Islam A Rational Perspective

Islam
Separating Myth from Reality

The Event
1. 1426 years ago a window opened in the
heavens and God (Allah ) spoke to
mankind.
2. The message was the same that had come
many times before in the history of
mankind.
3. The difference was that this was the last
The time
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message would be sent.
that message was ‘Islam’
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Purpose of this
presentation
 To encourage genuine scientific
enquiry into the reality of the
Creator and His Message
 To open minds to the truth of Islam
through a rational approach
 To ask ourselves the question:
What will happen to me when I
die?
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The three basis of Islam
1. Belief in Allah and his
Prophet
2. Divine origin of the Qur’an and
Islam
3. Belief in the Day of Judgment
when we will be brought to
account irrespective of what we
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Let’s examine each of
them
From a standpoint of logic,

not belief
Scientific case for God
Why only one God?

Question for seekers of
truth
Qur’an 4:82:
“Do they not carefully
consider the Qur’an ? If it had
been from anyone other than
Allah they would have found
in it many contradictions."
Creation is not an accident
 Donald Page of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study has
calculated the odds against the formation of our universe
without God putting in the necessary constants. And the figure
comes out to be one out of 10,000,000 to the power 124. To
see how impossible it is compare this number to the total
amount of subatomic particles in the whole universe, which
has been calculated to be 10 to the power 80.
 According to physicists, if the neutron mass was 0.998 of its
present mass, the decay of protons would make the existence
of atoms impossible. There would be no life. The designer had
life in mind when He set the balance.
 Qur’an 55:7 "He (Allah) has set the balance."
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Why only one God
 If there were more than one God then different parts of the
universe would not have worked with such uniformity as they
did and as is always the case (when two or more create
something), parts of the matter in the universe would have
originated at different times. Yet scientists and laws are in
agreement that the Big Bang was when all energy and matter
originated in the universe.
 Qur’an 23:91" There has never been any other god besides
Allah. Otherwise, each god would have declared independence
with their creations, and they would have competed with each
other for dominance. Allah be glorified; far above their
claims."
 Qur’an 21:22. "If there were in them (the heavens and the
earth) other gods beside Allah,
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So He said about Himself
 Qur’an: 112: "Say: He is Allah
the One. Allah, the eternal,
absolute. He begets not, nor was
He begotten and there is nothing
like Him.”
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Divine nature of the
Qur’an
Is also proof of the

Prophethood of Muhammad
The Messenger of Allah

Invitation to intelligent
people
 Qur’an:3:190-91 Behold! in the creation of the heavens
and the earth and the alternation of night and day there are
indeed Signs for men of intelligence/understanding. Men
who celebrate the praises of Allah standing sitting and lying
down on their sides and contemplate the (wonders of)
creation in the heavens and the earth (with the thought):
"Our Lord! not for nothing have you created (all) this! Glory
to You! give us salvation from the penalty of the fire.
The first sign of intelligence is to recognize

our Creator
What is the Qur’an?
 The Qur'an is an eternal miracle. It was revealed to
Prophet Muhammad who was unlettered. Yet it is
acclaimed as the finest example of Arabic literary
excellence of all time.
 It also contains information about the universe that
was not discovered by science until several centuries
after the revelation.
 It is the last Book of Allah sent for the guidance of
all humanity through His last Prophet, Muhammad
How was it revealed?
 The Qur'an was revealed in stages
through a period of about 23 years.
 The Prophet received the first
revelation in 610 CE, in the Cave of
Hira in the Mountain of Light (Jabal-
an-Noor), two and a half miles away
from the city of Makkah
The Angel Jibraeel (Gabriel) used to come
with the Word of Allah
The first verses
 The first revelation was the first 5 verses of
Surah (chapter) Al-Alaq (96:1-5)
 "Read in the name of your Lord who

created, created man from a clot. Read,
for your Lord is most Generous, Who
teaches by means of the pen, teaches
man what he does not know."
Allah invites mankind to ‘read’ His signs

