10 LOGICAL QUESTIONS TO ASK A CHRISTIAN (part 2) 1. If Jesus is said to be the only begotten son of God, what of David in psalms 2:7, who is also said to be a begotten son of God? 2. If Jesus is the only son of God, what of Adam Luke 3:38, Israel Exodus…
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By Abu Amina Elias In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Islam is against all forms of racism and bigotry. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another, or one color of skin is superior to another, or the people of one country are superior to another. Such beliefs are…
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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful One of the claims frequently made by anti-Muslim websites is that after Prophet Muhammad emigrated to Medina, he became a warlord and launched offensive wars against the tribes around him for worldly gains. The truth is that the Meccan aristocracy had been violently intolerant of the…
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Is Ka’aba an idol? Do Muslims worship it? Significance & History of Ka’aba Is Kaaba an idol? Do Muslims worship Kaaba or the ‘black stone’? If not then, why do they pray or prostrate in the direction of Ka’aba in Makkah or Mecca (Saudi Arabia)? What is significance of Kaaba in Islam? Why do…
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THE SOILED IMAGE OF ‘ALFAS’ By Sanni K. Yusuf I once had something to do with one of the bigwigs in southwestern Nigeria. To perfect what bonded us, we needed to have a face-to-face encounter, which made him give me an invite to his residential mansion. Don’t be bored. Keep reading. I want to make…
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Click here for previous session Just as Arab Christians identify God as “Allah,” and just as the Bible employs ther royalplural both in pronouns and in the proper name Elohim, Western Christians can adopt the same practice without compromising their creed. But faith need not depend on such issues, when there remains a more relevant point to ponder: Regardless of His name, how does God command mankind to understand Him? Understanding of God Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. —Cullen Hightower The Jewish understanding of God is relatively concrete, despite the vast differences between Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Hasidic Judaism in other matters. Throughout Judaism, the Oneness of God remains the primary attribute of the Creator, followed by many others, including justice, love, mercy, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, sovereignty, truth, wisdom, selfexistence, goodness,…
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This universal brotherhood preached by Islam was championed by the Prophet’s Companions after him. When the Companion, Ubada ibn as-Samit, led a delegation to Muqawqis, the Christian patriarch of Alexandria, the latter exclaimed: ‘Get this black man away from me and bring in his stead another to talk to me! … How can you be…
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This is a continuation of the first part of the article. Here is the link to part 1 Previous: https://knowislam.com.ng/islam-and-racism-part-1/ The first part centers on showing clear and logical examples of how ISLAM SAYS NO TO RACISM. However, I would continue with showing exemplars of Muslims who reverted to the religion from different races and tribes…
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By Animashaun Afeez Funsho In the Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful. Assalam alaekum everyone. I would start by apologizing on my unavailability for the past few weeks. It however, was not intentional as I had a whole lot of personal issues to contend with. I woke up this morning with a notification…
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Click here for previous session UNDERSTANDING AND APPROACHING GOD We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain that restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. —Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France While monotheistic faiths share a fundamental belief in one God, their understanding of His attributes differs greatly. Many of these differences, like individual strands of a spider web, may appear separate and divergent when viewed too closely. However, these individual threads knit together a larger design, the full significance of which is…
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