Quran
Essential methodology for understanding the Quran
Basic guidelines on how to study the Quran
Translation of an untranslatable book
Importance of holistic reading
Understanding the vague messages
When a reading of the Quran can misguide
A reading of the Quran can misguide when …
Why traditional tafsirs are unreliable
Differences among Quran-centrists
An answer to a deist’s rebuttal of the Quran
Let every community follow the guidance of their own Books
Divine messages in the Universe
Unfolding of divine messages is like biological evolution
An answer to Jay Smith’s “Examining the Newest Historical Research on Islam …”
Salat
Salat during the time of the Prophet
Why salat is NOT ritual prayer: links
Why salat is NOT ritual prayer
Why QURANIC SALAT is different from ritual prayer
Why the WORD SALAT doesn’t mean ritual prayer
Why traditional PRAYER is not Quranic salat
Why SUJUD is not physical prostration
Why RUKU is not physical bowing
Why QIYAM is not physical standing
Why RAKAT is an unquranic concept
Why WAQT, or prayer timing, is an innovation
Why QIBLA is not physical direction
Why a mindless TILAWAT is irrelevant for the purpose of salat
Why WUDU, ghusl and tayammum are not ritual purification
Why the Prophet’s WARTIME salat was NOT ritual prayer
Why ESTABLISHING the Salat means doing Works of Reform
Why Friday Prayer is an unquranic invention
Zoroastrian influence on traditional Islam
Are all “O you who believe” verses applicable to us?
Origin and development of traditional Muslim prayer
On origin of five daily prayers: Tom Holland vs Jonathan Brown
Hadith
The first four Caliphs prohibited Hadith
Earlier Muslims prohibited Hadith
The Quran relates Hadith to shirk
The Quran rejects Hadith and its authority
The Quran describes Hadith as satanic revelation
The Quran exposes hadith, sunna, ijma, sharia and salaf
The Quran disapproves of all hadiths other than the Quran
Why the Prophet prohibited Hadith
About the earliest hadith collections
Criticism of Hadith: from a Quranic viewpoint
Why Quran is the only authority of Islam
How hadiths contradict science and reason
How hadiths insult and demonise the Prophet
How hadiths degrade women and instigate misogyny
How hadiths instigate Honour Killing
How hadiths severely corrupted Islam
Obey God by obeying His message/messenger
Answering hadithists’ arguments
Observation and Reasoning
Hearing, sights and senses as flying birds
BIRD always refers to self and sensory-psychological processes
BIRD is always associated with hearing, sights and senses
Sensory perceptions in the Quran
Importance of scientific observation
The Quran calls on us to travel
Can scientific observation be one of the ‘pillars’ of Islam?
The Quran calls for inductive reasoning
The Quran calls for critical thinking and reasoning
Science
Relationship between the Quran and science
What a doctor can learn from the Quran
An answer to Richard Carrier’s “Cosmology and the Koran”
Reading the verses on natural phenomena: A multi-layered approach
Animal experiment: a discussion
God and Oneness
Abraham’s observation of the Universe
Arguments for the existence of God
Finding God through His signs in nature
Why awareness of Oneness and Transcendent is so important
How rejection of Oneness and Transcendent leads to fire
All good deeds spring from the Awareness of Oneness
Countering the mosque-goers’ argument during the coronavirus pandemic
Hereafter and Transcendent
Why awareness of Oneness and Transcendent is so important
How rejection of Oneness and Transcendent leads to fire
Every kindling of fire is a reminder!
Will God send disbelievers to eternal hell?
