Alex O’Connor Nicely Explains Peter van Inwagen’s Defense of Free Will
Mystery of Quantum Physics: Do We Need it to Understand Free Will and Providence … Presented by Zia H Shah MD Fred Alan Wolf, who is interviewed in the above video, is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between […] Neuroplasticity and Meditation Show Freewill […]
Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad’s Short Video: In Regards to Prayers for Forgiveness, Family Ties Trump Ideology
Epigraph: Praise be to God, who has granted me Ishmael and Isaac in my old age: my Lord hears all requests! ‘Lord, grant that I and my offspring may keep […]
Javed Ghamidi About Slavery: From the Quran
Epigraph: When you meet the disbelievers in battle, strike them in the neck, and once they are defeated, bind any captives firmly––later you can release them by grace or by […]
Javed Ghamidi’s Video: We Cannot be Possessed by Jinns
Commentary by Zia H Shah MD I completely agree with Javed Ahmed Ghamidi’s statement that Jinns cannot possess us. Here are some more details: Both the Quran and hadith make […]
For Theologians and Philosophers Do or Die Moment: Study Quantum Physics
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment It may not be easy to master all of mathematics of quantum physics. May be physicists struggle with this as well, my guess. But, […]
Video: Copenhagen vs Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics for Dummies
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 […]
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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, […]
Ted Talk: What hallucinations reveal about our minds and revelations
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hallucinations—perceptual experiences occurring without corresponding external stimuli—pose significant challenges to materialist and naturalist frameworks, which assert that all […]
Alan Guth: Physicists Have No Clue Where Did the Laws of Nature Come From
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Alan H. Guth, a prominent theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is renowned for developing the inflationary universe model. This model addresses fundamental questions about the early universe’s rapid expansion and its implications […]
Videos: Different Philosophers, Physicists and Theologians on Why is There Anything at All?
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,’ […]
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 […]
Prof. Bernard Carr, cosmologist and friend of Hawking, on consciousness and parapsychology
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 […]