On Burning of Quran

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Very Interesting angle to the issue.

Dear Daniel, ( Pastor )
First of all my sincere gratitude to you and your father-in-law as you have enhanced my knowledge about Christianity and taken your valuable time whenever I have come to you on business meetings. This I call a real service and personally consider it as a prayer. May Jesus reward you for it.

As I said ,we all learn from one another and since you are in the Ministry ,I thought to forward you this email which I hope will be useful to you too to know what QURAN talks about other religions. Honestly speaking I didn’t know many things myself.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

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Written by: Sebastian R. Prange (s.prange@gmail.com)
Aasil Ahmad (www.aasilahmad.net)

Facing the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. stands the Jefferson Building, the main building of the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, with holdings of more than 140 million books and other printed items. The stately building, with its neoclassical exterior, copper-plated dome and marble halls, is named after Thomas Jefferson, one of the “founding fathers” of the United States, principal Read more

The Amazing Quran

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By Dr. Gary Miller

Calling the Quran amazing is not something done only by Muslims, who have an appreciation for the book and who are pleased with it; it has been labeled amazing by non-Muslims as well. In fact, even people who hate Islam very much have still called it amazing. Read more

Muhammad’s Advent

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Presentation by:
A.S. Hashim, MD

How is Muhammad viewed?

  1. More than a 1 ½ Billion bear witness that he is a Messenger of God
  2. Revered by numerous millions of people
  3. Wise men adore him as a great man
  4. Cartoonists in the West may caricature him in a mean way

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Al-Husain: Lessons of a Lifetime

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Writer’s Views
Written by: Nazar Haidar
Translated by Yasin T. al-Jibouri

May Allah magnify our rewards and yours on the occasion of the somber anniversary of the tragedy of the Master of the Youths of Paradise, the Prophet’s grandson, al-Husain son of Ali, son of Fatima al-Zahra, daughter of the Messenger of Allah, (peace and blessings of Allah be with him and his family). Read more

Al-Husain and Martyrdom

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Presentation by:
Mohammad Taha:
Reference, taken from:
Dr. Ali Shariati’s writings.

The word: martyr
In Western culture, the word: martyr stems from ‘mortal’ which means ‘death’ or ‘to die’. One of the basic principles in Islam and in particular in Shiite tradition however is ‘sacrifice and bear witness’. So instead of martyrdom, i.e. death, it essentially means ‘life’, ‘evidence’, ‘testify’, ‘certify’. These words: martyrdom and bearing witness show the differences which exist between the vision of Shi’as. Islamic tradition and the other cultures of the world. Read more

Muhammad’s promise to Christians

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www.washingtonpost.com
By Muqtedar Khan | December 30, 2009; 11:27 AM ET

By Muqtedar Khan
Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware

Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 percent of the world. If they lived in peace, we would be half way to world peace. One small step we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization. Read more

Islam, Numerology and the Number 19

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BBC, Guide ID: A1006561 (Edited)

Islam, Numerology and the Number 19
The Quran is the religious book of the Muslims. They believe it to be God’s exact word to us in his last revelation. The Quran is split in to suras (chorus) and the suras are made up from ayaats (or verses).

Numerology, meanwhile, is the ancient art of divining meaning from numbers. Read more

Muharram, an Islamic awakening and revival

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Muharram, a commemoration of Islamic awakening and revival
By: Salam Al-Attar

Similar to other existing calendars, the Islamic calendar is also composed of 12 months (Figure 1). The uniqueness of this calendar lies in two inherent facts:

  1. It is based on a lunar system; and
  2. Its root year is that in which Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) conducted his famous Hijrah (migration) from the city of Mecca to Medina, which coincided with the year 622 CE.

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Hajj: a journey to Allah’s central abode

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By: Salam Al-Attar

In the human body the central port in control of pumping the blood is none other than the heart. Oxygen-deprived blood returns to the heart, whereby it is directed to the lungs for oxygenation, is routed towards the heart again and is finally pumped back to the body in an attempt to sustain the activity of this flesh-encapsulated chemical factory. Read more