Hell is temporary, heaven is unending
Shahada
Questions and answers on Shahada
A preface to “22 serious reasons shahada should contain no name except God’s”
22 serious reasons shahada should contain no name except God’s
The first commandment of Islam has no name in it except God’s
La ilaha illa Allah is the only shahada found in the Quran
The Quran doesn’t authorize any added name in shahada
Islam revolves around Oneness and so should shahada
In all service we should remember only the ever-living One who never dies
We are not allowed to make distinction between the messengers
God is enough as witness that Muhammad was God’s messenger
The Quran relates the testimony ‘Muhammadur rasulullah’ to hypocrisy
The Quran links the added shahada to rejection
Pairing God with Muhammad violates holistic logic
The Quran condemns those who mention ‘others’ with God
Associating sanctified creatures with God is idolatry, the gravest offense in Islam
Extended shahada is not a requirement to be or become a Muslim
Extended shahada is not a requirement for salvation
Islam is not about any particular messenger
The Quran presaged the extended shahada as deviation
Extended shahada creates false religions by inventing secondary authorities
Sectarian shahada is based on baseless hadiths
‘Shahada hadiths’ are contradictory and confused
Sectarian shahada was a later invention
Earliest ‘dated Muslim texts’ constantly remember God but never Muhammad
The dual shahada evolved in line with an increasing idolization of Muhammad
A summary of “22 serious reasons shahada should contain no name except God’s”
Distortion of shahada evidenced by archaeology
Distortion of shahada through the political slogan of the Umayyads
True Islam
Islam is not about any particular messenger
The Quran calls for inductive reasoning
The Quran calls for critical thinking and reasoning
Quran, the messenger of peace and tolerance
The Quran calls for peace and tolerance: verse examples
The Quran promotes religious pluralism
The Quran promotes art and aesthetics
Pursue pleasure and happiness and mind the balance
Pollutants and evils that intruded into Islam through traditions
Book review: Abdur Rab’s “Rediscovering Genuine Islam”
Muhammad
True Muhammad versus false Muhammad
Does the word ‘Muhammad’ in the Quran refer to a real person?
Obey God by obeying His message/messenger
Can Muhammad of hadiths be a prophet of God?
Muhammad cartoons controversy: what does the Quran say?
A review of Dan Gibson’s Mecca vs. Petra theory
Petra has nothing to do with the origin of Islam
How hadiths insult and demonise the Prophet
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires by Juan Cole
Islam vs Muhammadanism
How all the corruption in Islam started
Darood (salawat): Its origin and danger
The story of Miraj: an anti-Quranic fiction
Zoroastrian influence on traditional Islam
Lailatul Qadr: Night of Meditation
Who can intercede on the Day of Judgment?
What does the Quran really say about intercession?
Obey God by obeying His message/messenger
Understanding chapter 6 from Abraham’s perspective
How hadiths insult and demonise the Prophet
Quran, the messenger of peace and tolerance
The Quran calls for peace and tolerance: verse examples
Distortion of shahada evidenced by archaeology
Pollutants and evils that intruded into Islam through traditions
Distortion of shahada through the political slogan of the Umayyads
Should we add sanctifying titles and phrases to the names of the messengers?
Pluralism
The Quran promotes religious pluralism
Meaning of COLOURS in the Quran
One light (the Truth) is split into many colours (a truth’s)
We are called to observe the colours
Why light is one and darknesses are many
One ‘green’ with many products
Arabia: The Untold Story: a review
Let every community follow the guidance of their own Books
Interfaith marriage: the Quranic position
The Quran accepts shirk as a necessary evil
Similarity between Hindu, Christian and Muslim prayers
The story of Adam: a call for a secular, pluralistic society
Quran, the messenger of peace and tolerance
The Quran calls for peace and tolerance: verse examples
Islam vs rituals
Salat during the time of the Prophet
Why salat is NOT ritual prayer
Lailatul Qadr: Night of Meditation
Zoroastrian influence on traditional Islam
Why Friday Prayer is an unquranic invention
Why establishing the Salat means doing Works of Reform
Is praying for something or someone helpful?
Islamic and un-Islamic practices
Lailatul Qadr: Night of Meditation
Zoroastrian influence on traditional Islam
The Quran promotes art and aesthetics
Pursue pleasure and happiness and mind the balance
Gender segregation: an un-Quranic practice
Should halal slaughter be banned?
Forbidden is polluted meat, not pork
The Quran against the traditional pork taboo
Is tattooing allowed in Islam?
Animal experiment: a discussion
Should we recommend circumcision?
Countering the mosque-goers’ argument during the coronavirus pandemic
How hadiths instigate Honour Killing
Interfaith marriage: the Quranic position
Sex, love, marriage
‘Islamic headscarf’: a traditional misconception
Gender segregation: an un-Quranic practice
The Quran never allowed wife beating
Child marriage violates the Quran
Interfaith marriage: the Quranic position
Is sex before marriage necessarily wrong?
