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
Epigraph: Before, they overindulged in luxury and persisted in great sin, always saying, ‘What? When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be raised up? […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The concept of philosophical zombies—hypothetical beings indistinguishable from humans in behavior and physiology but devoid of conscious experience—has […]
One good refutation of compatibilism of both Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett is a short put-down by Searle: Both Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett are in this quandary because they have chosen wrong fundamentals. They are committed to determinism and have decided to refuse free will or possibility of human […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hear Daniel Dennett around minute 19 of this video, Dennett denies the very idea of zombies and the […]
Theists of various variety are often at daggers drawn with each other. Muslim versus Christian, Genocide in Gaza, sectarian wars among the Muslims. We, the theists, present an endless comedy […]
Epigraph The Crashing Blow! What is the Crashing Blow? What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is? On a Day when people will be like scattered moths and […]
… Warren S. Brown is founder and previous director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of […]
Epigraph: 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.’ […]
Epigraph: وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ فَمُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌ ۗ قَدْ فَصَّلْنَا الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَفْقَهُونَ It is He who first produced you from a single soul, then gave you a place to […]
Epigraph: Exalted is He who holds all control in His hands; who has power over all things; who created death and life to test you [people] and reveal which of […]
Source: BBC By Aleem Maqbool Religion editor•@AleemMaqbool Standing on a podium in a Florida convention centre on the night of the election, a row of American flags behind him and […]
It is the person who passionately insists on no involvement of such a force that has to furnish evidence for their fairytale belief in magical ex-nihilo creation. Extraordinary claims do […]
Epigraph: وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ فَمُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌ ۗ قَدْ فَصَّلْنَا الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَفْقَهُونَ It is He who first produced you from a single soul, then gave you a place to […]
Search Results Lord of the Worlds The Quran frequently refers to Allah as the “Lord of the Worlds” (Rabb al-‘Alamin), implying multiple realms or worlds under divine sovereignty: “All praise is for Allah—Lord of all worlds.” (Quran 1:2) The term “worlds” (‘Alamin) can be interpreted to encompass various realms, potentially […]
Epigraph Do they not then look at the camel, how it is created? And at the heaven, how it is raised high? And at the mountains, how they are set […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The debate between theistic evolution and atheistic evolution centers on whether the process of evolution is guided by […]
Epigraph: “We created man from an essence of clay, then We placed him as a drop of fluid in a safe place, then We made that drop into a clinging […]
Epigraph: 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.’ […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Hard problem (disambiguation). In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience.[1][2] It is contrasted with the “easy problems” of explaining why and […]