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  1. Wharfe Dale

    paul

    6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed. 7 But we speak God’s wisdom, a hidden mystery, which God decreed before the ages for our glory 8 and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the lord of glory

    so satanic rulers would not have crucified had they have known about god’s plan?

    mark:

    When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him, 7 and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 Then Jesus[b] asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region. 11 Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding, 12 and the unclean spirits[c] begged him, “Send us into the swine; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, stampeded down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

    1. can you show anywhere in the writings of paul where satan or his forces consider jesos “son of most high” ?
    2. it appears to me that in pauls writing satan thought jesus was easy work, so what the hell is mark on about ?

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  2. Wharfe Dale

    “he says he didn’t receive the gospel from any man… after years of persecuting christians for their beliefs, he doesn’t know what christians believe?”

    paul lied!

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  4. omihi12

    Has anyone seen the latest video on Youtube from the channel “Jesus is Eternal” about the crusades? Can you QB or Stew or who else give me an opinion regarding it? I am not well informed regarding this topic. I need to learn more.

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  5. Khaleel

    @stewjo004

    It’s about a “scholar” from Oxford who claims that hadiths are not to be trusted, so Farid responds to him and this catches the attention of one person from reddit in the academic quran sub who responds to him. This post was sent to me by one of the members of the reddit when I was having a discussion with him on hadith.

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    1. stewjo004

      @khaleel

      I would need everybody’s stuff to look over the entire thing, my first question is how do they get around hadith books like the Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih? We know Bukhari used this (and others) and we can compare and contrasts them and their the same other than like different words for verbs (for example “he got up” “he stood up”)

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      1. Vaqas Rehman

        @Stew

        Honestly if you ever get the chance you should check out Farid’s live stream reponse. It’s like three hours of him reacting to dr little’s arguments & refuting them. While br Farid dosen’t always understand little’s arguments or go as in depth with the refutation it’s still hilarious! Dr little’s points against hadith are that bad.

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  6. Vaqas Rehman

    Those among us who have strong mental fortitude should take the time to document all the Ex-muslims, Christian apologists, liberal “allies”, conservative “allies” who have been openly supporting the zionist sponsered genocide. Especially in the wake of the flour massacre. Ridwan for example, has been intellectualy prostituting himself on twitter(currently known as ‘X’) for the zionist cause. I keep trying to to save stuff on the wayback machine but it keeps saying it’s servers are overloaded and never saves any webpages I send it. Anyone know other ways to document their guilt?

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      1. Vaqas Rehman

        @Stew

        I’m pretty sure I do. I think we emailed a bit a few years ago. It’s getting kinda late on my side right now tho so if you want I can send you a test email tommorow. Hope that’s ok.

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  7. Ahmed

    Salam!

    Big fan of your videos, is it possible to make a refutation to a apologetic channel called reasoned answers?

    They are becoming more and more popular especially on thier recent streams mufti menk.

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  10. Vitamin Protein

    Does precum invalidates fast?

    After waking up in the morning(after offering morning prayers)

    I was thinking about having sex(imagination), I touched my penis( not masterbation) just touched( tried to rub a little) and secretion came out.

    Is my fast invalidated?

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  12. Goku

    How can Muslims criticize christians on Numbers 31:17-18 if Allah himself destroyed people of Lot(including children) and other civilizations which turned away from God?

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    2. stewjo004

      @Goku

      As noted Allah taking like through natural disaster is much different from ordering killings. 2 responses:

      Allah does not command the believers to do evil:

      “These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.” (Proverbs 6:16-19)

      Whenever they do shameless and disgusting acts they say: “We found our parents doing the same thing.” And “God has commanded us to do this.”  Tell them: “God does not command anybody to do disgusting acts. Are you saying things about God which you have no knowledge of ?” (7:28)

      And by every standard on the planet killing kids and babies is evil

      2. The Jews are criticized for this lie on Allah in the Quran

      “…But even after My Messengers came to them in succession with clear directions and proof, the majority of them continued to go overboard in killing throughout the land.” (5:32)

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  14. Ali

    Book of Revelation: *

    The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the Great River, the Euphrates; and Its water was dried up to prepare a way for the kings from the east (16:12) 

    Is this verse talking about the army which will emerge from khorasan?

