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 […]
Rizwan Khan – USAReligious Concepts 31st January 2026 Recently, msn.com featured 16 questions atheists want religious people to answer. Below are brief answers to all of their questions. © Shutterstock 16. Why Is […]
Presented by Zia H Shah MD Audio teaser or promo: Abstract The prevailing intellectual orthodoxy of the modern era, metaphysical naturalism, rests upon the axiom of the “Causal Closure of […]
Epigraph الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ “All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds!” (Al Quran 1:1) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Abstract This paper […]
Epigraph وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ I created jinn and mankind only to worship Me. (Al Quran 51:56, Surah Zariayat) The Quranic Perspective on Human Nature and the Purpose […]
Epigraph: الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ ۖ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ He […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Bertrand Russell famously claimed that he would simply say “the universe is just there, and that’s all,” implying that […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Introduction Many atheist thinkers assume that the fundamental laws of nature “just are” – that they exist without […]
Epigraph Control of the heavens and earth belongs to God; God has power over everything. There truly are signs in the creation of the heavens and earth, and in the […]
Epigraph We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them without truth, a true purpose (or mathematics). (Al Quran 15:85) الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ ۖ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا […]
Epigraph He created the heavens without any visible support, and He placed firm mountains on the earth––in case it should shake under you ––and He spread all kinds of animals […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Victor John Stenger (January 29, 1935 – August 25, 2014) was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was one of the most provocative and influential philosophers of modern times. His critiques of religion, morality, and traditional philosophy reshaped intellectual history and laid the groundwork for existentialism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis. Despite a tragic […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of top scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers are atheists. I as a theist stand little chance […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Results from the 2020 PhilPapers survey, with responses from nearly 1,800 philosophers (mainly from North America, Europe, and […]
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,’ […]
Epigraph: Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things; Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Most Forgiving. He is the Mighty, the Forgiving; […]
Epigraph: Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things; Who has created death and life that He might try you — which […]
The sensus divinitatis in Christianity and Islam Epigraph: Oh Prophet, when your Lord took out the offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness […]