Questions
Questions worth asking.
Honest questions deserve honest answers. These are being written and referenced carefully, one at a time.
Reason & purpose
One fact you cannot get around, and the question the Qur'an asks first.
Read the full answerExistence, consciousness, purpose, morality, death and accountability, read alongside the Qur'an's own questions.
Read the full answerDeath as the one certainty, what the Qur'an says follows it, and why seriousness and hope belong together.
Read the full answerWhy dismissing the afterlife without examining the evidence is itself a consequential decision — and why this is not a probability argument.
Read the full answerThe difference between verifying a source and understanding every instruction from it — and what the Qur'an means by 'we hear and we obey'.
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God & belief
Three options, the Qur'an's own argument, and why belief is natural before it is learned.
Read the full answerIf you were made deliberately, would you be abandoned to guess?
Read the full answerNot every claim to speak for God can be true. What should a serious person look for?
Read the full answerThe Sunni understanding of the believer's heart: love of Allah, hope in His mercy, fear of His justice, and why all three are needed.
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Islam & other faiths
Is this the one message the messengers always brought?
Read the full answerApplying the tests to the book itself.
Read the full answerWas he truly a Messenger of God? Look at what can be known.
Read the full answerWhat the Qur'an teaches about Jesus and his mother Mary, and where Islamic and Christian theology part company.
Read the full answerWas he truly a Messenger of God? Look at what can be known.
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Islam & the modern world
Why Muslims pray, fast and make pilgrimage — and why the reason is not a research paper.
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Practice & rules
How to think about Islamic prohibitions: the ruling, the wisdom, and why the two are not the same thing.
Read the full answerThe Qur'anic prohibition of intoxicants, the wisdom stated in revelation, and how to read the research honestly.
Read the full answerThe Qur'anic prohibition of maysir, the wisdom given alongside it, and what it protects.
Read the full answerWhat riba is, how severely the Qur'an treats it, the wisdom scholars have drawn out, and what Islam offers instead.
Read the full answerThe prohibition of zina, what marriage is in Islam, and why the boundary is described as protection rather than restriction.
Read the full answerThe Qur'anic prohibition of pork, what the text does and does not say about why, and why Muslims do not look to parasites for permission.
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Taking the step
Reason can bring you to the door. Submission is walking through it.
Read the full answerThe road has been shown. No one can walk it for you, and no one may force you onto it.
Read the full answerThe road has been shown. No one can walk it for you, and no one may force you onto it.
Read the full answerThe road has been shown. No one can walk it for you, and no one may force you onto it.
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