Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Life in the Perspective of Quranic Revelations—A Brief Introductory Chapter HE HOLY QURAN makes a wide range of observations covering the entire span of creative processes pertaining to both the evolution of life and the preparatory stages preceding it. Some of the […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The Quran and Extraterrestrial Life HE vision of the universe that the Quran presents is poles apart from the one held by the philosophers and sages of all the past ages. At the time of the Quranic revelation, it was Greek astronomy […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Common media representations and political rhetoric would have us believe that the roughly 1.7 billion Muslims on the globe are a homogenous, monolithic group. And this couldn’t be further from the truth. In the latest episode of “The Secret Life […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Elyse Wanshel Associate Editor, Trends, The Huffington Post Chalk it up to spreading hope. Messages of love, compassion and support scrawled on the sidewalk of a mosque in Virginia is making folks on Twitter cry happy tears. On Sunday, members of the Mubarak Mosque in Chantilly, Virginia were […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER CHASSIEU, France — A patriotic sea of supporters, waving red, white and blue flags, greeted the newly ascendant presidential hopeful François Fillon this week at a soulless conference center in this suburb of Lyon. Mr. Fillon described radical Islam as a “totalitarianism […]
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad … it is a guidance for the righteous, Who believe in the unseen…1 (click to enlarge) O BELIEVE IN THE ‘UNSEEN’ is a fundamental constituent of the Muslim faith as mentioned in the verse quoted above. But as has been well demonstrated in the previous […]
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad Divine Revelation and Rationality N another chapter we briefly covered the progress of Muslim thought and intellectual pursuits in many areas of human interest. During that period, although Muslim enquiry was predominantly influenced by Quranic teachings and the traditions of the Holy Prophetsa, it could not […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Part IV The Nature of Revelation HAT IS REVELATION? Is revelation merely a term used to describe the conscious or subconscious exploration of one’s inner world, or is its source an external being, whose knowledge transcends that of humans? Even people who […]
Huff Post: by Elyse Wanshel — “We are with you!” TARIQ AMJED Chalk it up to spreading hope. Messages of love, compassion and support scrawled on the sidewalk of a mosque in Virginia is making folks on Twitter cry happy tears. On Sunday, members of the Mubarak Mosque in Chantilly, […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad T the time the Holy Quran was revealed, the human understanding of the nature of the cosmos and the movement or the stillness of the heavenly bodies was extremely primitive and obscure. This is no longer the case, as our knowledge of […]
Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad OR AEONS, philosophers have been attempting to solve the riddle of existence and origin of the universe. In the current era, their attention has been particularly focused on the origin of life. The dilemma they face is the question of who preceded whom—was it the chicken […]
Source: Aljazeera By Christa Blackmon A media analyst and digital anthropologist. “ISIS is not Islam!” declared many Muslims on social media after the attack on the mosque holding the final resting place of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina during the holy month of Ramadan. Popular social justice figure and New York […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Eliot Nelson HuffPost Hill Editor, The Huffington Post DON EMMERT/GETTY IMAGESIncoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus arrives for a day of meetings at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday. GOP chairman and incoming White House chief of staff Reince […]
Source: Sunday Express By ZOE EFSTATHIOU The draft law, proposed by the Israeli government, has sparked outrage among Muslims who claim they are being discriminated against. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Source: Ted Talks When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and […]
By Khalid Baig Neither love nor hatred can be allowed to compromise justice. There is one word that captures the essence of all Islamic laws and all Islamic teachings; one […]
Source: News18 Dhaka: Muslim-majority Bangladesh will drop Islam as the country’s state religion “when the time comes”, a media report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. […]
Source: BBC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is backing a proposal to quieten calls to prayer, saying he has received complaints from all quarters about “noise and suffering”. Later on […]
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) While Americans watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fighting to the finish in a noisy and polarized campaign, Germans are quietly debating their own […]