank for the best escape, doing something different if the threat is to the side, straight ahead or behind.”
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An Inevitable Point of Realization
It was narrated that a Bedouin was traveling on his camel when his camel suddenly dropped dead. He descended from the camel’s back and started circling it while meditatively saying: Why don’t you get up? Why don’t you come back to life?Here are your limbs! They are perfectly complete and your body is sound!
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Definition of God in Islam
GOD, by definition, is the only Sovereign, Self-Existing, non-created Being to whom everything else owes its existence and completely depends on for survival and power.
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Non-Definition of the Word ‘God’ in atheism
Atheism, from the Greek word atheos (without God), is an attitude that denies or disbelieves in God’s existence; accordingly, no intelligent creator, no divine lawgiver, no ultimate judge of humanity’s actions, and nothing above or beyond this closed, natural, physical world exists.
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God’s Attributes According to Islam
God’s Names and Attributes are those qualities that give correct understanding of what God truly is. The Qur’an, Islam’s holy book, believed to be God’s final word, tells humanity what God is like and what He is not like.
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Impossibility of God’s Attributes
The belief in a supreme, unfathomable, invisible, or infinite being who is beyond man’s grasp constitutes atheism’s main argument against God’s existence.
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Knowing God
Islam teaches that what God’s Essence is or what He looks like should not be points of concern. Humans can relate to God through the ways in which He has chosen to be known and appreciated; namely, His Attributes as revealed in His Divine Words and His observable Actions and Fingerprints all over creation.