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    1. stewjo004

      Allah, Elohim and Elah possibly do (See John Day’s Yahweh and the gods and goddesses of Canaan)

      “

      Another possible instance of influence from El comes in the references to Yahweh as ‘el IJannun weral;um (Jon. 4.2; Neh. 9.31), ‘el
      ral;um welJannun (Exod. 34.6; Ps. 103.8) or ‘el raJ;ium (Deut. 4.31), that
      is, ‘a God gracious and merciful’, ‘a God merciful and gracious’, or ‘a
      merciful God’. In Ugaritic El is noted for these qualities and is frequently referred to as ltpn ‘ii dp’id, ‘the kindly one, El, the compassionate’, and these precise terms have survived in the epithets used of
      Allah in Arabic, latif ‘kind’ and gu Ju’ iid, ‘merciful’. One may also
      recall the frequent introductory allusions to Allah in the Koran: bismi
      lliihi r-ra”/Jmiini r-ra};iimi, ‘In the name of Allah, the compassionate and
      merciful’. It is possible that the Old Testament terminology is derived
      from El as, for example, H. Spieckermann37 has argued, though R.
      Rendtorff8 doubts it, as the words in the Old Testament, unlike those
      used in Arabic, are not identical to those in U garitic. Since Hebrew
      lacks forms corresponding precisely to those in U garitic, however,
      Rendtorff’s objection is not a decisive argument.”

      https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780567537836_A23695621/preview-9780567537836_A23695621.pdf

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  16. Ali

    Can you please provide me the source( copied it from Haqiqatjou’s telegram post:

    Time to DEBUNK this Jewish supremacist meme that Zionists love to spread on X. Did you know that, the vast majority of Nobel Prizes won by Jews were won by Askhenazi Jews?Sephardic Jews have only won a handful and Mizrahi Jews have won ZERO. Even in Israel, where Ashkenazi Jews are the minority, they have won ALL the Nobel Prizes in Israel. Meanwhile, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Israel have won ZERO, even though they are the majority of the population.Ashkenazi Jews are the sub-group of Jews who historically most mixed with white Western Europeans, whereas Sephardic and Mizrahi are mixed with non-Europeans.Given this data, what kind of conclusions should we draw about the Jewish race and its unique and superior genius? Should we be more specific and say it is the Jews who mixed with Western Europeans who are “making a difference for humanity,” not these other Jewish sub-categories? Can a Jewish supremacist on this app please educate me? As an inferior non-Jew, I want to understand all the nuances of the genetic and cultural superiority that Jews posses. Correction: That Ashkenazi Jews posses. The Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, apparently, are just as inferior as the rest of us

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  18. Ali

    Book 22, Number 3853:

    Narrated Kabshah daughter of AbuBakrah:

    (the narrator other than Musa said that Kayyisah daughter of AbuBakrah) She said that her father used to forbid his family to have themselves cupped on a Tuesday, and used to assert on the authority of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) that Tuesday is the day of blood in which there is an hour when it does not stop.

    Is this hadith authentic?

    Is it scientific?

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      2. Walaikum as-salaam. First of all, why are you even reading this material if your knowledge is so weak?

        And why are you unwittingly promoting this garbage by sharing it with Muslims?

        You know, after all these years, I have come to the conclusion that some Muslims are their own worst enemies. Mostly, it’s the younger generation. In your naivete and inexperience, you get yourself in trouble and start having “doubts” because you read an article or saw a video from an Islamophobe and don’t know how to respond.

        What really irritates me is that brothers like you send me requests to “refute” not just an article here or a video there, but an entire website! As if I have no other life outside of blogging! I have also had some brothers request that I “refute” an entire YouTube channel! What is this? Am I only here to refute every website and channel on the internet?

        Take my advice, and get off social media and go learn your deen. Stop reading anti-Muslim articles. Spend your time wisely. Learn first. Then engage with the Islamophobes.

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      4. That’s another point I forgot to make. I often times get requests for “refutations” without any background information. That’s how lazy some of our brothers are. They expect someone else to do all the work for them. It enrages me.

