as you know the "eid" is coming up next week, where people will sacrifice sheeps for a false god, and we as muslims are forbidden to eat such vile meat, so remember to not consume any meat at people's houses if you live in a high shirk area.
Can anyone tell me how Khaled Abou El Fadel’s interpretation of 4:34 does not contradict the prophets final sermon?
I have made a post previously with concerns about 4:34, and how it can potentially degrade wifes into treating them like children to be disciplined, my main issue is the lack of equality ( women cannot discipline men, but men can) which potentially indicates that women lack maturity and intelligence (this is obviously contradicted by reality and studies) Of course the Quran could never mean such a thing so I have been always for a logical explanation.
Khaled abou el fadels has a really logical view on the verse. He views that the verse was speaking to the governing state ( not husband) and the state can discipline either the husband or wife. I like this view, however isn’t it contradicted by the prophets final sermon? The final sermon is widely considered to be a massively transmitted Hadith, and is accepted by many progressives as far as I know…
How can we explain Abou el fadels explanation with explanation of 4:34 with the Hadith I attached?? It’s really obvious that the prophet was talking about husbands.
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Assalamualaikum fellow viewers, today on this very evening I'm writing this post to ask for advice and guidance from a very respected community, this will also be my first post here.
I live in a Muslim house in a Muslim country.
As we all know that we haven't seen Allah nor have we seen the prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
So like imma put this simply. I've had trouble with all this. Some questions that are troubling me and I'm gonna lay out a few.
(may Allah forgive me if I say smth foul)
1: is all this is a hoax? Like other religions originated. Because all the events, like the termites eating the wooden board just to leave Allah's name untouched. Stories like that only come from one source that is islamic and only one source can be manipulated. with the recent releases of certain files, I witnessed how the mass public can be kept in the dark for so many years so how can it be kept under a false plot?.
2: The creation of the universe. Islam says that prophet Adam and Hawwa were placed on earth and then the population spread from them, it is not hidden that their children married each other . But later on it is a sin to marry your siblings, since islam is valid till the end of the day.
3: Another thing troubling me is the concept of free will. If allah knows all, sees all, does all, grants permission for everything, why the suffering in places like Gaza and Lebanon. If everything is first permitted by Allah, what authority does the man have? This more feels like an experiment Saying "he will pay it in the afterworld" but what proof of that exists? Apart from a single source.
As much doubt I have, I'm sure in Sha Allah all of this will be cleared and i will reply to all the comments with logic and with an open mind, please dont mind me asking more questions cuz asking questions is the best way to learn. I'll reply to the comments approx 11 hours after posting this cu I'm going to sleep and ironically I have a Quran final exam tomorrow morning. So please help me clear this fog and forgive me if I had said anything sin full but I want to clear my concepts, assalamualaikum.
This is regarding the security guard that was killed in the San Diego mosque shooting:
Jazakallahu khair, Amin Abdullah. You were martyred defending Muslims from a terrorist attack, and died an Islamic warrior's death. May allah grant you high ranks in Jannatuw firdaus. I imagine right now you have unlimitted access to king crab, virgin maidens, palaces, and anything else you wish, as was promised by Allah's Qur'an. Good job, hero. Enjoy peace
regarding the holy Quran verse and the sahih Muslim Hadith about the prophets farewell ceremony (which many progressives accept), it was discussed the ways the husband can discipline the wife … but does this also apply to a wife ? Like can the wife do this to the husband if the husband was mistreating her ? And if not, what can a wife do if the husband mistreats (instead of asking for divorce of course)
If not, then this is a problem. If only the husband is given the authority to discipline then this means Islam compares women to children, rendering them to be less mature, less intelligent emotionally and overall. This is objectively false since both genders have roughly the same intelligence on average as proven by many studies…..
I'll try to keep it short and simple. No one in my household is eligible for qurbani, but the elders have been doing it every year so far Alhamdulillah. This year everyone in the house is financially incapable of doing so. Since I am Young and earn, I was planning to do qurbani but I have university fees coming up and I need to pay it right now to complete this semester as finals are nearby.
