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  • How should an astronaut get wudhu and make prayer in outer space?
    15243 2006/11/26 Modern
                Under no circumstances or conditions is it permissible to discard obligatory prayers, and they must be made in any possible situation. If possible, a person who is in space or on a spacesh
  • According to Islam is it permissible for women to drive?
    32277 2006/11/22 Modern
              The ruling for women driving must be derived from other laws and principals; meaning that we do not have a direct ruling on women driving in the Quran or Sunnah, because it is a new issue (
  • What is the origin and growth of Shi‛ism?
    8146 2006/08/21 Modern
    Shi‛ism began with a reference made for the first time to the partisans of Ali ( shi‛ah-i‛Ali ) , the first leader of the Household of the Prophet, during the lifetime of the Prophet himself. The cour
  • I would like to know the methods of religious thought.
    9622 2006/07/15 Traditional
    There are three methods of religious thought in Islam. The Holy Quran in its teachings points to three paths for Muslims to follow in order to comprehend the purposes of religion and the Islamic scien
  • What are the reliable sources of religious thought in Islam?
    7345 2006/07/15 Traditional
    Needless to say religious thought, like other forms of thought, must have reliable sources from which the raw material of its thought originates and upon which it depends. Similarly, the process of re
  • What do you mean by religious thought?
    7159 2006/07/15 Traditional
    By “religious thought” we mean that form of thought which is concerned whit any of the problems of a religious nature within a particular religion, in the same sense that mathematical thought is the f

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