By General on 12/28/2008 12:58 PM

Please see:

http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/search/label/Theism

Press older posts below right to see the other books.

You will see 2 buttons, Rapidshare or Filefactory. Rapidshare is the best one, but only allows 1 download at a time. When using Filefactory, you go down the new page that opens and will see a grey small window beneath a red window. In the grey window you see the lowest sentence given in blue (Download with filefactory Basic), this is the link to the free download.

By General on 12/28/2008 12:54 PM

Please see:

http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/search/label/Islam

Press older posts below right to see the other books.

There are some very good books among them, the cambridge companion to the Quran, the Blackwell companion to the Qur'an, the Qur'an an Encyclopedia by Leaman, the Qur'an and the secular mind, Islamic Legal Theories by Hallaq.

 

You will see 2 buttons, Rapidshare or Filefactory. Rapidshare is the best one, but only allows 1 download at a time. When using Filefactory, you go down the new page that opens and will see a grey small window beneath a red window. In the grey window you see the lowest sentence given in blue (Download with filefactory Basic), this is the link to the free download.

By General on 12/22/2008 4:01 AM

By Kamran Pasha

It’s a miracle (Obama, that is) The Hajj, the grand Pilgrimage to Mecca, has just ended after having attracted a record four million Muslims from all over the world for a week of worship in the vast Arabian desert. I attended this year for the first time and experienced one of the most remarkable and transformative events known to humanity. Believers of every race, nation and age brought together to transcend our differences and unite before God.

But there was one topic that was on everyone’s lips as we sat together under a tent in the pilgrim camp at Mina – the improbable election of Barack Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States. Everyone I spoke with expressed wonder at God’s will in bringing such remarkable change after eight years of George W. Bush. Most were hopeful that Obama could restore to America its prestige as the moral leader of the world, squandered so recklessly by an Administration that redefined the meaning of the word “hubris.”

There was much...

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By General on 12/21/2008 7:02 AM

 When researchers ran a computer simulation of the universe rewinding towards the big bang, they made an unexpected discovery. At first, the universe started becoming smaller and denser as the galaxies converged, but then instead of becoming infinitely dense at the big bang, the universe bounced and started expanding again. So is our universe recycled from an older cosmos?

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By MaxQ on 12/7/2008 4:21 AM

A question that has perplexed Islamic scholars for centuries is the existance of strange initials in the beginning of various Quranic chapters. These initials consist of the first fourteen letters of the Arabic alphabet ordered its old numeric value form and are:أ ح ر س ص ط ع ق ك ل م ن ه يKnown as Tawaasiin and Hawaamiim, these intials exist in distinct patterns as follows:Alif Laam Meem - المAlif Laam Meem tSaad - المصAlif Laam Raa - الرAlif Laam Meem Raa - المرKaaf Haa Yaa 'Ain tSaad - كهيعصdTaa Haa - طهdTaa Seen Meem - طسمdTaa Seen - طسYaa Seen - يسtSaad - ص'Haa Meem - حم'Haa Meem, 'Ain Seen Qaaf - حم عسقQaaf - قNun - نThis paper is meant to provide an in depth study of the background of these initials, and also present possible explanation that may help the reader in understanding the Quran better.Contemporary TheoriesVarious scholars including Hamiduddin Farahi, Shabbir Ahmed, and going as far back as Imam Raghib Isfahani have proposed the meanings of the codes that, in the author's opinion, only provide...

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