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      5. stewjo004

        @QB

        Don’t worry we can tell lol. While I too find when a specific argument is not mentioned to be annoying (as I don’t want to read more of their crapm then neccessary) try to be more merciful to the younger brothers. While many of them did exactly what you said (or are even trying to see if Islam is true) It’s better to have patientience with them as Allah told the Prophetﷺ to after the archers left the hill at Uhud. Remeber you may be setting yourself up with a sadaqah jariyah as Allah allowed the person to be guided through your actions. Just some food for thought QB

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      6. Bro, I know, and I’ve tried. But it just happens so often that I’ve just had it. These younger brothers are unbelievably naive and foolish. I have given this same advice to so many people, I have lost count.

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  19. ᮒ

    Assalam alaykum

    In Surah Al Anbiyya verse 30 Allah ﷻ said

    Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?

    But we know that angels were created from light and jinn from fire.Can anyone explain it?

    Jazakallah khayran

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    1. Walaikum as-salaam. Very simple. The verse refers to living things on earth like humans, plants, and animals.

      Perhaps angels and jinn were also created partially with water, too. Just because angels were created from light doesn’t mean they were created ONLY from light, just like humans were created from clay doesnt mean ONLY clay was used. Allah knows best.

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  20. Jafaar187

    Salam alaykum, In the Quran it says that Mohamed PBUH was the first of the believers from his people same as Ibrahim, But wasn’t Waraqa the first of the believers or the Hanifs?

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    1. stewjo004

      @Jafaar

      Walakum salam wa rahma tu lahi wa barakatu,

      I think you’re combining ayah together. In the Quran Allah does not say heﷺ was the first of hisﷺ people to be Hanif. It says to tell them heﷺ is of the first to submit (i.e. Be Muslim) (6:14, 6:161-163, 39:11-12)

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    1. stewjo004

      @Ali

      Remeber that technically the “time” is not what we’re going by when determining if a slah is in or out but Allah hu alim you should be fine

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    2. You shouldn’t delay until the time is almost over without a valid excuse, but as long as you start the prayer within the allowed time, it should be valid, inshaAllah. But again, delaying until the time is almost over without an excuse is a major sin.

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  23. So I was doing some research on P.Oxy 405 on EW forum. It’s intriguing to learn that Nongbri extends the parchment’s dating to the 3rd century. Although he hasn’t published a study on this yet (it’s an email correspondence with a member), it’s reasonable to assume he applied a similar paleographic methodology as he did for P52, it again shows how comically biased conservative scholarship is.

    https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=159728#p159728

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  25. Ed

    assalamualaykum friends. I thought I would share a post about something that I’m very interested in, the identity of Dhu’l-Qurnain.

    We can find extra-qur’anic references to the same person all over antiquity, and I thought I would share some parallels. We start in Surah 18:83 “They ask you ˹O Prophet˺ about Ⱬul-Qarnain. Say, “I will relate to you something of his narrative.” This already tells us that this was someone familiar to the people of Arabia, so that means our options must be someone either very famous, or local to Arabia.

    In Surah 18:84-86 we read: “Surely We established him in the land, and gave him the means to all things. So he travelled a course, until he reached the setting ˹point˺ of the sun, which appeared to him to be setting in a spring of murky water, where he found some people. We said, “O Ⱬul-Qarnain! Either punish them or treat them kindly.””

    We find a very similar narrative in the Syriac Alexander Legend (dated early 6th to early 7th century, and originating in northern Mesopotamia) “And king Alexander was afraid and retired, and he knew that it was impossible for them to cross over to the place where were the ends of the heavens. So the whole camp mounted, and Alexander and his troops went up between the fetid sea (possibly similar to the aforementioned “spring of murky water”) and the bright sea (this kind of “two seas” language could be similar to Surah 25:53) to the place where the sun enters the window of heaven; for the sun is the servant of the Lord, and neither by night nor by day does he cease from his travelling (similar to Surah 36:38 “The sun travels for its fixed term. That is the design of the Almighty, All-Knowing.) .

