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The arrival of Rabi ul Awwal invites reflection on the teachings, character, and blessed life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
#books #online #rabiulawwal #islamic #quotes #muslim #quran #motivation #îslam
https://www.dawateislami.net/bookslibrary/ur/rabi-ul-awwal-youm-e-wiladat-ya-youm-e-wafat/wiladat-ya-wafat -
The arrival of Rabi ul Awwal invites reflection on the teachings, character, and blessed life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
#books #online #rabiulawwal #islamic #quotes #muslim #quran #motivation #îslam
https://www.dawateislami.net/bookslibrary/ur/rabi-ul-awwal-youm-e-wiladat-ya-youm-e-wafat/wiladat-ya-wafat -
Apologetics: Flippin’ Fatwa Friday – Speed Running Surah 2:203-237
Back with speed running Surah al-Baqarah, we’re speed running verses 203-237.
We start off where we left off on verse 203. Until we get to verse 213, it pretty much the usual stuff, where we’re told that Allah doesn’t like mischief or anyone who makes mischief, and that if he’s provided a bunch of signs to prove his existence. However, once we hit 213, we find that the Quran finally gives us some lore. According to the Quran, mankind was once one people under one religion until they started having disagreements, which led to division. To ramify this and make the truth known, Allah sent a bunch of prophets (starting with Noah) to reveal the truth about where they differed, but they wouldn’t listen and continued to split.
But here’s where it gets interesting since according to the tafsir on this verse, Islam is the ultimate truth that clarifies where things are disputed. The issue with that though, is that if we look at the Quran and the Bible, even things that aren’t disagreed on by Jews and Christians get changed randomly by the Quran, for absolutely no reason. If it was sent to smooth over the theological and doctrinal rifts between the two, it just made things worse.
Moving on from that, verse 214 tells Muslims to expect adversity, 215 tells them to give alms, and 216 tells them that not only is jihad (as in fighting unbelievers) necessary, but obligatory. There is absolutely no room for being a peaceful Muslim. You are required to fight according to the Quran. And to further instill fear in Muslims of what will happen if they don’t fight are verses 217-218, which says that if they turn back and reject the faith, they will never get into Heaven. Essentially all their good deeds will be deleted by Allah, similar to how you lose all your XP if you cancel a course on Duolingo.
But don’t worry, the Quran doesn’t linger long on that warning since verses 219-221 hop back to commanding Muslims to give alms, not to gamble or drink, to help orphans, and not to marry unbelievers.
Then we have verses 222-223, which are ridiculously misogynistic. Verse 222 says that women who are menstruating are unclean and are to be treated as such. Now, I wouldn’t totally have a problem with this if it were just taking from the similar command in the Bible, which was meant for a certain time and place, but the Quran’s version of this is universal. Additionally, is the fact that in both 222-223, the Quran tells men that their wives are like a “tilth” (a piece of fertile ground) that they can take when, where, and however they want, as long as they do some good deed for Allah, first.
Handmaid’s Tale much? In today’s vernacular, that would be like calling your wife an oven for making babies (or something worse).
Verses 224-225 warns Muslims not to make oaths in Allah’s name against doing good, acting rightly, or making peace. Then 226-227 hops into what to do if you’ve taken an oath of abstention. Naturally, this only applies to men, and the Quran only says that if a man takes an oath of abstention, he only needs to abstain for 4 months…unless he’s getting divorced. In that case, he can abstain from his wife for as long as he wants.
Speaking of divorce, according to verses 228-233, divorce is completely permissible and you’re allowed to divorce the same woman up to two times. You’re also allowed to remarry, and, if both parties don’t want the kids, you can give them away to a foster-mother until they finish suckling. After that, who knows what will happen since Muhammad abolished adoption. I assume they’d be going back to one of their parents (probably the father), though that would be an awkward conversation.
Finally, verse 234 jumps to what to do if you die and leave behind a widow. After death, they are to wait four months and ten days before moving on. Then it jumps back into divorce, including divorcing someone before the marriage is consummated in 235-237.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Beyond the Labels: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Divine Unity and the Question of Religious Difference
A new Truthaholics study — with the fully referenced PDF available below
There are questions that cannot be settled by slogans.
