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 […]
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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
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 […]
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Ireland, Norway, and Spain to recognise Palestinian state next week
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Source: BBC Reference Palestinian Authority president calls on other countries to recognize Palestinian state Source: […]
Let us Learn about Time, As First Step to Learn Physics from Einstein
Videos: The Marvel of Space and Time and the Quran Epigraph: The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years. […]
Can Religion be Explained Without God? | Episode 509 | Closer To Truth
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments: I believe in God but there are some sociological truths in the above video, especially to explain organized religions and how they evolve or […]
The Holy Quran: Allah is the First and the Originator of Everything!
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) بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا […]
Rumi — The Poet of Love: Answering the Question of Suffering
Epigraph: “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” Rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a […]
Does Freewill Defeat Materialism?
Epigraph: Allah burdens not any soul beyond its capacity. It shall have the reward it earns, and it shall get the punishment it incurs. Our Lord, do not punish us, if we forget or […]
Video: Learning Limitations of Science from the Famous Astrobiologist Frank Drake
Epigraph: Have they reflected not in their own minds that Allah has created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two with a sublime purpose and for a fixed term? (Al Quran 30:8) Frank Drake is the last person to be interviewed in the above video. […]
Surah Qaf: Allah’s First Creation Proves the Second Creation or Afterlife
In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy Qaf By the glorious Quran. But the disbelievers are amazed that a warner has come from among […]
Quran: God is Closer to Us Than Our Jugular Veins
Epigraph: So were We incapable of the first creation? No indeed! Yet they doubt a second creation. We created man––We know what his soul whispers to him: We are closer […]
Videos: Attributes of Allah
Epigraph اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ ۚ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوْمٌ ۚ لَّهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ ۗ مَن ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِندَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ ۚ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۖ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ […]
The Grand Show on Earth: From Embryology to Evolution to Afterlife
Epigraph: People remember, if you doubt the Resurrection, that We created you from dust, then a drop of fluid, then a clinging form, then a lump of flesh, both shaped […]
Video: Without Afterlife, Life is Meaningless and without Purpose
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 a sublime purpose, the perfect truth, wisdom and mathematics.” (Al Quran 15:85) “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive […]
Videos and More: Immortality and Eternal Life
Epigraph: “No soul knows what joy is kept hidden in store for them as a reward for what they have done.” (Al Quran 32:17) … … … Afterlife: The Muslim […]
Video: Shaikh Hamza Yusuf about Jinn and Sexual Intercourse with Them?
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments At the end of the day Islam is either a rational religion or an irrational one like so many others? This is why we […]