    Picking up at Surah 18:89-90 “Then he travelled a different course until he reached the rising point of the sun. He found it rising on a people whom We had provided no shelter from it”

    This idea is also in the Syriac Alexander Legend “The place of his rising is over the sea, and the people who dwell there, when he is about to rise, flee away and hide themselves in the sea, that they be not burnt by his rays; and he passes through the midst of the heavens to the place where he enters the window of heaven; and wherever he passes there are terrible mountains, and those who dwell there have caves hollowed out in the rocks, and as soon as they see the sun passing [over them], men and birds flee away from before him and hide in the caves, for rocks are rent by his blazing heat and fall down, and whether they be men or beasts, as soon as the stones touch them they are consumed. And when the sun enters the window of heaven, he straightway bows down and makes obeisance before God his Creator; (This passage closely mirrors Sahih al-Bukhari 3199 “The Prophet (ﷺ) asked me at sunset, “Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?” I replied, “Allah and His Apostle know better.” He said, “It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: “And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All- Knowing.“) and he travels and descends the whole night through the heavens, until at length he finds himself where he rises.

    Next, Surah 18:92-96 reads “Then he travelled a ˹third˺ course until he reached ˹a pass˺ between two mountains. He found in front of them a people who could hardly understand ˹his˺ language. They pleaded, “O Ⱬul-Qarnain! Surely Gog and Magog1 are spreading corruption throughout the land. Should we pay you tribute, provided that you build a wall between us and them?” He responded, “What my Lord has provided for me is far better. But assist me with resources, and I will build a barrier between you and them. Bring me blocks of iron!” Then, when he had filled up ˹the gap˺ between the two mountains, he ordered, “Blow!” When the iron became red hot, he said, “Bring me molten copper to pour over it.”

    This story is also present in the Syriac Alexander Legend, but appears to have much older origins, as it is mentioned by first century historian Josephus.

    (Antiquities 1:6)

    “Now they were the grandchildren of Noah, in honor of whom names were imposed on the nations by those that first seized upon them. Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tansis, and along Europe to Cadiz; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names. For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, [Galls,] but were then called Gomerites. Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians. Now as to Javan and Madai, the sons of Japhet; from Madai came the Madeans, who are called Medes, by the Greeks; but from Javan, Ionia, and all the Grecians, are derived. Thobel founded the Thobelites, who are now called Iberes…” 

    (The Jewish Wars 7:4)

    “Now there was a nation of the Alans, which we have formerly mentioned some where as being Scythians and inhabiting at the lake Meotis. This nation about this time laid a design of falling upon Media, and the parts beyond it, in order to plunder them; with which intention they treated with the king of Hyrcania; for he was master of that passage which king Alexander [the Great] shut up with iron gates“

    Using this information, I believe we can firmly say that Dhu’l Qurnain is none other than Alexander the Great.

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    1. stewjo004

      @Ed

      Walakum salam wa rahma tu lahi wa barakatu

      The Syriac Alexander Legends were written after the Quran

      Also, no Sahabi identifies someone who even kinda resembles Alexander the Great.

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      1. ramboreturns2025

        when we look at the early commentaries of the muslims, is it true that hardly any of them identify dq as alex?

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      2. Ed

        Thanks for the response!

        Firstly, it should be noted that there is no consensus on the date of the written legend itself, with time frames spanning from the early 6th century to as late as 630 AD. However, it seems highly unlikely that the Syriac Alexander Legend borrows from the Quran or Islamic sources for a number of reasons. The text is dated to 630 at the oldest as I mentioned, and the earliest Christian mention of the islam does not come until at least 5 years later. Then there is the issue of the location. The Legend was written in Northern Iraq, which is nearly 1,000 miles away from the extent of the lands conquered by the Muslims at that time. There is also nothing in the text to posit direct literary borrowing, as they both tell the same story differently. We can also see that the quran draws on stories that are older than the Legend like the iron wall in Magog. All of these leads to the conclusion that the Legend does not borrow from the quran (nor does the quran directly borrow from the Legend), but rather they both draw on the same story that was floating around at the time. The description of Dhu’l Qurnain seems to fit Alexander perfectly, and would make a lot of sense given the time period.

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  26. Ed

    @ramboreturns2025

    I think there are quite a few that mention him as being a candidate, but dismiss him on terms of his polytheism.

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