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طلب العلم Seeker of the knowledge

• The Living Logos

  By Eric bin Kisam on June 4, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ ۛ فِيهِ ۛ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ This is the Book¹ about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah His Words / Kalaamallah —> Q 18:27

• Nuzul Al Qur’an & Nuzul At Tawraat (Shavuot)

  By Eric bin Kisam on June 3, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

    Narrated by Abu Said, the freed slave of Bani Hashim, narrated by Imran Abu Awwam , from Qatada , from Abu Maleeh , from Waathilah bin Asqa that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:       “The suhufs of… Read More ›

• Rabbi Ishmael on the sons of Ishmael

  By Eric bin Kisam on May 31, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

  It is worth to mention that some Jewish classical exegetical  text such as Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer פרקי דרבי אליעזר  which is attributed to a first century jewish sage, a well known tannaite Rabbi Ishmael Eliezer ben Elisha who went by the title Kohen ha-Gadol /the great high priest contains… Read More ›

• Israel’s Chief Rabbi: ‘Immodest’ Women Like Animals

  By Eric bin Kisam on May 31, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

  Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef preached that a woman must dress modestly because she ‘is not an animal’ and that when subjected to a female performer, men should ‘conspicuously’ refuse to listen

• Isaiah vision

  By Eric bin Kisam on April 12, 2017 • ( 54 )

  

  For thus my Lord said to me: “Go, set up a watchman; Let him announce what he sees. And he saw  mounted men, two horsemen — a rider of donkey, a rider of camel — and he will listen closely, Most attentively” –Isaiah 21:6-7 For muslims, upon… Read More ›

• God is One – not a triune nor a compound deity

  By Eric bin Kisam on March 6, 2017 • ( 153 )

  

  God is ONE, this is the core creed of Monotheism. This oneness of God as an aspect of His absolute nature, must be understood properly in order to worship HIM. Maimonides[1] had laid out a principle to understand the Oneness of God… Read More ›

• Best of both worlds

  By Eric bin Kisam on January 26, 2017 • ( 68 )

  

  Paul “Bilal” Williams, Muslim blogger, bibliophile.

• Jesus the avatar ? – a short muslim critique about God incarnate

  By Eric bin Kisam on January 15, 2017 • ( 119 )

  

  The trinitarian belief system which  holds that Jesus was the real God Almighty who incarnated into a human body and thus taking on 100% human nature while retaining 100% divine substance, was and always the most notorious point at issue between Christianity and Islam. Amazing… Read More ›

• God’s Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad (by Richard A. Gabriel)

  By Eric bin Kisam on January 11, 2017 • ( 83 )

  

  I recently purchased this book in the airport on my way back from holiday.  The title looks interesting and the author is a Royal Military College of Canada professor. As opposed to standard islamophobia narrative that only Islam and Prophet Muhammad is… Read More ›

• Christianity is 100% idol worship

  By Eric bin Kisam on December 26, 2016 • ( 75 )

  AMAZING LECTURE By Rabbi Yehoshua  Zitron: Christianity, christmas, christmas tree is 100% idol worshipping (Avoda Zarah)      

• The daughter of Pharaoh

  By Eric bin Kisam on December 24, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Photo credit:   Stephanie Thornton’s Daughter of the Gods Probably not many of us knew that the rabbis such as Rashi presents Hagar, the wife of Patriarch Abraham as : Bath Par’o hayetah בַּת פַּרְעֹה הָיְתָה, or she was the daughter of Pharaoh, the king… Read More ›

• Thanks God for Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

  By Eric bin Kisam on December 13, 2016 • ( 166 )

  

  Thanks God for the holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him,  the eternal light and blessing for mankind, the most noble descendant of Prophets Abraham and Ishmael (peace be upon them), the Menaḥēm/Paraclete and the restorer of true monotheism.  ~12 Rabi‘ al-awwal ١٢ ربيع… Read More ›

• The way it should be

  By Eric bin Kisam on December 7, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  ​ Justin “Abu Amina Elias” Parrot, American muslim, father, son, brother, friend, librarian, life-long learner

• “Where is the Injeel?”: a christian asks.

  By Eric bin Kisam on November 23, 2016 • ( 101 )

  

  “Where is the Injeel?”: a christian asks. Answered by Ibn Issam: “The four Gospels and Christian scriptures are clearly not the injeel. They make numerous unhistorical claims about Jesus which cannot possibly be true. The injeel is a revelation given… Read More ›

• The first person to enter Paradise

  By Eric bin Kisam on November 21, 2016 • ( 99 )

  

  :قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ “آتِي بَابَ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَأَسْتَفْتِحُ فَيَقُولُ الْخَازِنُ مَنْ أَنْتَ فَأَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ ‏.‏ فَيَقُولُ بِكَ أُمِرْتُ لاَ أَفْتَحُ لأَحَدٍ قَبْلَكَ” ‏ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I will come to the gates… Read More ›

• Īsā Al Masih: a Qur’anic disposition

  By Eric bin Kisam on November 18, 2016 • ( 66 )

  

