religious studies
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Important 🧵 KS Lal was questioned & discredited by likes of Jackson & Habib. Read how he responded so well to the charges of being selective etc as it happens even today & expo...
It amazes me as to how here peers at @rutgersU maintain silence at her lies. In a long thread she makes some ludicrous points like the one attached below. She might as well say th...
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad misattributed the following hadith to al-Bukhari. Qadianis respond by saying: - Maybe it is in another manuscript of al-Bukhari. - So what? Prophets make mista...
In all this discussion regarding Vedādhikāra, one thing is clear. Those who oppose the restrictions are only concerned with their own agency. They see Śruti & Smṛti as just insenti...
#Quote "Ravan was neither a monster nor a flesh eater. All that those bad poets (Valmiki & others) have described, is a lie." - Lord Mahavir, quoted by a Jain disciple in Padma Ch...
Who was the Mu'tazilite al-Rabi' bin Subayh (160 AH)? Al-Rabi' taught Sufyan al-Thawri, Wakee', Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi, and others. Shu'ba said that he is from the masters of the...
It took me 4 months to finish reading Bhagawad Gita but you can learn all of it in 2 mins. Here are the chapter-wise takeaways:
A fantastic book that I have benefitted from in my own book on ḥadīth has been Ahmad Snobar’s amazing Min al-Nabī Ṣallallāhu ʿAlayhi Wasallam Ila’l Bukhārī. A monumental book that...
"The suppression of Buddhist notions of transmigration between human and other life-forms, and its notion that human beings can attain divine Buddhahood, paved the way for the mas...
The Absolute Minimum a Student of Knowledge Should Memorise: First thing is the Qur'an. This should be a given. After that: Nahw: Nadhm al Ajurrūmiyyah by Al Shinqītī (150 lines...
To be reborn into the Solar world [THREAD] Syrianus, the famous master of Proclus and Hermeias, conceived the rites of the sacrifice, offered by the Homeric Achilles at the funera...
@Ugrashravas @arya_amsha Had done a thread on this a while ago. https://t.co/SU0xmrYEKy
1/x: A thread on Hindutva - by a Sikh. The basics 1st >> Hindutva is an etymologically, lexicologically & historically more accurate term for Hinduism (which is not an ‘ism’ in the...
@tskrishnan “Śaiva” refers to a doctrinal inclination/initiatory identity (Dīkṣā). There is literally nothing mutually exclusive about being a Śaiva & worshiping other Gods & pract...
'#InSearchOfTheDivine: Living Histories of Sufism in India' explores the fascinating roots of Sufism, with its emphasis on Ihsan, Iman and Akhlaq @iamrana tells how this impact p...
@Hadithoftheday Four times. The word "Madinah" is mentioned Four times in Qur'an: 1. Surah Tawbah- verse number 101. 2. Surah Tawbah - verse number 120 3. Surah Al-Ahzaab - ver...
Saturn Effect : In Mahabharat, When both the armies - Pandava and Kouravas,blew their conches to announce the beginning of the fight Arjuna became grief-stricken that, he was goin...
We don't make Kufr of the "ahl al-Qiblah - The people of the Qiblah". Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri explains this in Ikfar al-Mulhidin:
Thread: Recently read an absolutely outstanding book - “Religious conversion: Indian disputes and their European origins” by Sarah Clarehout and Jakob de Roover (1/n) https://t.co/...
A thread on hate taught in Muslim Schools in UK. A sting operation (2011-2017) at such a school in Birmingham exposes the hate against Hindus taught to Muslim students. Such scho...
#Thread on how different musIim countries have banned hijab and veils when our Supreme Court says "Hijab may promote diversity." 1. Egypt Banned Niqab in Cairo Uni. and their cou...
Indeed the gadA is a rather late iconographic element of hanUmat. It is missing even in the classical tantrika dhyAna-s for the key hanUmat-mantra-s & is not mentioned in the class...
Malaysian Mosques have interesting stories to tell, based on the history & multicultural society in Malaysia, which has influenced their architectural design. Invoking immense tra...
@BharadwajAgain This is how Mahabali was captured in front of Vamana Avatar. Mahabali was completely helpless and had to bow in front of Lord Vamana, the dwarf avatar. Show this...