Stephen Barr’s Critique of Physicalism: A Comprehensive Exploration
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 […]
Stephen Barr’s Crusade Against Ontological Physicalism: Is Killing a Human Like Turning off a Robot?
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32) … Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the […]
John Searle’s Humility and Objectivity in Understanding Consciousness, Free Will, Soul and Afterlife
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? […]
Philosophical Zombies and Their Implications on Human Consciousness
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 […]
How Libertarian or Real Freewill Leads to God
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 […]
Arguing God from Consciousness
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.’ […]
Philosophical Thought Experiments to Grasp the Hard Problem of Consciousness
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.’ […]
Why is There Anything At All: The Seminal Question that Leads Us To God
Epigraph: هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ Allah is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al […]
Scientific Commentary of the Quran
Source: The Study Quran: A New Translation And Commentary By Seyyed Hossein Nasr By Muzaffar Iqbal: A Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar The Quran invites its readers to reflect on various aspects […]
Ghamdi’s Defense of His Quran Commentary And My Respectful Question
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Firstly my apologies, this article can make sense only if you understand Urdu to appreciate the […]
Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad’s Video: True Dreams and Islamic Perspective
Epigraph: Allah is the One who knows what is hidden. He does not disclose it except to a messenger of His choosing. He sends watchers to go in front and […]
Surah Rome: From God’s Creativity or the First Creation to the Second Creation or Afterlife
Epigraph: God brings creation into being; in the end He will reproduce it and it is to Him you will be recalled. (Al Quran 30:11) By Zia H Shah MD, […]
Quran: Do we get to rejoin our loved ones in Paradise?
Epigraph: And those who believe and whose children follow them in faith — with them shall We join their children. And We will not diminish anything from the reward of their works. […]
Finding the Truth: Through Relentlessly Correlating Science and Scripture!
Epigraph: And those who disbelieve say, ‘This Quran is but a lie which Muhammad has forged, and other people have helped him with it.’ Indeed, they have brought forth an […]
Video: Consciousness is Not an Illusion
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.’ […]
Tim Maudlin: Start Your Physics and Quantum Physics Here
Epigraph Allah — there is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining. Slumber seizes Him not, nor sleep. To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and […]
Unifying the Fundamental Forces from the Quran
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,’ […]
Arguing for Extra Dimensions in Physics from God’s Omniscience
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Often I try to demonstrate the truth of the holy Quran based on the discoveries of science in […]
From the Mystery of Our Brain to Mind to Soul to Afterlife
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I write this article with my fundamental belief or presumption that God of the Abrahamic faiths exists and the Quran is the […]