in the Universe around us
For whom is the Qur’an?
 The teachings of the Qur'an are universal,
addressed to all people throughout the world
until the end of time, regardless of their
tribe, race, gender, nationality, creed or
color.
 They enlighten the soul, condemn all
wrongs, order good deeds and call for the
establishment of justice and fraternity
through obeying Allah to whom we will
all return and account
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How was the Qur’an
preserved?
 Memorization
 From the earliest revelation it was memorized by the
Prophet himself as well as by many of his companions
 Writing
 Scribes (there were 42, under Zaid bin Thabit) wrote
down the revelation, which they read out to the Prophet
to verify its correctness.
 As a source of the Shari`ah (Islamic Law)
 The Qur’an and the Sunnah are the sources of Islamic law
and this has helped in preserving both through practicing
the principles enshrined therein.

The Qur’an and Science
An Inherent Compatibility
Divine origin of the Qur’an
 The Qur’an is not the words of Prophet
Muhammad . The author of the
Qur’an is Allah himself
 There are many proofs of this, some of
which are mentioned in the following
slides
Our Universe
Signs of the Creator all

around us
The ‘Fundamental
Constants’
 Qur’an 31:20 Do they [the disbelievers] not see that Allah
has subjected for them whatsoever is in the heavens and on
earth
 Qur’an 54:49 " Indeed We have created everything with a
set measure
 Compare these statements in the Qur’an to what the physicist Paul
Davies writes in his book, The Accidental Universe (1982):
"The numerical values that nature has assigned to the fundamental

constants, such as the charge on the electron, the mass of the proton,
and the Newtonian Gravitational constant, may be mysterious, but
they are critically relevant to the structure of the universe that we
perceive. As more and more physical systems from nuclei to galaxies
have become better understood, scientists have begun to realize that
many characteristics of these systems are remarkably sensitive to the
precise value of the fundamental constants. Had nature opted for a
slightly different set of numbers,
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The ‘Big Bang’ theory
 Qur’an: 21:30 "Do not the unbelievers see
that the Heavens and the earth were joined
together, then We split them apart."
 Professor Alfred Kroner, chairman of the Department of
Geology at the Institute of Geosciences, Johannes
Gutenburg University, Mainz, Germany stated about this
verse in the Qur’an: "Somebody who did not know
something about nuclear physics 1400 years ago could
not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own
mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had
the same origin, or many others of the questions that
we have discussed here. (Rehaili 1995)"
The Expanding Universe
 The Expanding Universe
 Qur’an:51:47 "And the firmament, We
constructed with power and skill and verily
We are expanding it."
 The Protective Atmosphere
 Qur’an:21:32 "And We have made the
atmosphere a protective roof, yet do they
turn away from the Signs which these things
point to."

Movement of the Sun
 The sun's movement is not something that is evident to
our eyes but requires specialized equipment to observe.
 Qur’an: 21:33 "It is He who created the night and the

day, and the sun and the moon, all (the celestial bodies)
swim along, each in its orbit with its own motion."
 Qur’an: 36:39 “And the sun constantly journeys
towards a homing place for it and for the moon, We
have determined phases.”
 Modern science discovered that the sun rotates around its axis
every 26 days . The Qur’an mentions the movement of the
sun, with its own motion, signified by the verb ‘Yasbahoon’ in
Arabic. Thus according to the Qur’an the sun is not just flying
through space but moving on its own, i.e. rotating. The sun is
also continually on a journey in space towards its homing
place, the solar apex, as mentioned in the Qur’an.
Death of Stars, Phases of
Moon
 The Death of Stars
 Qur’an: 77:7-8 Assuredly what ye are promised
must come to pass. Then when the stars become
dim;
 Phases of the Moon