Is the recognition of divine truth across different revelations the same thing as saying that every historical religious law remains equally normative forever? Does Ibn al-ʿArabī’s extraordinary language of universality dissolve prophetic law—or does his own distinction between the ontological and prescriptive orders explain how divine universality and revealed obligation coexist?
In simple terms
This study asks a simple question:
if all true revelation comes from the one God, does that mean every religion and every religious law must remain equally valid forever?
Ibn al-ʿArabī teaches us to see that everything ultimately belongs to and returns to God, while also taking seriously the guidance God gives through His prophets. Shah Walī Allāh helps explain the difference: the source of true religion is one, even though God gave different laws to different peoples and times. So recognising truth and goodness in other revelations does not require us to pretend that all religious differences mean nothing.
The deeper invitation is to look beyond labels, follow the evidence carefully, and allow the signs of creation and revelation to turn our attention towards the one Divine Reality from whom everything comes and to whom everything returns.
Our new study, Ibn al-ʿArabī on Religious Unity and Prophetic Law, examines precisely this terrain.
It brings Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ/Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, al-Rasāʾil and al-Futūḥāt into conversation with Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, while critically comparing the resulting picture with René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and William C. Chittick.
The study’s governing principle is simple:
Evidence before labels.
Rather than deciding in advance that Ibn al-ʿArabī must be an “exclusivist,” “pluralist” or “Perennialist,” the paper asks what the texts themselves actually establish—and where subsequent interpretations introduce additional premises.
This matters because Ibn al-ʿArabī’s metaphysical universality is real. His Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ is his own summary of the celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, and William Chittick’s English translation was published in the first volume of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society in 1982. The Society itself describes the Fuṣūṣ as a major source of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s influence and notes the exceptionally large commentary tradition that developed around it. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Yet the same textual world speaks seriously of prophetic revelation, sharʿ, command and obedience. The paper therefore argues that a crucial distinction must be preserved:
Nothing escapes the Divine ontologically; but ontological inclusion is not automatically identical with prescriptive approval.
Shāh Walī Allāh provides a particularly illuminating complement: the root of revealed religion is one, while prophetic laws and paths differ. Unity of divine source need not mean uniformity of historical legislation; nor does the succession of a law retroactively make an earlier genuine revelation false.
That distinction allows us to approach the Perennialist question without caricature. There are genuine and important affinities between Akbarian metaphysics and the Traditionalist recognition of transcendent unity. The narrower question is whether that metaphysical unity, by itself, proves the continuing normative equivalence of every historically distinct dispensation.
Our conclusion is deliberately proportioned to the evidence: it does not.
But this paper is not offered merely to win an argument.
At its deepest level, Ibn al-ʿArabī’s intellectual universe confronts us with something much greater than our classifications of it: the possibility that multiplicity need not obscure the One from whom it proceeds.
So we invite readers—Muslim and non-Muslim, Traditionalist and critic, believer, seeker and sceptic alike—to read slowly, follow the references, interrogate the distinctions, and resist the temptation to make Reality smaller than our inherited categories.
The point is not to manufacture an artificial sameness between religions.
Nor is it to turn religious difference into another weapon of separation.
It is to ask whether, behind our arguments about the Divine, we have actually begun to recognise the Divine.
And perhaps that is where serious inquiry becomes something more than argument:
from information to discernment,
from labels to Reality,
and from speaking about the Divine to recognising the signs that point beyond ourselves.Read the fully referenced study
The publication edition includes the comparative matrix, methodological source disclaimer, Arabic with diacritics, inline superscript references, full source apparatus, bibliography, hyperlinks, and explicit source-critical qualifications wherever edition or manuscript verification remains incomplete.
For readers wishing to examine the Akbarian source tradition further, the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society’s collection of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s writings provides Chittick’s Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ translation and other scholarly materials; its Journal archive provides a substantial body of specialist scholarship on Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Akbarian tradition. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Truthaholics — Evidence before labels; truth before spin.
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Beyond the Labels: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Divine Unity and the Question of Religious Difference
A new Truthaholics study — with the fully referenced PDF available below
There are questions that cannot be settled by slogans.
Is the recognition of divine truth across different revelations the same thing as saying that every historical religious law remains equally normative forever? Does Ibn al-ʿArabī’s extraordinary language of universality dissolve prophetic law—or does his own distinction between the ontological and prescriptive orders explain how divine universality and revealed obligation coexist?