I was conflicted whether I should do qurbani while taking a loan(most likely credit card), even though that would likely financially trouble me in the near future. I want to distribute the meat to needy families.
My thought process is that even though I am aware doing sacrifice under these circumstances isn't mandated, however doing so will please God and he will increase me in finances and in his eyes as well.
Please recommend me as to what I should do. Thanks in Advance!
The Quran we have today is identical to the Quran revealed to Muhammad 1,400 years ago. Ancient manuscripts, including the Birmingham leaves (radiocarbon dated to the lifetime of the Prophet) and the Sana'a manuscripts, match the text in our hands today. The Quran was memorized by hundreds of companions during the Prophet's lifetime. It was written down under his direct supervision. Within 20 years of his death, a standardized text was compiled and distributed to the major centers of the Islamic world. Millions of Muslims today have memorized the entire Quran, cover to cover, letter by letter. This is a living, oral preservation that exists for no other scripture in history. The Bible has no original manuscripts, thousands of variants, anonymous authors, and a canon finalized by church councils centuries after Jesus. The Quran has one text, one language, one chain of transmission, and perfect preservation. Allah says:
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The Quran challenged the best poets and orators of Arabia to produce a single chapter like it. They could not. The challenge remains unmet today. The Quran is not poetry. It is not prose. It is a unique literary form that does not exist in any other text. Its language is so rich, so precise, so powerful that even its enemies admitted it was beyond human capability. They called it magic because they had no other explanation. An illiterate man who had never written a single word produced a book that stands as the greatest literary work in the Arabic language. That is not possible unless he was receiving revelation from Allah. Allah says:
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The Quran contains knowledge that no human in the 7th century could have known. It describes the expansion of the universe:
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It describes the Big Bang:
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It describes the stages of embryonic development in precise detail:
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It describes mountains as pegs that stabilize the earth:
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It says every living thing is made from water:
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None of this was known in the 7th century. All of it has been confirmed by modern science. No scientific error has ever been found in the Quran. An illiterate man in the desert could not have produced this knowledge. Only Allah could.
The Quran predicted that the Romans would be defeated and then win within a few years. Allah says:
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They did. The Quran predicted that the body of Pharaoh would be preserved as a sign for later generations. Allah says:
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The body was discovered in the 19th century, with salt and coral deposits proving death by drowning. The Quran predicted that Islam would spread across the world. Allah says:
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Islam is the fastest-growing religion today. These are not vague statements. They are specific prophecies that came true exactly as described.
Muhammad was known as Al-Amin, the trustworthy, for 40 years before he claimed prophethood. He never lied, never cheated, never betrayed a trust. When he received revelation, he did not seek wealth, power, or fame. He died poor. His armor was pawned to buy food for his family. He was offered kingship, money, and women to stop preaching. He refused. His own tribe persecuted him, killed his companions, and drove him out of his city. When he returned victorious, he forgave them all. No liar lives like that. No man seeking power dies like that. His character alone is evidence that he was a true prophet. Allah says:
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This is the question that ends all debate. Why would any man fake being a prophet for a life of abuse, humiliation, and persecution? Why would someone willingly endure being called a liar, a madman, a poet, a sorcerer? Why would he accept being pelted with stones until his body bled? Why would he stand by while his companions were dragged over hot sand, crushed under boulders, and stabbed to death? Why would he allow his own uncle to be killed and his body mutilated? Why would he watch his beloved wife Khadijah die in poverty after she had spent her entire fortune supporting his mission? Why would he suffer the siege of the valley where he and his followers were starved until they ate leaves and animal hides?
The Prophet Muhammad did not gain wealth. He died poor. He did not gain power. He was driven from his home. He did not gain safety. He was hunted and targeted for assassination. He did not gain revenge. When he finally conquered Mecca, he declared a general amnesty and forgave those who had tortured and killed his companions. He did not gain luxury. He slept on a mat that left marks on his body. He did not gain fame among his own people. They called him a liar for 13 years in Mecca.
