Inviting the Thousands of the Christian Philosophers to be Open to Islam
Epigraph Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word common between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
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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
Sarah Coakley Analyzing Lawrence Kuhn’s Agnosticism
Epigraph: Oh Prophet, when your Lord took out the offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness about themselves, He said, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ and they replied, ‘Yes, we bear witness.’ So you cannot say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘We were […]
According to the Quran, Allah Created the Universe from Nothing, Merely by His Words, Physicists Now Agree
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
Asking the Ultimate Questions Properly Refutes Atheism
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
If Mind and Meditation Can Heal Body, Does it Prove Free Will
Is Freewill a Defeater for Physicalism or Atheism? Epigraph: And if your Lord had enforced His will, surely, all who are on the earth would have believed together. Will you, then, force […]
A 25 Minute Documentary: Does Hell Reveal God?
Promoted Post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Beliefs about the afterlife What do Americans believe about life after death? The survey asked […]
Libet Experiments for Freewill and How to Understand Them Better
Libet Experiment A pioneering experiment in this field was conducted by Benjamin Libet in the 1980s, in which he asked each subject to choose a random moment to flick their wrist while he measured the associated activity in their brain (in particular, the build-up of electrical signal called the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), which […]
If Scientists Duplicate Human Consciousness, Would the Quran be Proven Wrong?
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.’ […]
Video: What is Truth or Mathematical Truth?
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, […]
Learning a Paradigm or Metaphysics that Allows for Revelation from Beyond
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A large majority of the top scientists and mathematicians are atheists. Almost 85% of them. There are some […]
Hamza Yusuf’s Near Death Experience and His Interview About Afterlife
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 […]
Just one drink per day can shrink your brain, study says
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy (CNN) Just one pint of beer or average glass of wine a day may begin […]
Could additional dimensions defeat atheism without defeating physicalism?
Comments by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times What if God’s Providence, our freewill, our consciousness, our soul, our continued personal identity, heaven and hell belong […]
Surah Qaf: The First Creation as the Foremost Proof for Afterlife
Source: TheQuran.Love Commentary by Zia H Shah MD Introduction The Surah very precisely and concisely highlights a very common theme in the Quran of a Creator God, Who has created […]
Book Release: Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
By Kevin J. Mitchell (Author) An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is […]
Debate: Is Free Will an Illusion
Epigraph: And if your Lord had enforced His will, surely, all who are on the earth would have believed together. Will you, then, force men to become believers? (Al Quran 10:99) And […]
Video: Ghamidi’s Approach and Defense of Pluralism
Book Review: The Final Blueprint for the 21st and 22nd Century Book “Islam and Human Rights’ by Sir Zafrulla Khan Reviewed by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
A Quranic Prophecy against High Odds: The Roman victory against the Persians
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The 30th Sura of the Holy Quran, named Rome, opens with the declaration of a prophecy about the […]