Rumi’s love and pluralism
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, is celebrated for his profound meditations on […]
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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
Quranic Challenge to the Atheists: Restore the Soul of the Dying Man, If You Can?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Majority of the European countries are now atheists. If we do surveys of the leading scientists, mathematicians and […]
What is the Nature of Personal Identity and Its Implication on Afterlife?
Epigraph Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet– lo and behold!– he disputes openly, producing arguments against Us, forgetting his own creation. He […]
Cliffe Knechtle Debates Atheist Matt Dillahunty | Is There Life After Death?
The difference between atheists and Believers is gratitude. The Atheist sees a beautiful flower and thinks that’s a beautiful flower. The believer sees a beautiful flower and thanks God for their eyes, for the sunlight, for this beautiful creation, for this life, and for the chance to experience this beautiful […]
Prof. Bernard Carr, cosmologist and friend of Hawking, on consciousness and parapsychology
Studying Consciousness: Are the Gaps in Our Understanding God-of-the-Gaps or A Profound Proof for God? Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And […]
Murad Wilfried Hofmann and his conversion to Islam
Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931–2020) was a distinguished German diplomat and author who embraced Islam in 1980. His conversion garnered significant attention, given his prominent roles within the German Foreign Service and NATO. Early Life and Career Born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Hofmann pursued higher education in law and philosophy, culminating in […]
Hibernation: How It Helps the Quranic Metaphor Between Sleep and Death
Epigraph: Allah takes away the souls of human beings at the time of their death; and of those also that are not yet dead, during their sleep. And then He retains those against which […]
Studying Consciousness: Are the Gaps in Our Understanding God-of-the-Gaps or A Profound Proof for God?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Henry P. Stapp’s take on quantum mechanics and human consciousness
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Henry P. Stapp, an American mathematical physicist born in 1928, has made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly in exploring the relationship between quantum theory and human consciousness. His work delves into how consciousness interacts with quantum processes, […]
Can Every Quantum Particle be Proto-Conscious in An Atheist World View?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Panpsychism: Can it explain human consciousness
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ (Al Quran 17:85) Written and collected by Zia […]
Salam, Weinberg, and Glashow’s Nobel in Physics
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In 1979, the Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven […]
Video: Is the Question of Suffering by Atheists a Fallacy?
Should the next question be, is Afterlife the best possible world?
Different Philosophers Arguing God from Consciousness
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained by the physical […]
Artificial Intelligence and Afterlife?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
A Question of Time: Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
A computer with AI cannot replicate the dynamics of a conscious brain. By Marc Wittmann Ph.D. Sense of Time Source: Psychology Today Posted August 3, 2024 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Key points […]
How Fine-Tuning of Our Universe Leads to God
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
The Simulation Hypothesis and Its Bearing on Afterlife
Epigraph: مَّا خَلْقُكُمْ وَلَا بَعْثُكُمْ إِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ Creating and resurrecting all of you is like creating or resurrecting a single soul: God is all hearing and […]