Was our past history a happy one?
EVER SINCE the armies of Abū Bakr went out to fight those who abandoned zakāh in the name of the…
On the Islamic religious mindset
IN GENERAL the religious mindset relies on conveying its established, textually confirmed precedent over the generations and over time, counting…
When will Muhammad’s nation free itself from its sacralised myths?
AND THIS DESPITE the fact that the Muslim’s belief – as stipulated by the Prophet – is faith in God…
Warfare in the Qur’ān
TO BE HONEST, we are faced with a jurisprudential paradox that respects the rules of logical analogy and concludes that…
The concept of a ‘religious police’
ONE OF THESE PARADOXES was the emergence of a religious police and a Tunisian committee promoting virtue and preventing vice,…
Is Islam the reason for Muslim backwardness? (Part 2)
SO LET US duly make the comparison. At a time when the world speaks of the separation of powers, our…
Is Islam the reason for Muslim backwardness? (Part 1)
THE PURPOSE of any answer to the question is neither to rally to the aid of Islam, nor to disparage…
Is the Qur’ān an encyclopædia of science? (Part 2)
THESE THEMSELVES were founded upon intuition, opinion and observation and themselves did not meet all the conditions of scientific observation. Moreover,…
Is the Qur’ān an encyclopædia of science? (Part 1)
THE ANSWER I am given is mostly this: “The Jews defeated us because they held to their faith, and we…
Problems in the ‘Arab Renaissance’ – 1
THE DECISIVE ANSWER to the question of the European Renaissance was formed as a result of authentic internal pre-conditions that…