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Original Sin
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;
that boasteth of it, is a devil. —Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
The concept of original sin is completely foreign to Judaism and Eastern
Christianity, having achieved acceptance in only the Western Church. Furthermore,
Christian and Islamic concepts of sin are virtual opposites with respect to certain nuances.
For example, there is no concept of “sinning in the mind” in Islam; to a Muslim, an evil
thought becomes a good deed when a person refuses to act upon it. Overcoming and
dismissing the evil thoughts which forever assail our minds is considered deserving of
reward rather than punishment. Islamically speaking, an evil thought only becomes...
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Exhibit #2 — Scriptural Predictions
The Old Testament predicted the coming of Jesus. It also predicted the coming of
John the Baptist in the book of Malachi. More importantly, many Old and New
Testament references to a final prophet do not match the profile of either John the Baptist to the words of Jesus, is a person to conclude that Jesus had a prehuman existence?
According to Jeremiah 1:5, so did Jeremiah. According to the Islamic religion, so did all
mankind. Next, is a person to draw a parallel between the “I AM” attributed to Jesus and
that attributed to God? Once again, the foundational text pokes fun at the translation.
Jesus is not recorded to have said “I AM” in capital “makes me look like...
WHERE THE LIONS FIGHT
— SANNI KAY YUSUF
Scholars are scattered. Students are shattered. And the ummah is consequently battered - like a butchered buffalo. Friends in faith are now foes in fright. The booming boat of da'wah now in gloom....
RULLING ON HANGING VERSES OF THE QUR'AN ON WALLS
Q. When visiting muslims, I noticed that many of them put verses of the Qur'an on the walls or pictures with the names Allah and Mohammed. I know a lot...
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE THOUGHTS OF MAN?
The sound evidence indicates that the shaytan is close to man, and indeed he flows through him like blood, so he whispers to him at moments of heedlessness and withdraws from him...
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None asks Intercession of Allah before His creation
It is narrated from Jubair bin Mut'im (May Allah be pleased with him) that He said: An A'rabi (a nomadic Arab) came to the (May the peace...
THEY ARE FED UP OF THEM!
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SANNI KAY YUSUF
The nikaah kicked off few minutes past 12 and was put to a halt some minutes after 1. I was reliably informed that our style never went down well with some of...
Two Jordanian men were killed and an Israeli man was seriously wounded by gunfire at the Israeli embassy in Amman.
Two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded by gunfire in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli...
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Pope Gregory IX instituted the Papal Inquisition in 1231, but couldn’t stomach
the sin of torture. It took twenty years for a pope to shoulder the responsibility and, in the
height of irony, that pontiff took the name of Pope Innocent (coughcough) IV. In 1252
he authorized torture with the papal bull Ad extirpanda. 95 However, some of the clergy
must have wanted to get their hands dirty, up close and personal. To accommodate such
lofty Christian sentiments, “in 1256 Pope Alexander IV gave them the right to mutually
absolve one another and grant dispensations to their colleagues. With this legal and moral
issue circumvented, one inquisitor could torture and...
In the world today, it is really important that the Muslim world tell its own story to save the religion from liberals, rationalists, modernists and people who know little or nothing about the religion but ascribe scholarship to themselves.
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