Apart from being story-telling creatures, we humans are also meaning-seeking creatures. Once we're fed, clothed and sheltered, we have an inner tendency to want to find purpose and meaning in things. No matter how much we're surrounded by comforts, or how much our needs and wants are catered for, we have an innate drive and…
Satan’s Deceit, Adam’s Slip & the Tree of Immortality
This read starts with the question: Does it matter how one sins? To answer it, it explores the deeper layers of the story of Adam, Satan and the divine command to not eat from the Tree of Immortality, in order to understand why it is that at the end of the story Adam is bathed…
Pilgrimage of Reason: Proofs for God’s Existence [2/2]
In the first part of the blog (here), I discussed a 'proof' for the existence of God vis-a-via the kalam cosmological argument. We saw how, as a rational argument, it is well reasoned, cogent and logical; hence giving a lie to New Atheism’s allegation that belief in God is irrational. But since the proof is highly abstract and theoretical, I suggested…
Ma‘rifah: Getting to Know God
When we compare our lifespans, wherein our lives unfold, to the age of the earth or to the visible universe of nearly fourteen billion years, it seems less significant than a drop of water in an endless ocean. To today’s materialists, life holds little significance beyond that of selfish genes and chance mutations (or of exploitation and unfettered consumption).…
Was the Universe Expecting Us?
Freeman Dyson, one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists, wrote: 'The more I exam the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming,’1 Today scientists don't hesitate to acknowledge this wondrous fact of how tailor-made to life our universe is.…