Promoted post: A Century of Scholarship for Quran and Science Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth By Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV (rh) Any divide between revelation and rationality, religion and […]
MAGAZINE: EDITION NOVEMBER 2020 Sayed Hameedullah Nusrat Pasha Divine Guidance – The Qur’anic Perspective 24th January 2021 The concept of ‘divine guidance’ is fundamentally a theological one, presented by most […]
Marcy Darnovsky Genome editing for human embryos is an unnecessary threat to society. Why has the Nuffield Council of Bioethics endorsed it? Tue 17 Jul 2018 ‘There is a global […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Epilogue N THE END, we turn to the issue of non-prophetic revelation. It is hard to entertain the idea that the phenomenon of non-prophetic revelation should also come to an end with the ending of prophethood. Continuity of Divine revelation is indispensable […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Jesus Versus Finality HE BELIEF that the last prophet, Muhammadsa, has already come and gone and the assertion that Jesusas would descend to earth as a prophet after him are so inconsistent that they cannot be owned simultaneously. In fact this cocktail […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Entropy and the Finite Universe T HAS BEEN clearly demonstrated that the entire universe would be drawn back into a black hole, which later on would explode into another Big Bang releasing its entrapped mass once again. From this the reader may […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The Question of Suffering (click to enlarge) HEN WE EXPLORE the history of evolution in search of the causative factors which gave birth to the sensory organs as life evolved, we can safely conclude that right from the beginning they have always […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The Jinn REPARE NOW to undertake a journey upon the wings of scientific vision into the ancient past to explore the nature and identity of the jinn. The Quranic concept of jinn has been briefly discussed before in Life in the Perspective […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest NSWERING the question as to who has been responsible, throughout the ages, for taking important decisions, which had to be taken at every step of evolutionary advancement, the Quran pronounces the following: Blessed is He […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Survival by Accident or Design? HE ISSUE of the survival of all living creatures is not as easy and simple as normally understood by the Darwinian cliché of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’. This term can only be understood in depth when […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The ‘Blind Watchmaker’ Who Is Also Deaf and Dumb N KEEPING with the promise made in our introductory remarks we now turn to the book entitled The Blind Watchmaker 1 by Richard Dawkins—now Professor Dawkins. At first it was rather discomforting to […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Future of Revelation NIMALS LIVE FROM DAY TO DAY with whatever life offers them. They do not seem to look back to their past nor to a dreamy future ahead of them. Man is an exception in the animal kingdom. Seldom is […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Genetic Engineering N THE FIELD OF GENETIC ENGINEERING, it has today become possible to change certain features of life. But in the age when the following verse was revealed, no one could imagine such a thing in his wildest fancy. Below is […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad OES MAN represent the final stage of development or will there be another creation after man? Is there any possibility of a new species evolving from Homo sapiens with improved or added senses, that is able to perceive new dimensions with the capacity to develop […]