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 …
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 …
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 …
In the Torah (Vayiqra 1.2) we read, regarding sacrifice, that “ki” – implying “if” or “because” – any man brings sacrifice, then certain halakhic regulations must be followed. This term is key, as it indicates that there is absolutely no religious mandate to bringing an animal sacrifice in …
In Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Paqudah’s “Fourth Gate” of his Duties of the Hearts (Al-Hidayat ila al-Fara’id al-Qulub), we find in the Bab al-Tawakkul (Gate of Reliance on God alone) an unexpected term: Istislam. This Arabic term denotes Absolute, Complete Surrender to God alone, and it is related, directly to the word Islam. The Duties was …