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Are You a Complete Muslim? | Part 4

Science deals with the structure, the make-up and operation of the Creator’s perceivable handiwork; Science does not —and cannot— deal with Him who is the Creator in His very Self. Although the textual records of revelation are open to examination and verification,…

Circumcision for the Muslim Woman | Part 2 of 2

Part 1 introduced the subject of Female Circumcision in Islam (IFC), contrasting it with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a subject currently under popular discussion in the Western world; FGM is a practice rightly to be condemned as contradictory to Islam. The two…

Are You a Complete Muslim? | Part 3

The impulse to worship the Creator comes natural to those who observe and ponder the intricate make-up and operation of the physical world —not forgetting the ‘miracle’ of their own minds and of the bodies in which they reside. The practice of…

Circumcision for the Muslim Woman | Part 1 of 2

Female circumcision is arguably a debatable topic today. However, it is very clear that the classical scholars of Islam have agreed that it is an Islamic practice. They differed only as to whether it is to be considered wâjib (obligatory) or mukarramah…

Are You a Complete Muslim? | Part 2

Whether learning Islam for the first time or revising its principles and exploring its Well-Trod Path, each of us, as part of his or her own community, all of us —together and individually— need to tune ourselves both to the general and…

Are You a Complete Muslim? | Part 1

Not all communities of Muslim individuals are ideal. Nor, unfortunately, do all Muslim nations, institutions, or families measure up to the standard demonstrated by our Belovèd Prophet, Muhammad (ﷺ), his Companions and their Successors. In fact, Muslim individuals, even the best of…

Ameen

We say it every day. At least 17 times at the end of each Surah Al-Fâtiḥah, and that is just without praying the sunnah prayers, which would put it at roughly 43 times. Something so frequently repeated finds a way into the…

Beware False Prophets: A Word from the Biblical Prophet Jeremiah to Enablers of the U.S. Insurrection

According to the Bible a false prophet is one who pretends to speak for God but in reality, speaks for himself and is moved by his own intentions, emotions and political commitments. (Jeremiah 14:13–15; Jeremiah 23:30-33; Ezekiel 13:2, 3, 10, 11). Unlike…

A Rabbi’s Perspective: Hanukah and Islam’s Religious Pluralism

The oppression of Judaism by Antiochus IV, the Syrian Greek king, was the first known attempt at suppressing a minority religion, but unfortunately not the last. Other well-known early attempts were the three-century long Roman persecution of Christianity, and the persecution of…

A Rabbi’s Thinking on Biblical “Anthropomorphism” (tashbih)

The Qur’an teaches: Say, [O believers], “We believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us [the Qur’an] and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants [of Jacob] and what was given to…