Epigraph:
“Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He settled Himself on the Throne. And He pressed the sun and the moon into service: each pursues its course until an appointed term. He regulates it all. He clearly explains the Signs, that you may have a firm belief in the meeting with your Lord.” (Al Quran 13:3)
“Gravity is a Sign of Allah and a proof for the Hereafter.” Zia H Shah MD
Albert Einstein’s search for God
The lead two articles are by Zia Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times
Albert Einstein’s search for God
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was he a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics,…
A challenge for Dawkins: Where did carbon come from?
Epigraph: Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah; and He is the Mighty, the Wise. (Al Quran 57:2) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor…
eDigest: What about a Palestinian’s right to freedom?
Epigraph: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
Muslim marksman triggers Integration debate
How completely can people with a migrant background integrate into German society? A recent case shows that not every door is open – even to someone who is embracing local…
Kripkean Dogmatism: The Best Metaphor to Understand Religious and Political Debates
Epigraph: Those who have disbelieved — it being equal to them whether thou warn them or warn them not — they will not believe. Allah has set a seal on…
Breaking News: Jesus Always Prayed to God the Father, Never to Himself or the Holy Ghost
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy…
The ties that bind Christians, Muslims and Jews
Source/Credit: Houston Chronicle By Bill King When the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, I knew exactly two Muslims. Both worked for me, and both were two of the most dedicated, kind…
Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
August 3, 2014 Outbreak Update The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1440 suspect…
Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel
Salon.com: My heart is broken as I witness the suffering of the Palestinian people and the seeming indifference of Israelis. All my life I’ve been a champion of Israel, proud…
India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it…
Israeli troops ‘withdraw from Gaza’
Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators…
Tenu Kaafir Kaafir Aakhday
The Nation: Let me start with a profound apology for covering, what many might deem an “unimportant” issue this week. With all my sympathies with the innocent children and civilians…
White flags for them, green for us
ET: Even after deliberating for 60 years, the jury’s still out on Muhammad Munir. Pakistan’s second chief justice was a symptom of the times he lived in: brilliant but tragic,…
Heaven is for neuroscience: How the brain creates visions of God
Salon.com: Excerpted from “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.” For most of recorded history, human…
Qur’an lesson for today: O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly
194. O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly [22:74] O men, a…
My daughter and Kainat
Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The…
Silence of ‘good men’: A week on, Gujranwala mob attack victims await justice
ET: LAHORE: Last week an elderly woman and her two minor grand daughters were burnt alive in Gujranwala by a charged mob. A week of silence has passed since then. No…
France 24 Video Report: Pakistan’s Ahmadis living in fear of extremist attacks
France24: As Muslims across the world celebrate the end of Ramadan, we look at the persecution suffered by Pakistan’s Ahmadis. They consider themselves Muslim, but many Pakistanis see them as…
Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Relief Effort on Bosnian Television
Youtube: HUMANITARNI PAKETI OD RELIGIOZNOTO ZDRUZENIE AHMEDI DZAMAT Watch: …
The stigma of being an atheist in the US
Source: BBC By Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, Columbus, Ohio Atheists in the US are rallying together, launching a new TV programme and providing support for those who go public with their…
Eurasia needs a Sino-German axis
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The shooting down of Malaysian airline flight MH17 and the loss of all 298 people on board have cast a dark shadow…
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