If he were faking prophethood for worldly gain, he would have accepted the offer of kingship, money, and women. The leaders of Mecca made him that offer. They said: "Stop preaching and we will make you the richest man among us. We will make you our king. You can have any woman you want." He refused. He said: "If they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand, I would not stop."
What kind of liar refuses wealth, power, and safety to continue being abused, humiliated, and attacked? What kind of con man endures 13 years of persecution without any visible success? What kind of fraud watches his own followers be tortured to death and still refuses to give up?
The answer is clear. No liar would do this. No person seeking worldly gain would do this. Only a true prophet, certain of his mission, confident in Allah's promise, could endure what Muhammad endured. His suffering is not evidence against him. It is evidence for him. Allah says:
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Before Islam, Arabia was a brutal, violent, tribal society. Female infants were buried alive. Women were treated as property. Tribal warfare was constant. The weak were exploited. Within one generation, Islam transformed this society into one of the most just and advanced civilizations in the world. Women were given rights. Slavery was regulated and encouraged toward abolition. Justice was established. Charity became mandatory. The Quran elevated the status of the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the slave. Allah says:
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This transformation is unparalleled in human history. It did not happen by force. It happened because the Quran changed hearts.
The Quran gives detailed guidance on marriage, divorce, inheritance, business, crime, punishment, and personal conduct. These laws were revealed in 7th-century Arabia, yet they remain just and applicable today. The Quran gives women the right to own property, to seek divorce, to keep their own money, and to consent to marriage. It gives orphans and the poor rights over the wealth of the rich. It commands justice even against oneself or one's family. It prohibits interest, gambling, alcohol, and other harms. Allah says:
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It creates a social system that balances individual rights with community responsibility. No human law code has ever achieved this level of justice and timelessness. Only a divine law could.
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This message is clear, logical, and consistent. It requires no complex formulas about two natures or three persons. It requires no councils to define what cannot be understood. It is the religion of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. They all called people to worship one God. The Quran restores that original message, uncorrupted and preserved.
Christians believe that Jesus is fully God and fully man. But a God who cannot die either died on the cross or only his human nature died while his divine nature did not. Either way, God did not die for your sins. A man died. And a man cannot bear the infinite weight of sin. The doctrine of the Trinity and the hypostatic union were invented centuries after Jesus to resolve contradictions that never should have existed. The Bible has anonymous authors, thousands of variants, no original manuscripts, and internal contradictions. The Gospels were written decades after Jesus in Greek, not Aramaic, by people who never met him. The canon was finalized by church councils. The belief that Jesus is God is not found in his own words. He said: "The Father is greater than I." He said: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He said: "I do not know the Hour." These are not the words of God. These are the words of a prophet. The Quran corrects this corruption:
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Judaism rejects Jesus entirely. It says he was a false prophet or a misguided teacher. But this does not explain why his followers were willing to die for what they believed. It does not explain the miracles attributed to him. It does not explain the rapid growth of the Christian movement. The Jewish position leaves too much unexplained. The Quran offers the middle path: Jesus was a true prophet, born of a virgin, who performed miracles by Allah's permission, but he was not crucified and he is not God. Allah says:
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This explains the evidence that Judaism cannot and resolves the contradictions that Christianity cannot.
The Quran confirms that previous revelations were from Allah, but it also states that they were corrupted. The Bible has multiple versions, thousands of variants, and no original manuscripts. The Quran has one text, perfect preservation, and a clear chain of transmission. The Quran corrects the Bible on critical points: Jesus was not crucified. Jesus is not the son of God. God is one, not three. These corrections are not contradictions. They are restorations of the original message that was lost or changed over time. Allah says:
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People accuse Islam of many things. They say Muhammad married a young girl. In 7th-century Arabia, puberty was the marker of adulthood. The modern age of consent is a recent invention. They say Islam permits slavery. Islam restricted slavery severely, regulated it, and made freeing slaves an act of righteousness. Allah says:
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Slavery was a global norm in the 7th century, and Islam was the first major religion to push toward its abolition. They say Islam beats women. The Prophet never beat any woman. The verse in the Quran describes a symbolic, light tap as a last resort, and many modern scholars say it is not applicable today. They say the Quran commands violence. The verses about fighting are about self-defense against those who attacked first. Allah says:
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The Quran commands peace and justice. They say Islam hates women. Islam gave women rights to own property, seek divorce, keep their money, and consent to marriage. The hijab is protection, not oppression. The inheritance laws give men twice the share because men have twice the financial responsibility. Women keep their inheritance for themselves.