 Qur’an:36:38-39 And the Sun runs his course for a
period determined for him: that is the decree of
(Him) the exalted in Might the All-Knowing. And the
Moon We have measured for her phases (to traverse)
till she returns like the old (and withered) lower part
of date-stalk.
Origin of all life from water
 Qur’an:21:30 Do not the Unbelievers see that the
heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit
of Creation) before We clove them asunder? We made
from water every living thing. Will they not then
believe?
 Qur’an:25:54 It is He Who has created man from

water: then has He established relationships of lineage
and marriage: for thy Lord has power (over all things).
 Qur’an:24:45 And Allah has created every animal

from water: of them there are some that creep on their
bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some that walk
on four. Allah creates what He wills: for verily Allah has
power over all things.
Queen ant & Queen bee
 Qur’an:68-69 And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills
on trees and in (men's) habitations; Then to eat of all the produce (of
the earth) and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there
issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colors wherein is
healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.
(The Qur’an uses the female verb in describing the bee, in Arabic
faslukee.)
 Qur’an:27:18-19 At length when they came to a (lowly) valley of
ants one of the ants said: "O ye ants get into your habitations lest
Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it." So
he smiled amused at her speech; and he said: "O my Lord! so order
me that I may be grateful for Thy favors which Thou hast bestowed on
me and on my parents and that I may work the righteousness that will
please Thee: and admit me by Thy Grace to the ranks of Thy righteous
Servants.“ (The Qur’an uses the female verb Qalat to refer to the
speech of the ant)
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Invisible barrier between
seas
 Qur’an:55:19-20 He has let free the two
bodies of flowing water meeting together.
Between them is a Barrier which they do not
transgress:
 The French scientist Jacques Yves Cousteau conducted
various undersea investigations at the Strait of Gibraltar
and explaining these phenomena concluded:
"Unexpected fresh water springs issue from the

southern and northern coasts of Gibraltar. These
mammoth springs gush towards each other at angles of
45 degrees forming a reciprocal dam. Due to this fact
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Oceans cannot
intermingle (as quoted by Nurbaki)."
Isostacy & Mountain roots
 Qur’an:78:6-7 "Have we not expanded the earth and made
the mountains as tent pegs"
 Qur’an:31-10 " We have cast into the earth anchors lest it
shake with you"
 This fact was discovered less than 150 years ago by scientists and now
accepted as a fundamental law in geology, the concept of Isostacy. M. J Selby in
a standard-text on the subject entitled "Earth's Changing Surface (Clarendon
Press, Oxford 1985) states:
"G.B Airy in 1855 suggested that the crust of the earth could be likened to rafts
of timber floating on water. Thick pieces of timber float higher above the water
surface than thin pieces and similarly thick sections of the earth's crust will float
on a liquid or plastic substratum of greater density. Airy was suggesting that
mountains have a deep root of lower density rock, which the plains lack. Four
years after Airy published his work, J.H Pratt offered an alternative
hypothesis...By this hypothesis, rock columns below mountains must have a
lower density, because of their greater length, than shorter rock columns
beneath plains. Both Airy and Pratt's hypothesis imply that surface irregularities
are balanced by differences in density of rocks below the major features
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Within Ourselves
Qur’an:55:18
Then which of the favors of
your Lord will you deny?
The challenge of the
Qur’an
 Qur’an 41: 53: “We will show
them Our Signs in the universe and
in their own selves, until it
becomes manifest to them that
this (Qur’an) is the truth. Is it not
sufficient in regard to your Lord
that He is a Witness over all
things?”
Embryology
 Qur’an:16:4 “Allah fashioned man from a small quantity (of
sperm”
 Qur’an:23:13-14 “Then We placed him as a drop in a place
of rest. Then We made the drop into a leech like structure..."
 Qur’an:32:9 “And He (Allah) gave you hearing and sight and
feeling and understanding."
 Dr. E. Marshall Johnson Professor of Anatomy, concluded after studying

verses from Qur'an:
 "The Qur'an describes not only the development of external form
but emphasizes also the internal stages - the stages inside the
embryo of its creation and development, emphasizing major
events recognized by contemporary science... so I see nothing in
conflict with the concept that divine intervention was involved..."
Testimony of scientists
 Keith Moore, head of the department of anatomy, at the
University of Toronto, was shown verses of the Qur’an
dealing with the microscopic stages of the human
embryo. He was so surprised at what he found that he
went back and revised the history of embryology in his
standard texts on the subject. The books that Keith
Moore authored are used at prestigious institutions like
Yale and at universities all around the world. He stated,
after being unable to provide an explanation on how
microscopic details of the embryo could be accurately
described in a book written before the discovery of the
microscope:
"It is clear to me that these statements (in the Qur’an

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Circulation of blood & food
 Qur’an:16-6 "And surely in the cattle, there is a lesson
for you. We give you to drink of what is inside their
bodies, from between digested food and blood, pure
milk, pleasant to those who drink it."
The above verse of the Qur’an calls our attention to the food
distribution function of blood. It should be kept in mind
however that this information was made known to the west by
William Harvey, 1000 years after the Prophet’s death. If he
was the author of the Qur’an (as his enemies claim) how
would he have known, at the time that he lived that digested
food is transported via blood and then becomes the
constituent of milk secreted by the mammary glands?

