Two Natures of Jesus: Can God Make a Square Circle or a Finite Infinity?
Epigraph: God: there is no god but Him, the Ever Living, the Ever Watchful. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. All that is in the heavens and in the earth […]
Dr. Maurice Bucaille and Bucailleism in the Study of the Quran
Epigraph The disbelievers say: This Quran is naught but a lie that Muhammad has fabricated, and other people have helped him with it. They have, thereby, perpetrated an injustice and […]
Are Female Honey Bees Evidence for Guided Evolution?
Epigraph: وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ أَنِ اتَّخِذِي مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ ثُمَّ كُلِي مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ فَاسْلُكِي سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلًا ۚ يَخْرُجُ مِن بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهُ فِيهِ شِفَاءٌ […]
The Female Bees and the Male Bees, How Did the Quran Know?
Epigraph: وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ أَنِ اتَّخِذِي مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ ثُمَّ كُلِي مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ فَاسْلُكِي سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلًا ۚ يَخْرُجُ مِن بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهُ فِيهِ شِفَاءٌ […]
George F.R. Ellis’ Contributions to Religion and Science Themes
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Recipients of Templeton awards, who are awarded based on their academic contributions, are great teachers in the domain […]
Where are they, all those Aliens? The Quran Did Prophesize them
Epigraph: It is God who created seven heavens and a similar [number] of earths. His command descends throughout them. So you should realize that He has power over all things […]
Schrodinger’s Cat to Show Us, Marvel of God’s Creation and Our Consciousness
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
Could Our Universe be a Simulation and Afterlife More Real?
Epigraph: “The life of this world is merely an amusement and a diversion; the true life is in the Hereafter, if only they knew.” (Al Quran 29:64) “The Universe is […]
The Holy Quran: Adam from a Statue of Mud or Guided Evolution?
Epigraph: اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ … ذَٰلِكَ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ الَّذِي أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ ۖ وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ الْإِنسَانِ مِن […]
Did the miracle of the five loaves and two fish literally happen?
Epigraph “And when My servants ask you about Me, say: ‘I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should hearken to […]
Why do most Muslims believe in their religion?
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
Avicenna’s exposition of cosmological argument
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,’ […]
Rumi’s Message of the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, the esteemed 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, intricately wove the teachings of the […]
Quranic Challenge to the Atheists: Restore the Soul of the Dying Man, If You Can?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Majority of the European countries are now atheists. If we do surveys of the leading scientists, mathematicians and […]
What is the Nature of Personal Identity and Its Implication on Afterlife?
Epigraph Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet– lo and behold!– he disputes openly, producing arguments against Us, forgetting his own creation. He […]
Consciousness: Would We Ever Completely Know It?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Hibernation: How It Helps the Quranic Metaphor Between Sleep and Death
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 […]
Studying Consciousness: Are the Gaps in Our Understanding God-of-the-Gaps or A Profound Proof for God?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Can Every Quantum Particle be Proto-Conscious in An Atheist World View?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Panpsychism: Can it explain human consciousness
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا 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.’ (Al Quran 17:85) Written and collected by Zia […]