Allah Ta‘ala created the world with built-in laws that inevitably pull humanity back toward divine guidance as the only stable regulator. Human nature cannot escape the consequences of deviating from revelation, and sooner or later, those consequences force both individuals and civilizations to search again for truth. At the individual
Recent comments by Dr. Yasir Qadhi regarding Islamic epistemology have generated significant discussion within the Muslim community. His characterization of Islamic approaches to hadith as requiring “leaps of faith” creates confusion among believers rather than providing clarity. This analysis demonstrates that Islamic epistemology operates through systematic evidence evaluation rather than
Does God command things because they are inherently good?
If this is true, the Atheist posits, then morality is something that exists outside of God. Rather, God has a dependency on and a requirement to act based on an external and self-contained moral code. This renders him non-omnipotent because this
The proof that the Qur’an is the word of Allah is its extraordinary and miraculous nature. This is known as I‘jaz al-Qur’an and has been covered extensively by the scholars of the Islamic tradition and directly ties into the topic of the proof of Rasulullah’s (s.a.w.) prophethood as the Qur’an
All the prophets of Allah Ta’ala are protected from committing sins according to the consensus of Muslim scholars based on overwhelming textual and logical evidence. This protection from sin is what Muslim theologians have termed:“’Ismah.” What this entails is that while the prophets have the physical ability to sin, e.g.,
As Muslims, we believe that things are forbidden or permissible solely because Allah Ta’ala said so. It is not our place to question Allah Ta’ala on any of His rulings. That being said, what we can do is try to understand the infinite wisdom behind Allah Ta’ala’s commands based on
