By Yousef Drummond
There is the old adage that “a few rotten apples spoil the whole bunch”. I think this adage explicitly relates to the political hysteria enveloping the cable-news networks as well as local and national newspapers here in the United States that is now whipping up fears among non-Muslims that “each and every Muslim [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know…This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason. ”[1]
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees (1670)
“Of a surety there is a morsel of flesh in the body, if it is sound, the whole body will be sound, but if it is corrupt, [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“Whosever obeys the Messenger, has indeed obeyed Allaah” (Surah An-Nisa 4:80)[1]
“Hence the doctrines which he [Jesus] really delivered were defective as a whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us mutilated, misstated, and often unintelligible”[2].
Francis Bacon, David Hume, Isaac Newton, John Locke, John Toland, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson. [...]
By Yousef Drummond
“Our own soul, created wise and thoughtful in the image of God, having refused to know God, has become bestial, senseless and almost insane through delighting in material things”
- Saint Gregory of Sinai[1]
“People sleep, and when they die they wake”[2]
- Prophet Muhammad (salla-lahu-alaihi-wa-salam)
There are, to date, thousands of empirical studies in the moral [...]
By Yousef Drummond
The French government’ s recent decision to ban all Muslima’s from wearing the hijab in public, along with its decision to impose substantial fines to those aiding and abetting Muslima’s to wear the hijab in public[1], is not surprising, but is nonetheless a judicial decision driven by the fundamental core of the French [...]
By Yousef Drummond
"And verily, you [O Muhammad] are on an exalted [standard of] character." (Qur’an, 68:4)
Centuries of popular belief has convinced many people that Divine Guidance do not elevate a person’s moral conduct, or that our moral conduct is thought to be“natural”, that is, one that stems inherently from human nature.
Nearly a month ago, [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND
CULTURE gives life to the human mind as effectively as water gives life to plants.
Islam is a reasonable faith by virtue of two significant historical observations: human beings of all races and cultures embrace this faith without reservation and with exuberant zeal because of its consistency with human reason and humble deliberation. We [...]
By Yousef Drummond
Culture gives life to the human mind as effectively as water gives life to plants.
Islam is a reasonable faith by virtue of two significant historical observations: human beings of all races and cultures embrace this faith without reservation and with exuberant zeal because of its consistency with human reason and humble deliberation. We [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND
THERE are countless episodes in our lives where each of us walked away after many hours of conversation with another person about a particular topic or issue because that person’s logical train of thought allowed them to arrive at her or his conclusion that we think is somehow “unreasonable”. We privately conclude, for [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND
MY young nephew, Matthew, sat on my bed, cross-legged, in rapt attention to the television-set set one afternoon after pre-school. He was watching a quaint animated sit-com on Nickelodeon, a television station here in the U.S. that caters to the educational needs of millions of toddlers. The animated sit-com is called “Little Bill”. [...]
