prophecy

Defense and exploration of biblical prophecy, its fulfillment, and interpretive challenges.

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Chapter Four The Mahdi: Islams Awaited Messiah Among the Major Signs, the most anticipated and central sign that Muslims are awaiting is the coming of a man known as, The Mahdi. In Arabic, al-Mahdi means, The Guided One 1 He is also sometimes referred to by Shia Muslims as Sahib

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More End-Times Nonsense? Members Public

Chapter One Why This Book? Waking Up To The Islamic Revival Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand - a day of darkness and

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Qur'an Contradiction: Did All Prophets Receive the Same Book? Members Public

Qur'an Contradiction Did All Prophets Receive the Same Book? Jochen Katz Sura 6:74-90 is a passage full of factual errors, logical contradictions and other problems. The first part, S. 6:74-82, narrates how Abraham became a believer. The article, Abraham and the Sun, discusses a number of

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Was Jonah cast on the desert shore or was he not? Members Public

Surah 37 ("as-Saaffaat") reads in verse 145: "fa-nabadhnaahu bil-`araai wa-huwa saqeemun" A verbatim translation is: "Then We cast him on the desert plain and he was sick" The well known Muslim translators render this verse: Pickthall: "Then We cast him on a

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Abraham and Solomon Members Public

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 585: Narrated Abu Dhar: I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Which mosque was first built on the surface of the earth?" He said, "Al-Masjid-ul-Haram (in Mecca)." I said, "Which was built next?" He replied "The

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Moses and the Samaritan Members Public

Jochen Katz In the story of incident with the golden calf we read He [Allah] said, "We have tempted thy people since thou didst leave them. The Samaritan has led them into error." Then Moses returned ... they [the Israelites] said, "... and we cast them [(gold) ornaments], as

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Zaid ibn Amr ibn Nufail's Cosmological Views and Their Influence on the Quran Members Public

Zaid ibn Amr ibn Nufail's Cosmological Views and Their Influence on the Quran According to Muslim sources, prior to Islam there was a group of Arab men who abandoned the paganism of Arabia, specifically of Mecca. They had decided that they would only worship the one true God

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Who are those messengers that were rejected by Noah's people? Members Public

Examining some Muslim responses Jochen Katz Since the Bible does not know of any other messengers contemporary to Noah, and the Qur'an also speaks only in the singular in all other passages dealing with the time and story of Noah (cf. this list), I had asked nearly fifteen

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