Saturday Discussions

Arguments for Messengership – Part 53
The Reasonings (page 145-147) “O brothers and sisters! The three points which some put forward to object to some Qur’anic statements are in fact miraculous aspects of the Qur’an and its styles. It is particular only to the Qur’an that it is able to address all levels of understanding and satisfy them at all times […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 52
What do you mean by God? The Reasonings- (page 143-144) “A REMINDER It is a rule of both eloquence and guidance that the evidence should be clearer than the thesis and known prior to it. For this reason, the apparent meanings of some Qur’anic verses relate to the impressions sensed by the majority of people. […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 51
Recap: We are establishing the reasons behind the institution of Prophethood– Why does the Source of Existence of this universe need to establish a continuous series of Prophets to bring down or convey a message from It? We are currently studying the message of the Prophethood of Muhammad, a historical figure and establishing what traits […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 50
The Reasonings (page 141) “The third is that you may not be able see some statements of the Qur’an as congruent with some rational and observable realities, and may regard it as unfitting for its purposes of guidance and establishment of truths.” (page 143) “As for the third objection, which is not being able to […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 49
The Reasonings (page 142-143)- “Knowing something beforehand in no way requires that we base our present actions on that knowledge, neglecting what is happening in the present. For the sake of the guidance of future people, those who live in the present cannot be neglected.” I cannot try to understand a text from the 7th […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 48
Recap: We observe various “casual agents” in this universe. How can we reconcile this matter with the message that Muhammad, the Messenger brings to us? The Reasonings (page 141)- “For this reason, supposing if someone had attempted to teach ten centuries ago a science or its established facts which have only recently been formed, they […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 47
The Reasonings (Page 141) “The second is that you may not be able to reconcile the Qur’an’s conciseness and elusiveness in the “natural” facts studied by physical sciences with its guidance and methods of teaching and education.” Quran never goes into details about what the universe presents to us as far as the natural facts […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 46
Recap: How can we be sure that the person known as “Muhammad” is the messenger of God. Is the message he brought to us really from the Creator of the universe or himself? The Reasonings–Page 140 “The first is that you may see the allegorical and ambiguous-seeming statements of the Qur’an as incompatible with its […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 45
The Reasonings (continuation on page 140) A CONCLUSION “Doubt issues from three sources. If, being unaware of the purposes of the Owner of the Shari‘a and not realizing that Divine guidance considers the different capacities of humanity, you deviate into a demagogy, which is a nest of misleading doubts and suppositions, your objections will arise […]

Arguments for Messengership – Part 44
The Reasonings (page 140) “So, O brothers and sisters! Consult these principles, and then lay aside your soul which cannot submit to the truth easily. Take off the garb of whims, suppositions, false assertions, and groundless objections that the present time and conditions have caused your mind to don. Enter the apparently limitless ocean of […]