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Flies Continue to Astonish

“The brain of the fly performs a very sophisticated calculation, in a very short amount of time, to determine where the danger lies and exactly how to...

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An Inevitable Point of Realization

It was narrated that a Bedouin was traveling on his camel when his camel suddenly dropped dead. He descended from the camel’s back and started circlin...

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No Purposeful Origin

Life loses its meaning and direction when God, the only source that can define the reason for life, is removed.

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Worldview of World-Renowned Thinkers

“Modern man is the Cosmic Orphan because he has killed God. And, by doing so, he has reduced himself to an accident of nature. When he asks, Why? his...

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Purpose: Reason for Being

Within every human is an innate desire for ultimate meaning and purpose. It cannot be escaped, as it goes to the root of human nature. Deep inside, hu...

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Purposeful Creation with a Purpose in Creation

The point of anything designed is to serve a purpose. And when the purpose of a thing is not known and understood, the abuse of that thing becomes ine...

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Running life with disregard to the maker’s instruc...

Humans can only become the person God created them to be and live life to its best and fullest meaning when they apply the rules and standards their M...

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The Concepts of Worship and Viceregency on Earth

The Qur’anic statement, “To God we belong and to God is our return” (2:156) represents the Islamic map of life. It is an entire way of seeing and resp...

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No Time to Waste in Islam

The minute a human is born, the clock of their life starts ticking down, and it does not stop. “O son of Adam!” Muslim Scholar Hasan Al-Basri explaine...

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​Free Will and Moral ​responsibility

Free will is a faculty of the reason and soul, by which a human is capable of distinguishing and choosing right from wrong and good from evil.

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The Illusion of free Will

Volition, emotion, and intellect are not free and rational, but entirely chemical.

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The Primordial Nature of All Human Beings

Very much at the center of understanding the human being in Islam is the concept of Fitrah. Fitrah is like having an innate inner compass that always...

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Outlines of humanity in Islam

All humans, men and women, are descended from one soul: Adam (peace be upon him). From Adam, God created his wife, Eve (peace be upon her), and from t...

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Personalities are like metals

Personalities are like metals. They need to be further refined into purer forms and fashioned into useful shapes.

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Where Does Morality Come From?

The entire concept of morality stems from the Islamic belief that humans are significant, that their behavior and actions will count and that the patt...

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Who Is to Say What Is Right or Wrong?

"..The concept of moral obligation [is] unintelligible apart from the idea of God. The words remain but their meaning is gone.’” – William Lane Craig.

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Moral Rationale for Denial of God

Atheism in its reality is a voluntary psychological position (and not a mental one) that a person adopts due to not wishing to imagine that there is a...

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The Problem of Evil

 Atheism rejects the free will component, arguing that even if it provides a satisfactory explanation for moral evil produced by morally wrong hu...

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Mercy is the Base … and Forgiveness Is a Promise

In Islam, one of God’s most emphasized attributes is mercy. All the chapters of the Qur’an except one begin with the statement “In the Name of God, th...

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The only cause of evil

Islam does not pass off all calamites as ‘trials,' but differentiates between punishments and trials. Trials are tests of character and faith; punishm...