Category: Response to Christianity and Judaism

Affirming that Allah does descend (to the lowest heaven)

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐€๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ (๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ง) Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง “โ€ฆ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐จ ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ: ‘๐๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ฌ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž Read More …

Our Lord descends every night to the sky of this world when the last third of the night remains โ€“ Shaykhย โ€˜Uthaymฤซn

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ โ€“ ๐’๐ก๐š๐ฒ๐ค๐ก โ€˜๐”๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ขฬ„๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Note to Christian and Jews: Ironically, we see some Christians Read More …

My Mercy Prevails Over My Wrath and Quran (6:54)

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐Œ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐–๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง (๐Ÿ”:๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ’) Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐Œ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐†๐จ๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ Read More …

It is not permissible to burn the body of the deceased after death

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐œ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Question I am a recent convert to Islam.  It was somewhat of a tradition in my family to get Read More …

A Scientist’s Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur’an

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐€ ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ’๐š๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Statements referring to human reproduction and development are scattered throughout the qur’an. It is only recently that the scientific meaning of some Read More …

Does the embryo resemble a leech in theseย photos?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฌ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Here are some interesting photos that caught my eye. Look at the head of the embryo and the leechโ€™s front and rear suckers: Read More …

Surely the Qurโ€™anic โ€˜Alaqah (the embryo during the leech-like stage) is easily observed with the nakedย eye?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐’๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง๐ข๐œ โ€˜๐€๐ฅ๐š๐ช๐š๐ก (๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก-๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž) ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฒ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR โ€˜Alaqah is a stage in the development of the human embryo. One of the meanings of the term โ€˜alaqah is Read More …

Q&A: Was al-Harith bin Kaladah the source of the Prophetโ€™s medicalย knowledge?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐&๐€: ๐–๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ-๐‡๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ข๐ง ๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐š๐๐š๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ž๐๐ ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Some historians and commentators believe the Prophet Muhammad plagiarised Aristotleโ€™s and Galenโ€™s accounts of the developing human embryo via al-Harith bin Kaladah. Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: Was al-Harith bin Kaladah the Source of the Prophet Muhammadโ€™s Medicalย Knowledge?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐–๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ-๐‡๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ข๐ง ๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐š๐๐š๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐โ€™๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ž๐๐ ๐ž? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Writing under the pen name of Lactantius, a Christian author alleges that the descriptions of human Read More …

Documentary Evidence For Early Islam: Dated Muslim Texts From 622-691ย CE

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ: ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐“๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ๐Ÿ-๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ ๐‚๐„ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR In Greek and Arabic, one of the earliest bilingual papyrus from 22 AH / 643 CE (The Austrian National Museum, Vienna). Read More …