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Good morning, Topsey, Many thanks for your kind words. I apologise for the delayed reply. My grandchildren call me ‘Pop’, after my maternal grandad. Martin Lings is something of a hero to my son. I am new to Frithjof Schuon, and look forward to absorbing his wisdom. In šāʾ Allāh, I hope to...

Wa alaykum s-salāmu wa Rahmatullāhi wa Barakātuhu. Thank you for sharing your story, Brother. I apologise for the delayed reply. For me, the hardest part of becoming a Muslim was the realisation that I could no longer accept Yeshua (ʿalayhi as-salām) as my Lord and God. I no longer live in...

Good morning, RJ. Sorry for the delayed reply. Concerning Pliny the Younger: We are agreed that Pliny the Younger was governor of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now northwest Turkey. Before that, he had been a lawyer for several decades; then Praetor of Rome, and one of Emperor...

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Nice one. @wil! My name is Paul; born in the Rhondda Valley (South Wales); and known – by my family – as ‘Niblo’. This is a Welsh Valley dialect word, gifted to the oldest – or only – male child, and used in place of their given name; as in: 'Look after Niblo while I do pop ‘round to the cwap...

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Dr. David Instone-Brewer, of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, writes: ‘The Talmud is an edited and severely abbreviated record of discussions by rabbis over a period of 300 years, starting in about AD 200 when the document they were discussing was edited. ‘The traditions...

You cite the following Sūrah: ‘And so for breaking their pledge, for rejecting Allāh’s revelations, for unjustly killing their prophets, for saying: “Our minds are closed” – Nay! Allāh has sealed them in their disbelief, so they believe only a little – and because they disbelieved and uttered...