Monthly Archives: August 2005
- August 30, 2005
- Our Sister’s Keeper
“Do you have to wear that thing on your head?”
This was the final question during my job interview for a research position at a Canadian university. Apparently, my PhD in chemical physics from Harvard, research publications and postdoctoral research at MIT weren’t enough to convince my interviewer that I qualified for the job. It came [...]
- August 30, 2005
- Is the Pilgrimage a Pagan Rite?
Some non-Muslims think or are made to believe that the pilgrimage to Ka’bah is purely a pagan rite or one form of idol-worship, that it was being practiced by the Arab idolaters before Islam and that Islam borrowed it from them.
- August 29, 2005
- Goethe Embraced Islam
German poet, novelist, playwright and natural philosopher, one of the greatest figures in Western literature after whom countless institutes and associations have been named all over Europe and North America, namely Goethe Institute. All evidence have been taken from his own works and his letters to friends.
- August 24, 2005
- The Concept of Original Sin in Islam
As regards the 'original sin', Islam does not admit this theme. Its main concern is the 'Acquired Sin'. According to Islam 'sin' is neither like a hereditary disease that is transferred from a father to his son through reproductive system nor is sin like a rank or a title that can be passed from an [...]
- August 21, 2005
- Ihsan Chua Gim Sam - Singapore
According to a hadith, when a child is born, he or she is like a white cloth, it is the parents that will colour the white cloth to be red, blue, green or yellow. My parents are Taoists, therefore I was brought up as a Taoist since my birth.
- August 21, 2005
- Protestant Sunday School teacher’s Story - Zainab
Young American, Protestant Sunday School teacher and youth ministries activist who had great difficulty with the Christian doctrine of “justification through faith ” [good or bad deeds are irrelevant to one's salvation]. She also found that her concept of Godly living regarding dating, alcohol, clubbing, etc. was shared by her Muslim acquaintances, not her [...]
- August 21, 2005
- Experience of a Converted Hindu Woman
My Experiences and How I Find that Islam does not Oppress Women - by Sister Noor
- August 21, 2005
- Why I am a Muslim
Ibrahim, a Pennsylvania teenager, explains how difficulties with church teaching about Jesus as God led him from Catholicism to Islam.
- August 21, 2005
- Lynette Wehner’s conversion to Islam
How a spiritually dissatisfied American Catholic teacher found fulfillment and direction through her new job at a Muslim school.
- August 19, 2005
- Allah’s Miracles
Allah. The personal name of the one true God in Islam. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. From the 112th sura of the Qur’an: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Mohammad) He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not [...]
- August 19, 2005
- Benefits of Becoming a Muslim
This article is designed for those who wish to become Muslim; as to what would be their benefits after accepting Islam. It should be stated here that we are not trying to entice people to become Muslim, nor are we trying to convert them into the fold of Islam. Any person who wishes to become [...]