In simple terms
This study asks a simple question:
if all true revelation comes from the one God, does that mean every religion and every religious law must remain equally valid forever?
Ibn al-ʿArabī teaches us to see that everything ultimately belongs to and returns to God, while also taking seriously the guidance God gives through His prophets. Shah Walī Allāh helps explain the difference: the source of true religion is one, even though God gave different laws to different peoples and times. So recognising truth and goodness in other revelations does not require us to pretend that all religious differences mean nothing.
The deeper invitation is to look beyond labels, follow the evidence carefully, and allow the signs of creation and revelation to turn our attention towards the one Divine Reality from whom everything comes and to whom everything returns.
Our new study, Ibn al-ʿArabī on Religious Unity and Prophetic Law, examines precisely this terrain.
It brings Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ/Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, al-Rasāʾil and al-Futūḥāt into conversation with Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, while critically comparing the resulting picture with René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and William C. Chittick.
The study’s governing principle is simple:
Evidence before labels.
Rather than deciding in advance that Ibn al-ʿArabī must be an “exclusivist,” “pluralist” or “Perennialist,” the paper asks what the texts themselves actually establish—and where subsequent interpretations introduce additional premises.
This matters because Ibn al-ʿArabī’s metaphysical universality is real. His Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ is his own summary of the celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, and William Chittick’s English translation was published in the first volume of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society in 1982. The Society itself describes the Fuṣūṣ as a major source of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s influence and notes the exceptionally large commentary tradition that developed around it. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Yet the same textual world speaks seriously of prophetic revelation, sharʿ, command and obedience. The paper therefore argues that a crucial distinction must be preserved:
Nothing escapes the Divine ontologically; but ontological inclusion is not automatically identical with prescriptive approval.
Shāh Walī Allāh provides a particularly illuminating complement: the root of revealed religion is one, while prophetic laws and paths differ. Unity of divine source need not mean uniformity of historical legislation; nor does the succession of a law retroactively make an earlier genuine revelation false.
That distinction allows us to approach the Perennialist question without caricature. There are genuine and important affinities between Akbarian metaphysics and the Traditionalist recognition of transcendent unity. The narrower question is whether that metaphysical unity, by itself, proves the continuing normative equivalence of every historically distinct dispensation.
Our conclusion is deliberately proportioned to the evidence: it does not.
But this paper is not offered merely to win an argument.
At its deepest level, Ibn al-ʿArabī’s intellectual universe confronts us with something much greater than our classifications of it: the possibility that multiplicity need not obscure the One from whom it proceeds.
So we invite readers—Muslim and non-Muslim, Traditionalist and critic, believer, seeker and sceptic alike—to read slowly, follow the references, interrogate the distinctions, and resist the temptation to make Reality smaller than our inherited categories.
The point is not to manufacture an artificial sameness between religions.
Nor is it to turn religious difference into another weapon of separation.
It is to ask whether, behind our arguments about the Divine, we have actually begun to recognise the Divine.
And perhaps that is where serious inquiry becomes something more than argument:
from information to discernment,
from labels to Reality,
and from speaking about the Divine to recognising the signs that point beyond ourselves.Read the fully referenced study
The publication edition includes the comparative matrix, methodological source disclaimer, Arabic with diacritics, inline superscript references, full source apparatus, bibliography, hyperlinks, and explicit source-critical qualifications wherever edition or manuscript verification remains incomplete.
For readers wishing to examine the Akbarian source tradition further, the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society’s collection of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s writings provides Chittick’s Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ translation and other scholarly materials; its Journal archive provides a substantial body of specialist scholarship on Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Akbarian tradition. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Truthaholics — Evidence before labels; truth before spin.
Truthaholics_Ibn_al_Arabi (1)Download #Allah #authenticity #childrenOfAdam #History #islam #lordOfTheWorlds #mercyForTheWorlds #perennialism #Quran #religion #universality -
Blog: Google Translate Abrogates the Quran…Again.
It’s no secret that the Muslims don’t like me. Scroll through the comments section on my videos and most of them will have at least one Muslim in it insinuating or outright saying I’m fat, ugly, stupid, ignorant, Islamophobic, racist, loose, etc. However, there are some special Muslims out there who, instead of leaving it at personal insults, take it upon themselves to let me know that they are mentally unstable and just make my argument for me that Islam is evil. They do this, of course, by sending me lovely messages about how they’ll “shut me up,” that Allah will strike me down, or insinuating that my head should be cut off.
