Epigraph:

أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ

أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ ۚ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ

Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the earth? In truth they put no faith in anything. (Al Quran 52:35-36)

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Comments by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

I have been reading different Quranic commentaries, and collecting the best ideas from there, almost all my adult life. I must confess that the best understanding that I have had now, which came as an epiphany, of the two verses of the Quran, mentioned as the epigraph of this collection, is from hearing the above two videos of Robert Lawrence Kuhn, an agonistic Jew.

Therefore, I thank him profusely, for this and pray for him that may be someday he can move from being an agonizing agnostic and becomes a serene and satisfied Monotheist.

The articles below will be very useful additional read, after the above Epigraph and videos:

Videos: What is the origin of the laws of nature?

Epigraph We have created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two in accordance with the perfect truth and wisdom. (Al Quran 15:85)

Book Review: Don’t Let Mathematicians and Physicists Steal Your God

Epigraph Which is harder to create: you people or the sky that He built, raising it high and perfecting it, giving darkness to its night and bringing out its morning […]

Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA

Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) Suggested reading Trinity: An apple cannot […]

Unlike Many Muslims I Do Not Believe That Jinns or Demons Exist

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to the Pew Research Center, in the South Asian countries surveyed, at least seven-in-ten Muslims affirm that […]

A British Convert to Islam: ‘I found Qur’an mother of all philosophies’

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Why is understanding nothing, in the best sense of the word, so important …

Unless we truly understand nothing, atheists will use equation of mathematics to deny God and think that they have a sound argument for their ideology in cosmology. For example:

The Quran: Have the humans been created from nothing, or are they the creators? https://t.co/13VKSX7Lc8 pic.twitter.com/ga6xbpom21

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