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Books of the Old Testament that are lost by Ibn Anwar It is often claimed by Christian missionaries that the Old Testament is completely preserved with little or no error at all. This is supposedly proven by the discovery of the so called Dead Sea Scrolls. However, within the texts of the old...

"despite what the likes of abdullah and aidyl nurhadi might think..." What exactly might I think or rather have thought and shared here that I have not cited academic and scholarly material for as substantiation?

I wonder if it would be possible for you to write without insults i.e. ad hominem? I find it strange that you would use such derogatory terms as "bollocks" and "stupidity" but in the same breath say "b'shalom". lol..I am forced to wonder if you have a multiple personality thing going on there.

No, you are mistaken. It is not simply an issue of differing interpretations, but rather on how the primary sources are handled. Wahabism is disingenuous in that it maliciously changes things here and there and picks and choose information that suit their agenda and mentality. One good example...

We reject the Baha'i cult just like we reject the Ahmadi/Qadiyani cult on the basis of Qur'anic and prophetic sayings that Islam was completed in the Prophet's time and that Muhammad is the seal of prophethood, nay revelation itself. Such unequivocal statements of completion or non-continuation...

There is no evidence of change? You might want to look up the eminent scholar Geza Vermes and his writings on the Old and New Testaments. I am sure you have heard of Bart D. Ehrman. Do have a look at his best selling Misquoting Jesus which is a popularised version of his more technical work...

*CONTINUATION* A critic may further ask, “What about the variants?” The subject of variants is exactly islamoscope’s contention in his/her article mentioned earlier. As an opening to his article he says, “I have found in my dialogue with Muslims is that they absolutely detest the idea of...

Has the Qur'an been preserved? The following is my article in answer to the question. Is the Qur’an truly preserved as the Muslims claim? by Ibn Anwar It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (Qur’an) and We Who will preserve it. (al-Qur’an 15:9) “Allah sent down(revealed) the...

The verse in Hebrew is as follows: ונער פרעה וחילו בים־סוף כי לעולם חסדו "venier paro vekheilo veyam-suf ki leolam khasdo" The word in question is venier(ונער) which means overthrew or tumble out as Strong's lexicon has it. I am not familiar with any Hebrew lexicon that defines the word...

Indeed, the promise found in Genesis 17 speaks of God blessing Ishma'el with a great NATION. No doubt the word does not in itself mean religion whether it is in the language of the Torah or even any language for that matter. It is noteworthy that the Torah actually does not identify or spell out...

Thank you my friend. When I said Bible notice that I also mentioned the word canon. What I meant was that the Bible as a canon that would include both Old and New Testaments in a single volume did not exist in Arabia during the time of the Prophet s.a.w. Did the Arab Christians have a copy of...

Thank you for the question Brian. Yes, according to our records the Jewish tribes did have access to their scriptures. For example, in the Sunan of Abu Dawud as narrated from Abdullah Ibn Umar r.a. the Torah was brought to the Prophet s.a.w.: A group of Jews came and invited the Apostle of Allah...

Interesting question. The Old Testament in Jeremiah 3:14 says, "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" The Hebrew word used there is בָּעַלְתִּי or ba'alti(from ba'al)...

As a matter of fact we have a hadith that says the following, Dawud ibn Salih says: "[The Umayyad Caliph] Marwan [ibn al-Hakam] one day saw a man placing his face on top of the grave of the Prophet . He said: "Do you know what you are doing?" When he came near him, he realized it was Abu Ayyub...

The following is a translation of the above fatwa: As Imam Al-Shihab Ibn Hajar points out in his Major Edicts (Ar. Al-Fatawa Al-Kubra) in the chapter on funerals, our Shafi'i imams have taken four positions regarding building atop graves: The first position, which is the...