Maurice Bucaille
 Maurice Bucaille, one of the first to popularize the linking of
the Qur’an and Science, in his best selling books, The Bible,
the Qur’an and Science, and What is the Origin of Man,
concluded that given the history of the origin of the Qur’an, it
could not have been the work of a man or group of men living
in Arabia or anywhere else at that time, considering the nature
of the scientific information in the Qur’an. Lecturing at the
French Academy of Medicine, he concluded on the subject: "It
makes us deem it quite unthinkable for a man of Muhammad's
time to have been the author of such statements on account
of the state of knowledge in his day. Such considerations are
what give the Qur’anic revelation its unique place and forces
the impartial scientist to admit his inability to provide an
explanation which calls solely
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Resurrection of the dead
 Qur’an: 75:1-6 I do call to witness the Resurrection
Day; And I do call to witness the self-reproaching spirit;
(eschew Evil). Does man think that We cannot assemble
his bones? Nay We are able to put together in perfect
order the very tips of his fingers. But man wishes to do
wrong (even) in the time in front of him. He questions:
"When is the Day of Resurrection?
 Qur’an: 75:36-40 Does Man think that he will be left
uncontrolled (without purpose)? Was he not a drop of
sperm emitted (in lowly form)? Then did he become a
leech-like clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him)
in due proportion. And of him He made two sexes male
and female. Has not He (the same) the power to
give life to the dead
So why then will we still not believe?
And on the Day of
Judgment?
 Qur’an:32-10-12 And they say: "What! when we lie
hidden and lost in the earth shall we indeed be in a
creation renewed?" Nay they deny the meeting with
their Lord! Say: "The Angel of Death put in charge of
you will (duly) take your souls: then shall ye be brought
back to your Lord. If only thou couldst see when the
guilty ones will bend low their heads before their Lord
(saying:) "Our Lord! We have seen and we have heard:
now send us back (to the world): we will work
righteousness: for we do indeed (now) believe.
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All that we need to do
today…
 Accept in our heart that there is
nobody worthy of worship except Allah
who created us and sustains us
and who will kill us and resurrect us
and who we will stand before to be
judged.
 And accept that Muhammad is His
slave and Messenger
Its as simple as that to become a Muslim!!
And what will happen
then??
 Qur’an:25;70-1 But if he repents, believes
and works righteous deeds, Allah will change
the evil of such persons into good and Allah is
Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. And whoever
repents and does good has truly turned to
Allah with an (acceptable) conversion
 The Mercy of Allah is such that not only will he
forgive our sins but will change them into good
deeds. If only we are ready to accept and obey
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Popular Notions and
Prejudices about Islam
Frequently Asked Questions

and their Answers
The Prophet of Islam
What others say about him

John William Draper
A history of the Intellectual Development of Europe,
Vol. 1
 “Four years after the death of

Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at
Mecca in Arabia, the man who of
all men, has exercised the greatest
influence upon the human race…
Mohammad….”

Major Arthur Glyn Leonard
Islam – Her Moral and Spiritual Value, London 1927,
p.20-1
 “Mohammad was no mere spiritual peddler, no

vulgar time-serving vagrant, but one of the
most profoundly sincere and earnest spirits of
any age or epoch. A man not only great, but
one of the greatest (i.e. truest), men that
humanity has ever produced. Great, not simply
as a prophet but as a patriot and a statesman:
a material as well as a spiritual builder who
constructed a great nation, a greater empire
and more even than all three, a still greater
Faith, true moreover, because he was true to
himself, his people and above all, to his God.”

