By AMIR D. ACZEL A number of recent books and articles would have you believe that—somehow—science has now disproved the existence of God. We know so much about how the universe works, their authors claim, that God is simply unnecessary: we can explain all the workings of the universe without the [ Continue reading…]
British philosopher, Dr. Antony Flew, was a leading spokesperson for atheism, actively involved in debate after debate. However, scientific discoveries within the last 30 years brought him to a conclusion he could not avoid. In a video interview in December 2004 he stated, “Super-intelligence is the only good explanation for [ Continue reading…]
By PROFESSOR JOHN LENNOX There’s no denying that Stephen Hawking is intellectually bold as well as physically heroic. And in his latest book, the renowned physicist mounts an audacious challenge to the traditional religious belief in the divine creation of the universe. According to Hawking, the laws of physics, not the will [ Continue reading…]
The world’s religions have varying concepts of God, and depict their deities in many different ways. Those diverse traditions have inspired great works of religious art, literature and cinema, and their influence even finds its way into people’s homes, in the form of the devotional objects that they hang on [ Continue reading…]
By Karim Shamsi-Basha I grew up saying “Allahu Akbar” numerous times every day. And no, I wasn’t, and am not, a terrorist. I wasn’t someone who blew buildings up, killed people or shot a missile from my rocket launcher. As far as the West is concerned, those are the events [ Continue reading…]
God almighty clearly says in the Quran that He is the Alpha and the Omega (the first and the last). It is very easy to read the verse but it is impossible to comprehend what it means. From our limited understanding (which human brain can grasp) we can think that [ Continue reading…]
It is a great mystery that in many places God (Allah) uses “We” instead of “I” to mention Himself! In one hand, the Quran says God does not have any partner, God does not share His kingdom with anybody and most places in the Quran God says “I” or “Me” [ Continue reading…]
The Quran clearly informs us that there are God’s angels with us constantly. They are so much close to us! God’s angels are definitely very powerful and intelligent but most of the people never hear or meet the angels! Is not it quite strange? Is it just enough to believe [ Continue reading…]
Someone asked us “did you hear from God or did you see God so that you believe in God?” Well, God is not like a human being. So we should not expect to find God if we go somewhere. But the Quran says God is very near to us. When [ Continue reading…]
Well, God is not here to blame. We should blame ourselves if necessary! Because, God does not forcibly send us here. We asked free will and God gave us free will. God knew that we will not be able to manage our free will properly, still due to our insistence God [ Continue reading…]