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Polytheists have many names for God because they have many Gods; just as every human has many names for his or her many relatives and friends. But how...
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than six in 10 Americans (61%) now have little or no confidence in the Supreme Court after its decision...
A decade ago (May 2, 2012) a Reuters Poll reported that “nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime....
After two years of Covid restrictions, a group of about 190 UK pilgrims who arrived on June 25, 2022 represent the first worshippers from Europe, the...
Very few Jews realize that for more than 1.000 years, while the Ka’ba in Makka rebuilt by Prophets Abraham and Ishmael was polluted by idols,...
Prophecy is the means whereby God offers guidance to human beings through human messengers. Just as God’s mercy takes precedence over his wrath; and...
In no way is the Qur’an anti-Christianity, or anti-Judaism. However, there are people now, and there were people in the past; who have willfully...
In the modern world, large scale emigration has brought many Muslims into close contact with other Muslims from distant lands. While all Muslims are...
With the coming excitement of Hajj next month, Jews and Muslims should look together at some of the connections between the two holy sites of...
The Bible states: “Adonai (the Lord) regretted making humans on earth, and God’s heart was pained.” (Genesis 6:6) But to regret means to...
Following Muhammad’s teaching I also neither believe nor disbelieve in the Quran. Islam teaches clearly that God does not have just one people or...
The Qur’an states that He (God) created the human (Adam) with “His two Hands.” This verse has two meanings. The popular interpretation is that...
During more than a decade of preaching Allah’s words to the idol worshipping, pagan polytheists of Makkah, Prophet Muhammad had been ignored,...
This article of mine about Banu Israel in the Qur’an was published on the web site Qur’an al-Mubeen and later republished in my book Judaism and...
In October of 2013 this article of mine about the story of Prophet Moses in the Quran and the Torah was published on the web site khutbahbank.com and...
Abraham is unique among all God’s prophets because he, and he alone, was subjected to the awesome test of submitting to the Divine will by his...
For almost all of the 20th century issues of nationalism and socialism engaged the hearts, minds and activities of large numbers of people throughout...
World leaders have been meeting, and failing for 29 years, to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier...
In the Near East the “Arab Spring” of 2011 with its great hopes; is now viewed with immense despair. And in the E.U. the USA and G.B. there are...
According to a Hadith cited by ibn Kathir in elucidating Qur’an 2:185; Ramadan is a very special month because this one month in the Islamic lunar...
The two oldest holy day celebrations in Jewish life are Passover and Shabbat. The two newest days of remembrance are Holocaust Remembrance Day (April...
Some Islamic scholars say that during all or most of the years that Muslims lived in Makka, and the first year and a half that the transplanted...
Passover, the oldest (3,200 years old) Jewish holy day ended on April 23, 2022; and Israel Independence Day, the newest Jewish holy day will be...
More than 780 US Capitol rioters have been arrested in nearly every US state and Washington DC. The Justice Department says over 245 of them have been...
Everyone was worried that something bad had happened to Prophet Moses. He had gone up on the right side of Mount Sinai more than 20 days ago at...
The three Abrahamic religions just observed Ramadan, Passover and Easter all on the same day of April 15, 2022; so it is a good time to think about...
Reform Rabbi Rifat Sonsino Ph.D, states that the term “covenant” refers to “a binding covenant agreement enacted between two parties in which...
The concept of Sakinah in the Arabic language of the Quran – cognate to Shekinah in the Hebrew language of
Thanks to their Muslim neighbors, Jews living in Muslim countries from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east,
Many Jews will be surprised to learn that in the Qur’an, the most recounted narratives are those about the bondage
The wide-spread lack of self restraint so evident in much of modern life leads us first to pleasure seeking and then increasingly to self induced...
Although the Quran tells Muslims, “Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you (Muslims) as it was prescribed to those before you (Jews and...
“If your Lord had so willed, He would have made mankind one community, but (thanks to God) they continue to
Does God, the creator of the whole universe, have the desire to be a ‘friend’ to one particular man on Planet Earth named Abraham? Yes! What...
The Qur’an says: “There are, certainly, among Jews and Christians, those who believe in God, in the revelation to you (Muslims), and in the...
Those who fear and hate Islam, frequently claim that the religion of Islam advocates perpetual warfare against non-Muslims. As proof
The best known verse in the Qur’an according to most Muslims is Ayatul Kursi; the longest verse of the Holy
In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of gods, and hundreds
Megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, addressing his congregation at First Baptist Dallas, said many Christians are wondering, in the face of
A series of surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in 2021, found that 16% of American adults, roughly 41 million people, totally...
Religion is not a maladaptive “illusion” (Freud), nor is religion a manipulative “opiate” (Marx). Religious behavior is a ubiquitous...
Al-Jumuah is the most important day of God’s week for Muslims; just as Shabbat is the most important day of God’s week for Jews. The importance of...
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest single year decline since World War II. The decrease for both Black Americans and...
Since monotheistic religions proclaim the existence of the one and only Divine Being, the essence of their revelations would be the same. As the...
As the Qur’an is the last of the four surviving Abrahamic scriptures (Torah, Psalms, Gospels and Qur’an), it often refers to events and...
A Times of Israel article said: “She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi Goldberg waded into a charged discourse that has polarized the...
The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally the European Union’s climate monitoring service reported, raising alarms over sharp...
Most Christians believe that God created a place of eternal punishment and reward: 72% of Christian Americans say they believe in heaven — defined...