The road to Shur, the origin of the zamzam well?

 By Rabbi Saโ€™adiah ben Yosef Gaon In the story about the wife of patriarch Abraham, Hagar, and his firstborn son, Ishmael, in the Torah in Genesis/Bereishit 16:7 it was mentioned about a place named Shur ืฉึฝืื•ึผืจ. ื•ึทึฝื™ึดึผืžึฐืฆึธืึธึžื”ึผ ืžึทืœึฐืึทึงืšึฐ ื™ึฐื”ื•ึธึ›ื” ืขึทืœึพืขึตึฅื™ืŸ ื”ึทืžึทึผึ–ื™ึดื ื‘ึทึผืžึดึผื“ึฐื‘ึธึผึ‘ืจ ืขึทืœึพื”ึธืขึทึ–ื™ึดืŸ Read More …

Crucifixion or Crucifiction: What Did 1st Century Christians Believe?

๐‚๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐‰๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ (๐ฉ) ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐œ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐: โ€œ๐€๐ง๐ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž Read More …

Examining Quran 9:29 โ€“ Does Islam Sanction the Killing of Christians and Jews?

๐„๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ๐Ÿ— โ€“ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ ๐’๐š๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‰๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR The answer is No! This verse (Q. 9:29) is by far the most problematic for some, we have come Read More …

A Historical Examination of The Sword Verse โ€“ Surah 9:5

๐€ ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐•๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž โ€“ ๐’๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ก ๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ“ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR This article seeks to examine chapter 9, verse 5 of the Quran in its historical context. Some claim that the verse โ€˜sanctions Read More …

Quran 9:5 โ€“ Sword Verse – Contextual Explanation

๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง (๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ“) โ€“ ๐’๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐•๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž – ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Whenever critics bring verses of the Quran to demonstrate that Islam is violent, that it sanctions Muslims to kill non-Muslims (as claimed by them), they Read More …

Response to the misunderstanding surrounding the Sword Verse Quran (9:5)

๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐•๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง (๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ“) Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR   Analysing Verses Surah At-Tawbah= Chapter the Repentance (9:1-13)    A Historical Examination of The Sword Verse โ€“ The Noble Quran Surah At-Tawbah= Chapter Read More …

6 Reasons Qurโ€™an Cannot Be a Copy of Bible

๐’๐ข๐ฑ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ž ๐š ๐‚๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž Mohamad Mostafa Nassar Twitter@NassarMohamadMR ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž; ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ (๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ Read More …

Do the Quran and Bible Teach That the Earth Is Flat?

๐ƒ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐“๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ญ? Mohamad Mostafa Nassar Twitter@NassarMohamadMR ๐ƒ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ Read More …