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
Credit: Ahmadiyya Gazette USA يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ … “O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard against evil.” (Al Quran 2:184) This verse was revealed in […]
It is said that a teaching of the Bible is that if a person is smitten on the right cheek he should present the left one to the one who smites. This sounds very attractive so long as it is not put into practice. But if an attempt is made to act upon […]
Fireflies or lightning bugs make light within their bodies. This process is called bioluminescence and is shared by many other organisms, mostly sea-living or marine organisms. Fireflies light up to attract a mate. Picture is courtesy of: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/question554.htm Einstein once remarked, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Human […]
Source: CNN It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks. […]
This is an article by by, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal, the first British Muslim. This is taken from a group of lectures given by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal in 1925. These were published by The Committee of Madras Lectures on Islam in 1927, under the title Cultural Side of Islam. We have […]
Book by Dr. Maurice Bucaille Book review by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As I was growing up in Pakistan and studying in King Edward Medical College, Lahore, 1979-1985, enamored by the success of science and technology, I had come to have agnostic and atheistic tendencies. Then I […]
(CNN) — Next time Grandma asks why you’re going to the mall on Sunday morning instead of church, tell her you’re going to Apple Chapel. For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that’s not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that […]
May 2011 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every agnostic or atheist has to deny accountability and hereafter by definition. If our universe is an accident and that is your world view then Hawking is right. But, if you are amazed at the beauty and organization of our universe […]
1 2 3 4 A four hour PBS documentary Written and Produced by Marilyn Mellowes William Cran, Senior Producer and Director Air date: April 6, 1998. The documentary puts the early Christianity in the proper context of Judaism. In other words the Jews are in the middle of the discussion […]
By CHRISTIAN C. SAHNER It’s Friday and the weekly congregational prayer has just ended at the Umayyad Mosque, Syria’s most famous monument. As the faithful exit, they walk past an unassuming bit of masonry on the mosque’s southern wall: a Greek inscription above a blocked doorway, with a most unlikely […]
1 2 As the facts about the compilation of the New Testament become better known the Christian apologists will come up with new rationalizations. However, here is the present demographic reality in the words of loonwatch.com: Jews and Christians no longer believe in the inerrant nature of the Bible, unlike the Muslims […]
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer and musician from Chicago What is the Bible? Is it a collection of scriptures written by men, or something more? Conservative Christianity affirms the idea of “Biblical Inerrancy;” that is, the Bible is the literal, Divinely-inspired Word of God. Whether or not they accept […]
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Source: Christian Science Monitor An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after […]
First posted by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: Huffington Post By M.G.S. Narayanan; Historian, academic, Former Chairman of India Council Of Historical Research The present controversy around beef eating, accompanied by violent […]
Post originally made by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: The Guardian: By Ijeoma Oluo, who is a Seattle based writer and internet yeller. Her work on feminism and social justice has been […]
This is a small booklet with a very descriptive title, written by an Australian Judge, Ernest Brougham Docker, in 1920. He became a judge of the District Court and chairman […]
In my view Prof. Bart Ehrman very satisfactorily establishes in this debate that historically we cannot prove Jesus’ resurrection. Here is a 1.5 – 2 hours debate from 2008: There […]
It seems that in the first century Roman Empire the use of divine metaphors for humans was not uncommon. In the case of Jesus Christ the Church took these metaphors too seriously and literally. Prof. Bart Ehrman says: “Apollonius lived at about the same time as Jesus, although they never […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), and he who does that shall meet with the punishment of sin. Doubled to him will be the punishment on […]