Remember, guys, I’ve only been doing polemics against Islam for barely a year and already, they want to kill me. I feel very accomplished.
So, in response to a comment I recently got from somebody on this video who says that I’m a female dog and that if I don’t shut up, they will make me shut up, I suppose it’s time to play a little game. If they want to threaten me, then I’ll find out what the Quran really says using Google Translate.
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 1
Praise be to the God of grace, mercy, and truth. We’re asking for feedback. Save us in a peaceful way. in a peaceful and diplomatic manner.
[Author’s Note: After a few more languages it got watered down to: Tupshushe mu in ya muut. mu I’m talking to mu. It is safe.]
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 98
It’s free and easy to find.
Many people believe in the Bible and believe that God does not die before a miracle occurs. They read the Bible to see what can strengthen their faith. Thank you for your trust; Who can argue with this book? They worship God, believe in the truth, pray daily, and give as much as they can. This is the true religion. Who does not believe that there is one God, but there are many Gods? It is a gift from God. Those who believe in God and do good works are very good people. God is in heaven. It’s always there. We should love those who fear God. We should love those who fear God.
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 33:21
We believe in pain. Those who remember Jonah may remember their servant.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: Google Translate Abrogates the Quran…Again.
It’s no secret that the Muslims don’t like me. Scroll through the comments section on my videos and most of them will have at least one Muslim in it insinuating or outright saying I’m fat, ugly, stupid, ignorant, Islamophobic, racist, loose, etc. However, there are some special Muslims out there who, instead of leaving it at personal insults, take it upon themselves to let me know that they are mentally unstable and just make my argument for me that Islam is evil. They do this, of course, by sending me lovely messages about how they’ll “shut me up,” that Allah will strike me down, or insinuating that my head should be cut off.
Remember, guys, I’ve only been doing polemics against Islam for barely a year and already, they want to kill me. I feel very accomplished.
So, in response to a comment I recently got from somebody on this video who says that I’m a female dog and that if I don’t shut up, they will make me shut up, I suppose it’s time to play a little game. If they want to threaten me, then I’ll find out what the Quran really says using Google Translate.
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 1
Praise be to the God of grace, mercy, and truth. We’re asking for feedback. Save us in a peaceful way. in a peaceful and diplomatic manner.
[Author’s Note: After a few more languages it got watered down to: Tupshushe mu in ya muut. mu I’m talking to mu. It is safe.]
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 98
It’s free and easy to find.
Many people believe in the Bible and believe that God does not die before a miracle occurs. They read the Bible to see what can strengthen their faith. Thank you for your trust; Who can argue with this book? They worship God, believe in the truth, pray daily, and give as much as they can. This is the true religion. Who does not believe that there is one God, but there are many Gods? It is a gift from God. Those who believe in God and do good works are very good people. God is in heaven. It’s always there. We should love those who fear God. We should love those who fear God.
Google Translate Abrogates Surah 33:21
We believe in pain. Those who remember Jonah may remember their servant.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Bible #Blog #Books #faith #Funny #GoogleTranslate #Islam #OpinionPeice #Quran #Religion #Writing -
[All forces of nature praise God and say:] “Among us, too, there is none but has a place assigned to it [by Him];
As-Saaffaat - 164
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For so it is that against every prophet We have set up enemies from among those who are lost in sin: yet none can guide and give succour as thy Sustainer does!
Al-Furqaan - 31
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he has power only over those who are willing to follow him, and who [thus] ascribe to him a share in God's divinity.
An-Nahl - 100
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A New You – Turn Your Lemons Into Lemonade The Power of Positive Thinking
Yes, it is highly probable that Milton wrote better poetry because he was blind and that Beethoven composed better music because he was deaf. Helen Keller’s brilliant career was inspired and made possible because of her blindness and deafness.” -
A New You – Turn Your Lemons Into Lemonade The Power of Positive Thinking
Yes, it is highly probable that Milton wrote better poetry because he was blind and that Beethoven composed better music because he was deaf. Helen Keller’s brilliant career was inspired and made possible because of her blindness and deafness.” -
Yet, withal, thy Sustainer would never destroy a community without having [first] raised in its midst an apostle who would convey unto them Our messages; and never would We destroy a community unless its people are wont to do wrong [to one another].