Prof. K. S. Ramakrishna Rao,
Head of the Department of Philosophy,
Government College for Women University of Mysore, Mandya-
571401 (Karnataka). Mohammed The Prophet -Re-printed
from "Islam and Modern age", Hyderabad, March 1978.
 “The theory of Islam and Sword for instance is not heard

now frequently in any quarter worth the name. The
principle of Islam that there is no compulsion in
religion is well known. Gibbon, a historian of world
repute says, "A pernicious tenet has been imputed to
Mohammadans, the duty of extirpating all the religions
by sword.This charge based on ignorance and bigotry, is
refuted by Qur'an, by history of Musalman conquerors
and by their public and legal toleration of Christian
worship. The great success of Mohammad's life had
been effected by sheer moral force, without a stroke of
sword.”
Prof. K. S. Ramakrishna Rao,
Head of the Department of Philosophy,
Government College for Women University of Mysore, Mandya-
571401 (Karnataka). Mohammed The Prophet -Re-printed
from "Islam and Modern age", Hyderabad, March 1978.
 “The personality of Muhammed, it is most

difficult to get into the whole truth of it….There
is Muhammed, the Prophet. There is
Muhammed, the General; Muhammed, the
King; Muhammed the Preacher; Muhammed
the Philosopher; Muhammed the Statesman;
Muhammed the Orator; Muhammed the
Reformer; Muhammed the Protector of Slaves;
Muhammed the Emancipator of Women;
Muhammed the Judge; Muhammed the Saint.
And in all these magnificent roles, in all these
departments of human activities, he is alike, a
hero.”
Jules Masserman
U.S. psychoanalyst, Time Magazine, July 15, 1974
 Leaders must fulfill three functions – provide

for the well-being of the led; provide a social
organization in which people feel secure and
provide them with a set of beliefs.
 People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the
first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius
on one hand and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler
on the other are leaders in the second and
perhaps the third. Jesus and Buddha belong in
the third category alone.
 Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was
Mohammad who combined all three
functions.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 “Some one has said that Europeans in South
Africa dread the advent of Islam -- Islam that
civilized Spain, Islam that took the torch light to
Morocco and preached to the world the gospel of
brotherhood.The Europeans of South Africa dread
the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality with
the white races. They may well dread it, if
brotherhood is a sin. If it is equality of colored
races then their dread is well founded.”
Mahatma Gandhi again…..
 “I become more than ever convinced that it
was not the sword that won a place for Islam
in those days.
 It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-
effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous
regard fro pledges, his intense devotion to his
friends and followers and his intrepidity, his
fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in
his own mission.
 These and not the sword carried everything
before them and surmounted every obstacle.”
George Bernard Shaw
 “I have studied him – the wonderful
man – in in my opinion far from being
an anti-Christ he must be called the
Savior of Humanity. I believe that if a
man like him were to assume the
dictatorship of the modern world, he
would succeed in solving the problems
in a way that would bring much needed
peace and happiness.”
Rev. Bosworth Smith
“Mohammed and Mohammedanism”,
1874
 “By a fortune absolutely unique in history,

Mohammed is a threefold founder, of a nation,
of an empire and of a religion.
 He was Caesar and Pope in one, but he was
Pope without the Pope’s pretensions and
Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without
a standing army, without a bodyguard, without
a palace, without a fixed revenue, if ever any
man had the right to say that he ruled by right
Divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the
powers without its instruments and without its
supports.”
Lamartine
Historie de le Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol.11.Pages
276-77
 “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means

and astounding results are the three criteria of
human genius, who would dare to compare
any great man in history with Muhammad?
 Philosopher, apostle, legislator, warrior,
conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational beliefs,
of a cult without images, the founder of twenty
terrestrial empires and one spiritual empires,
that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by
which human greatness may be measured, we
may well ask, is there any man greater than
he?”
Sharma & Guillaume
 Diwan Chand Sharma
The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p.122
 “Muhammad was the soul of kindness and
his influence was felt and never forgotten
by those around him.”
 Alfred Guillaume,
Islam, Harmondsworth, London, 1954, p.2
 “At the outset let it be said that Muhammad
was one of the great figures of history….His
ability as a statesman faced with problems
of extraordinary complexity is truly
amazing.”
Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, London
1888,p.61
 “His household was the frugalest; his common

