Human Creation in the Glorious Quran: A Commentary in Light of Modern Biology
Epigraph ‘So when I have fashioned him in perfection and have breathed into him of My Spirit, fall ye down in submission to him.’ (Al Quran 15:29) Then He fashioned […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Sistine Chapel – A Theological and Historical Analysis
Epigraph In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy. Say, ‘He is God the One, God the eternal. He begot no one nor was He […]
Is Our Universe Teaming With Intelligent Life?
Epigraph Allah is He, Who created seven heavens and of the earth a similar number. The divine command comes down in their midst that you may know that Allah has […]
What Can We Learn from Richard Swinburne?
Presented by Zia H Shah MD There are only four or five academic Christian philosophers that I read or listen to and sometimes learn from. Richard Swinburne is definitely one […]
Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Evidence of Purposeful Design
Epigraph: الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ ۖ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ He […]
Ahmed Deedat on the “Swoon” Hypothesis of Jesus’ Crucifixion
Epigraph They killed him not, nor crucified him, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified, and those who differ therein are indeed in a state of […]
Discovering the W and Z Bosons: The 1984 Physics Nobel Prize Explained
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Introduction: A New Particle Shakes the World In January 1983, a team of physicists at CERN (the […]
Thirteen Authors, Works, and Quotes on the Swoon Hypothesis of Jesus
Epigraph They killed him not, nor crucified him, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified, and those who differ therein are indeed in a state of […]
The Miracle in Carbon Formation: The Basic Building Block of Life
Epigraph سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ۗ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ We shall show them Our signs in every region of the […]
The Glorious Quran: From Mother’s Placenta to Afterlife
Epigraph يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ٱلْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ ۚ وَنُقِرُّ فِى […]
Video: Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics?
Epigraph وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ “We have created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two in accordance with the perfect truth […]
Paul Davies A Pantheist Acknowledging the Marvel of Our Universe
… Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Paul Davies is a distinguished British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and science writer whose work has profoundly influenced our understanding of […]
Comparison and Contrast of Kant and Hume on Key Philosophical Issues
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times David Hume (1711–1776) was a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and is widely regarded as one of the greatest empiricist and skeptical philosophers in Western philosophy. Hume challenged traditional notions of causation, the self, and human […]
The Glorious Quran and Astronomical Mechanisms Minimizing Meteor Impacts on Earth
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Meteor strikes were not on the minds of 7th-century Arabs. Nevertheless, the Quran describes the sky as […]
The Glorious Quran, A Meteor Strike and the Dinosaurs
Epigraph Have you not considered how God has made everything on the earth of service to you? That ships sail the sea at His command? That He keeps the heavens […]
The Quran Hinted At Earth Being a Sphere and Early Muslim Scientists Obliged
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is a verse in the Bible that talks about four corners of the earth: After this […]
All of Reality Is A Testament for God and for the Glorious Quran
Epigraph فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ وَمَا لَا تُبْصِرُونَ إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَّا تُؤْمِنُونَ وَلَا بِقَوْلِ كَاهِنٍ ۚ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَذَكَّرُونَ تَنزِيلٌ مِّن رَّبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ So, I swear […]
The Glorious Quran Endorses Al Ghazali’s Occasionalism
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Ghazali’s occasionalism asserts that God is the sole and direct cause of all events, rejecting […]
Javed Ghamidi About Sufis and Saints
Movie: Ramanujan: A Prophet of Mathematics Born in a Hindu Family Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (/ˈʃriːniˌvɑːsə rɑːˈmɑːnʊdʒən/;[1] listen (help·info); 22 December 1887 – 26 April […]
The Quran is Not a Book of Science but of Clues for Science: Today’s Clue is Camel
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Quran, the central religious text of Islam, serves primarily as a guide for spiritual […]