Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam,
Muslims and the World
www.IslamicSolutions.Com
Human beings have much to be modest about.
Their life on earth is only a matter of decades — for the best placed among them.
And the most robust among them in health could be laid low by an organism they cannot even see.
And those who think are the most powerful and indomitable among them are in a holding pattern for death, which no one knows when it will strike, how and where.
Not one of them has ever beaten the odds of death, decay and turning to dust.
And human knowledge is so pitiful that it barely goes beyond a few random facts of dubious validity tagged on to some ill-formed guesses and hypotheses.
Against such a backdrop, the thought that an All-Powerful and All-Knowing God exists is tantalizing.
And the belief — for a belief is all it is — that he is also a Loving, Caring God is overwhelming.
"Here is my family’s not-so-secret recipe for Islam. Siphon off all error from science. Leaven it with some serious logic and rationality, which are part of science anyway. Add a measure of commonsense. Sprinkle a dash of pragmaticity every now ...
Faith is a risk either way. Whether you believe in God or you don’t believe in him, the final outcome is always uncertain.
That is so, no matter how much True Believers deny it is so. [...]
Part of the challenge of living life on earth is to be able to figure out where something begins and where it ends.
That is why science and its methodology are such pitifully inadequate and pathetically artificial and limited human constructs.
Even ...
I don't get it. I just don't.
I don't get the fact that Muslims don't seem to get it.
And I don't get the fact that the Non-Muslims and the world don't seem to get it.
They all seem to have some vague ...