Restless Pilgrim
"We are travellers...not yet in our native land" - St. Augustine
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Incompatible Claims (opens the original)
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I was listening to the “Qu’ran Garden” tafsir podcast this morning and the author made two claims… Claim #1: “Years before the advent of Muhammad, the Jews of Medina used to boast about the coming of an unlearned prophet in Arabia… Prophet Muhammad’s attributes and detailed description were in the Torah.” Claim #2: “But when Prophet Muhammad was sent, just
Forty Required Muslim Beliefs (opens the original)
Aisha was 19, not 9? (opens the original)
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Here’s the argument I’ve sometimes seen made by Muslims that Aisha was not, in fact, nine when Muhammad slept with her. The Argument Premise 1: Asma died in 73 AH at the age of 100 Premise 2: Asma was ten years older than Aisha Conclusion: Therefore, at the Hijrah, Asma would have been roughly 27 years old, making Aisha approximately
Stages of Qur’anic Development (opens the original)
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I saw someone post a variant of this on Facebook and thought it was great so copied-and-pasted it here (and made few edits): 1. Revelation and initial transmission (AD 610–632) 2. First compilation under Abu Bakr (AD ~632–634) 3. Uthmanic standardization (AD ~650) 4. Early manuscript evidence of variants (mid-to-late 7th century) 5. Orthographic and scribal evolution (late 7th–10th centuries)
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