The Quran tells us that Abraham, “whom God chose as friend” (4:125), sat down under the heavenly vault looking for his sublime God. The planet Venus appeared. Fascinated by its beauty, Abraham said, “Behold, that's my God!” But then Venus (...)
The Quran tells us that Abraham, “whom God chose as friend” (4:125), sat down under the heavenly vault looking for his sublime God. The planet Venus appeared.
Fascinated by its beauty, Abraham said, “Behold, that's my God!” But then Venus (...)
“It's an innovation. Every innovation is a perversion, and every perversion leads to hell.” This point of view is the basis on which the mufti of Aleppo issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against tomatoes at the beginning of the 19th century when (...)
The Arabic root aqala (from which the word aql, or reason, is derived) appears 49 times in the Quran, and every time except once it appears in the form of a verb conjugated in the present tense, most of the time in the plural, as taaqiloun, (...)
The Arabic root aqala (from which the word aql, or reason, is derived) appears 49 times in the Quran, and every time except once it appears in the form of a verb conjugated in the present tense, most of the time in the plural, as taaqiloun, (...)
A boy was intent on personalising his brand-new electronic device, a smartphone of the latest generation. Since he was religious, he did not forget to download the Quran, among other things that best reflected his personality, onto the phone.
During (...)
A boy was intent on personalising his brand-new electronic device, a smartphone of the latest generation. Since he was religious, he did not forget to download the Quran, among other things that best reflected his personality, onto the phone. During (...)
The military prosecution on Thursday referred 25 suspects out of 146 for expedited military trials in connection with the alleged attempted storming of the Israeli Embassy by protesters on Sunday.
According to the military prosecution, the suspects (...)
Reda Edward, the new chairman of prominent independent daily Al-Dostour, said he would not discuss the demands of the paper's reporters--scores of whom are currently staging an open-ended sit-in--with the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate.
“The paper's (...)