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[Thread]What makes a hadith authentic? The basics of #HadithLiteracy
Ambedkar's ADAMBARVAAD-2 CLAIMS: Nirvana of BhagwatGeeta is stolen from BUDDHISM . Today we will look into the depth of his claims and check if there is any truth in his allegati...
A thread on some of the horrific crimes committed by Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb (1658 AD-1707 AD), and why they should not be whitewashed by scholars who are trying to push forward...
Al-Jahidh the early 3rd century Mu`tazili scholar said in his book “al-Hujaj fil-Nubuwwah” about the Imami Shia of his time: ليس على ظهرها رافضي إلا وهو يزعم أن ربه مثله [There i...
1/7 Glen Bowersock is one of the leading US historians on Late Antiquity, and in "The Crucible of Islam" (2017) he shows why Crone was wrong in denying the historicity/importance...
Thread: Does the Sana'ā Manuscript (palimpsest) show that the Qurān has been changed? The Sana'ā Palimpsest is one of the many manuscripts discovered in 1972. It contains a layer...
Christians often say they 'civilized' the world. Who civilized Christianity? Greece and Rome. Polytheistic Pagan cultures. What did Christians do in turn? Appropriated their entire...
The earliest panegyrics with Bhaktic content can be traced to hymns in the 7th Maṇḍala of the Ṛgveda in which Vasiṣṭa seeks reconciliation with Varuṇa, speaks of his contemplative...
A list of some scholars who attributed al-Ibanah to Abil Hasan al-Ash'ari 📙 Thread 📙
Idk why this Barelwi is so obsessed with Sh Albani but if he spent some more time reading he would have come to know that many scholars have preceded Sh Albani in this view. Here...
There were plenty of scholar before MIAW who were against istighatha, it is another lie of Ahlul bidah that he was the first to be against it and consider it to be kufur. I will s...
Ha ha. Facts: Ertugrul was NOT a Muslim. He was a Pagan. Turkey makes purely fictional stories about Ertugrul, glorifying him as a Ghazi fighting crusaders & mongols. This idio...
[Thread] Debunking gondal's ignorance on Islam, specially Hadiths. Read till the end, please. In shaa Allah, I'll show everyone how Muslim scholars have critiqued this narration f...
Where did this child sacrificing "elite" cult come from? If we trace them back a few thousand years we can easily see these same practices being used by the Phonecians. The statue...
Many critics, for example Orientalist Arthur Jeffrey, say that the Qiraat are mistakes and emerge from the thoroughly dotless Uthmani mushaf . Well, for a Qiraat to be accepted, it...
Responding to the contentions raised by Hassan Allatyari regarding the context of Ghadīr. https://t.co/HJQzDr5zCT https://t.co/MXXXAUCN7t
The consonantal dotting of the Arabic script is something about which quite a bit of confusion exists, from its origins, application in manuscripts, quranic or otherwise and finall...
Bismillah Some people cite the following statement of Sh.Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahab (rahimahullah) as evidence to say that the sheikh declared the muslims of his time, including hi...
1/ What happened to the descendants of the Sasanian cavalry (known as the Asāwira) who went over to the Arabs during the conquest of Iraq? A thread on how Sasanian soldiers trans...
@DrAnanyaKaul You are mistaken on a few counts. First of all, Yogasutrabhashya (2.1) says Svadhayaya 1) Chanting Pranava (Om) or 2) Reading Mokshashastras (Vedic/Upanishadic sc...
If there was not a single manuscript of the Quran, the Quran would be preserved through the hearts of huffath and through chains of narration.
1️⃣Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia https://t.co/WFOXvza2TQ
1️⃣The Muslim Brotherhood: building parallel societies in Europe https://t.co/fw7oqWXMBM
Yoshida Kanetomo's formulation of Shinto in the 14-1500s has a touch of brilliance such that he can be called Japan's Astika. He developed the idea that the buddha-s and the bodhis...