What it means to be a Muslim

We are all members of different societies, different cultures and subjects of different fortunes. These varying circumstances often mislead us into discriminating against one another on the grounds of our religion, color, gender, aesthetics and material acquisitions. Over the past few centuries, religion has been a popular cause of conflict in different parts of the world. When we think of religious extremism, social stigma governs us to first point fingers at Islam. This universal reputation of extremism is the classic case of how the actions...

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The Existence of God

This world has one God. He is its Creator and Master. The greatest proof of God’s existence is the existence of the world itself. Spread around us in all its vastness and complexity it bears witness to the existence of a great God who, in His infinite power, controls it. If we have no choice but to believe in the world, we have no choice but to believe in God as well, for the world would be meaningless if we did not accept the existence of a Maker...

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3 Reasons For God

There are many rational reasons for believing in God. This article will briefly explain three simple reasons for God’s existence. Order in the Universe When we reflect upon the nature of our world, we see order everywhere from the water cycle to the movement of the earth around the sun. Commenting on the order found in the universe, the physicist Stephen Hawking explains that the overwhelming impression ‘’is one of order, the more we discover about the universe, the more we find that it is governed by rational laws.’’[1]. This observation...

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Who is The Creator?

Can It Be Matter? A very popular question among atheists is, ‘Granted that the existence of temporal things necessitates the existence of an eternal cause, why should that cause be the God of religion?  Why can’t matter be eternal and be therefore in no need of an eternal creator?’  I shall argue, on an Islamic basis but at the same time also on a rational basis, that the attribute of eternity entails other attributes, which matter does not and cannot have, and cannot, in view of this, play the role of the original and ultimate cause...

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Abu Bakr

Faith was a gift I hadn't received until very recently. Throughout my childhood and my youth I always perceived religion to be a very complicated concept incomprehensible to the average man. I was brought up in a Hindu household and found myself involved in all the extensive rituals and customs which the religion commanded. I would always pray as my parents asked me to but my mind had a vast array of questions which always went unanswered - Why the extravagant displays of devotion ? Why pray only in the temple and not at home ? Why pray to...

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Ipa Tonkin

‘I’m a 16 year old half cast- Polynesian- Australian girl who switched from Christianity to Islam.’ It all started from the minute I started Catholic school (there weren’t any Christian schools in the area I lived). I never had that “connection” with the Christian/Catholic God that nearly all my peers had. Every day after school I would go home and ask the Christian/Catholic God “Why don’t I feel this connection with you? Why don’t I feel your presences?” This question that I was asking for 11 years never got answered and that’s where I started...

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