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  1. VoidoftheSun

    Quran 36 v 38

    I feel like that about apologists in general though, whether Christian, Muslim or Atheist etc.
  2. VoidoftheSun

    The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

    So like where is my smoothy?
  3. VoidoftheSun

    Quran 36 v 38

    I'll also add that in so many cases there are very direct riddles in many places such as this. In verse (ayat) 40, it says that "the Sun can't overtake the night nor can the night outstrip the day", this makes it alone (let alone all the other references) impossible for in the Quranic view for...
  4. VoidoftheSun

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    As I already said in the previous post, you have it upside down. Salafism and ISIS are not 'roots', they are reformist. "liberalism" also has origins in aspects of Islam, as it does more familiarly in Protestant Christianity. And before you say, yes Salafism and ISIS are very strongly...
  5. VoidoftheSun

    Quran 36 v 38

    From Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi's tafsir of Surah Yaseen: (which is a Shi'ite source, seeing that Ibn Katheer is a Sunni source, both agree) "And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it…" (Surah 36:38) According to some it conveys that the sun is moving and it is the movement of...
  6. VoidoftheSun

    Quran 36 v 38

    Nothing particularly controversial. In Tafsir Ibn Katheer it says about that passage: ﴿ وَٱلشَّمۡسُ تَجۡرِى لِمُسۡتَقَرٍّ۬ لَّهَا‌ۚ ﴾ (And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term. ) He said: « مُسْتَقَرُّهَا تَحْتَ الْعَرْش » (Its fixed course is beneath the Throne.)'' (The second view)...
  7. VoidoftheSun

    The "What are you listening to?" thread- Part 4

  8. VoidoftheSun

    COVID-19 -- The US is falling behind the rest of the world

    Great time to have a holiday hitchhiking across the US :grinning:
  9. VoidoftheSun

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    Looking into it a little further and Alinejad seems equally as strange, definitely a button pusher, she's not some anon. Looks more or less like a weird facebook scandal. The fact that the linked article in the OP mentions Rushdie though pushes the potential 'seriousness' of the article into the...
  10. VoidoftheSun

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    They are, we don't need more of that. What you're asking to 'reform' is modernist (such as Iranian Shi'ism, reactionary to Babism; 180 degrees different to prior to Babism) and reformist (such as Salafi/Wahhabi Saudi) Islam, not classical (Sunnah/Ahlulbayt, and 11th century high-intellectual)...
  11. VoidoftheSun

    Pants on Fire

    You've reminded me how strange that saying from my childhood is "liar liar pants on fire"? WTF? :flushed:
  12. VoidoftheSun

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    Sorry we've already had Salafism and ISIS, don't need more of that. What we actually need is for Islam to go back to it's roots instead of this Modernism it's been under in the past 200 years. The Islam of 300 years ago was not the Islam following the fall of the Ottomans (despite their flaws)...
  13. VoidoftheSun

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    Another day on twitter.
  14. VoidoftheSun

    Prove That God Should Believe In You

    Well it certainly doesn't contradict how Atheists and how certain forms of Gnosticism have seen it to be (like Marcionites, Sethians, and Manichaeans too). In context he's really provided some brilliant "proof" actually.
  15. VoidoftheSun

    What is nothingness?

    Um actually: https://www.amazon.com/Fullness-Buddhist-Hindu-Christian-Traditions/dp/8124603405/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=void+and+fullness&qid=1592651305&sr=8-2...
  16. VoidoftheSun

    Quran is a book of white magic.

    Those Duas from Imam Zayn Abadin are so deeply meaningful and so immensely useful in one's devotional practice. Also his general theological and philosophical insight in those Duas (much like in the book of Psalms in the Tanakh, attributed to Prophet David) are groundbreaking to one's...
  17. VoidoftheSun

    Mystical Hadiths

    Here's another: Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib said: "God is a drink for His close friends. When they drink of it, they are intoxicated. When they are intoxicated, they are enraptured. When they are enraptured, they are happy. When they are happy, they are overcome with grief. When they are grieved...
  18. VoidoftheSun

    What's the difference between Devils and Demons?

    Yep I would generally agree with that. I haven't worked with that grimoire before but I have read through it though, it's perhaps one of my future workings at some point ;) Well my reason for mentioning was more for attaching a kind of experiential reference to my own views. It's still...
  19. VoidoftheSun

    Is Joy of Satan really THAT bad?

    I mean't the neo-Nazism propagated by JOS is dry and boring in my impression. As for neo-Nazism on the wider spectrum, yeah it has it's dangers, though it's kind of a small niche compared to fascism itself (which tends to be very popular in some places, partly due to geography and else due to...
  20. VoidoftheSun

    Mystical Hadiths

    Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Idris (RA) said on the authority of his father, on the authority of Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Jabbar, on the authority of Safwan ibn Yahya, on the authority of `Asim ibn Humayd that I consulted Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (AS) regarding what is narrated about the vision of Allah...
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