sunnah
Analysis of the Sunnah, traditional Islamic practices, and their theological significance.
Can Allah be seen and did Muhammad see his Lord? Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun The Quran suggests that Muhammad saw Allah, that he had a vision in which Allah appeared to him visibly: By the Star when it plunges, your comrade is not astray, neither errs, nor speaks he out of caprice. This is naught but a revelation revealed, taught HIM by
Where is Allah Exactly? Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun The Quran presents a rather incoherent and contradictory portrait of Allah and his attributes. The Quran, in two places, says that nothing resembles Allah (cf. Surah 42:11; 112:4), and yet scores of passages speak of Allah in highly anthropomorphic terms, i.e. Allah ascends and descends,
Allah: An Exalted Woman? Examining the Issue of Allahs Veil Paid Members Public
Allah: An Exalted Woman? Examining the Issue of Allahs Veil Sam Shamoun In some of our previous articles (1; 2; 3; see also this article) we looked at the depiction of Allah as found in the Quran and Islamic hadith literature and discovered that Muhammad or the compiler(s) of