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: 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: 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,’ […]
Presented by Zia H Shah MD with the help of ChatGPT Intelligent Design as Theistic Philosophy Intelligent Design (ID) is the view that certain features of the universe and living […]
Presented by Zia H Shah MD with help of ChatGPT Introduction Science operates under a guiding principle that distinguishes how we investigate nature from what we may ultimately believe about […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times David Hume (1711–1776) was a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and is widely regarded as one of the greatest empiricist and skeptical philosophers in Western philosophy. Hume challenged traditional notions of causation, the self, and human […]
Epigraph “Allah! There is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him, the Ever-Living, All-Sustaining. Neither drowsiness nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Epigraph: And whoso is rid of the covetousness or intense unfulfilled desires of his self, is one who shall be successfully guided. (Al Quran 59:9, 64:16) O serene soul! Return […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I am a sleep specialist physician and have been studying sleep not only medically but also philosophically and […]
Epigraph “Consciousness is a biological phenomenon, like photosynthesis, digestion, and mitosis. You know all the biological phenomena. And once you accept that, most, though not all, of the hard problems […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Introduction Islamic philosophy flourished during the medieval period, producing some of the most influential thinkers who shaped not only Islamic thought but also Western intellectual traditions. Among these, Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), Al-Ghazālī, and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) stand out […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jalal al-Din Rumi, the 13th-century Persian mystic and poet, now known as poet of love in USA, often […]
Epigraph God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and He causes death; and He has power over all things. He is the First and […]
Epigraph: God: there is no god but Him, the Ever Living, (الْقَيُّومُ) the Self-Subsisting. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. All that is in the heavens and in the earth […]
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 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 […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The philosophical query, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, […]