  In response to br. Mozer  G. inquiry  to understand, what exactly does the quran mean when he calls Jesus -messiah to me, here allow me to present a very brief summary on my musing on the subject. Disclaimer: this is by no mean… Read More ›

• Ehyeh ašer ehyeh: “Al Azāly alladzī lā yazūlu” الأزلي الذي لا يزول (Rabbi Sa’adiah ben Yosef Gaon)

  By Eric bin Kisam on November 17, 2016 • ( 14 )

  

  In Exodus/Shemot 3:14prophet Moses asked God what is His name, then God said to him  Ehyeh ašer ehyeh  אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה.  The common English translation of this enigmatic phrase is: “I am what I am“, often contracted in English as “I… Read More ›

• Jihād as Defense: Just-war theory in the Quran and Sunnah

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 31, 2016 • ( 21 )

  

   By Justin Parrot  (originally published on Yaqeen Institute )  In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful International just-war theory crystalized after the Second World War with the signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the subsequent Geneva… Read More ›

• MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ANIMALS RIGHTS: CRUELTY TO IMPURE ANIMALS.

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 30, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By Aisha Stacey (originaly posted in IslamReligion.com) Islam is a religion devoted to the concept of mercy.  Muslims are encouraged to be merciful towards each other, towards all of humankind, towards animals, and even towards the environment.  God is the… Read More ›

• The road to Shur, the origin of the zamzam well? (Rabbi Sa’adiah ben Yosef Gaon)

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 27, 2016 • ( 53 )

  

  In the story about the wife of patriach Abraham, Hagar, and his firstbon son, Ishmael, in  the Torah  in Genesis/Bereishit 16:7 it was mentioned about a place named Shur שֽׁוּר. וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֞הּ מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהוָ֛ה עַל־עֵ֥ין הַמַּ֖יִם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר עַל־הָעַ֖יִן בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ שֽׁוּר An angel of… Read More ›

• Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant (Professor Bart D. Ehrman)

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 21, 2016 • ( 67 )

  Fascinating new lecture by Professor Bart D. Ehrman. Professor Bart Ehrman was the Keynote speaker at the Department of Near Eastern Studies presented a Mendenhall Symposium at the University of Michigan – Law, Society, and Religion on October 6, 2016,… Read More ›

• Humbleness of a true Talib ul-‘Ilm (Student of Sacred Knowledge)

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 11, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  “Great honor to have read hadith to their brilliant scholar،  Sheikha Kinza al-Kitāniyaa in Morroco last week. She has memorized 1000 of hadith، large texts and exhibits a depth in spiritual matters that challenged me to work on myself and… Read More ›

• Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, Al Azhar Grand Imam: Europeans won’t be punished by God even if they are not muslims

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 9, 2016 • ( 16 )

  

  Professor Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Al-Tayyeb the current Grand Imam of al- Azhar, number 1 in 2017  the world’s 500 most influential muslims list, recently said  that most Europeans belong to Ahl Al fatrah  أهل الفترة  or “People of the Interval” – so that God will not punish… Read More ›

• Happy Ra’sus-Sanah and Rosh Hashanah!

  By Eric bin Kisam on October 3, 2016 • ( 16 )

  Salaam, Shalom: Wish all of our Muslim and Jewish friends a Happy and Healthy New Year! This year Muslim and Jewish New Year happens to be at the same time. Let’s continue the journey of reconciliation and peace…. Muslim New… Read More ›

• Tattoos for Jesus

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 27, 2016 • ( 47 )

  You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am the LORD. [Leviticus 19:28] From those passage in Leviticus it is pretty straight forward the prohibition of tattoos for any reasons including religious…. Read More ›

• “Eli Eli lama sabachthani” – a case of misquoting Psalms?

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 21, 2016 • ( 27 )

  

  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? These are supposedly the last words  famously attributed to Jesus on the cross  which is found only in Matthew and Mark gospels. I normally see this passage a highly problematic in relation to… Read More ›

• Muslim athletes celebrate Eid al-Adha on social media — Ummah Sports

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  The fourth pillar of Islam is Hajj, a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia that every able-bodied and financially capable Muslim should complete at least once in their lifetime. While the sacred sites that pilgrims visit… Read More ›

• Adon Olam – by Sarit Hadad

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 15, 2016 • ( 5 )

  Adon Olam (“Lord of the World”) is a hymn which has been a regular part of the daily and Sabbath liturgy by faithful jews since the 15th century. This hymn is thought to be composed in the 11th century by Islamic Andalusian jew  Abū… Read More ›

• Was Jesus a glutton and a drunkard?

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 7, 2016 • ( 51 )

  

  First of all, as a muslim, I have to re-state again to the reader that I respect and venerate Isa Al Masih (or the anglo saxonised Jesus the Christ) as one of God’s greatest messenger with good character as example for humankind. But I am… Read More ›

• God has no beginning, Jesus has beginning so he can not be God.

  By Eric bin Kisam on September 5, 2016 • ( 69 )

  

  The holy Qur’an says: God is the first and the last, the alpha and the Omega, Huwal Awwal wal âkhir  هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ   This is what is called the existence of being  Al-Wujud al-Dzâti الوجود الذاتي  . This is inherent existence and not… Read More ›