Category: Thoughts

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…

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…

In the Zabur of Prophet David it is written: “One thing God has spoken; two things have I heard.”  (Psalms 62:11/12). The rabbis in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 34a) asserted that this means there are multiple interpretations of each verse of Sacred Scripture…

According to the Muslim scholars Ibn Abbas and Suddi, after the death of Hagar [Hajar], her son Prophet Ishmael [Ismâ’îl] married, divorced and remarried again. Ibn Kathir says that Ishmael’s first wife was an inhospitable Amalekite woman who was rejected by her…

Have you ever wondered whether your father and mother are real? Maybe they are just projections of your mind. Have you ever thought about the nature of the connection between your mind and your body? In fact, does the mind (as we…

“I’m going for Hajj this year!” When I announced this decision, my mother who had spent almost three decades in the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] as an expat pulled out delicately preserved newspaper cut-outs that she had painstakingly taken from the ‘Islam…

Islam is a complete code of life that deals with every facet of human life.  In the early centuries Islam was shortly to reign supreme in the Arabian Peninsula, Africa and Europe in regard to bringing about economic justice. Eradicating poverty and…

Muslims understand David as one of the major prophets sent by God —while Jews have emphasized David as the great foundational King of historical Israel. Why the difference in Islamic and Jewish orientations? Who Was David? Before David was a Prophet or…