diet barley-bread and water; sometimes for
months there was not a fire once lighted on his
hearth. They record with just pride that he
would mend his own shoes, patch his own
cloak. A poor, hard-toiling, ill provided man;
careless of what vulgar men toil for.
 No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed as this
man in a cloak of his own clouting. During his
three and twenty years of rough trial, I find
something of a veritable hero necessary for
that of itself.”
Islamic Fundamentalism
Myth or Reality?
John Esposito,
Advisor to the US Government on Islamic affairs, in his
book, 'The Islamic Threat': Myth or Reality?
 “I regard 'fundamentalism as too laden with Christian

presuppositions and Western stereotypes, as well as
implying a monolithic threat that does not exist; more
fitting general terms are "Islamic Revivalism" or "Islamic
Activism", which are less value-laden and have roots
within the Islamic tradition.
 Islam possess a long tradition of revival (tajdid) and

reform (islah) which includes notions of political and
social activism dating from early Islamic centuries to the
present day.”
About double standards: John Esposito
 "Focus on "Islamic fundamentalism" as a

global threat has reinforced a tendency to
equate violence with Islam, to fail to
distinguish between illegitimate use of religion
by individuals and the faith and practice of the
majority of the world's Muslims who, like
believers in other religious traditions, wish to
live in peace.”

About double standards: John Esposito
 “To uncritically equate Islam and Islamic

fundamentalism with extremism is to judge
Islam only by those who wreak havoc, a
standard not applied to Judaism and
Christianity. Fear of fundamentalism creates a
climate in which Muslims and Islamic
organizations are guilty until proven innocent.
Actions, however heinous, are attributed to
Islam rather than to a twisted or distorted
interpretation of Islam.”

And the effect of this: John Esposito
 “Thus, for example, despite the historic track

record of Christianity and Western countries in
conducting warfare, developing weapons of
mass destruction, and imposing their
imperialist designs, Islam and Muslim culture
are portrayed as somehow peculiarly and
inherently expansionist and prone to violence
and warfare (jihad)“.

Women in Islam
The Myth & The Reality

Equality of Men and
Women
 In Islam there is complete equality
between men and women in all respects
of duties and rewards and a difference
in responsibilities in relation to their
nature of creation.
 One is not superior to the other; only
different in terms of some
responsibilities, like the upbringing of
children.
Equality of Men and
Women
 Qur'an 49:13 O mankind! We created you from a single
(pair) of a male and a female.
 Qur'an 4:1 O Mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord,
Who created you from a single person, created of like
nature his mate, from them scattered countless men
and women. Fear Allah, through whom you demand
your mutual rights and reverence the wombs (that bore
you), for Allah ever watches over you.
 Qur'an 3:195 Never will I waste the work of a worker
among you, whether male or female, the one of you
being from the other.

Comparison of some of the
Rights of
Women & Men
 Right to own property  Wife has a right in the
and income. She need husband’s property and

not share it with the income. It is the duty of
husband at all. the husband to support
 Right to be paid to bring the wife unconditionally.
up children including  Right to have the wife
nursing them obey him in all matters

 Right to marry anyone of that are not against
their choice Islam.
 Right to divorce the wife
 Right to divorce the
husband even without his for specific reasons in the
consent and to have this presence of 2 witnesses
written in the marriage after first exhausting all
contract avenues of resolving
differences
 Right to receive the Mehr
 Thewrite
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Women as an example for all
time
 Qur’an 66: 10-12: Allah sets forth, for an example to the
unbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were
both under two of our righteous servants, but they were false
to their husbands and they profited nothing before Allah on
their account, but were told: 'Enter you the Fire along with
others that enter! And Allah sets forth, as an example to those
who believe, the wife of Pharaoh. Behold she said: 'O my Lord!
Build for me, in nearness to You, a mansion in Paradise, and
save me from Pharaoh and his doings, and save me from
those who do wrong.' And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who
guarded her chastity. We breathed into her body of Our Spirit
and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of
His revelations and was one of the devout.
The Veil
 In Islam men and women are equally directed to be
modest and to dress and conduct themselves in a way
that sets them apart from others and makes them
recognizable as Muslims.
 Qur’an 33:59 O Prophet! Tell your wives and your
daughters and the women of the believers to draw their
cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e.screen themselves
completely except the eyes). That will be better, that they
should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to
be annoyed and Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
 Qur’an 24:30 Tell the believing men to lower their gaze
and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts,
etc.). That is purer for them. Verily, Allah is All-Aware of
what they do.
Symbol of Freedom or Oppression?

