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My Name is Abdurrahman Wahid
What is the connection between Asher Lev and Abdurrahman Wahid?
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Separating Religion and State is Impossible
Throughout history, many people tried to separate religion and politics, but doesn’t seem to succeed. What people can do is just separating religious authority and state authority.
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Inspiration from the Golden Age of Islam
I have never ceased to admire the spirit of Muslim scholars in medieval Islam era (about 8-13 / 14 AD …
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Quran Invites to Think
Quran encourages us to continuously think about our inner selves and all God’s creation in the universe.
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Entering Islam Perfectly: an Interpretation
There is a verse that has recently become very popular and is popularized on and on by Muslims. يا ايها …
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Prophet Muhammad, Islam and China
Although the Prophet Muhammad had never gone to China, but the fame and progress of China had been heard to various Arab regions brought by these traders and sailors. So, the hadith that prophet Muhammad instructs Muslims to study even though it reaches China (Arabic: Shin) provides indication of the relationship between Arabia and China.
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Learning Islam without Teacher
To understand Islam is not enough by just reading a translation of the Quran. Without a teacher, we may mislead.
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Islam Began as Something Strange, How is its Future?
The Prophet, as a stranger, kept on his ways step by step. Besides, he still exhibited honesty, sincerity, composure, patience and he then got more and more empathy from Medinans. When he went back to Mecca, many of Meccans felt dumbfounded.
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Ibn Khaldun and The Fall of Khilafah
According to Ibn Khaldun, there were devoted people but morally corrupted at the same time, so power became an instrument of boasting life and Abbasid rulers sank into worldly pleasures. They blatantly neglect religious values, said Ibn Khaldun, so that Allah took over their power from the Arabs completely and replaced by other nations.
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Some Considerations behind A Fatwa
A legal opinion or a fatwa must be produced by thorough exerts and discussions. Fatwa by those having no Mujtahid competences should be invalid according to scholarly authority.