Open Search form

Islam

Apply for a Blog

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 27, 2026, 4:56 AM

Analysing Moses – Take off your Sandals.

Taking Off Your Sandals: Humility Before God, Responsibility Before Others Approach revelation with humility. Trust God with the unseen. Use your intellect—and protect other people’s rights. Moses عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ approaches a fire. Then he hears a command that changes the significance...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 26, 2026, 1:27 PM

The best perfume you can wear.

What the everyday conduct of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ teaches us about the impression we leave on others. Before leaving home, we check the mirror. We straighten a collar, adjust our hair and perhaps apply a little perfume. We want our...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 25, 2026, 5:51 AM

Abraham’s Question – Part 2.

Abraham’s Question — Part 2 The Prophet Who Asked for Evidence Abraham عَلَيهِ‌السَّلام asked a question. Not because he had abandoned faith. Not because he had concluded that resurrection was impossible. He asked because belief and demonstration are not the same thing. The Qur’an records...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 25, 2026, 5:38 AM

Tahrif Is Not Jewish But Midrash Is

The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but didn’t in order to test our commitment to the religion that each of us have been given by God. “If Allah had...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 24, 2026, 6:47 AM

Abraham’s Question.

The Fingertip Hold up your hand. Look at the end of your index finger. There is nothing visually spectacular about it. A little skin, a nail, flesh and bone. Yet when the Qur’an challenges the human being who doubts resurrection, it chooses...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 22, 2026, 3:18 AM

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box When an airliner crashes, we search for the black box. We recover the flight-data recorder. We recover the cockpit-voice recorder. Investigators reconstruct what the aircraft was doing, what its systems were doing, what the crew knew and what happened...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 20, 2026, 4:43 PM

I compare Islam’s Tahrif to Midrash in Judaism

I am an American reform rabbi who frequently writes on interfaith dialogue, religious pluralism, and the historical connections between Judaism and Islam. My numerous articles are published across platforms like the Times of Israel Blogs, Islamicity and Eurasia Review....

Allen S. Maller

Sep 20, 2026, 7:05 AM

Prof. Emanuel Tov And The Sons of Israel or God Tahrif – Deuteronomy 32:8

Professor Emanuel Tov, the Magnes Professor of Bible (emeritus) in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University, where he received his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies points out that the Haʾazinu poem towards the end of Deuteronomy (Deut 32:1–43),...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 20, 2026, 1:09 AM

The Prophetic MBA.

What Shepherds, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Page and Sam Altman Can Teach Us About Innovation in the Age of AI There is a remarkably simple Islamic idea that could sit above an entire business school. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is...

David Charles Pollack

Sep 19, 2026, 6:05 PM

Did Muhammad Fast on Yom Kippur?

Before Muslims had to fast during Ramadan, there was Ashura. Ashura falls on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year. Muhammad is said to have explained that fasting on Ashura atones for the sins of...

Load more