Important point, said with all due respect to my family who identify as “Black Hebrew Israelites” and the like… I see many people writing things like “Shalawam” and the like, for “Shalom.” I have been told that this is because they believe the vav was …
Is it permissible to put the blood or flesh of a pig in one’s mouth? Is it, for that matter, permissible to but any blood from another person or animal in one’s mouth, in that Judaism blanketly prohibits blood? The opinion of the Taz1 and many other …
Out of curiosity, is there anyone who can make this ‘ayah make sense as Allah speaking? كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا ۖ فَتِلْكَ مَسَاكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَنْ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا ۖ وَكُنَّا نَحْنُ الْوَارِثِينَ Popular translations are as follows: [Shakir 28:58] And how many …
i’m not quite sure how anyone who has read the commentary by Onkelos or quotes from the Torah in the Talmud that vary slightly from the Masoretic text can not believe in the Documentary Hypothesis. What’s wrong with believing such a thing? What do you think Onkelos …
Persian pre-Islāmic sources differentiated between Middle Eastern Kristīyan and Naṣārā. In an inscription of the Zoroastrian high priest (mobadan mobad) Kirtīr, under the Sassanid Emperor Bahrām II (276-293 CE), we read something of an academically famous inscription, commenting on the Yahūd (Jews), Shamān(Buddhists[1]) Brāhman (Hindus), Naṣārā (Nazarenes), and Kristīyan (Christians) as a separate group, as well as a group …
The term Muslim (مسلم) is used throughout the Qur’ān to indicate the practice of numerous prophets and their followers. It is the active participle of the same verb, aslama, which Islām is the infinitive. This term Islām too is used throughout the Qur’ān, in a verbal manner. This is not merely speculative, but …
The Sabaeans, Magians and Zandīqīn As They Pertain To Islāmic Origins Surely those who believe and those [Jews] who turn [towards God] and the Sabi’inand the Naṣārā and the Magi and those who associate (with God) surely God will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection; surely Allah …
Megillat Esther on Sexism and “Who is a Jew?” If you really paid attention to the Megillat Esther this Purim, they would have noticed a few important things about it. First is the fact that the work is extremely pro-Woman. The text literally mocks sexism at every turn. The sexist King …
The Qur’an says about Joseph’s dream: إِذْ قَالَ يُوسُفُ لأَبِيهِ يَا أَبَتِ إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ أَحَدَ عَشَرَ كَوْكَبًا وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ لِي سَاجِدِينَ When Joseph said to his father: “O my father! surely I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon; I saw them prostrating to …
Yet another example of EVERY translation of the Qur’an DELIBERATELY mistranslating an ‘ayah: [Shakir 23:52] And surely this your religion is one religion (أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً??????) and I am your Lord, therefore be careful (of your duty) to Me. [Pickthal 23:52] And lo! this your …