Language is shaped around perception and ideas. Language creates our worldview. It is how we communicate with others, but it is also how we construct our beliefs. The media and the movie industry know this fact quite well. Before them, Firaun (Pharoah) used language...

Do we need to change the Quran or do we need to change our understanding of the Quran? Ever since the emergence of Islam, the main controversy was the Quran. It started with Quraysh advocating that Muhammad (PBUH) is its author, to people in the modern era calling it...

The Enlightenment brought forward many philosophers who paved the way for the “modernization” of the West. These philosophers questioned the existence of God, a central theme in many of their writings, as manifested by famous quotes—such as “God is dead”—that many...

Jibreel (PBUH) appeared before the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and said “Read!” to which the Prophet replied, “I am unable to read”. Upon this Jibreel tightly embraced the Prophet and repeated “Read” two more times, and each time the Prophet gave the same...

There seems to be a recurring theme throughout the Quran in which Allah (SWT) gives examples of two kinds of people: people who have invested their time and effort in worldly and material affairs and others who have “abandoned” the material world and chose to withdraw...

When the Prophet (PBUH) received the revelation in Mecca, it changed not only the course of history for Arabia, but the course of world history forever. One would think that this is an exaggeration. Why would a few words, recited by a so-called Messenger, have that...