Al-Qasas - 59
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A New You – Renew Your Life
If you can be among those who remember God during that special time of closeness to Him, be among them. It is the time when night goes and morning comes, and out of the debris of the near or distant past you can rise to build your future.https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/a-new-you-renew-your-life/
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A New You – Renew Your Life
If you can be among those who remember God during that special time of closeness to Him, be among them. It is the time when night goes and morning comes, and out of the debris of the near or distant past you can rise to build your future.https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/a-new-you-renew-your-life/
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Al-Wadoud: The All-Loving God: Understanding the Essence of Al-Wadoud
Human Response: Cultivating Reciprocal Love and Social Harmony Understanding Al-Wadoud imposes a transformative ethical responsibility upon the believer. -
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The Quran says about Prayer
"Recite that which has been revealed to thee of the Book, and observe Prayer. Surely, Prayer restrains one from indecency and manifest evil, and remembrance of Allah indeed is the greatest virtue. And Allah knows what you do."
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The Quran says about Prayer
"Recite that which has been revealed to thee of the Book, and observe Prayer. Surely, Prayer restrains one from indecency and manifest evil, and remembrance of Allah indeed is the greatest virtue. And Allah knows what you do."
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Has it, then, never occurred to them that there is no madness whatever in [this] their fellowman? He is only a plain warner.
Al-A'raaf - 184
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the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them - if you could but grasp it with inner certainty!
Ad-Dukhaan - 7
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The Quran does not deny that Jesus is the Messiah. It literally calls him “the Messiah.”
Read Jesus’ own words in the verse:Jesus is the Messiah, but he is not God.
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The Rights of Brotherhood
The Ethics of Advice: Secrecy: Advise in private, not in public, so as not to embarrass the person. Gentleness: Use a kind and gentle manner. Proofs: Explain any wrongdoing with proofs from the Shari`ah.https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/the-rights-of-brotherhood/
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Belief in Jesus is not optional for a Muslim. We affirm him, his mother, and his message from God.
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Jesus is honored in Islam as a sign to all the worlds (Quran 21:91). We do not diminish him; we love him.
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The Prophet’s Compassion for Children
Some people who were not able to understand the power of expressing love to children wondered why the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) played with children and took such an interest in them. Narrated Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him),https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/the-prophets-compassion-for-children/
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Did you know Muslims await the return of Jesus? He holds an honored place in Islamic belief.
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Did you know the Quran mentions Jesus by name about 25 times, and Mary more than 30? Islam honors them deeply.
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Believers and Beloved Prophet: Understanding the Bond of Compassion and Faith
{You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger…} (Al-Mujadalah 58:22). True faith requires a heart that is aligned with the Prophetic mission. -
The Reality and Signs of Evil Eye in Islam: A Theological Guide
It is a common mistake to confuse Al-Ayn with Sihr (black magic) or Mass (jinn possession). While they share symptoms, the Signs of Evil Eye in Islam are usually more immediate. If a person receives a compliment and falls ill that same evening, it is likely Al-Ayn. Magic is often a more complex, long-term affliction involving rituals. Regardless of the cause, the primary remedy is Ruqyah Shari’ah. -
The Mother of the Book: Comprehensive Objectives and Spiritual Lessons of Surah Al-Fatiha
The Divine Response: When the servant asks for guidance in Al-Fatiha, the response begins immediately in Surah Al-Baqarah: “This is the Book, whereof there is no doubt, a guidance for those who fear Allah. -
The Qur’an: A Companion for Youth in Ramadan
Whoever accompanies the Qur’an will find a friend that settles their heart when it feels tight, a guide when paths become confusing, and a light when darkness increases around them. Ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “Whoever loves the Qur’an loves Allah.” What friendship is greater than being a friend to the Book of Allah?https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/the-quran-a-companion-for-youth-in-ramadan/
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Jesus promised a helper would come after him (John 16:7). The Quran says Jesus foretold a messenger named Ahmad (Quran 61:6).
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Jesus in the Quran heals the blind, raises the dead, and speaks in the cradle, all by God's permission (Quran 3:49).
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The Quran defends Jesus and his mother against slander and honors them greatly. Islam loves Jesus.
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"O Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord" (Quran 5:72). The Quran and the Gospel agree.
#Quran #JesusInIslam #Tawheed #Bible
