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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...
THE MESSAGE OF FALSE RELIGIONS
There are so many sects, cults, religions, philosophies, and movements in the world, all which claim to be the right way or the only true path to God! How can one determine which one is...
Hip-hop Artist, David Adeleke came under intense criticism following a music video he posted a Twitter that depicted people dancing in front of a Mosque. He, Davido, deleted the video following backlash from the Muslim community.
I will start by...
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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...
THEY ARE FED UP OF THEM!
BY
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...
In recent time, specifically on 13th May 2019, the Principal of St. Anthony Secondary School Ilorin, Mrs. E.F Afolayan rebuked some female Muslim students for wearing hijab on their school uniforms after the school hour.
On the following day, she made...
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....
WAQT (time; refers to the measurement of movement, such as movement and stillness, black and white) and DAHR ( time, vicissitudes of time), the latter majorly communicates the possibility of not quantifiable time, this assertion may be deciphered as...
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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...
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...
