The first obligation of every human being is to examine the evidence for Islam to evaluate whether or not it is true, and to accept it as true after they see the evidence for its truth. That what the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) called the people of Mecca to do. Those of them who responded to his call became his Companions (may Allah Most High be pleased with them).

The use of the pronoun “we” to connote divine majesty an ancient Arabian rhetorical device that has fallen into disuse in both modern Arabic and modern English. This has led modern readers to misunderstand pronominal references to God using the majestic “we” as a Quranic justification for the Trinity or for idolatry.

Hamza Karamali has published an article explaining how Big Bang cosmology spells the end of scientific materialism and how that should bring religion, particularly traditional Islamic theology, back into the scientific and philosophical mainstream.

Basira Education was conceived to solve a problem. Watch this webinar by Shaykh Hamza where he explains the disconnect in the curricula taught in schools and colleges and the religious curricula taught at home and the mosque.

Watch Hamza Karamali explain this distinction, unpack New Atheist arguments, illustrate how to respond to them, and and answer questions on the problem of evil and the place of evolution in an Islamic worldview.