Abortion from a Quranic perspective
Is adoption prohibited in Islam?
How hadiths degrade women and instigate misogyny
How hadiths instigate Honour Killing
Reviews and rebuttals
Answering hadithists’ arguments
Arabia: The Untold Story: a review
A review of Dan Gibson’s Mecca vs. Petra theory
Petra has nothing to do with the origin of Islam
An answer to a deist’s rebuttal of the Quran
Can Muhammad of hadiths be a prophet of God?
Lands are shrinking, despite what Quran’s critics say
Does the Quran really say that the Sun sinks in a murky lake?
Book review: Abdur Rab’s “Rediscovering Genuine Islam”
An answer to Richard Carrier’s “Cosmology and the Koran”
An answer to wikiislam’s rebuttal of the Quran about ‘frontal lobe and lying’
An answer to Jay Smith’s “Examining the Newest Historical Research on Islam …”
An answer to Richard Carrier’s “Predicting Modern Science: Epicurus vs. Mohammed”
On origin of five daily prayers: Tom Holland vs Jonathan Brown
Same sex relationship
The story of Lot: Correcting the traditional mistranslations
The story of Lot condemns xenophobic hate, not homosexual love
The Quran doesn’t penalise homosexuality
A same sex act in itself is not a transgression
Lot’s people assaulted ‘men from other nations’
Understanding the story of Lot
Does the Quran condemn homosexuality?
The significance of BAL (No, instead,) in the story of Lot
Did Lot really offer his daughters to the rapists?
Why the traditional understanding of the story of Lot makes NO SENSE
Does Prophet Lot question only men, or both men and women?
Messages in nature
Divine messages in the Universe
Finding God through His signs in nature
Unfolding of divine messages is like biological evolution
Dialectics
Laws of historical dialectics in the Quran
Dialectical expressions in the Quran
Cosmos
The Big Bang and the origin of the Universe
Strict balance in the expanding Universe
An answer to Richard Carrier’s “Cosmology and the Koran”
Death and rebirth of stars: a reminder
Heliocentric concepts in the Quran
What is harder to create: Man or Universe?
An answer to Richard Carrier’s “Predicting Modern Science: Epicurus vs. Mohammed”
Solar system
Heliocentric concepts in the Quran
Earth
Does the Quran really say that the Sun sinks in a murky lake?
Lands are shrinking, despite what Quran’s critics say
Mountains are passing like clouds
Earth, the great womb of evolving life
Evolution
Evolutionary sequence in the Quran
Earth, the great womb of evolving life
One ‘green’ with many products
Every kindling of fire is a reminder!
What is the original material that man has evolved from?
Man has evolved through stages
Rumi and the Quranic concept of evolution
The story of Adam confirms evolutionary origin of humans
Unfolding of divine messages is like biological evolution
Adam
The story of Adam is a parable
The meaning of the story of Adam
Understanding the allegory of Adam
Adam is not a name of a person
Creation of Adam is a constantly recurring event
How would the ‘Forces’ know about future violences?
Why Adam’s mate in the Quran has no name
How fall of Adam can be reversed
Man has evolved through stages
The story of Adam confirms evolutionary origin of humans
The story of Adam: a call for a secular, pluralistic society
Why the story of Adam is an allegory
Prophets
What was the actual age of Noah
Understanding the Flood Parable of Noah
Why the flood story of Noah is similar to the Hindu flood legend of Manu
Abraham’s observation of the Universe
Understanding chapter 6 from Abraham’s perspective
A lesson from the story of Aaron
Does the Quran really support the Virgin Birth of Jesus?
The spirit-bearing man who gave Mary a pure son was a real, mortal man
Quranic allegories
What was the actual age of Noah
Understanding the Flood Parable of Noah
Why the flood story of Noah is similar to the Hindu flood legend of Manu
A lesson from the story of Aaron
The Parable of the Town in Ruins
Does the Quran really support the Virgin Birth of Jesus?
The spirit-bearing man who gave Mary a pure son was a real, mortal man
Will teleportation ever be possible?
BIRD always refers to self and sensory-psychological processes