The Quran is preserved. The Quran is a literary miracle. The Quran contains scientific knowledge no human could have known. The Quran contains prophecies that came true. The Prophet Muhammad lived a life of honesty, integrity, and humility. He endured persecution, abuse, and poverty for no worldly gain. He refused wealth, power, and safety to continue delivering his message. No liar would do this. No fraud would endure this. Only a true prophet would suffer so much for the truth. Allah says:
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The Quran transformed a brutal society into a just civilization. The Quran gives perfect guidance for all aspects of life. The Quran presents a clear, logical, consistent message of the oneness of God. Christianity has contradictions that cannot be resolved. Judaism leaves too much unexplained. The Quran corrects both. The accusations against Islam collapse under scrutiny.
There is not a single man in the world who could convince me that Islam is not the truth. The evidence is overwhelming. The logic is sound. The heart is at peace.
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La ilaha illallah, Muhammadan rasulullah.
Source: “Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-first Century - A Contextualist Approach” by Abdullah Saeed
Where? Who taught you?
I always hear all these attacks on Islam and apart from just the blatant racist stereotypes (terrorist, whatever nonsense), 99% of them are not attacks on Islam but attacks on Muhammad. He was a person who owned slaves, who destroyed much and killed many people through warring, who consummated with a child and married his teen daughters off to his cousins who were in their 40s and beyond. He was a human, he was complex, it was a different era, and he did a great deed by bringing Islam to most of humanity, but he also did a lot of stuff that we know now were very bad, even if he maybe didnt know they were bad back then.
I think that if we just condemn Muhammad whenever people bring these things up, most of the attacks on Islam would then cool down. These people aren't against Allah, they are against revering today a man whose actions are not justifiable today, as moral relativism is increasingly being rejected as a framework. If people now are going to say Christopher Columbus was a bad person for what he did, we can say Muhammad was a bad person without denouncing Allah. I don't know why we don't just do that. We can just say this (you can reword it however you want, I am not a great writer and my English isnt the best): "Muhammad was a person whose function in Islamic history was to use his massive influence to spread the truth of Allah as far and wide as he was able, because of this he was significant and ultimately a net positive to thw world, but we do not condone all the actions he took in his life as he was human and therefore was inherently a flawed being"
I was told that if i harm someone verbally or physically they couuld choose to forgive me only then would i get repentance does that mean of somebody did not forgive i will be stuck in hell for all eternity? May god bless😢
I wish I found this sooner. Just the level of unity. Everyone from different sects, but they all have respect for each other.
I was on r/Islam, the other day and it's terrible. I said that there's a big difference of opinion in whether one can celebrate Christmas (I mean socially, not celebrate religiously). And people lost their minds.
One brother is refuting me, like he's Mufti Menk, but he doesn't know ḥadīth at all. Then he tells me that we're both laymen. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I'm actually a Ṭālib al-'ilm. I'm actually studying Islam. I have a very good understanding of the Maliki and Shafi'i Madhabayn. So I'm not chatting nonsense, or out of my own desires.
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Assalamu alaikum, I'm a revert, I just learned about Mu'awiya, I'm a bit confused. He rebelled against the Ummayyad Caliphate, and if I'm sure falsely claimed to be the Mahdi, while at the same time was a scholar. I'm not sure if I as a revert am supposed to respect him or not, if I'm not supposed to respect him, then why do some people say "may Allah be pleased with him" after saying his name? Please born-Muslims and more knowledgeable reverts respond.