Is this Freedom or
Oppression?
 33% of women in America are unwed mothers bringing up
children born out of wedlock on their own.
 ‘Beauty Contests’ which treat women as a sex object and
reinforce the myth that unless a woman is attractive to men
she is worthless.
 ‘Proms’ in Western schools where girls who can’t get a partner
(because they are not attractive) commit suicide every year.
 Peer pressure on girls to have boy friends and be attractive to
boys by dressing provocatively (case in point: TV serials about
schools)
 Using the female body as an object to attract attention in
liquor, car, motorcycle, advertising
 Teen pregnancy, abortion, free sex, teen magazines: are these
signs of freedom or of female enslavement by a male
dominated society
Did you ever wonder?
 Why despite all the hype about women’s
rights, America feels it can’t even think of a
woman President in the next 20 years? (Gallup
Poll, 1998)
 Why women executives and workers in the US
are paid less than their male counterparts to
this day?
 Why is it that despite all the noise, the number
of female top executives in American &
European industry or government is still a
miniscule
07/09/08 number?
 When a western woman stays at home to look after the
house and kids she's sacrificing herself and doing good
for the household, but when a Muslim woman does so,
she "needs to be liberated"?
 When anyone chooses to express their identity in the
form of their dress or way of life this is acceptable but
when a Muslim does it, it is seen as adversarial?
 When a person of another faith (Zionist, IRA, VHP,
Bajrang Dal, Khalistan, LTTE) kills someone, religion is
not mentioned, but when a Muslim is charged with a
crime, it's Islam that goes to trial?

 Why a nun can be covered from head to toe and she’s
respected for devoting herself to God, but when a
Muslim woman does that, she’s “oppressed”?
 Why a Jew, Sikh or Hindu can grow a beard and he’s just
practicing his faith, and when a Muslim does that, he's
an “extremist”?
 Why a Hindu can go to the temple every day and wear
viboodhi (ash) on his forehead, or a Sikh can wear a
turban to work but when a Muslim prays regularly and
wears Islamic dress he is a “fundamentalist”?

But then again, why is it
after all that, that Islam is
still the fastest growing
religion in the world?
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to contact me by email:
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Islam

Separating Myth from Reality

From a standpoint of logic,

Why only one God?

Logically if Allah were like us,

Is also proof of the

The Messenger of Allah

The first sign of intelligence is to recognize

 "Read in the name of your Lord who

Allah invites mankind to ‘read’ His signs

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Signs of the Creator all

"The numerical values that nature has assigned to the fundamental

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 Qur’an: 21:33 "It is He who created the night and the

 Phases of the Moon

 Qur’an:25:54 It is He Who has created man from

 Qur’an:24:45 And Allah has created every animal

"Unexpected fresh water springs issue from the

 Dr. E. Marshall Johnson Professor of Anatomy, concluded after studying

"It is clear to me that these statements (in the Qur’an

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Frequently Asked Questions

What others say about him

 “Four years after the death of

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 “Mohammad was no mere spiritual peddler, no

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 “The theory of Islam and Sword for instance is not heard

 “The personality of Muhammed, it is most

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 “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means

 “His household was the frugalest; his common

 “I regard 'fundamentalism as too laden with Christian

 Islam possess a long tradition of revival (tajdid) and

 "Focus on "Islamic fundamentalism" as a

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 “To uncritically equate Islam and Islamic

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 “Thus, for example, despite the historic track

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The Myth & The Reality

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and income. She need husband’s property and

nursing them obey him in all matters

Symbol of Freedom or Oppression?

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